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Conventional ground warfare dead end is compounded by limited numbers of tanks as well as spare parts issues A Leopard 2A4 tank with the addition of Russian ERA armor that still failed to protect it on the battlefield. Ukraine has been taking first generation ERA panels from Russian tanks and welding them onto Leopard tanks. The results are not good. Photo: Defense Mirror NATO has a huge problem that will take decades to overcome. Put most simply, the armor vehicles NATO has won’t survive in a firefight with the Russians, notwithstanding the fact that Russian armor is far from the...

In the 13 weeks since launching a long-anticipated counteroffensive along several axes in southern and eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian army has lost just five of its 71 Leopard 2 tanks. Many more of the German-made tanks—at least 10—have suffered damage. But the Ukrainians are repairing the damaged tanks at depots in Poland and Germany and returning them to the front. The fundamental toughness of the 69-ton Leopard 2 means tanks might take damage, visit a repair depot, return to the fighting then again take damage and head out for repairs. So on and so forth. The Leopard 2 lends itself...

A lost little bird wobbles onto a riverbed, right where a leopard cub is busy playing. The bird, knowing nothing better, walks right up to the leopard!

Snow leopards, or "ghosts of the mountains" as they are known in some parts of the world, have earned an almost mythical status for their stealthiness and camouflage skills. The big cats are so perfectly adapted to their harsh mountainous habitat that even spotting them against a rocky backdrop can be near impossible. However, dramatic footage that recently surfaced from India’s Himalayas reveals that even these most elusive cats occasionally show themselves (and sometimes even put on a spectacular hunting display).

Germany may transfer 19 Leopard 2A5 tanks to Ukraine, Der Spiegel magazine reported. Germany is ready to transfer to Ukraine only 19 of the oldest Leopard 2 tanks, which are used in exercises to simulate the enemy, Spiegel writes. In total, the German military had 312 Leopards in 2 different production series in the spring, the newspaper notes.

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The population of Far Eastern leopard in the wild has exceeded 120 this year, up from 35 in the early 2000s, moving away from the extinction line, Russia's PrimaMedia news agency reported Tuesday. Far Eastern leopard is the rarest of all large cats on Earth. It is listed as Critically Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List in 2007. Researchers of the Land of the Leopard National Park acquired the data by using camera traps in the Primorsky Territory, Russia. The national park, established in Russia's Far East in 2012 and covering an area of...

Three snow leopards at the Children's Zoo in Lincoln, Nebraska, died of COVID just a month after testing positive Ranney, Everest, and Malaku had first tested positive for COVID on October 13, along with a pair of Sumatran tigers who have since made a full recovery Veterinarians attempted to treat the snow leopards with an aggressive regimen of steroids and antibiotics that ultimately proved unsuccessful It remains unknown as to whether the three snow leopards were vaccinated against the virus Reports of COVID infections are on the rise in the US as zoos in Denver and in St Louis, Missouri,...

A German model was mauled by a leopard during a photoshoot — leaving her unconscious and with large gashes on her face and head, according to reports Thursday. Jessica Leidolph, 36, was posing for shots inside an animal enclosure at a center for retired showbiz animals in Nebra Tuesday when the 16-year-old leopard, Troja, sunk its teeth into her head, according to the German newspaper Bild. “It repeatedly kept biting my cheek, ear and head,” she told the outlet, according to the UK Sun.

A man in Florida was mauled after paying $150 for a "full-contact experience" with a black leopard. Dwight Turner, 50, has undergone two surgeries since being attacked by the animal on Aug. 31, his wife, Natushka Turner, said in a sworn written statement to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Dwight Turner and the leopard's owner, Michael Poggi, 54, arranged for him to "play with it, rub its belly and take pictures" on Poggi's property in Davie, FWC said in a captive wildfire report.

A leopard wandered into a hospital in India and ended up locked inside a bathroom before being relocated by wildlife officials. The Forest Department in Ganhinagar said the leopard wandered into Ayurveda Hospital in the Kolavada area and was discovered in a bathroom by a female employee. Build your own natural seafood subscription! Easy to order, easy to manage. Hospital workers locked the bathroom door and contacted the Forest Department, which dispatched personnel to the scene. The leopard was safely relocated with no injuries to humans or the animal, officials said.

PHOTOS: A leopard takes down an impala Yahoo News Photo Staff Yahoo News Photo Staff,Yahoo News Photo Staff 20 hours ago Reactions Reblog on Tumblr Share Tweet Email Photo: Kevin Dooley/Caters News Photo: Kevin Dooley/Caters News These dramatic images show the moment a leopard hunts down an impala. Taken by photographer Kevin Dooley, the photos show the hungry leopard quickly closing in and killing the impala. Dooley said that the leopard killed the impala after a few days spent in the Mashatu game reserve in the Tuli region of Botswana. He added: "This was certainly a highlight image of my...

The prestigious international journal Quaternary Science Reviews has just published a paper which has involved the participation of Gibraltarian scientists from the Gibraltar National Museum alongside colleagues from Spain, Portugal and Japan. The results which have been published come from an area of the Catalan Bay Sand Dune. This work started ten years ago, when the first dates using the OSL method were obtained. It is then that the first traces of footprints left by vertebrates were found. In subsequent years the successive natural collapse of sand has revealed further material and has permitted a detailed study including new dates....

Emily Ratajkowsi and Lena Dunham were all about girl power at a swimsuit shoot for the Gone Girl star's Inamorata swimwear line. Usual in the spotlight, the 27-year-old newlywed got behind the camera to act as photographer for the shoot while the Girls star posed in a sultry leopard print one-piece of Ratajkowski's design. The photos were shared on Inamorata's Instagram page Tuesday to mark the coveted leopard print looks' return to their online store.

Canada is throwing in the towel when it comes to trying to find a suitable buyer for dozens of aging Leopard C2 main battle tanks. A potential deal to sell them to Jordan has apparently fallen through amid that country’s own plans to trim back its heavy armored forces and now the bulk of the C2s look destined for the junk heap. Canada’s Global News was first to report on the development after learning of the negotiations with the Jordanian government through its source’s and the country’s access to information law. Canadian authorities have been trying to sell off the...

Despite the Federal German Government’s statements on the use of Leopard II tanks in the attacks against Afrin, it has come to light that Ankara had sent a notice to Berlin last week. The Berlin administration is under pressure due to the Turkish army using German-made Leopard II tanks in the attacks and massacres against Afrin. Despite photographs of German Leopard tanks published in the press, the Federal German Government had issued a statement saying they “didn’t have information”. Defense Ministry Spokesperson Holger Neumann spoke in a press conference last week in Berlin and said, “Outside of the images on...

A wild leopard sparked alarm in Nepal's capital on Wednesday (June 1) after it spent hours wandering through a residential neighbourhood before being sedated and captured. A Kathmandu resident alerted the police around dawn after he spotted the big cat in the compound of his house. Police called in zoo and wildlife officials who tracked the animal as it clambered over rooftops and padded through backyards, while local residents watched from their balconies.

Leopard are incredibly strong, fast, and graceful creatures. This video shows a leopard displaying all of those attributes during an attack on an impala somewhere in Africa. Watch the complete video to see how awesome that leopard attack looked!

Watch how close this Leopard comes to ripping this hunter apartTrue there isn't any leopard hunting in Cali, but you may come across a cougar. Hunting any type of cats is very dangerous, but after seeing footage like this, it might just be the deadliest. So I guess, if you're into this type of adrenaline pumping hunt, this is it. So imagine being there in a similar environment. Dogs barking, your adrenaline is pumping and you know that cat is hiding somewhere in the brush watching you. Yet you continue on, step by step, closing in on what you know...

Mercy in Nature, but no Mercy in Humanity, Somethings wrong...