Switzerland will sell 25 Leopard 2 tanks to Germany, then they can be transferred to Ukraine

The Swiss Army is decommissioning 25 Leopard 2 tanks.

What is known

This was reported by the information

Reuters agency.The government of the country has already taken away this decision from the Ministry of Defense. After this, they plan to sell the tanks to Germany. In turn, Germany will most likely send equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. By the way, the Swiss army currently has 134 Leopard 2 tanks in service. In addition, Switzerland also has 96 tanks in storage.

BREAKING:

The Swiss government has decided to sell 25 decommissioned Leopard 2 tanks back to Germany.

It will make it possible to send them further to Ukraine in the future.

The decision will have to be approved in the Swiss parliament in the coming weeks.

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For those who are not in the know

Leopard 2 is a main battle tank created byby the German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann. Leopard 2 is the successor to the successful development of the Leopard 1 battle tank. The Leopard 2 has many modifications and is used by the armed forces of Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain and Turkey. A total of 3,200 tanks of this model were produced.

Source: Reuters