Spain, ready to deliver anti-aircraft missiles and Leopard tanks to Ukraine
The Spanish Army will instruct in Latvia and on national territory the Ukrainian military in the handling of tanks in their fight against the Russian invasion
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The Spanish government is also willing to deliver to Ukraine the Leopard A4 tanks that have been hibernated for a decade at the Army logistics base in Zaragoza. These tanks are part of the batch of 108 second-hand units that Germany sold to Spain in 1995, as a preamble to the contract for the manufacture of leopards in Spain. The intention of Defense was to convert them into recovery tanks for engineers but, in the absence of budget, it chose to subject them to a dehumidification process (remove batteries, oils and any other element that could deteriorate them) and leave them stored waiting to have funds in the future. Defense sources estimate that about 40 tanks could be rehabilitated and delivered to the Ukrainian Army, but warn that this would require subjecting them to a set-up by an industry that is not inclined to undertake these works at a time when it rains the orders for the generalized increase in military spending in Europe.
