Leonardo eyes an Italian gun for Rome’s new Leopard 2 tanks

Leonardo eyes an Italian gun for Rome’s new Leopard 2 tanks

ROME — Italy will add its own, domestically manufactured components to German Leopard tanks it is buying, possibly including the gun barrel, a senior official at Italian firm Leonardo has told Defense News.Italy has signed to buy the tanks to fill a capability gap as the Ukraine conflict raises the profile of land war, and aims to assemble the Leopards at a Leonardo assembly line in La Spezia, Italy.“Under a Letter of Intent signed in December w…