i was wondering how howitzers would suppliment anti air capabilities until i realized that the headline wasn’t about literal fla
ck cannonsFlak not Flack. It comes from the German word FLugAbwehrKanone.
I also got confused, but I thought it was because they sent flak guns which didn’t work in the theatre so they switched to howitzers
This is the best summary I could come up with:
If other countries produce military kit for Ukraine that French industry doesn’t manufacture, Paris will be ready to contribute financially, he added.
However, earlier this week, French senators said France didn’t have a long-term strategy to produce enough weaponry for Kyiv.
On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters that France was finalizing a bilateral security deal with Kyiv and that he’ll travel to Ukraine in February.
Lecornu said Thursday that each month France will deliver 50 Safran-made AASM air-to-surface precision guided munitions that were adapted for Ukraine’s Soviet-era warplanes.
France will also use feedback from the Ukrainians to improve the equipment, Lecornu said, namely by injecting more artificial intelligence and adding loitering munitions, also known as kamikaze drones.
“All this is possible because Nexter has switched to a war economy when it comes to the Caesar howitzers,” the French minister told reporters after the launch, mentioning that producing a cannon now takes 15 months instead of 30.
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