• sngoose@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Can anyone Preise enlighten me where Dänemark got those T72s from? I know sometimes old soviel era armor ends up in NATO countries, but couldn’t find anything about danish T72s.

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      I don’t remember Denmark specifically, but Germany had more than 500 from ex-GDR stocks. Most were sold to northern Europe or other countries in the 90s, a few went to the US for analysis, some were gifted to museums and the rest was trashed.

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      […] they are being acquired in cooperation with other countries.

      So presumably from some ex-Warsaw-Pact-now-NATO countries, of which there are quite a few.

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        Germany alone got more than 500 from re-uniting that were sold in the 90’s mostly to countries operating them that could or would not buy more from the original source (I remember Finland in particular).