DefenceTalkGerman arms manufacturer Kraus-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has just closed a billion dollar deal with Qatar that was five years in the making. On Thursday (18.04.2013), the Munich-based company announced that it signed a contract to deliver 62 Leopard 2 tanks and 24 self-propelled howitzers to the emirate. The price for the arms: roughly 1.9 billion […]https://www.defencetalk.com/german-firm-arms-qatar-with-tanks-47555/

DefenceTalkBERGEN, Germany: One-up, two-up, echelon left, echelon right and bounding-over-watch. These are fighting formations that the 48th Battalion, Singapore Armored Regiment (48 SAR) has executed with Leopard 2SG Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) at Exercise Panzer Strike in Germany. Held on the undulating plains of Bergen-NATO training area – whose live-firing ranges provide three times the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/singapore-armor-trains-in-germany-47562/

DefenceTalkNine Finnish citizens are suspected of involvement in the export of tank parts to Syria from Russia via Finland. The shipment of tank parts was discovered in Vuosaari harbour, in eastern Helsinki, on 8 January. The container in question was due to be shipped to Syria on board the Finnlines vessel M/S Finnsun. It contained […]https://www.defencetalk.com/customs-board-continues-syrian-tank-export-probe-47152/