The defence ministers of France and Germany, Sebastien Lecornu and Boris Pistorius, signed a memorandum of understanding that seals a 50-50 split in the industrial production of an advanced battle tank dubbed the Main Ground Combat System (MGCS).
The push to move ahead with the project comes as Berlin and Paris are eager to show unity after a series of spats on how to support Ukraine in its war against Russia.
LePard
That would be an excellent name
Yeah sure, until Germany announces that they will use US technology, like they did for the last 3 or 4 joint military industrial projects with France.
Which ones do you mean exactly? I can only think of the F35, though I believe there was no project finalised
and it will cost half of our defense budget to build one and the other one to maintain it for a year. Moving on…
You can bet that it will be open for sale for other NATO members. And they will be interested in a new gen tank
