You should read 'Disaster of al-Bab'. Leo 2A4 is a crap tank.I mean, all arms procurements are political decisions. Still, Leo2 came out on top of all tests we ran and it was the best tank available for our needs. Original Altay was basically a Turkish Leopard 2A7. There were no other tanks we liked at the time, literally. K2 came much later and even then, K2 we chose is a heavily modified one to suit our needs.