France Orders Additional GRIFFON & JAGUAR Armored Vehicles

Nexter, Arquus and Thales will deliver an additional 88 JAGUAR armored reconnaissance and fighting vehicles and 302 GRIFFON multirole armored vehicles under Conditional Tranche 4 of the SCORPION program By DA Staff / 12 May 2022

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The French defence procurement agency (DGA) has awarded the order for Conditional Tranche 4 (TC4) of the SCORPION program to Nexter, Arquus and Thales, operating through the EBMR consortium (Engin Blindé Multi Role – France’s multi-role armored vehicle program).

Tranche TC4 corresponds to an additional 88 JAGUAR armored reconnaissance and fighting vehicles and 302 GRIFFON multirole armored vehicles. This new order will bring the number of JAGUAR and GRIFFON vehicles ordered to 150 and 909 respectively, in line with the target laid out in France’s 2019–25 Military Programming Law. 

This represents half of the French government’s total commitment for JAGUARs and GRIFFONs (excluding the MEPAC variant) to be acquired under the SCORPION program to renew the medium-tonnage segment of the French Army’s armored vehicle fleet. 

The TC4 award comes after an order was placed for 54 GRIFFON MEPAC versions, which are equipped with a 120-mm mortar, with deliveries scheduled from 2024.

These two awards were announced by the French Prime Minister during his visit to Nexter’s Roanne site in February. This latest order underscores France’s continuing confidence in the EBMR consortium partners, which have been ensuring on-time deliveries since the beginning of the program. It provides Nexter, Arquus and Thales, as well as the entire land defense industrial and technological base in France, with better visibility of their industrial activity through to 2025.

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