Tiger 1 meets son grandson, Leopard 1 2 Tank Museum, Bovington

, Tiger1tank, Leopard1tank , Leopard2tank , Tiger1tankmeetsLeopard1andLeopard2 The Tank Museum at Bovington, UK held their 9th Tiger Day tank running event on Saturday 28th April 2018. Their Tiger 1 tank, unit coded 131, was on display in the main tank hall of the museum from where it was started up and moved out into the Kuwait arena, where it was driven around in front of the large crowd. As well as a number off other tanks that were also on show in the arena, the Tank Museums own Canadian Leopard C2 tank an export version of the Leopard 1 and a Dutch Leopard 2A4 were also on show and put through their paces next to the Tiger tank. The Dutch Leopard 2A4 is one of only 2 that have been retained in Holland as working museum vehicles following their retirement from Dutch Army service and the sale of the remaining Dutch Leopard 2A4s to Finland. The Dutch Army have since reformed a single tank unit and are now equipped with more advanced Leopard 2A5 and 2A6 tanks that they lease from Germany