The Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu announced this Wednesday October 16 the delivery “in the coming weeks” of the first French “kamikaze drones”. These devices will be sent in particular to the Ukrainian front.
Devices that are now essential on the battlefield? The Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu indicated this Wednesday, October 16 that the “tests of the first remotely operated munition – also called a kamikaze drone – in France” had been a “success”.
These new drones made in France will be delivered to the Ukrainian army and the French forces “in the coming weeks”, indicates the minister.
2.000 MTO
The French Ministry of the Armed Forces announced last March the order for 2,000 remotely operated munitions (MTO) of French design, including the first 100 urgently for Ukraine.
“Kamikaze drones are absolutely fundamental in the conduct of operations” and will be able to constitute a “complement to the Caesar cannon in terms of artillery”, argued Sébastien Lecornu.
According to the minister, these first investments in MTOs “are part of an important catch-up effort for our armies” while France is lagging behind in the development of drones, massively used both by the army of kyiv and that of Moscow on the Ukrainian front.
The first 100 drones intended for kyiv were to be ordered from a consortium bringing together the drone manufacturer Delair and the manufacturer Nexter for delivery initially scheduled for last summer.
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