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 Franco-German armaments group KNDS has received 350 orders from five countries for the latest version of the Leopard 2 battle tank, a company spokesman told dpa. Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

David Axe writes about ships, planes, tanks, drones and missiles. Germany has pledged to Ukraine 88 Leopard 1A5 tanks. The ex-German Leopard 1s, combined with another 20 tanks of the same model that ...

The Czech Army has doubled down on its acquisition of German heavy armour with the delivery of 44 Leopard 2A8 main battle tanks from KNDS Deutschland, whilst retaining an option for an additional 14 ...

BERLIN — The German military has ordered 18 new Leopard 2 tanks to replace vehicles that were sent to Ukraine earlier this year, a leading defense company said Friday. Krauss-Maffei Wegmann said a ...

Ukraine has a new weapon in its fight against Russia — Cold War-era German battle tanks. The New York Times reported that Germany sent 10 of the obsolete Leopard 1A5 tanks to Ukraine last month. The ...

Since entering service in 1979 the Leopard 2 has gained a reputation as one of the world’s best MBTs. Several European countries, including Finland and Poland, have large numbers of them, although ...

The Leopard 2 is widely considered one of the world's best, most reliable, and most capable main battle tanks; some armor analysts and enthusiasts consider it the equal of, if not better than, the ...