Six tanks were delivered in 1979, 100 in 1980, 220 in 1981, and by 1982 production was running at 300 a year. The first production Leopard 2 was handed over by Krauss-Maffei in October 1979 in Munich. The first preproduction Leopard 2 MBT was delivered to the German Army late in 1978 for training. In 1977, the German Army selected Krauss-Maffei as the prime contractor for the series production of the Leopard 2 and placed an order, with options, for 1,800 MBTs, 990 of which were to be built by Krauss-Maffei and the remaining 810 by Rheinmetall. The version Leopard 2A4 constitutes the basis of today’s Leopard family. Das Buch deckt dabei alle Baulose der Kampfpanzer und alle Kampfunterstützungsfahrzeuge im Dienste der Bundeswehr ab.The Leopard 2A4 is a German-made main battle tank designed and manufactured by the Company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, the successor of the main battle tank Leopard 1. Mit dem vorliegenden Buch "Leopard 2 in der Bundeswehr" möchten Verlag und Autor dem "Leopard" 2 Tribut zollen, und dies mit der aktuellsten (Leopard 2A7A1) Monografie zur Panzerfamilie. The Full Story" containing all German Army variants yet without all foreign Leopards. Important note: This title is a reprint of the first 320 pages of the "Leopard 2. It contains all Leopard 2 main battle tank production batches and Leopard 2-based combat support vehicles of the German Bundeswehr. With this book "Leopard 2 in German Service", the publisher and author would like to pay tribute to this chapter in German military vehicle history with the most up-to-date and most comprehensive monograph on this topic. Although it has been in service for more than 43 years, the German "Leopard" 2 main battle tank and its associated family of vehicles remain the first choice of more than 20 user nations today, underlining the vehicle's leading role among armoured formations worldwide, well ahead of other nations' designs. Today, due to dramatic developments on NATO?s eastern flank, the tank is back in the forefront of military weapon systems for land forces.
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