Box photos:
The crew of 32C prepare their Leopard 2A6M for live fire drills
Capt Pascal Croteau (on right) and WO Yves Curadeau both from 12 RBC measure the distance between the 120mm holes to ensure that the tank that fired the rounds is functioning correctly.
A Leopard 2A6M fires a round down range during work up training held near Munster Germany.
1 posted on
07/11/2007 4:38:26 PM PDT by
Clive
To: All
In addition to the 22 tanks leased from Germany, Canada is buying 100 from the Netherlands.
The lease was necessary in order to equip the next rotation to take place next month.
The tanks currently deployed are Leopard C2, effectively a Leopard C1 turret modified to C2 level. The lack of air conditioning in the C2 is problematic for summer operations in Afghanistan.
2 posted on
07/11/2007 4:42:53 PM PDT by
Clive
To: Clive
LOL! Gotta love the targets with the *huge* holes in them!
3 posted on
07/11/2007 4:43:52 PM PDT by
Riley
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4 posted on
07/11/2007 4:44:10 PM PDT by
Clive
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5 posted on
07/11/2007 4:44:58 PM PDT by
Clive
To: Clive
Why did the Canuks chose the Leopard 2 over the British Challenger 2 or the US M1 A2 Abrams?
7 posted on
07/11/2007 5:06:39 PM PDT by
rmlew
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To: Clive
8 posted on
07/11/2007 5:09:01 PM PDT by
TLI
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To: Clive
A couple of the pics later on in this thread are wrong. The link below has almost 40 pics of our guys and the tanks they are training on. Leo 2A6M
Leo2A6M Pics
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13 posted on
07/11/2007 9:23:19 PM PDT by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Civilian Irregular Information Defense Group http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com)
To: Clive
Congrats to the Canadian tankers - that’s a nice piece of machinery.
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