Canada fails to find buyer for surplus army tanks, final attempt to sell to Jordan Armed Forces fizzles
By David AkinChief Political Correspondent Global News
WATCH ABOVE:Canada has thrown in the towel trying to find a foreign buyer for its fleet of surplus Cold War-era army tanks. A last-ditch attempt to move them to the Kingdom of Jordan appears to have fizzled out. David Akin has a Global News exclusive.
Canada has given up trying to find a buyer for its surplus army tanks after what appears to be a last ditch attempt to move them to Jordan fizzled out, Global News has learned.
Canada has about 50 surplus Leopard 1C2 battle tanks and 11 Leopard 1 armoured engineering vehicles left over from the original batch of about 127 Leopard 1s Canada purchased, beginning in 1978.