Way Back In The 1960s And 70s,

the cry from the great liberal unwashed was,

'make love not war' well the bad news is that some 50 or 60 years on it is not working with new conflicts being seen almost weekly around the world, so it came as no surprise to hear that Germany is now well along the path to develop a new battle tank, in August last year, German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), makers of the current versions of the Leopard tank, merged with French defence company Nexter, speaking of the merger, KMW CEO mentioned the idea of a Leopard 3 tank, noting that France has a strategic perspective that stretches decades into the future, in October, when the budget committee of Germany’s parliament put together their draft of a 2015 spending bill, the proposal to develop a new tank was quietly noted, and then debated in an independent German armed forces journal, there are few details at present about what, exactly, the Leopard 3 program will entail, and what improvements it will have over previous generations of tank design,

but meanwhile not wanting to be caught out on the wrong foot Germany recently bolstered it's current arsenal of tanks by buying and upgrading 20 Leopard 2A7 tanks, pictured above that were acquired from the Netherlands, though originally from Canada, so I guess the 'make love not war' did not really catch on!