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Can we please stop having "Germany will" news and have "Leopard 2 firing at enemy positions (1080p, narrated)" instead?
Too many bullshit news claiming what "will" happen.
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From Bloomberg News reporters Arne Delfs and Michael Nienaber:
Germany is expected to give Poland approval as soon as Wednesday to re-export its German-made Leopard tanks to Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the decision is private.
Poland formally requested the authorization earlier Tuesday. German law requires approval for the re-export of its military equipment, meaning the hundreds of Leopard tanks in Europe can only be sent to Ukraine with Berlin’s consent.
Pressure has been building on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to allow allies to share their stocks of Leopards. Poland has been calling on Germany for weeks to drop the cautious approach and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday he expected “prompt” approval from Berlin. >

I imagine as a general that  for one hour of operations a modern combat tank will need 8 hours of maintenance. This is ‘man-hours’, so a crew of four will need to conduct 2:1 maintenance to operation. Much of this maintenance is preventative in nature; checking and changing oils and fluids, track-tension and adjustment, verifying optics are still functioning properly, etc. A lot of preventative maintenance is actually checking for parts that are wearing out or failing, but haven’t caused a system to fail yet; and then replacing them.
A Leopard 2 has very sophisticated targeting capabilities and needs highly trained specialized personnel to maintain and run it. It's not a device that Ukrainians are at all familiar with and it will take time to train each team and relief personnel to rotate through.