The privatization furnished 9m€ each year for 2021-2024. In 2020 the Ministre des armées signed a contract worth 25m€ for the plant to supply shells to the French Army for the future decade. The forge was privatized in November 2021 by a French firm which had recently been recapitalized by 100m€. The gun uses a special kind of shell, the LU.211, which is produced at Les Forges de Tarbes, within the confines of the town arsenal. It was planned to produce eight CAESARs a month by December 2023. By early 2023 Nexter's factory in Bourges was producing between two and four units per month in continuous operation. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine boosted demand. In peacetime the production rate at Nexter was understood to be 10 CAESARs per year. Four years later, a pre-production model underwent trials with the French Army. The CAESAR platform was developed by French defense contractor GIAT Industries (now known as Nexter) and has been exported to various countries including Belgium, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Ukraine.ĬAESAR was developed in the 1990s as a technology demonstrator by the French state-owned company GIAT Industries, in cooperation with Lohr Industrie. Units manufactured for the French Army use a 6圆 Renault Sherpa 5 chassis, while exported versions have been integrated on the 6圆 Unimog U2450L chassis or the 8x8 Tatra 817 chassis for example.
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Equipped with an autonomous weapon network incorporating an inertial navigation system and ballistic computer, the CAESAR can notably accurately strike targets more than 40 kilometres (25 mi) away using ERFB (Extended Range, Full Bore) ammunition with base bleed, or targets over 55 kilometres (34 mi) away using rocket assisted or smart ammunition. The CAmion Équipé d'un Système d'ARtillerie ( English: Truck equipped with an artillery system) or CAESAR is a French 155 mm, 52-caliber self-propelled howitzer installed on a 6圆 or 8x8 truck chassis that can fire all 39/52 caliber NATO-standard shells.
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