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who recommended for neat commissions, refurbished Leopard. His sg contacts got paid too but who are they??????????
Actually, I heard different. the initial buy of Leo 2 was at friendship prices from the Germans. They had so many that they were selling them like fire sale cheap cheap to countries like Sweden, canada, Greece, turkey, etc. Not much commission to be made there. Where Diesenroth made his money was the mods to the Leo 2A4s that the SAF bought. For some reason I cannot fathom (other than that Diesenroth conned them) the SAF decided to extensively modify some Leo 2A4s into Leo 2SG standard. This included the extensive use of ....what else...........Diesenroth's AMAPS armour on the side turret and slat armour at the back. No other country who bought cheap Leo 2s did such mods. I am guessing the mods were costing close to the price of the tank itself.
In any case, an arms race was triggered by this buy. Now the Indons have over 100 of the Leo 2s too.