13.05.2022, 14:04
Zitat:France orders more Jaguar and Griffon armoured vehicleshttps://www.janes.com/defence-news/land-...d-vehicles
The Direction générale de l'armement (DGA), the French defence procurement agency, has ordered 88 more Jaguar 6×6 armoured reconnaissance vehicles and 302 additional Griffon 6×6 véhicule blindé multi-rôle (VBMR) heavy multirole armoured vehicles from the engin blindé multi-rôle (France‘s multirole armoured vehicle programme) consortium between Nexter, Arquus, and Thales.
The companies said in a joint press release on 10 May that this fourth tranche would bring the total number of Jaguars ordered to 150 and the Griffons to 909 [...]. The DGA plans to have 300 Jaguars and 1,872 Griffons by 2030, with LPM 2019–2025 foreseeing 50% of this number being delivered by 2025. This includes 54 Griffon Mortier embarqué pour l'appui au contact (MEPAC) self-propelled 120 mm mortar carriers, which were recently ordered and are expected to be delivered from 2024.
Schneemann