Returning the favour

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
"As a belated thank you for the thousands of vehicles transferred from Canadian Army stocks to the Netherlands Army in 1945, the Dutch Minister of Defence has decided to transfer one hundred as-good-as-new Leopard 2 tanks to the Canadian Armed Forces".

Better than nothing, but perhaps I'd prefer our indigenous, and battle-proven, lump of very expensive ironware.

However, MoD don't seem minded to give or sell any and are as usual saying absolutely nothing about what it does and how it does it.

R.