In 2023, France will significantly increase defense spending for the sixth time in a row

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In 2023, France will significantly increase defense spending for the sixth time in a row

Recently, many European countries have been talking about the need to strengthen defense capabilities, increase military spending, and even create the largest armies on the continent. France has not remained aloof from this trend. The day before, the Ministry of Armed Forces of the Fifth Republic published the defense budget for 2023 and provided some details on the procurement of military equipment and equipment for the Navy.

France's defense budget for 2023 will reach 43,9 billion euros, including an additional 3 billion euros, up 7,4% compared to 2022. This is the sixth increase in military spending since 2017. The Minister of the Armed Forces, Sebastian Lecornu, said that the increased financial injections "should contribute to the mandatory transformation of the production model of our defense industry towards a military economy."



The official statement of the French military department says that "at the moment, a new program for the development of the armed forces and weapons for 2024-2030 is being prepared in France." The draft program will be submitted to Parliament no later than December.

Plans for further militarization of the country does not hide the President of France. Speaking at a meeting of French ambassadors in early September, Emmanuel Macron said that France plans to make its army the first in Europe in terms of equipment. The head of the republic also plans to strengthen the forces of nuclear deterrence. The head of state demanded that the military leadership revise the program for equipping the army, taking into account the current geopolitical context.

A significant part of the costs will go to the modernization and rearmament of the naval forces of the republic. In particular, according to Lecornu, it is planned to build a nuclear attack submarine, purchase a batch of Exocet anti-ship missiles, five H160 helicopters. Next year, the French Navy will receive one BRF supply vessel and an upgraded La Fayette-class frigate.

In August, the Chief of Staff of the French Land Forces, General Pierre Schill, announced the need to strengthen air defense, purchase additional drones and long-range artillery.

Thus, France became the third European country after Germany and Poland to announce ambitious plans to build up its military potential. Who will win this new "arms race" in Europe is still unclear. Especially considering that all EU countries are going through hard times due to the growing economic crisis. Yes, and the taxpayers of the once rich Europe are increasingly concerned with solving pressing problems, and not supporting the militaristic plans of their leaders.
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  1. 0
    29 September 2022 11: 21
    "on defense" from whom, from what?
    Maybe to help - brothers in mind from the country 404?
  2. 0
    29 September 2022 11: 37
    The French are wildly delighted))) the economic situation is already so, not to the Red Army, but here is such a gift)))
  3. +1
    29 September 2022 11: 40
    Emmanuel Macron said that France plans to make its army the first in Europe in terms of equipment
    Who else in Old Europe has not declared the desire to make their army the first? In my opinion, everyone was noted. Eastern Europe does not lag behind them, where Poland is trying to jump above all. France at least equips its army with its weapons, therefore it helps its military-industrial complex, but the Young Europeans pay exclusively for the US military-industrial complex. Yes, they have caught up with military hysteria to the required level, and now it only remains to go to war against Russia (for what time?).
  4. 0
    29 September 2022 11: 46
    Thus, France became the third European country after Germany and Poland to announce ambitious plans to build up its military potential.
    ... What options?
    1. Don't believe in big brother anymore because of the ocean?
    2. Want to be an equal partner to that big brother?
    3. Do they want to become a big mound on the Gay European "plain"?
    4. Do not understand what they want at all, just chatter?
  5. 0
    29 September 2022 11: 50
    Speaking at a meeting of French ambassadors in early September, Emmanuel Macron said that France plans to make its army the first in Europe in terms of equipment.

    Over the past year, this is already the fifth "candidate" for all-European military leaders after Great Britain, Germany, Poland, Ukraine ....
    And, in general, Russia is also quite a Europe ....
  6. 0
    29 September 2022 11: 55
    Recently, many European countries have been talking about the need to strengthen defense capabilities, increase military spending, and even create the largest armies on the continent.

    Predictable. We are on the threshold of a new arms race. :((
  7. 0
    29 September 2022 11: 55
    Yes, they are showing off among themselves in the EU ...., psheks buy tanks and letaks from striped and Koreans, the Germans have become more active, but are the basurmans worse or what? Look, Luxembourg will build a vigorous aircraft carrier ...
  8. 0
    29 September 2022 12: 01
    Any military action is a way to cut the budget IN ALL COUNTRIES)))))
  9. +1
    29 September 2022 12: 23
    Emmanuel Macron said that France plans to make its army the first in Europe...

    But why?
    The problems in the country are "a wagon and a small cart", and the bourgeois are all about militarization ...
  10. 0
    29 September 2022 12: 26
    GDP got its way.
    Scared, scared them with hyper weapons, scared - scared, and finally achieved.
    Golden rain in the military-industrial complex of NATO and the growth of NATO in breadth and depth.

    HPP in action!
    1. 0
      29 September 2022 12: 34
      Let me remember...when "Putin didn't scare" how much NATO has increased.?
      1. -2
        29 September 2022 13: 46
        You're right. NATO expansion has not previously prevented Putin from friendly showing Bush his Cossack and Volga
        1. 0
          29 September 2022 14: 31
          You decide. HPP after 24.02 led to NATO expansion or earlier.
          1. -2
            29 September 2022 15: 23
            That NATO expanded earlier without HSP is no longer listed?
            Possible.
            The WFP is exchanging countries for high oil prices (USA kept BNE at a very low price, and then they began to increase it significantly), for example. or something else. (Boeings, iPhones, gas, metals)

            2 fairly significant neutral countries hurried into NATO at the same time - it could not have done without HPP ...
            1. 0
              29 September 2022 17: 18
              To be honest, for me your remarks - sounds like a stream of consciousness. First you say that because of Putin's threats, NATO began to expand. Further, on the question of NATO expansion to Putin, go to incoherent. It turns out that oil prices were deliberately kept under the BNE in order to expand NATO at the expense of the former countries of the socialist camp, and then under Putin they specially raised prices to accept other countries. That is, the United States themselves set the price of oil. Interesting logic.
              1. -2
                29 September 2022 17: 38
                No, you attribute your remarks to me - just a substitution of meanings.
                Example: replacing "NATO's growth in breadth and depth" with "because of Putin's threats, NATO began to expand"
                And the standard otiazki not able to say the case: "sounds like a stream of consciousness"
                1. 0
                  29 September 2022 20: 54
                  Scared, scared them with hyper weapons, scared - scared, and finally achieved.
                  Golden rain in the NATO military-industrial complex and the growth of NATO in breadth and depth. (c) that is, NATO began to expand in breadth because of Putin's threats? Or how can you read your phrase differently?
                  1. -1
                    29 September 2022 22: 34
                    So read simply, without your conjectures and searches for incomprehensible meanings.
                    What's incomprehensible? Or are you pretending?

                    Scarecrow? Scarecrow. 200 Armat, Petrels, Posedons, overexposure, terminators, cartoons with warheads on Florida ... Everything turned out to be much more modest, so the West reacted with a creak for a long time, and Trump also "cursed" because of this.
                    Golden rain - a phrase from a book about Chekists. All NATO countries are sharply increasing their military budget - this is it
                    NATO in breadth is just 2 recently neutral countries, in depth - statements about additional armament, development, appropriations, and growth in numbers.
                    Because of the HPP - that's what the HPP is for. Until they were scared about hypersound - the Americans were sleepily poking around with their missiles, about the Armata - NATO was satisfied with their existing tanks. which 2/3 rusted in warehouses (in Europe, according to the media), not counting completely junk. Read media articles 8-5 years ago - everything there rusts, falls apart, is not combat-ready ... F22 stand without hangars, deteriorate from the weather, aircraft carriers cannot swim ... Lepota ...

                    In general, do not look for a double bottom where there is none.
                    Or do you not believe in HPP???)))
                    1. 0
                      30 September 2022 00: 30
                      And since when did he start to scare? So, me for the general development?
                      1. -1
                        30 September 2022 08: 55
                        Duc, take a look at the dates of the appearance of news about hyper, 2000 Armat, cartoons, and other things .. I don’t remember exactly, 10-14 years offhand
                      2. 0
                        30 September 2022 13: 34
                        So specificity is important. Let's be more precise.
                      3. -1
                        30 September 2022 14: 46
                        If you are too lazy to look for specifics, then you will not understand
                      4. 0
                        30 September 2022 15: 39
                        I understand you correctly. You threw a remark that was not confirmed by anything, and now you are offering me to look for specifics? Well, OK. Then I will say, the new "members" admitted to NATO, most of them up to "intimidation". That's all.
                      5. -1
                        30 September 2022 16: 08
                        You all understand perversely.
                        You soar in your statements (not intersecting with mine) and attribute something to me, and even so that you look for evidence for you, convince you, etc.
                        Cheating of pure water
                      6. 0
                        1 October 2022 10: 22
                        You're strange. Therefore, I will not continue.

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