Let's suppose during the Hezbollah Israel war, Merkava had no APS which is a complete lie propagated by Israelis.
In the year 2014, Palestinians successfuly targeted dozens of Merkavas using Kornets. For example :
Palestinian resistance fighters have struck another Israeli tank and killed dozens of their forces during their ground incursion into the besieged Gaza Strip...
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Don't you think that there is a reason IDF doesn't dare to use its MBTs in the frontlines?
Israeli Trophy is an stolen Russian technology derived from Soviets developed Drozd, Russians were the first operator of APS. Nit to mention that Israel couldn't even test and upgrade these systems without US aid. Surely, Trophy was developed before 2006 with a weaker technology than the stolen Russian Drozd.