Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Can France supply Zelensky 3? Directorate of Military Intelligence warned in a report "there is a reason to fear...our enemies may be capable of defeating us"

 From media 

According to a report published on Friday, February 17, by the Assemblée Nationale’s National Defense and Armed Forces Committee, the French military no longer has enough ammunition (shells, missiles, torpedoes, and so on) to sustain a high-intensity war.
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 "The French army’s ammunition supply has been declining since the end of the Cold War and it seems to have become unsustainable, both in terms of the current strategy and France’s military ambitions," MP Vincent Bru (MoDem) and MP Julien Rancoule (RN) wrote in the report.
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Since 2011, 6 out of 20 ammunition depots in France have been closed. While the exact level of the supply is classified, it is at its lowest and would not last more than a few weeks in the event of "bitter" conflict. "There’s reason to fear that some of our enemies may be capable of defeating us," warned the Directorate of Military Intelligence in another parliamentary report published a year ago on the army’s readiness for high-intensity conflict.

Lire en français
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2023/02/18/french-military-lacks-ammunition-for-high-intensity-conflict_6016329_5.html

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