![]() ![]() All tank brigades of the Army (with the exception of tank brigades 28 and 29 which were equipped with the Leopard 1 A4/6th lot) were to be equipped with it, each of the 3 tank battalions of a tank brigade was to receive 35 Leopard 2 battle tanks. The largest German tank procurement program, with scheduled expenditure of DM 6.5 billion for 1,800 Leopard 2 battle tanks, cleared all parliamentary hurdles in 1977. No other western combat tank on the world market is used by so many armies – Scandinavia, the Alps, or Afghanistan, a KMW Leopard 2 is up to any deployment setting. A total of sixteen countries, mostly in Europe, have opted for this amazing combination of fire power, armour and mobility. Krauss-Maffei Wegmann’s Leopard 2 has set world standards in combat tanks. ![]() The successor to the Leopard 1, the Leopard 2, was first produced in 1979. Battle tank Leopard 2 Kampfpanzer Leopard 2 ![]()
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