PARIS - The Netherlands signed a contract to buy 46 Leopard 2A8 main battle tanks from French-German defense firm KNDS for more than €1 billion (US$1.1 billion), following through on a plan to ...

The Leopard tank is certainly seeing a surge in popularity across the globe. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine back in 2022, NATO member states have bolstered their respective defense budgets ...

The German Leopard 2A8 is considered one of the absolute best main battle tanks in service today. Though a few Leopard 2s have been lost in the fighting in Ukraine, reports suggest the MBTs have stood ...

An employee works on a Leopard 2 main battle tank at the KNDS Unterstadt plant in Kassel. The German military, the Bundeswehr, is set to receive its first new-generation main battle tank, with defence ...

The first battle-damaged Ukrainian Leopard 2A4 tank has left its repair depot in Poland. Fully fixed and again ready for combat, the 61-ton, four-person tank has made, or is making, its way back to ...

PRAGUE — The Czech Defense Ministry said on Wednesday it plans to buy 14 Leopard 2A4 tanks from Germany in a $167 million deal that's part of a major modernization of the country's military amid ...

Hurling entire battalions against Ukrainian defenses in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast on Sunday and Monday, Russian forces advanced a quarter mile through the ruins of the town of ...

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Netherlands' State Secretary for Defence Gijs Tuinman speaks during a contract signing for new Leopard battle tanks in Amersfoort on May 14, 2025. (Vincent Jannink/ANP/AFP via Getty Images) PARIS — ...