On April 28, the French Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parly and the German Minister for Defense Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that it had signed two decisive agreements for the new generation MGCS (Main Ground Combat System) combat tank program. In the current context, this signature did not give rise to an official ceremony, nor even to a physical meeting between the two ministers, but it nevertheless marks the effective launch of the MGCS.
Scheduled for March or April, this new breakthrough in the MGCS program had to wait for the funding approval from the Budget Committee of the Bundestag. Now that this has been done, a first framework agreement has been signed in order to define the organization of the project as well as the establishment of the program management structures in the two countries. Above all, a second implementation agreement was also signed on this occasion.
This Implementing Arrangement 1 will allow France and Germany to commission a study to define the architecture of the future MGCS. This contract should take place over a period of two years, at the end of which it will be possible to move on to the next phase of the program, namely the development of technological demonstrators.
The rest of this article is for subscribers only
The Classic subscriptions provide access to
all articles without advertising, starting at € 1,99.
Newsletter subscription
Register for the Meta-Defense Newsletter to receive the
latest fashion articles daily or weekly