France accelerates its support for Ukraine. French automotive and defense companies will produce drones on Ukrainian soil, the French Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu said on Friday, who spoke of a “win-win” partnership with kyiv.
“We will embark on a completely new partnership where a large company producing French cars – I do not give the name because it is up to her to announce it – will ally with a French defense SME to arm production lines a Ukraine To be able to produce drones, ”said the minister on the LCI channel.
These drones, of which he did not specify the type, will be intended for Ukrainians, “but we will also benefit our own French armies to have a tactical, operational training that sticks to reality” of the conflict in Ukraine, he added.
Ukrainians will provide their feedback from how they use drones in this war. “There is also no need to ask French citizens” to go to work on the production chain which will be installed in Ukraine, according to him.
For Sébastien Lecornu, the Ukrainians “are better than us in the ability to imagine drones and especially to develop the doctrine that goes around”. Ukraine intends to use more than 4.5 million drones in 2025, which are 70 % of the destruction of equipment enemies on the forehead.
France wants to catch up
The French army, which has a few thousand drones, seeks, it to catch up in the field.
But “the system is still too rigid, too slow, between the moment when the French armies make an expression of need and the moment when we have a delivery of drones”, deplored the minister, who asked for a “review of the whole of Drones programmes ».
“Clearly, you have ordered a fax or a minitel, except that internet time has been invented and you have the delivery of your minitel,” he quipped.
