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The current wars have brought the importance of the battle tank back into focus as an assertive tool in the hands of the troop leader. At the same time, new threats – particularly from the air – became apparent. For more than ten years, Germany and France have been designing a successor system for the Leopard 2 and Leclerc main battle tanks in the joint “Main Ground Combat System” (MGCS) project, which takes the new image of war into account with a new technological approach.

At the 44th Armored Technology Colloquium, which Professor Anne Jung held at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, experts from the Bundeswehr, industry and science met in October and discussed goals and solutions for the further development of existing ones Leopards and for the MGCS.

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The Leopard 2 A7V represents the German Army's currently most modern main battle tank. (Photo: Bundeswehr Marco Dorow)

Current equipment of the army

Over the last thirty years, the Army has reduced the number of Leopard 2 main battle tanks from 2,125 tanks to a low of 312 to 328 combat vehicles. After 18 tanks were handed over to Ukraine at the beginning of the year, the number fell to 310. There is now talk of increasing the tank fleet by around 100 vehicles to over 400 Leopard 2s.

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