GDELS Ready for the Upgrade of the Spanish LEOPARD 2E Fleet

General Dynamics European Land Systems – Santa Bárbara Sistemas (GDELS-SBS) and KNDS Deutschland have signed an agreement regarding the joint cooperation for a potential upgrade for the LEOPARD 2E fleet of the Spanish Army.

KNDS Deutschland as the original equipment manufacturer and design authority of the LEOPARD 2 Main Battle Tank and GDELS – Santa Bárbara Sistemas as the leading Spanish system house for tracked and wheeled armored vehicles, fuse their technological and industrial expertise and capabilities to offer a proper modernization of the Leopard 2E to the Spanish Army and to assure continued interoperability with other European Leopard 2 key user nations and allies (LEOBEN).

The agreement reinforcing the strong, trustful relationship between both companies in the original Leopard 2E production program for the Spanish Armed Forces, was already signed at the end of last year. Furthermore, KNDS and GDELS, together with Israeli RAFAEL, established a structured cooperation as founding members of EuroTrophy, a German-based joint company for the production of the most advanced and battle proven Active Protection System (APS) for military vehicles. Trophy APS has become incremental part of the new standard configuration of the Leopard 2 A8 of the German Army.

With these steps, GDELS-SBS is prepared to assume again a key role in a future Leopard 2E upgrade program of the Spanish Army.