French industry increases its production

The only canonnerie in France has been in turmoil for three years to increase its production. The factory mainly produces César cannons, used by 16 countries. Ukraine must receive 113 by the end of the year. To meet the request, the site is in full work. “”We are pushing the walls, we destroyed the offices (…) to win square meters“, Details Laurent Monzauge, general manager of the Bourges – KNDS site.

Without making too much noise, France has in fact become one of the largest guns on the planet and even second largest exporter in the world, behind the United States. In its arsenal: gusts, submarines, cannons. But the main issue since the war in Ukraine is to produce ammunition and France has factories to make them.

The country also stood up to the Americans in the production of radars. Since the war in Ukraine, production has tripled. The site of the Thales factory in Limours, south of Paris, where these radars are manufactured “are”Today the most important radar center in Europe and probably in the world “says Éric Marceau, strategy and marketing director of Thales surface radars. But France remains in 2024 only the seventh military budget in the world.

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