Originally Posted by
petit plateau
My memory is that Spain offered all their Leopard 1 to Ukraine, but that Germany vetoed this. Do you have any insight on that ?
German origin so they need permission from Germany to sell them onwards. And Germans... well...haven't been very forthcoming with these things.
All I know about it is from the news: as Germans were reluctant to grant the permit the Spanish took a time out on the delivery. After a while they said that the Leos weren't in good enough condition anyway to be sent due to being in storage for so long and declined the deal.
what is the real truth behind that... I have no idea.
Anyway, this is pretty standard procedure: In January Estonia wanted to provide Ukraine with 122mm howitzers they earlier had bought from Finland, which had bought those from Germany in the 90s. Finland said "fine with us" but Germany vetoed that as well at that point in time (later on the germans gave up and allowed the delivery).