(Berlin) Last Tuesday Germany became the latest nation to purchase the Trophy Active Protection System (APS) in which to protect its leopard 2 tanks. The standing of the Leopard 2 - widely seen as one of the best tanks in the world- took a huge fall from grace , after Turkey suffered a large number of humiliating losses to its own Leopard 2 tanks during its military adventures in Syria to missile armed ISIS terrorists (As well as the Kurds)
To be fair the Turks Leopards were of the A4 variant which aren't as modern as the A7+ variant of 2010 vintage. But nevertheless the image of the Leopard 2 has been stained due to how its side armour is susceptible to anti tank missiles. Which is why the German Military free from the hand of the ruinous Ursula von der Leyen who really crippled the German military during her stint as defence minister (Now doing the same as the leader of the EU) have looked at the problem at hand and purchased the Israeli 'Trophy' APS system
