{"id":43757,"date":"2020-09-23T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/09\/23\/french-forces-to-get-new-batch-of-jaguar-griffon-armored-vehicles\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:33:25","slug":"french-forces-to-get-new-batch-of-jaguar-griffon-armored-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2020\/09\/23\/french-forces-to-get-new-batch-of-jaguar-griffon-armored-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"French forces to get new batch of Jaguar, Griffon armored vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PARIS \u2013 The French Ministry of the Armed Forces has announced a firm order for a second tranche of the Jaguar and Griffon armored vehicles that lie at the core of its ambitious Scorpion program to reconfigure how its army wages war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This second tranche is for 42 Jaguar combat and reconnaissance armored vehicles and 271 Griffon multirole armored vehicles. The first tranche, ordered in 2017, was for 319 Griffons and 20 Jaguars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far the Army has received 105 Griffons and earlier this month took two of them to Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa. Forces there are testing them in hot, desert conditions before the first vehicles are deployed to Mali next year in support of France\u2019s Barkhane anti-terrorist operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first four Jaguars are scheduled for delivery to the army before the end of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Griffon and Jaguar are both manufactured by a conglomerate of three major French defense industries: Nexter, Arquus and Thales.<\/p>\n\n\n\t