Thanks folks! A few more 'short' Leos ...
[Bottom] The Spähpanzer Kette reconnaissance tank entered Bundeswehr service as the SpPz 2 Luchs A1. The platform was successful but tactical concept shifted in favour of 'recce by stealth'. In 1975, a program was begun to replace the tracked Spähpanzer Luchs with a quieter, 8-wheeled SpPz 3 Puma developed by Thyssen-Henschel.
It had been hoped that the Netherlands would join Germany in the Spähpanzer Luchs program but the only 'export' was to German-based units of the Canadian Army. Although a member of the leichten Panzerfamilie, the Canadians regarded their C3 Lynx IIs as medium tanks. And the Canadian Army continued to employ the Lynx as a 'recce by sabre' system. However, with the arrival of the Soviet T-72, it was apparent that the C3 Lynx's 90mm gun had become inadequate. The C3A1 LUP (Lynx Upgrade Program) modernized the CA vehicles and replaced the 90mm BK90/L40 with a new, low-pressure 105mm gun from OTO Melara.
[Top] Stemming from the 6PFZ-A prototypes of 1968, the Wildkatze 27 ZLW (27-Millimeter-Zwillingskanone auf Wildkatze) was seen as a direct replacement to the US-Fla-Panzer (M 42 Duster). A parallel development of the long-hulled, 35 mm Flakpanzer Gepard, the Wildkatze had a similar radar and FCS but in a smaller turret armed with twin 27 mm Mauser LBK 27 autocannons. (A version with a single 35 mm gun in a new turret was also studied but did not proceed.)
The Wildkatze 27 ZLW was a comparatively short-lived system in Bundeswehr service. In late 1974 half of the German Wildkatze 27 ZLW fleet was donated to Greece as "direct NATO aid". The remained of the fleet were converted to carrier Flugabwehrsystem Roland 2 all-weather missile systems.