European NATO members and Canada have thousands of tanks of several types, in many versions and in various technical conditions. Turkey and Greece maintain the largest armored troops.
Turkey has more than 2,200 tanks, including more than 400 Leopard 2A4s, 350 Leopard 1s, and more than 800 M60s and M48s delivered from the United States.
According to data posted on the Statista platform, Greece has 1344 tanks, m.in. According to other sources, there may be over 1600 of them, of which about 350 are Leopard 2A4 and 2A6, 501 are Leopard 1, and there are nearly 500 old M48 and M60 tanks in storage. The figures are not accurate or complete. Some information, such as on equipment transferred to Ukraine and left over from military aid, is provided sparingly and without details.
Poland, which has handed over about 360 T-72 and PT-91 Twardy tanks and 14 Leopard 2A4 tanks to fighting Ukraine, has 233 Leopard 2 tanks in the A5, A4 and – after modernization carried out in the country – 2PL. It received 116 M1A1 Abrams vehicles (all ordered vehicles are already in stock with the Polish Army), 28 out of 250 ordered latest M1A2SEPv3 Abrams, as well as 98 (out of 180 contracted) South Korean K2GF Black Panther. The Polish Armed Forces have no more than 200 T-72s in stock (in worse technical condition than the tanks handed over to Ukraine) and 160-170 Twardy.
A member of the Alliance since 2023. Finland has 200 Leopard 2A6 and 2A4 tanks. The Swedish armored forces consist of 110 Stv 122 tanks (the Swedish variant of the Leopard 2A5). Sweden has also placed an order for 44 Leopard 2A8 trains, which will replace the vehicles handed over to Ukraine. Denmark owns 44 Leopard 2A7s; Norway has 38 Leopard 2A4 tanks, and has also ordered 54 vehicles in the 2A8 version. Lithuania has ordered 44 such tanks.
The manufacturer of the most common tank among the allies – Germany – currently has about 300-310 Leopard 2A6 and 2A7 tanks. Last summer, the Bundestag’s budget committee agreed to the purchase of about 100 Leopard 2A8 tanks. France, on the other hand, uses its own design of Leclerc tanks in the number of 222 copies. Of the 184 vehicles transferred to deep reserve, 150 early versions were probably scrapped.
The United Kingdom intends to leave 148 vehicles out of over 200 Challenger 2s (which also supported Ukraine with this type of tanks) after their modernization to the Challenger 3 standard. Italy also uses tanks of its own design with 200 C1 Ariete vehicles, of which 125 are in service and the remaining 75 are in reserve.
The Netherlands, which reduced its armored forces during the détente, had 18 Leopard 2A6s left. In 2027-30, it is expected to receive 46 Leos in the 2A8 version. Spain has 98 Leopard 2A4s, and 219 2E vehicles produced in Spain. Portugal’s resources are about 30 Leo 2A6s. Canada has 20 Leopard 2A6s and 54 2A4 vehicles after the transfer of eight of these tanks to Ukraine. Twelve Leopard 2A4s are in service in Hungary, which has ordered 44 vehicles in the 2A7 variant.
Slovakia, which received 15 Leopard 2A4s from Germany in exchange for 30 infantry fighting vehicles transferred to Ukraine, also has 30 T-72s. Croatia, which transferred 30 M-84s, i.e. Yugoslav modifications of the T-72, to Ukraine, 15 of these tanks remained. Slovenia has 54 vehicles of this type, which has handed over 28 of its M55S (modified T-55s) to Ukraine. Two years ago, Bulgaria had about 250 T-72s. Some of them were bought by the Czech Republic, which has or is to receive 42 Leopard 2A4 and A5 tanks for transfer to Ukraine. Prague has also ordered 44 Leopards in the 2A8 version, with an option for further vehicles in various versions, including technical recovery vehicles.
About 290 tanks from the TR (Tanc Romanesc) family of various versions, developed on the basis of the Soviet T-55, are owned by Romania, which also has 120 T-55 vehicles. This ally applied for permission to purchase 54 M1A2s. In Albania’s resources, they find Chinese clones of Soviet T-54/55s, most of them in storage. These are about 40 operational Type 59 tanks from China (681 vehicles are in reserve), 55 Type 62s and 40 Type 69s.
Russia’s current stock numbers 5,750 tanks, which puts it in second place in the world, after China (6,800) and ahead of the U.S. (over 4,600), among the owners of the largest number of armored weapons.
