German Leopard 2 Main Battle Tank
Manufacturer: Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW)
So the Germans have a tank that is comparable to the American Abrams line of tanks. Big deal right? Of course not! The Leopard is fighting side by side with the American Abrams in Afghanistan and Iraq right now! The Canadians in particular have deployed many Leopards to Afghanistan for combat roles, and the opinions on which tank is better are mixed. It basically goes both ways, each tank has its pros and cons, and in the end; they both are equally as effective against the threats they face there. The similarities in the American Abrams and the German Leopard 2 are due to the fact that they are both based on the same design. In the mid-70s the Germans and Americans teamed up to build a tank together, but couldn’t agree on certain points. They both took the existing design they had come up with and then went their own directions. But how would they stack up against a more modern force than Afghani goat herders? Chinese tanks, Russian tanks? Only time will tell on that one. Unless we could steal a tank…
No doubt, the German Leopard 2 is a formidable machine.
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cen someone tell me cen onboard computers on a leopard2 and leclerc cen link together to excange batelfield informacion and doas exsist some form of sistem of shering to t-84 this is croatian mbt,cen that be posible to form combaind unit,combaind operation. for me leopard and leclerc are Kings of mbt
Posted on September 19th, 2008 at 1:52 am
I know that the LeClerc is meant to have very good computer networking technology that allows great communication between tanks - both voice and data. Unlike the M1-A1, that had to have networking added after the fact, the LeClerc was built with this in mind. Keep in mind that of all the Western tanks, the LeClerc is the newest design and benefits from that.
Posted on November 21st, 2008 at 12:06 am
it not leopard 2, its Leopard 2 A6!!!
Posted on March 2nd, 2009 at 8:53 pm
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Posted on April 25th, 2009 at 2:09 am
I never saw any Leapords II…
Which Canadian tank devision got them?
And It bothers me when people say they can preform against farmers etc..
Look at chinese and Russian Technology…
If there was a conflict, one on one, The western Tanks would win, without a doubt…
But look at world war II
Althought the Germans had superior tanks, the US overwhelmed them with the larger amount of Shermans….
In a real life senario, western tanks would be more like the tigers, and the evil communist tanks would be like the shermans…
Non the less, the west would previal, most chinese and Russian technology is out dated… Cold war era crap, nothing worth sweating over…
Look at how the Challenger II, M1 Abrahms and Lepord II’s armour is constructed, its not a fair fight…
Posted on August 18th, 2009 at 12:04 am
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