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 Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) tank platform will be powered by a Rolls-Royce 1,400+ kW Powerpack hybrid drive system.
Land combat in World War II was dominated by the tank. The role of these hefty vehicles changed somewhat as the war evolved, with new models being manufactured and their weapons and defenses evolving.
Tanks occupy a unique corner of the theatre of war — they're often nimble, yet extraordinarily bulky; heavily armored, and yet utilized in infantry support scenarios. They fill numerous battlefield ...
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 ...