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The Leopard 2PL is a main battle tank used by the Polish Armed Forces, and is a modernized version of the older Leopard 2A4 tank, phased out by Germany and first acquired by Poland in the 2000s. The modernisation is currently being carried out in cooperation with Rheinmetall and the Polish Armaments Group ( Polish : Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa PGZ ).
Stridsvagn 122 (also known as Leopard 2A5S [256] and Leopard 2 "Improved" A5 SE [257]) is a Swedish Army tank based on the Leopard 2 Improved. 120 units were built, 91 of which were licence-produced in Sweden. The tank features increased armour on the turret top and front hull, and improved command-, control- and fire-control systems.
The Kampfpanzer Leopard (styled as Kampfpanzer Leopard 1 or Leopard I after the introduction of the Leopard 2) is a main battle tank designed by Porsche and manufactured by Krauss-Maffei in West Germany, first entering service in 1965.
Germany plans to order 105 Leopard 2 A8 tanks from armsmaker KNDS for 2.93 billion euros ($3.14 billion), according to a confidential budget draft seen by Reuters on Thursday. Others will ...
The M1A1 tanks will allow Warsaw to replace the T-72 and PT-91 tanks it sent to Ukraine for its war with Russia, and will join the Leopard 2A4 and Leopard 2A5 tanks acquired from Germany. The second part of the deal, is an additional 250 Abrams of the M1A2 SEPv3 variant, to be delivered in 2025 and 2026.
Switzerland's executive branch on Wednesday threw its weight behind a proposal to decommission 25 out-of-service Leopard 2 battle tanks that Germany's government wants returned to the German ...
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 Soviet T-64 was the first mass-produced tank with composite armour The Leclerc tank is equipped with NERA (Non-explosive reactive armour) [1] Depending on the operating state, the Leopard 2 has various extended armour elements such as bomb protection for the top, cage armour, extended mine protection (A6M) or additional armour in the form of composite armour MEXAS or AMAP Plasan SandCat ...