For the army, the DGA procurement agency said it has signed a contract worth some €350 million ($378 million) with Nexter for 109 new generation Caesar (Mk II) truck-mounted guns.
The contracts are going to France’s Nexter Munitions and Germany’s Junghans Microtec for 155mm rounds, a desperately needed ammo type in Ukraine and one NATO nations are looking to fill their own stocks.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Ukraine has bought a handful of the weapons, and French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said Paris is seeking financing for dozens more.
Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov traveled to Paris for talks with counterparts, and came away with more firepower.
Truck-mounted system will weigh much more, but also be heavily armored.
France has been tight-lipped about what it is sending to Ukraine, until a few days after President Emmanuel Macron won a second term.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.