France will double the number of 155mm shells delivered to Ukraine, bringing them to 2,000 per month, the Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu announced in an interview with figaro posted Tuesday.
155mm shells, fired in particular from French Caesar or German Pzh 2000 guns and with a range of up to 40 kilometers, are fired every day in industrial quantities by both the Russians and the Ukrainians.
Produce 150,000 shells a year
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned in February that kyiv was using more munitions than the Alliance could produce, putting Western defense industries and actions “under pressure”. Since then, the European Union has decided to release two billion euros to supply one million shells to Ukraine.
Therefore, defense manufacturers are encouraged to increase their production capacities and reduce their lead times. Nexter, which produces 155mm shells in France, plans to produce 150,000 shells a year by 2025, three times more than before the outbreak of the conflict.
President Emmanuel Macron will gather defense industrialists at the Elysée for the first time on Tuesday to take stock of the transition to this “war economy”, which he calls for.
According to Sébastien Lecornu, Paris will also supply “very soon” the promised SAMP/T ground-to-air defense system to Ukraine, which “represents a value of several hundred million euros”.
Ukraine was able to use this fund to purchase equipment from French manufacturers.
Source: BFM TV
