SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The German government has approved the sale of 100 Leopard tanks to the Chilean army, according to a news report published Sunday.
The agreement for the sale will be formalized within the next few weeks, Santiago-daily El Mercurio reported.
The tanks would nearly complete a program to replace obsolete equipment in the three branches of the Chilean armed forces, the paper said.
The Defense Ministry's offices were closed for the holiday and could not be reached to confirm the report.
In recent months, the navy purchased two secondhand frigates in Britain and two new ones in the Netherlands and two Scorpene submarines from a French-Spanish consortium.
The government has approved the purchase of 10 F-16 warplanes from the United States and 18 other U.S.-made planes from the Dutch Air Force, which would replace a fleet of old French Mirages.
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