President Emmanuel Macron estimated on Thursday that the French defense industry should learn to “produce more” and “faster”. But the sector is facing a shortage of manpower
French defense companies are “ready” to ramp up production, as the government wants, Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Saturday , noting that one of the obstacles was the difficulty of hiring.
He was speaking during a visit to the equipment manufacturer Aresia, which started in 2020 near Valenciennes the production of high-power bombs for aviation, weighing up to 1 ton, previously imported from the United States.
The French defense industrial and technological base wants to move forward quickly” to accelerate its production, underlined Sebastien Lecornu, questioned about France’s ability to meet the growing ammunition needs of the Ukrainian army.
“To be able to supply a friendly army, you have to be able to produce”, he nevertheless indicated, emphasizing that “there are employment issues” in certain territories where “industries are having trouble hiring and we finds itself with delays in production.
Arms race: the French defense industry “ready” to accelerate its production rate.
Arms race: the French defense industry “ready” to accelerate its production rate
President Emmanuel Macron estimated on Thursday that the French defense industry should learn to “produce more” and “faster”. But the sector is facing a shortage of manpower
French defense companies are “ready” to ramp up production, as the government wants, Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Saturday , noting that one of the obstacles was the difficulty of hiring.
He was speaking during a visit to the equipment manufacturer Aresia, which started in 2020 near Valenciennes the production of high-power bombs for aviation, weighing up to 1 ton, previously imported from the United States. United.
“The French defense industrial and technological base wants to move forward quickly” to accelerate its production, underlined Sebastien Lecornu, questioned about France’s ability to meet the growing ammunition needs of the Ukrainian army.
“To be able to supply a friendly army, you have to be able to produce”, he nevertheless indicated, emphasizing that “there are employment issues” in certain territories where “industries are having trouble hiring and we finds itself with delays in production”.
“To save several months or even several years (…), it is a multiplicity of small decisions that must be taken at various levels”, within the companies of the sector but also of the State, he said. underline.
The Minister indicated that he was going to write this week to the actors of the French defense sector to solicit their proposals in order to develop a “plan” in this direction, “which will come to be attached to the military programming law”.
“Learning lessons from the war in Ukraine”
President Emmanuel Macron estimated on Thursday that the French defense industry should learn to “produce more” and “faster”, saying he wanted to “learn the lessons of the war in Ukraine” in the next military programming law.
“We have a fairly large capacity to accelerate” the production rate, said Bruno Berthet, president of Aresia, while indicating that he was working on “more responsiveness” to cope with a sudden increase in demand. in the event of a crisis.
The budget of the Ministry of the Armed Forces has started to rise again in recent years, and will grow by 3 billion euros per year by 2025, or 12 billion in 4 years to reach 50 billion euros.
And so it begins.
The area to improve would be manufacturing flexibility.
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President Emmanuel Macron estimated on Thursday that the French defense industry should learn to “produce more” and “faster”. But the sector is facing a shortage of manpower
French defense companies are “ready” to ramp up production, as the government wants, Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Saturday , noting that one of the obstacles was the difficulty of hiring.
He was speaking during a visit to the equipment manufacturer Aresia, which started in 2020 near Valenciennes the production of high-power bombs for aviation, weighing up to 1 ton, previously imported from the United States.
The French defense industrial and technological base wants to move forward quickly” to accelerate its production, underlined Sebastien Lecornu, questioned about France’s ability to meet the growing ammunition needs of the Ukrainian army.
“To be able to supply a friendly army, you have to be able to produce”, he nevertheless indicated, emphasizing that “there are employment issues” in certain territories where “industries are having trouble hiring and we finds itself with delays in production.
Arms race: the French defense industry “ready” to accelerate its production rate.
Arms race: the French defense industry “ready” to accelerate its production rate
President Emmanuel Macron estimated on Thursday that the French defense industry should learn to “produce more” and “faster”. But the sector is facing a shortage of manpower
French defense companies are “ready” to ramp up production, as the government wants, Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Saturday , noting that one of the obstacles was the difficulty of hiring.
He was speaking during a visit to the equipment manufacturer Aresia, which started in 2020 near Valenciennes the production of high-power bombs for aviation, weighing up to 1 ton, previously imported from the United States. United.
“The French defense industrial and technological base wants to move forward quickly” to accelerate its production, underlined Sebastien Lecornu, questioned about France’s ability to meet the growing ammunition needs of the Ukrainian army.
“To be able to supply a friendly army, you have to be able to produce”, he nevertheless indicated, emphasizing that “there are employment issues” in certain territories where “industries are having trouble hiring and we finds itself with delays in production”.
“To save several months or even several years (…), it is a multiplicity of small decisions that must be taken at various levels”, within the companies of the sector but also of the State, he said. underline.
The Minister indicated that he was going to write this week to the actors of the French defense sector to solicit their proposals in order to develop a “plan” in this direction, “which will come to be attached to the military programming law”.
“Learning lessons from the war in Ukraine”
President Emmanuel Macron estimated on Thursday that the French defense industry should learn to “produce more” and “faster”, saying he wanted to “learn the lessons of the war in Ukraine” in the next military programming law.
“We have a fairly large capacity to accelerate” the production rate, said Bruno Berthet, president of Aresia, while indicating that he was working on “more responsiveness” to cope with a sudden increase in demand. in the event of a crisis.
The budget of the Ministry of the Armed Forces has started to rise again in recent years, and will grow by 3 billion euros per year by 2025, or 12 billion in 4 years to reach 50 billion euros.
And so it begins.
The area to improve would be manufacturing flexibility.
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