Armor: June 25, 2001

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Chile has ordered 11 variants of the Leopard-1 tank from Dutch Army stocks. These include three bridge launchers, three vehicles to carry spare bridges, three engineer vehicles, and two mine-clearing vehicles. Chile has received 200 Leopard-1s from the Netherlands and is receiving 96 refurbished and upgraded M101 towed 105mm howitzers from the US.--Stephen V Cole