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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Danish military selling off Cold War machinery

Leopard 2More than 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the military is selling out of its war materials from that period.

Among the items the military is getting rid of are 230 Leopard I tanks, which made up the backbone of the nation’s land defences during the Cold War. The tanks were sold to a German company in Flensborg, just south of the border, at a price of just over 20 million kroner.

Also up for sale will be seven rescue helicopters, 140 armoured personnel carriers, three frigates, spare parts and various forms of ammunition.

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