{"id":394666,"date":"2025-09-03T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394666\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:45:12","slug":"czech-republic-to-buy-44-leopard-tanks-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394666\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech Republic to buy 44 Leopard tanks from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> The Czech government on Wednesday approved a Defense Ministry plan to acquire 44 Leopard 2A8 battle tanks from Germany. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"68\" data-end=\"313\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The deal is part of a broader effort to modernize the country\u2019s military in response to Russia\u2019s ongoing war against Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/czech-germany-leopard-tanks-defense-military-modernization-f3ed86b998653a82d01f04cdf8dfc2ed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Defense Minister Jana \u010cernochov\u00e1 said the Czechs will pay more than 34 billion koruna, or crowns ($1.6 billion) for the tanks that will be delivered between 2028\u201331.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Czechs have an option to buy more tanks at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Czech government agreed to procure up to 77 Leopard tanks in a cooperation deal with several other countries led by Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Leopard 2A8 is the latest, most modern version of the tank.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Czech government had approved a plan to acquire 24 U.S. F-35 fighter jets and 246 CV90 armored combat vehicles from Sweden, among other major military contracts.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Czech government on Wednesday approved a Defense Ministry plan to acquire 44 Leopard 2A8 battle tanks from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[53882,3032,2000,299,1824,48322],"class_list":{"0":"post-394666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-arms-sales","9":"tag-czech-republic","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-leopard-tank"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115140672805009171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}