According to information published on the Danish website “OLFI” on February 1, 2023, Denmark plans to purchase 20 decommissioned Leopard 1A5 Main Battle Tanks that are stored in the German company FFG. These Leopard 1A5 tanks could be repaired and returned to service and then sent to Ukraine.
Citing open source information, the German company FFG will have a stock of 100 Leopard 1A5 Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) that were in service with the Danish army. In 2010, FFG would have bought 100 Leopard 1A5 in Denmark to transform them and then resell them.
Denmark ordered 120 German-made Leopard 1A3s in June 1974, the first of which were delivered in March 1976 and the last in November 1978. Denmark modernized the Leopard 1A3 to the 1A5 configuration and obtained a further 110 Leopard 1A3s from German Army stocks.