Originally Posted by
Less Hair
Germany is even considering delivering Bundeswehr owned Leopards until the industry's reserve tanks can be made available.
It is quite remarkable how much Germany's conventional forces have been reduced in the context of the reunification, back then. It must have been a multinational confidential agreement, prerequisite or similar? Not much was kept of the former Cold War glory tank numbers and most were redistributed to NATO allies like Poland, Turkey and Greece.
Indeed!
The German Army was crippled from more than 4000 Leopards (of which more than 2000 Leo 2) to <250 within a few years. I can also only imagine that there was an agreement with Russia during re- unification to disarm to such an extent. There were reductions in other areas as well but not nearly to that extent.