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Originally Posted by Krauter
I thought Canada only ran Leo's and not Abrams  |
Öh... äh... you seem to be correct. Think I was misled by a docu piece sopme time ago where they said that the big neighbour in Canada's south does not like the Canadians to buy foreign, and would want them to buy more American.
I am sure that they tested and considered the Abrams, however, since in the past 8 years Canada planned to replace its aging Leo-1 fleet. They wanted to go for Strykers with 105 mm guns, but then came Afghanistan and forced them to rethink their plan, and so they started to buy used Leo-2A4s, and leased Leo-2A6, modified, for immediate deployment to Afghanistan, where the tanks urpassed Canadian expecations, they said. The plan to pass on new tanks and go for the CV-90-120 also was scrapped.
A factor that decided in faovur of the Leo-2 A4s and A6s was quick availability, however.