NATO member countries Germany, Italy, Sweden and Spain are planning to develop a new main battle tank. This is reported by the newspaper Handelsblatt.
Germany, Italy, Sweden and Spain want to develop a new main battle tank says in the newspaper article. They added that Germany is starting to develop a successor to the Leopard 2 tank with the support of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall, the alliance also includes partners from Italy, Spain and Sweden. A few days ago, the parties involved signed the relevant contracts, and now they intend to apply for funding from the European Defense Fund.
The amount of funding is expected to be significant. The creation of this alliance came as a bit of a surprise, given that Germany already has a similar partnership with France. In 2017, the governments of the two countries agreed on the design of the main battle tank, which will replace the Leopard 2 and the French Leclerc tank by the middle of the next decade, the material concluded.
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2023-09-06 13:59:00
