FRANCE AND GERMANY PROVIDE UKRAINE WITH CAESAR AND MILAN ARTILLERY SYSTEMS

Fri 22 April 2022:

France and Germany have been supplying Ukraine with Caesar truck-mounted gun-howitzers and Milan anti-tank guided missile systems, French President Emmanuel Macron said.

“We continue to deliver a substantial number of equipment, from Milans to Ceasars and other types of weapons.

I think we must continue down this path,” he said in an interview with the Ouest-France and Corriere della Serra dailies and the Funke media group.

Asked about whether he shared the opinion that Europe should send heavy weapons to Ukraine, including German-made Leopard 2 tanks, Macron said that European allies were aligned but did not interfere in one another’s policies.

Caesar is a French 155-mm self-propelled howitzer, which is designed to destroy manpower, artillery batteries, earth shelters, as well as to provide passages in minefields and field barriers.

Milan is a guided second-generation anti-tank missile manufactured by the Franco-German Euromissile consortium. Milan is a system with mass production as it is the main European short-range anti-tank weapon.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been criticized abroad for refusing to give Ukraine battle tanks. He argued this week that Bundeswehr had maxed-out the weapons it could deliver to Ukraine from its own stock.

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