Since being introduced into service with the West German military in 1979, the Leopard 2 main battle tank (MBT) has earned significant praise as one of the best in the world. As the successor to ...

Despite being designed in the 1970s, the Leopard 2 battle tank is still widely in use today and plays a pivotal role in major international wars and other conflicts. There's a good reason for its ...

The most popular tank in the world isn’t American; it’s a big cat in service with more than 20 countries worldwide. The Kampfpanzer Leopard 2, which Germany designed and built in the 1970s ...

Much of the recent debate had centered on the Leopard 2, a German-made battle tank operated by about 20 countries worldwide, including more than a dozen NATO members. For weeks, Germany had faced ...

FPV strikes on a Leopard 1A5. An ex-Danish Leopard 1A5 tank belonging to a Ukrainian army brigade survived at least eight hits by Russian first-person-view drones before potentially three more ...

The main difference between the M1 Abrams and the Leopard 2 is the powerplant, as the German tank is powered by a turbodiesel V12 made by MTU, a division of Rolls-Royce. The diesel engine throws ...

There are an estimated 2,000 Leopard 2 tanks in Europe, including several hundred in Germany alone, according to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, a think tank. President Volodymyr ...

Just a few days earlier, these officials had argued the Abrams tanks were more logistically demanding and complicated than Germany's Leopard 2 versions ... type of Western tank in Ukraine would ...

By Erika Solomon BERLIN — Germany has agreed to allow the export of its Leopard 1 battle tanks to Ukraine, a government spokesman said on Friday, creating an opportunity for increased tank ...

The German-made Leopard 2 main battle tank is at the top of Ukraine's shopping list as Kyiv lobbies its Western partners to expand military aid. The tank—of which about 2,000 are used by a numbe ...

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Even as the U.S. and its NATO allies announced package after package of military aid to Ukraine, full of military vehicles, air defense systems, rockets and missiles, the West for months seemed to ...