The Dutch Leopard Battalion 2A8 will be stationed in Germany

The Ministries of Defense of the Netherlands and Germany have agreed to allocate to Bergen-Hohne in Lower Saxony the newly formed tank battalion that the Royal Dutch Army is about to organize on a Leopard 2A8 base. The decision to allocate the new battalion to Germany stems from a series of factors, from the lack of adequate training space for tank maneuvers in the Netherlands, to the logistical and operational commonality with the German Army, …