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Old October 19th, 2017, 11:58 AM
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Fallout Re: MBT's

Remember there were two separate orders/batches (Two orders in 2012.) for these Leopards the first batch was delivered between 2013-2014 these would be covered by the already entered Leopard derived from German UNIT 033 of which they received 42 tanks. Even your source matches by the numbers what SIPRI has reported as 61 tanks to be delivered between 2017-2018 these are the Leopard 2RI tanks and second batch.

Bottom-line is simply CHANGE to add a modified German Leopard Revolution tank as the Leopard 2RI.

Well strike the proceeding sentence as I just checked the OOB. Now recommend the following to fix this problem...

A. CHANGE/UNIT 017 LEOPARD 2RI/START DATE 6/2018 vice 6/2014/This represents the second batch of tanks per OUR refs./The LEOPARD RI is NOT a fully optionally equipped tank as the full GERMAN REVOLUTION version. There should be slight deductions in additional armor and FCS.//

B. ADD/LEOPARD 2A4+/USE GERMAN UNIT 033 as was submitted in 2013 w/o modification./START DATE 6/2014/Again these are to original Batch 1 tanks ordered and delivered btwn 2013-2014 as noted in my last post, the above and the below refs./There were political delays within the German government that could've killed the deal as what happened earlier with the Dutch.//
http://www.dw.com/en/indonesia-tank-...ons/a-16357173
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/...-tanks-013042/
https://www.armyrecognition.com/sept...y_2509133.html
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/indon...29571/page-164


From ref. 2...
“We are buying Leopard 2A4 and Leopard 2 Revolution models that are already modified and have new armaments…. All the political and administrative processes are complete, we are in the production phase…. We can use them as soon as they arrive…. The memorandum of understanding will stipulate the transfer of technology and the provision of spare parts.”

From ref.4 see first couple of entries.

The LEOPARD 2A4+ was the "stepping stone" from LEOPARD 2A4 > LEOPARD 2A4+ > LEOPARD 2 REVOLUTION.

I don't know what more I can add at this point except, I need to get ready for work.

Regards,
Pat
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