Scape Scape:
Thing is our leo's were past their best buy date when we got them. We are going to be mothballing them anyway so why no let them go out in a blaze of glory? In exchange for 'leasing' them we can get new ones from Germany or the US.
Sure, the Leo 2A4 we have is not the top of the line now (the 2A7 is), but the 2A4s we have are pretty damned good tanks, and much better than anything Russia has. FWIW, most of Europe is still using the 2A4 (Austria, Finland, Poland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey,
Having said that, I would have zero problems giving them to Ukraine and getting a fleet of Leopard 2A7s. However, that's not the way things work in Canada, odds are we'd just give them away and have nothing.
