Ottawa Citizen -Jan 25, 2023 : The Canadian Forces is looking at sending Leopard tanks to Ukraine but is still examining exact numbers it can donate, National Defence and industry sources say.
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Leopard tanks had indeed been slated for disposal or sale after Gen. Rick Hillier decided they had no use on the modern battlefield. But by the time the request came in from commanders in Afghanistan for Leopards, there were still enough functioning tanks in the inventory – not yet decommissioned – that no one needed to pull any tanks off concrete pads, let alone drive them off, says the Army. “While some tanks were in the process of being decommissioned and used as monuments, the tanks sent to Southern Afghanistan were fully operational,” Army spokesman Lt.-Col. Andre Salloum said in a statement to Defence Watch source:ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch |
