The design of a Leclerc 2 tank as an interim solution, pending the MGCS, would have four arguments to put forward: to meet the immediate needs of the Army, to have a versatile platform for specialized tracked armored vehicles, to expand French industrial offer on the international scene and, counter-intuitively, reduce the pressure and the risk of failure of the MGCS program.
Summary
Among the many lessons inherited from the conflict in Ukraine, the central role of the battle tank in the land maneuver, whether offensive or defensive, is probably the one that most contradicted many certainties inherited from the end of the Cold War, as well as the two Iraqi wars.
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