Maneuvers units of the 18th and 54th mechanized infantry brigade in Eastern Thrace.

Leopard 1 was the first "test models" of German engineers after world war II. The fact is that in the armed forces of the Bundeswehr at that time were American tanks M47 and M48, armed with 90 mm guns, mediocre combat vehicles, tactical and technical characteristics were not comfortable with the German military. These tanks were inferior to the Soviet T-54/55 in protection and firepower.

France, too, was dissatisfied with American cars and have created your tank AMX-30, it was assumed that it will adopt the Germans, but they went their way. The result was one of the most successful tanks of the first post-war period. The first batch of Leopard 1 was released in 1965, since then the tank went all over the world. Some countries have even purchased the license to manufacture these machines. In all there were about 6000 "leopards", which has been adopted in 10 countries of the world.

In service with the Turkish army consist Leopard A/TU, Leopard A/T1 and Leopard AU/T, only 392 of the tank. On pictures with sayta warwall.ru machine units of the 18th and 54th mechanized infantry brigade on the teachings in Eastern Thrace.

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