What You Need to Know: Germany and Lithuania are bolstering their tank forces with the acquisition of the advanced Leopard 2A8 main battle tanks (MBTs). Lithuania plans to form a new tank battalion ...

Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Melnyk has expressed frustration in an interview with CNN over Germany's indecision over whether to send its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, CNN reported. Speaking ...

NATO member Slovakia is rethinking its plan to replace its thirty Soviet-era T-72M1 tanks, which it inherited from the Czechoslovakian military at the end of the Cold War, with additional German-made ...

The satellite image and screenshots of Youtube clips show the Uralvagonzavod tank factory in Russia, which received a captured Leopard 2 tank. (Base image: Middlebury Institute of International ...

Netherlands' State Secretary for Defence Gijs Tuinman speaks during a contract signing for new Leopard battle tanks in Amersfoort on May 14, 2025. (Vincent Jannink/ANP/AFP via Getty Images) PARIS — ...

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets including ...

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government approved on Wednesday a plan by the defense ministry to acquire 44 Leopard 2A8 battle tanks from Germany in a a deal that’s part of a major modernization of the ...

What You Need to Know: The Czech Republic plans to purchase an additional 14 German-made Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks (MBTs) in a deal worth 3.98 billion Czech crowns ($167 million). -This move aims ...