An employee works on a Leopard 2 main battle tank at the KNDS Unterstadt plant in Kassel. The German military, the Bundeswehr, is set to receive its first new-generation main battle tank, with defence ...

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.

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

A Leopard 2 tank is on display at the KMW (Krauss-Maffei Wegmann) + Nexter stand at the Eurosatory International Defence and Security Exhibition in June 2022 in Paris. (Kiran Ridley/Getty Images) ...

Germany’s Leopard 2A8 tank is unlikely to live up to its promises—but its construction is at least a worthwhile investment in the country’s ailing defense industrial base. Germany has placed an ...

German Bundeswehr soldiers inspect a Leopard 2A8 main battle tank at the roll-out of the first Leopard 2A8 NOR for the Norwegian Army at a ceremony at the KNDS factory on Nov. 19, 2025 in Munich, ...

In addition to the 44 German-made tanks headed to Lithuania, another batch of 44 Leopard 2A8 MBTs is being acquired by the Czech Republic. Earlier this month, the Lithuanian government announced it ...

From the 1980s Leopard 2A4 to the cutting-edge 2A7V and future 2A8, Germany’s Leopard 2 tanks have undergone decades of upgrades to maintain battlefield dominance. These tanks, armed with 120mm ...