Re: MBT's
The answer as to the direction Poland wants to take it's heavy armor as I've reporting is now becoming more clear. The LEOPARD 2PL will take Poland's 2A4 tanks apparently to the 2A6 level (The Canadian's spec built excellent 2A6M variant has been mentioned.) once completed, Poland will take the fairly new bought 2A5s and apply those upgrades to them as well. This is the same successful strategy Turkey used in it's LEOPARD upgrade program TO the 2T.
https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com...-tanks-019466/
For those out there hoping for the new Polish indigenous tank this truly is a set back out past this games current status. The writing was the wall anyway for the last 5 yrs. or so when Germany started to flood the market (Dutch as well.) with inexpensive, modernized and well maintained LEOPARDS. Poland's second batch of 14 2A4s/105 2A5s plus supplies, trainers etc. for only EUR 180 million is extremely cheap to the point that the deal I estimate was at least 3x(+) less expensive then the R&D to Prototype stage for a new indigenous design.
Regards,
Pat
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