In total, Germany plans to spend €649 billion ($761 billion) on the military over the coming five years. It marks a continuation of a historic shift that began with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ...

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) ...

The Czechs will also start talks with Germany on acquiring up to another 50 more-modern Leopard 2A7+ tanks in coming years. Sign up here. The donated tanks could arrive this year.

The 2A7 is the latest version of the Leopard 2 adopted by the Bundeswehr in 2014. The primary improvements were electronic. A new battle management system (IFIS) ...

The 2A7 is the latest version of the Leopard 2 adopted by the Bundeswehr in 2014. The primary improvements were electronic. A new battle management system (IFIS) ...

The Leopard 2A7+ also got more effective ammunition for its 120mm gun. This included fragmentation shells that detonate above or behind a target. Non-lethal ammo has also been developed for the ...

A Leopard 2A7 main battle tank of the German Armed Forces drives during a training exercise in 2019 Philipp Schulze/picture alliance via Getty Images "Thanks ...

The NDMA announced on 28 January that winter trials for Norway's next MBT had begun at the Rena camp in Østerdalen, pitting the Leopard 2A7 against the K2.

A Danish Leopard 2A7 battle tank fires its main gun during a live-fire exercise in Estonia on Wednesday. (Ints Kalnins/Reuters) Antony Beevor, a former tank commander with the British Army during ...

Norway orders Leopard 2A7 ... 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 ...

But production of the latest Leopard 2A7 model is proceeding so slowly that Poland gave up on expanding its Leopard 2 fleet, and is instead purchasing 1,000 tanks from South Korea.