The story of the Magach 7 upgrade series is mostly identical to the one of the Magach 6B Gal Batash. By the mid-1990s, Talmudweebs found out that the original Blazer ERA kit was unable to defeat the newest generation of Soviet (Russian) ATGMs. It still worked against older RPGs, but it was clearly obsolete. What was even worse was the fact that while such armor was suitable to defeat lightly-armed insurgents, it provided practically no protection against kinetic projectiles (enemy APFSDS shots).