In 2002 Finnish requirements resulted in a contract to buy 124 Leopard 2 A4 MBTs from German military reserve stocks. Not all the vehicles were scheduled for use as MBTs. Only a batch of one hundred vehicles was assigned to the MBT role, with twelve more being used as a spare-parts reservoir. Six vehicles were to be converted to the bridge-laying role (Leopard 2L), and another six were to be converted into armoured engineer / mine breaching vehicles (Leopard 2R). All in all, Finland bought a total of 139 Leopard 2 A4s from the first to sixth production batches. This publication shows the three Finnish Leopard 2 variants, the 2 A4 main battle tank, the 2R armoured engineer vehicle (mine breacher) and the 2L bridge laying tank in action, detail and in many hitherto unpublished photographs.

The booklet shows 149 color-photographs, partly in large scale. The text is, just like in the other volumes of this series, completely in English and German.

Author: Andreas Kirchhoff
Pages: 64
Language: Completely bilingual German/English
Edition: 1
Year of publication: 2011
Dimensions: 29,5 x 21,5 cm
Binding: Softcover
Weight: 0.30 kg