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Poland agreed to send 14 Leopard 2A4 tanks from their army stocks on January 25. [114] Canada promised to send 4 "combat ready" Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine on January 26. [115] Four additional 2A4 tanks were promised along with 1 ARV on February 24. [116] Spain promised to send at least 10 of its Leopard 2A4 tanks, with more possible pending ...
Totaling 8 Leopard 2 tanks. [75] [76] On February 23, 2023, the Swedish government pledged to send 10 Leopard 2A5/Strv122 to Ukraine. [citation needed] On February 23, 2023, Finland announced it would send 3 modified mine-clearing Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. On March 23, three more mine-clearing Leopard 2s were pledged, bringing the total to 6 ...
The Netherlands ordered 445 Leopard 2 tanks on 2 March 1979, after examining the results of the Leopard 2AV in the United States. [86] It became the first export customer of the Leopard 2 and the vehicles were delivered between July 1981 and July 1986. Dutch Leopard 2 tanks have been subsequently exported to Austria, Canada, Norway, and Portugal.
Tank Leopard 2 Germany: Main battle tank: Leopard 2A4+ Leopard 2RI 103: Equipped with DM11, DM53, DM78, DM88, DM98 and RH88 ammunition. [64] [65] Indonesia purchased 42 units Leopard 2A4+ and 61 units Leopard 2RI plus 10 support vehicles from German Army surplus. [66] [67] Harimau Turkey
Leopard tank may refer to one of four tanks: VK 1602 Leopard, a German experimental tank developed in 1942 that never entered mass production; Leopard 1, a German tank introduced in 1965; Leopard 2, a German tank introduced in 1979, successor to the Leopard 1 Leopard 2E, a Spanish version of the Leopard 2
Main battle tank Leopard 2A8NOR Germany: Main battle tank: 54 on order In February 2023, the Norwegian prime minister, Jonas Gahr Stoere announced that Norway would be ordering 54 new Leopard 2A7 tanks from Krauss-Maffei Wegmann at a cost of kr 19.7 billion with a further option for 18 vehicles to be delivered at a later date. The first Leopard ...
In September 2023 Germany and France announced to be working on next generation main battle tank, [58] a successor to the Leopard 2 and Leclerc XLR tank. [40] In 2024, two models: Leclerc Evolution and EMBT ADT140 were presented that will be technology demonstrators for the future system.
Therefore, roughly half of NATO's tank strength is composed of American M1 Abrams tanks and the other half of European Leopard 2s, with the smaller numbers of Challenger 2's, Leclerc's, and Ariete's. While the tanks previously listed are the main NATO tank forces, other NATO members operate obsolete Cold War–era tanks from both the West and ...