German tanks have a horrible reputation for difficulty maintenance and poor reliability. This was the case with all of their WWII famous tanks. Even Guderian said the T-34 was the best in the war.
Think I’m wrong? Who in their right mind would buy a 25 year old German car without finding a good specialty mechanic?
It’ll be at least nice to see modern leopards in Russian museums beside the Tigers and panthers already there.
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