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Originally Posted by kato13
Current MBT commitments and possibilities.
UK - 14 Challenger 2 battle tanks,
Germany - 14 Leopard 2 tanks (Arriving within 3 months),
Poland - 14 Leopard 2 tanks,
USA - 31 Advanced M1 Abrams tanks,
Portugal - 4 Leopard 2 tanks
Spain, Norway and Finland also said that they are going to send their own Leopard tanks but they are currently weighing the numbers.
Also, Netherlands is considering to buy 18 Leopard 2 tanks from Germany and providing them to Ukraine as they don't own any.
Funny after always looking at a minimum of battalion numbers(40-58), these counts do look like T2k Division MBT numbers.
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The 18 from the Netherlands are tanks they're currently leasing with an option to buy.
Spain's Leopard 2 apparently will be whatever can be repaired within 2 months from the 53 Leopard 2A4 currently in storage at Zaragoza. They have 108 total of that model, but the other 55 are in Spain's North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. They also have a bunch of Leopard 2E/2A6, but those are in active service and (AFAIK) not being discussed as potential transfers.