{"id":395529,"date":"2025-09-03T21:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395529\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:18:24","slug":"czech-government-approves-1-6-billion-deal-to-buy-leopard-2a8-tanks-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395529\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech government approves $1.6 billion deal to buy Leopard 2A8 tanks from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRAGUE (AP) \u2014 The Czech government approved on Wednesday a plan by the defense ministry to acquire 44 Leopard 2A8 battle tanks from Germany in a a deal that\u2019s part of a major modernization of the country\u2019s military amid <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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>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 <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/czech-us-f-35-fighter-jets-ded1731e2fa272178ca8b67ba5cba524\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">24 U.S. F-35 fighter jets <\/a> and <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/czech-combat-vehicles-cv90-bae-sweden-86c2b413caf5f5a71419d56afaa0816c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">246 CV90 armored combat vehicles<\/a> from Sweden, among other major military contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRAGUE (AP) \u2014 The Czech government approved on Wednesday a plan by the defense ministry to acquire 44&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[51,136709,2000,299,4179,1824,136708,332,7661,812,657,7660,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-395529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-czech-republic-government","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-jana-cernochov","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","17":"tag-sweden","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-war-and-unrest","20":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115142453097032333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395529","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=395529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}