French Army Discussions & Updates
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KNDS debuts Enhanced Main Battle Tank technology demonstrator - Breaking Defense
Featuring an upgraded Leopard chassis with shortened engine to increase space inside the vehicle’s compartment, EMBT features KNDS’s new EMBT-ADT 140 uncrewed turret, which includes the 140mm Ascalon gun.
So, so far:
MBDA-Safran are proposing a ground-launched AASM Hammer. There would be 12 of them per launching pod. It'd have a range of 150 km, and be subsonic. Basically filling the GMLRS role.
Thales-ArianeGroup are more ambitious and want a Mach 5, 1000 km-range ballistic missile; but they'd start with an "Mk.1" version that'd just have about 150 km range and only reach up to Mach 3 as it wouldn't leave the atmosphere. Basically filling the ATACMS role.
ATACMS does 300+km. What I estimate the French launcher (right) to have is:
8 x 300mm x ~5000mm rockets, that likely have a range of 150+km with a ~125kg warhead, sort of a heavy warhead'd GMLRS-ER and provisions for carrying 2 x ~650mm x ~5000mm rockets with a 1,000km range with a similar warhead.
