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Switzerland allows the sale of Leopard 1 tanks to Germany on condition that they are not transferred to Ukraine (militarnyi.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

This really baffles me. What does Germany want with a bunch of obsolete Leopard 1s anyway? I guess they could break them down for parts and then send parts they already had to Ukraine, allowing Ukraine to repair some of their damaged Leopard 1s.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I doubt that would be allowed with the sales agreement. Allthemore baffling, Switzerland really fucked themselves over there

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    A lot of speculation in the comments here but there's some context/details missing.

    • "Germany" didn't buy the tanks but the German company Rheinmetall
    • While the price isn't known, another company previously bought 25 of those tanks from RUAG for lousy 500€ a piece and then didn't even bother to come pick them up, so I assume Rheinmetall got a similar deal
    • Lots of countries still use them, Greece even wants to enlarge and upgrade their fleet of Leopard 1, they're still in demand and with a purchase price of 500€ and a bit of repairs there's probably a ton of money to be made

    So my guess is this has nothing to do with Ukraine, just a company seeing a business opportunity.

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