French EBMR introduction delayed
Deliveries of the first instalment of 890 new 6x6 vehicles under the French EBMR (Engin Blindé Multi-Rôles) part of its Scorpion modernisation programme will take longer than planned.
Some 780 VBMR (Vehicle Blinde Multi-Role) Griffon vehicles and 110 EBRC (Engin Blinde de Reconnaissance et de Combat) Jaguar vehicles would now be delivered by 2025, according to Brig Gen Charles Beaudouin, director of the French Army Technical and Operations Department, speaking at the International Armoured Vehicles conference in January.
In slides shown at the conference it was revealed that deliveries of Griffon would begin in 2018 and Jaguar vehicles from 2020.
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