In 2003, Canada decided to decommission the Leopard 1s and shift away from using tanks more generally, but was prevented from doing so by the war in Afghanistan.

One of the world’s leading battle tanks, the German-made Leopard 2 has sophisticated targeting capabilities, even in rough terrain. Skip to content Skip to site index Europe ...

Indeed, Ukraine's big guns on artillery and tanks consume thousands of rounds of ammunition each day in the gruelling war of attrition. Canada has sent more than 100,000 tank rounds for Ukrainian ...

From the German side, the Leopard 1 tanks would not come from the military but from German weapons manufacturers. On Tuesday, the chief executive of one such manufacturer, Rheinmetall, told a news ...

Afghanistan Taliban used military vehicles supplied to former Afghan security forces by US in recent Iran skirmish: report DOD spokesman said vehicles were from 'a small number' procured for ...

Germany began producing the successor to the Leopard 1 in 1978 and had produced over 3,500 as of January 2023. The Leopard 2 MBT is a highly sought-after weapon system operated by numerous ...

And the people of Afghanistan’s most basic yet most significant failure in the decades after 2001 was that we lost ownership of our own war – of its direction and its priorities.

OTTAWA — Canada is facing pressure to send some of its Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine after Germany said it would donate some of the weapons and approve requests from other countries that ...