France ramps up production of Caesar self-propelled howitzers amid ongoing fighting in Ukraine

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France ramps up production of Caesar self-propelled howitzers amid ongoing fighting in Ukraine

France is ramping up production of Caesar self-propelled artillery mounts. The decision was made against the background of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, as well as to replace the howitzers sent to Kyiv. The government has already allocated the necessary sums for the production of new systems.

According to the French press, the company Arquus, owned by the Swedish Volvo and specializing in military vehicles, has already started assembling new howitzer chassis earlier this week. Production is organized at an enterprise in the city of Limoges, the company undertakes to issue four platforms per month at peak load.



In total, the French Ministry of Defense ordered two batches of self-propelled guns from Nexter, 18 units each, i.e. 36 Caesar self-propelled howitzers in total. In a year, the French would like to see new installations in the troops. The production of howitzers itself has been transferred to work in three shifts, by the end of the year Nexter plans to produce eight guns per month, doubling their production.

Recall that France transferred to Ukraine 18 Caesar self-propelled guns from the presence of its own army and promised to supply 12 more installations. In addition, the French intend to increase the production of 155-mm artillery shells, including for Ukraine. This was announced at the beginning of the month by French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu. Paris intends to supply "Ukrainian" howitzers with ammunition of its own production. Those. and guns and shells will be French. At the same time, Denmark will supply 19 more French self-propelled guns to Kyiv.

As previously reported in the French government, military spending on Ukraine is calculated separately from spending on the French army and France does not intend to reduce them. French President Emmanuel Macron advocates a peaceful end to the conflict, but only if Ukraine wins, the West does not like peace on Russian terms.
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    1. +2
      20 March 2023 18: 27
      A very unpleasant, long-range thing, like HIMARS for the Russian army.
      The collective West is transferring its military-industrial complex to a war footing, and this threatens to complicate the Russian Federation in Ukraine and beyond.
      Putin should actively destroy the banking and energy systems of the US and the EU.
      1. +3
        20 March 2023 18: 39
        Putin needs to build a war economy and an anti-colonial alliance, otherwise a problem that can only be solved by a nuclear draw.
        1. 0
          20 March 2023 18: 49
          Quote: IvanIvanov
          nuclear draw.

          There will be no nuclear draw. Everyone will lose. Well, maybe blacks, Latinos, Papuans, and who else is there in the equatorial zones, will not be very affected. It is unlikely that anyone will become generous and spend warheads on them, and even in a nuclear winter it will be warmer there than in all other places. And everyone else will have an arctic fox so plump that the survivors will envy the dead.
      2. 0
        20 March 2023 18: 51
        Quote from War_Lord
        Putin should actively destroy the banking and energy systems of the US and the EU.

        And it is necessary to create a list of all countries that help Ukraine, and if they participate in the war somewhere, it is also necessary to arm their enemies without remorse.
    2. KCA
      -2
      20 March 2023 18: 30
      I wonder how much they will increase output? For one a year? The pride of France is their nuclear power industry, which reactors have been built for more than 10 years, which ones have been under maintenance for more than a year, which ones are being decommissioned, where to get light from? And there's nowhere to buy
      1. +2
        20 March 2023 21: 06
        by how much will they increase output?

        the production of howitzers was transferred to work in three shifts, by the end of the year Nexter plans to produce eight guns per month, doubling their production.
        1. KCA
          0
          21 March 2023 17: 35
          You can plan a lot, but get less than it was, you need to have more opportunities
    3. +1
      20 March 2023 18: 33
      France ramps up production of self-propelled howitzers

      This means that we must continuously increase the production of Lancets and Cubes. And we should hurry!
      To knock out all the heavy equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is task number 1. Those. you need to knock out faster than she arrives. I know I didn't say anything new...
    4. +1
      20 March 2023 18: 34
      In the days of the USSR, they worked with trade unions of foreign states, to stir up protest moods in France and play along with Le Pen, this will ease the pressure on Russia of the main players from the EU.
    5. +2
      20 March 2023 18: 38
      Well, on the other hand, we are not stepping up strikes on logistics. Let them rake at the forefront?
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