Armor: Hungary Updates Its Tank Force

August 21, 2024: Hungary is replacing its Cold War era force of 164 T-72 tanks with 38 Leopard 2 tanks. NATO has no guidelines for how many tanks each member must maintain but the total number of tanks maintained by all member nations is 4.600. Most of these are the 2,500 U.S. M1A1 tanks. The only other NATO nation to use M1A1s is Poland. The second most used tank is the 1,500 German Leopard 2A4. These are used by Germany and most other NATO members. There are also about 200 each of British Challenger 2s, French Leclerc’s and Italian Ariete tanks.