[tlozo]

German tanks have a horrible reputation for difficulty maintenance and poor reliability. This was the case with all of their WWII famous tanks

Its not WW2. The Leopard is considered a reliable tank, easy to maintain.

A comparison test was recently made in Poland in order to compare reliability of their Leopard 2A4 tanks with Polish PT-91 Twardy tanks (improved variant of the Soviet T-72). It appeared that tanks with similar mileage (19 000 km) showed different results. Distance between failures of the Leopard 2A4 tank was 174 km and it took on average 1.3 days to repair the tank. On the other hand distance between failures of the Polish PT-91 was only 25 km and it took on average 3.2 days to repair the tank. So despite its age the Leopard 2A4 can be seen as a rather reliable combat vehicle, that is easy to keep in operational order.

http://www.military-today.com/tanks/leopard_2.htm

[FarCenter]

>>Distance between failures of the Leopard 2A4 tank was 174 km and it took on average 1.3 days to repair the tank. On the other hand distance between failures of the Polish PT-91 was only 25 km and it took on average 3.2 days to repair the tank.

No wonder terrorists everywhere use the Toyota Hi-Lux.

[gleeaikin]

Poland now has 2 orders of over 300 Abtams on order from the US. They probably don’t give a sheis how Germany feels about their decisions to allocate their Leopards to Ukraine.