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 ...

German Leopard 2 tank units are organized into platoons, companies, and battalions with detailed rank structures for enlisted personnel, NCOs, and officers. Each tank is crewed by four soldiers and ...

By Maria Rugamer March 5 (Reuters) - Renk Group, a key supplier of transmissions for Leopard 2 tanks, on Thursday reported ...

The Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) tank platform will be powered by a Rolls-Royce 1,400+ kW Powerpack hybrid drive system.

The Lithuanian Cabinet on Wednesday recognized the planned Leopard 2A8 tank assembly plant in Lithuania as a project ensuring urgent national security and defense needs. The decision will simplify ...

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

Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before Russia started pushing migrants across the two countries’ roughly 830-mile ...

They will teach lessons they have learnt from fighting against Russia’s invasion. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

By Sabine Siebold BERLIN, March 11 (Reuters) - Ukrainian military trainers will help Germany's military meet a target of being ready to defend against any Russian attack on NATO by 2029, the German ...

Last year Ukraine received 49 U.S.-made M1A1 tanks from Australia, which is receiving more effective M1A2 SEPv3 models from the Americans. Ukraine had received 31 M1A1s from the U.S. in 2024. As of ...

The announcement, as reported by Reuters, marks a striking role reversal from years of Western forces training Ukrainian ...