And the least we can say is that the Bavarian company seems to have made a perfect entry. Just two months ago, when all the eyes of the armored sphere in Europe were riveted on the adventures of Rheinmetall to promote on KF-51 Panther, on the arrival of the first K2 in Poland, and on the transfer of Leopard 2 and Challenger 2 in Ukraine, the German manufacturer Krauss-Maffeï Wegmann, since renamed KNDS-KMW, created the surprise by presenting the new Leopard 2A8 tanks, an evolution of the A7HU sold to the in Hungary, natively integrating the Trophy hard-kill protection system and a new data visualization and fusion system.Ībove all, at the same time as this presentation, KNDS and the Bundeswehr announced that the order for 18 Leopard 2A7Vs initially planned to replace the 18 A6s ceded to Ukraine to support its war effort, had been transformed to carry on 18 Leopard 2A8, while an option on 123 tanks was also included in the contract.
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