Afghanistan

[hawkeye87]

inzwischen hat kanada (!!) beschlossen seine im süden im einsatz stehende streitmacht durch 20 kampfpanzer "leopard" 1c2 zu verstärken! aus dem ottawa citizen:

Canada sends tanks to Afghanistan
Less than three weeks after it denied it was sending Leopard tanks to Afghanistan, the Canadian military is set to ship as many as 20 of the heavy-tracked armoured vehicles to Kandahar to provide additional protection for its troops. [...]
A warning order was issued earlier this week to the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) in Edmonton to prepare for the deployment. Twenty tanks are being readied for the operation and about 300 personnel will be heading to Afghanistan.

The Leopards will be used for escort duty for Canadian convoys, which have continually come under attack by the Taliban, government sources said. [...]
Besides convoy escort, the tanks would be used to rush to the aid of light-armoured vehicles that have been ambushed by the Taliban. [...]
It will take at least a month to get the Leopards over to Afghanistan, but that deployment could be sped up if the U.S. military ships the vehicles using its large transport aircraft. [...]

wobei die kanadischen leopard 1c2 selbst äußerlich keinerlei ähnlichkeit mehr mit den deutschen leopard 1a5 haben:

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