{"id":6548,"date":"2026-03-17T04:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/6548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:15:07","slug":"belgium-plans-second-artillery-battalion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/6548\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium plans second artillery battalion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"invisible\" style=\"display: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bsp_101060-jdw-35206.jpeg\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/placeholder-16-9.jpg\" class=\"invisible w-100\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-body text-muted small\">A CAESAR SPH at a CaMo day in Brasschaat, Belgium, on 15 May 2024. (Belgian MoD)<\/p>\n<p>Janes<br \/>\n       learnt details of Belgium&#8217;s plans for a second artillery battalion at the Brussels European Defense Exhibition and Conference (BEDEX) held from 12 to 14 March. These include the procurement of more self-propelled howitzers (SPHs), a multiple rocket launcher (MRL), and unmanned systems.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      The 28 CAESAR Mk II NG (New Generation) 6\u00d76 SPHs that Belgium is procuring under the Franco-Belgian Capacit\u00e9 Motoris\u00e9e (Motorised Capability: CaMo) programme will be delivered in 2028, a Belgian army officer told<br \/>\n      Janes<br \/>\n       on 13 March, but he added that the second artillery battalion would not necessarily be equipped with the same system.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Belgium is also procuring 24 Griffon Mortier Embarqu\u00e9 Pour l&#8217;Appui au Contact (MEPAC) self-propelled 120 mm mortar carriers under CaMo.<\/p>\n<p>\n      The Belgian army officer told<br \/>\n      Janes<br \/>\n       that CAESAR batteries will also be equipped with loitering munition and MEPAC batteries with first-person view unmanned aerial vehicles.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Under CaMo, France plans to procure MRLs with Belgian involvement. The planned procurement aims to replace the French Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and will introduce MRLs into Belgian service.<\/p>\n<p>The French Army is seeking a sovereign solution and plans to request studies from two competing consortiums or to buy MRLs off-the-shelf. The two consortiums are MBDA\/Safran with the Thundart Artillery Rocket and Thales\/ArianeGroup with a yet-to-be-announced system, plus the Fourdre MRL from Turgis &amp; Gaillard.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian and French armies are integrating through CaMo, procuring the same vehicles under the French SCORPION transformation programme: Jaguar armoured reconnaissance vehicles, Griffon V\u00e9hicule Blind\u00e9 Multi-R\u00f4le (VBMR) heavy multirole armoured vehicles, Serval V\u00e9hicule Blind\u00e9 Multi-R\u00f4le L\u00e9ger (VBMR-L) 4\u00d74 light multirole armoured vehicles, and CAESAR SPHs.<\/p>\n<p>                        Go beyond the headlines \u2014 with direct links to interconnected entities<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-1\">Get full access to validated equipment, military capabilities, and market insights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A CAESAR SPH at a CaMo day in Brasschaat, Belgium, on 15 May 2024. (Belgian MoD) Janes learnt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-6548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116242580922764924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}