Armor: German Tank Force Barely There

[EX500rider]

The German effort to rebuild some of its Cold War era Leopard 2 tank force has encountered problems. It has gotten so bad that currently Turkey, Chile, Greece, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and Poland each have more operational Leopard 2 tanks than Germany (which had over 2,000 in the early 1990s). This odd situation was revealed in November 2017 when it was discovered that 53 Leopard 2s were unavailable while undergoing upgrades and 86 were inoperable because of spare parts shortages. That meant Germany only had 95 Leopard 2 tanks that were combat ready. That’s 39 percent of the 244 Leopard 2s currently available to the army.

Ouch, that is not a lot of tanks...lol

https://strategypage.com/htmw/htarm/20171203.aspx

[TEB]

1. They will be ok

Like Wehrmacht in Russia they did a lot with very little. I’m former infantry vet I saw a leapord the aftermath of its barrel tearing down part of house.