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Norwegian Leopards

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:32 pm
by Redmoose
Does anyone know when the following were actually put into units?
NM-217 (Armored Recovery Vehicle)
NM-190 (Vehicle Bridge Launcher)
NM-189 (Armored Engineering Vehicle)

I could not find much on them but heres what I have
of the 217, 13 were built
of the 190, 9 were built
of the 189, 22 were built
Unfortunately I just haven't found the years they were bought or the years they were put into active duty in Norway. Any help would be apperciated!
Thanks.

RE: Norwegian Leopards

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:55 pm
by Gunner98
According to Tank Encyclopedia (which is a lot harder to search lately) https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwar/ ... pard-i.php

the Bridgelayer started deliveries in 1997

The rest is guessing

The AEV - not sure but suspect about the same time as Canada (late 90's), we got ours in 95-96 and they were about the same design
The ARV would have been a lot earlier - you need them to operate the MBTs so my suspicion is within a couple years of initial deliveries