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.

  • Bjornir@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    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.

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      6 months ago

      Which ones do you mean exactly? I can only think of the F35, though I believe there was no project finalised