The European Union plans to dramatically ramp up defense spending, mobilizing 800 billion euros over the next four years. The aim is to strengthen Europe’s defense readiness and boost military support for Ukraine. The sharp increase signals growing concern that the bloc could also come under attack by Russia – and can no longer depend on US protection for Europe via NATO.
Fair enough, it really depends on how you count. I grouped all variants under a single tank, if you count each variant differently then the number will be far greater indeed.
From what i can find T-80 is not in active service with any EU country and im really quite surprised M48’s are still used in active service.
Cyprus uses the T-80 (a fact I learned from wikipedia, i’m rather surprised they have tanks at all)
I can’t really find proof Greece actually DOES anything with their M48’s except dust them off occasionally, but they do still have quite a few, and even upgraded them with the fire control system from the Leopard 2A4. The M48A5 is from 1975 though, it’s not as old as it looks.