{"id":4316,"date":"2026-04-09T14:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/4316\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:53:16","slug":"france-earmarks-further-11-6-billion-for-missiles-and-drones-amid-rearmament-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/4316\/","title":{"rendered":"France earmarks further $11.6 billion for missiles and drones amid rearmament push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France has announced plans to spend upwards of \u20ac10.5 billion (US$11.6 billion) to boost its stockpiles of drones and missiles, a move motivated by observation of the ongoing Ukrainian and Middle Eastern conflicts and to protect against growing Russian threat.<\/p>\n<p>Presented to the Council of Ministers on 8 April, the targeted spend\u00a0forms part of an additional total of \u20ac36 billion in proposed funding \u2013 an update to the original \u20ac413 billion provision already allocated to the Military Programme Law (LPM) to accelerate the country\u2019s rearmament until 2030.<\/p>\n<p>First announced by President Macron in January 2026, the increased spending would boost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France has announced plans to spend upwards of \u20ac10.5 billion (US$11.6 billion) to boost its stockpiles of drones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2170,5,4038,4037,4039,4041,4040],"class_list":{"0":"post-4316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-drone","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-france-military-programme-law","11":"tag-french-lmp-2026-2030","12":"tag-mbda","13":"tag-missile","14":"tag-uav"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}