Canada's army uses Leopard tanks — that's one rolling off a USAF C-17 at Kandahar Airbase (photo courtesy of DND) — and if it wanted to buy a brand new Leopard, it would cost about $6-million each. But, as I noted in a report last night, a used one — “only driven by a little old lady on Sunday” — can be had for as little as $350,000. Why? The armies of Europe are desperate to get rid of some of the thousands of tanks over the years they bought expecting to fight the Russians one day on the steppes of Ukraine or the plains of Poland. Since the Russian threat evaporated, European armies are saddled with the high cost of operating and maintaining their tanks.
So the Germans and Swiss, at least, have been shopping theirs around and Canada just might pick up an entire battle group of tanks — 66 tanks plus spares — at fire-sale prices
i wish i had a leopard tank, where could i buy one?