Tank Fleet of the Hungarian Defence Forces’ Armoured Brigade Expands with Another Three State-of-the-art Leopard 2A7s

Text: Ministry of Defence | Photo: Gergely Schöff | 13:01 July 24, 2024

Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said that on Tuesday, 23 July, three of the world’s most modern main battle tanks would arrive in Hungary. With the new vehicles, the tank fleet of the Hungarian Defence Forces’ armoured brigade in Tata expands to 18.

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Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky added that by putting the Leopard main battle tanks in service, a new era has begun in the history of the Hungarian armed forces’ development; and their rearmament is going on as planned. The Leopard 2A7s are agile, extremely reliable and have good manoeuvrability in their category. Their hull is 7.7m long and with the gun forward, the length of the tanks is 10.97m. Their width is 3.76m without the add-on armour module and their height is 3.03m. The minister recalled that altogether 44 units of this high-tech military equipment would arrive in Hungary by 2028.