and some of its allies have been reluctant to provide the advanced weaponry fearing it could lead to an escalation of the conflict.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has long appealed to NATO countries to supply his forces with tanks and fighter aircraft to repel the Russian invasion, but the U.S. Poland has said it will send a company of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, but Germany holds the export license for the main battle tank. The tank has the ability to engage moving targets while moving over rough terrain.A Leopard 2A6 main battle tank of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, stands with a rainbow behind as it participates in the NATO Iron Wolf military exercises on Octoin Pabrade, Lithuania. All models feature digital fire control systems with laser rangefinders, a fully stabilised main gun and coaxial machine gun, and advanced night vision and sighting equipment (first vehicles used a low-light level TV system or LLLTV thermal imaging was introduced later on). There are two main development batches of the tank: the original models up to Leopard 2A4, which have vertically faced turret armour, and the improved batch, namely the Leopard 2A5 and newer versions, which have angled arrow-shaped turret appliqué armour together with other improvements. The Leopard 2 was used in Kosovo with the German Army, and has seen action in Afghanistan with the Dutch, Danish and Canadian contributions to the International Security Assistance Force, as well as seeing action in Syria with the Turkish Armed Forces against ISIS and the YPG. Various versions have served in the armed forces of Germany and 12 other European countries, as well as several non-European nations, including Canada, Chile, Indonesia, Singapore, and Turkey. It is armed with a 120 mm smoothbore cannon, and is powered by a V-12 twin-turbo diesel engine. The tank first entered service in 1979 and succeeded the earlier Leopard 1 as the main battle tank of the German Army. The Leopard 2 is a main battle tank developed by Krauss-Maffei in the 1970s for the West German Army. Includes sprues with plastic parts, metalic parts, clear parts, assembly instructions, P.E. Plastic kit from TIGER MODEL, for the assembly of a German tank of modern era, on 1/35 scale.
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