{"id":13077,"date":"2023-07-14T03:49:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13077"},"modified":"2025-04-02T00:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:39:44","slug":"what-is-the-leopard-2-battle-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-leopard-2-battle-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Leopard 2 Battle Tank?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Leopard 2 battle tank:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>German made main battle tank.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Manufacturer<\/strong>: Developed by <strong>German weapons manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann <\/strong>(KMW).<\/li>\n<li>Leopard was<strong> first produced in the late 1990s for the West German army in response to Soviet threats during the Cold War.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Leopard 2 tanks are mainly used by the German military. More than a dozen countries in Europe as well as other countries like Canada are also using these tanks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It has a <strong>crew of four<\/strong> and a <strong>range of about 500 kilometers<\/strong> (310 miles).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Weight: 55 tonne<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Top speed: 68 km\/h<\/strong> (42mph).<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>main weapon is a 120mm smooth bore gun<\/strong>, and it has a <strong>fully-digital fire-control system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also armed with t<strong>wo coaxial light machine guns.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They also <strong>provide \u201call-round protection\u201d for troops<\/strong> from threats such as mines, anti-tank fire, and improvised explosive devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Arjun Main Battle Tank?<\/h3>\n<p>Main Battle Tank (MBT) Arjun is a multi-laboratory programme of DRDO with CVRDE as the lead Laboratory. It is a state-of-the-art tank with superior fire power, high mobility, and excellent protection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/italy-plans-buy-leopard-2-tanks-boost-ground-forces-2023-07-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Italy plans to buy Leopard 2 tanks to boost ground forces<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leopard 2 is a German made main battle tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}