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21 lut 2019 · German media reports say the manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann was building Leopard 2A7s for Singapore and Qatar. Germany previously declared it exported 161 Leopard 2 tanks to...
12 lip 2024 · Explore the strategic significance and combat prowess of Leopard 2 in Singapore's defense strategy. Discover its role, capabilities, and future prospects here.
Excludes 30 Leopard 2A4 as spare tanks, 20 Bergepanzer-3 Büffel armoured recovery vehicles and 10 AEV 3 Kodiak armoured engineering vehicles. [2] SIPRI stated that Singapore received 45 units of the Leopard 2A7 version, which the government denied.
The Leopard 2 Evolution is a modular armor upgrade - all parts combined weigh 60 metric tons. Singapore did not purchase all armor modules. The Leopard 2SG lacks the heavy frontal module against large caliber KE attacks, the roof armor against top-attack threats and the mine protection kit.
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will acquire 66 refurbished Leopard 2A4 tanks from the German Federal Ministry of Defence. Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean announced this during his visit to Sungei Gedong camp on 11 Dec.
Complementing the Leopard 2SG is the tracked Hunter AFV that entered service in 2019 whose armaments (a 30mm cannon and a tandem missile launcher) and mobility puts Singaporean troops far ahead of their regional peers. To date, no other military in ASEAN has fielded a locally assembled tracked fighting vehicle.
Singapore's Leopard 2SG doesn't use the full armor package (as they didn't upgrade the suspension to exceed the 60 tonnes weight limit of the original Leopard 2 drivetrain) and they use old Leopard 2 tanks from the earlier batches (with Type B armor).
