Lithuania has appropriated roughly €700 million for 44 advanced Leopard 2A8 tanks—but rather than buying them from Germany outright, it has arranged to build them in its own factories.

The German Leopard 2 main battle tank has undergone a complex evolution since the late 1980s, with multiple marks including the 2A4, 2A5, 2A6, 2A6M, 2A7, 2A7V, and the upcoming 2A8. Upgrades over the ...

Despite the rise of drones and long-range missiles, one piece of military hardware still dominates ground combat: the tank.

The old saying, “When one door closes, another opens” is likely being taken to heart in the offices of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Rheinmetall AG – the makers of the Leopard 2 main battle tank ...

A Leopard 2A7 main battle tank of the German Armed Forces participates in an October 2016 exercise at the Bundeswehr training grounds near Bergen, Germany. (Photo by Alexander Koerner/Getty Images) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WARSAW, Poland — Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anušauskas has announced the country’s government aims to sign a letter of ...

The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann signed a contract in Munich on 17 February for the delivery of 54 Leopard 2A7s to Norway in 2026–28. (NDMA) The Norwegian Defence ...

The HDF has received all 44 Leopard 2A7 MBTs it ordered in 2018. (KNDS) The Hungarian Defence Forces (HDF) received its final Leopard 2A7HU main battle tank (MBT) on 12 December, KNDS and the HDF have ...

Sergey Suvorov pointed to some specifics of the crew’s location in Western-made tanks that can hamper their operation and complicate their exit from a damaged vehicle MOSCOW, May 20. /TASS/. A ...

German soldiers operating Leopard 2 A7 main battle tanks are shown during a military exercise at the military training area in Munster, northern Germany, in 2017. (Photo by Patrik Stollarz/AFP via ...