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2 unusual facts about Leopard 1


Canada–Netherlands relations

The Canadian Army have increased its presence with main battle tanks, some ten Leopard C2 and twenty Leopard 2A6M CAN, approximately one hundred LAV III armoured vehicles and currently use six 155 mm M777 howitzers in Afghanistan.

German Tank Museum

From the post-war era there is a range of Bundeswehr prototypes, including a Leopard 1, Kanonenjagdpanzer tank destroyer and MBT-70, the abortive US-German design.


Guido Giannettini

In 1969, he participated to an Italian military delegation to West Germany to prepare the buying of Leopard tanks.


see also

Leopard tank

Leopard 2, a German tank introduced in 1979, successor to the Leopard 1