Originally posted by Crombie The Leopards were on loan to Canada from the Germans and still won the contest.
I'm assuming this photo was taken before Canadian Forces left the NATO base in Lahr, but it wasn't the last time Germany loaned Leopard tanks to Canada. Excerpted from
this Wikipedia article: "To meet immediate needs in Afghanistan, 20 of the Bundeswehr's stock of Leopard 2A6s were upgraded to
2A6M standard and loaned to Canada at no cost by the German government. Two Leopard 2
Büffel Armoured Recovery Vehicles were acquired at the same time. These vehicles were shipped from Germany to Afghanistan, with the first arriving on 16 August 2007."