The main tank "Leopard". NATO shock fist. Suvorov S.

These German panzers today are an armored fist of the North Atlantic Alliance, but are adopted not only in NATO countries. For half a century, the industry has produced almost 5 thousand Leopards-1 and more than 3.5 thousand Leopards-2, as well as armored and special machines on their base, having mastered unique technologies in engine, metallurgy, optoelectronics and other advanced industries.

The book of the famous historian of armored vehicles traces the whole path of development and combat use of Leopardes-from the debut in Kosovo and Bosnia in 1999 to the service in Afghanistan, from the first versions of Leopard-1 with 70mm armor and 105-mm gun to the latest modifications of Leopard-2 with a powerful 120-mm with a smooth-bore tool of the Rheinmetall concern, perfect system control system, laser rangefinder, thermal imagers and electronic ballistic computers, giving the amendment not only for speed and range, but also to the wind, but also. The temperature, atmospheric pressure, the roll of the tsapf of the gun and the wear of the barrel channel, which provides guaranteed damage to the target from the first shot.

The publication is illustrated by many exclusive photographs and projections.