Germany has donated 14 Leopard 2A4s to help the Czech Republic replenish its stocks after Prague supplied its old tanks to war-torn Ukraine, the Mlada Fronta DNES newspaper reported, as cited by Poland's PAP news agency on Friday.
"The Leopard 2A4s are fit only for exercises," Mlada Fronta DNES said, according to the Polish state news agency.
Milan Mikulecky, a security expert, was quoted as saying that the Leopard 2A4s were made in the mid-1980s and were "unfit for today's battlefield."
Mikulecky added that the Czech government had accepted the donation from Germany without "considering other options," the PAP news agency reported.
According to military experts, "South Korea's K2 battle tank is superior to the German-made Leopard 2," Mlada Fronta DNES reported.
The daily noted that Poland was buying K2 tanks from South Korea for its army, the PAP news agency reported.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP, dziennik.pl
