French land forces, too weak to weigh against Russia? “Come and try it out!†responded in 2024, in the columns of the newspaper Var MorningGeneral Pierre Schill, Chief of Staff of the Army. Seasoned by decades of external operations, the latter remains a reference in Europe. But it suffers from capacity holes in several essential segments. Detail review.
Strike the enemy in the depth of its system, targeting its command centers, its logistical nodes, its ammunition stocks. This is the mission of multiple rocket launchers (LRM), like the American Himars, capable of striking at 80 kilometers, or even 300 or 500 km with ATACMS and PrSM missiles.
Drones, IA militaire, spatial… ces start-up françaises de défense qui passent à l'offensive
While its European allies have invested massively in this segment since 2022 (288 orders of Korean Chunmoo in Poland, 500 Israeli Puls in Germany), France remains dramatically under-equipped. Of the 57 systems ordered in the 1980s, it only has three to four operational unit rocket launchers (LRU), obsolete, which will be scrapped in 2027. This is less than North Macedonia or Montenegro.
