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Germany is leading the project and will be in charge of awarding contracts for the first demonstrator phase by the end of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lecornu and his German counterpart Boris Pistorius in the past eight months <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2023\/09\/07\/europes-powerpoint-panzer-can-berlin-and-paris-pull-off-a-new-tank\/\">have managed to reboot<\/a> the project known as the Main Ground Combat System, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2023\/07\/10\/french-german-defense-chiefs-jolt-languid-next-gen-tank-project\/\">languished for years<\/a> amid wrangling over which countries\u2019 industries would get to work on what. The ministers, who have said they get along well, last month agreed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2024\/03\/22\/france-germany-divvy-up-workload-for-next-generation-tank\/\">divvying up the workload equally between both nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The political agreement \u201cwill force the different industrials to work together,\u201d Lecornu said, adding that cooperation can be decreed, or created by setting a concrete industrial target. \u201cWe can\u2019t have this type of partnership without also creating a common culture between the industries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lecornu said lessons were learned from discussions around the joint Future Combat Air System, where in some cases industrial agreement was reached before German, Spanish and French air forces were asked for their input. That is \u201cout of the question\u201d for the MGCS project, which is based on the needs of the countries\u2019 two armies rather than industrial ideas, the French minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials of the German Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, have stressed the modular character of the envisioned system. Tank variants with different specializations, working in concert on the battlefield, will all share a common undercarriage, according to a statement on the Bundeswehr website. The concept has yet to be proven, and as of now there are no studies or models yet about a system demonstrator for the program as a whole, it adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Designing a completely new land combat weapon will entail pulling together the operational experience from tank warfare of the past years, including lessons learned from Ukraine\u2019s defense against Russian invaders, which has seen hundreds of main battle tanks destroyed or incapacitated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France and Germany will be designing \u201cnot so much the tank of the future, but the future of the tank,\u201d Lecornu said. He said the U.S. hasn\u2019t yet started considering the post-Abrams era, while Russia is experiencing \u201cgreat difficulty\u201d moving from its current generation of tanks to a successor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany is counting on the future combat system to replace its Leopard tanks sometime in the 2040s, while France is looking for the MGCS to replace its Leclerc fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Competition in the tank domain will become \u201ctougher and tougher\u201d towards 2040, with giants such as India and others \u201cwaking up\u201d and potentially flooding the market for land-forces equipment in coming years, according to Lecornu. The focus on technological and innovative breakthroughs should position the MGCS in a different market segment that will boost its export prospects, the minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lecornu said work on the planned demonstrator will be split 50-50, as will future production capacity. Still, he said industrial distribution wasn\u2019t at the core of the memorandum of understanding signed on Friday, but rather the two governments saying that they need the same tank in 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The joint French-German tank effort is \u201csomething we very much welcome,\u201d NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference in Germany on Thursday, before the agreement was signed in Paris. \u201cIt will make NATO stronger and it will help allies to get new and modern capabilities.\u201d Cooperation will help overcome defense-industry fragmentation, the NATO chief said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multiple other countries have expressed interest in the MGCS program, including Italy as well as countries in Eastern Europe, Pistorius said at the briefing in Paris. He said making Europe stronger also means including more partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project will be divided into eight pillars, including for the main platform, the turret and gun combination, new types of fires, connectivity and electronic warfare. While some of those pillars are obvious areas for French-German cooperation, for some the leadership will be \u201cpurely national,\u201d based among other things on industrial experience, according to Lecornu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanks\u2019 vulnerability to drone attacks as well as the waning effectiveness of 120mm cannons against ever-improving armor are among the pitfalls on the German military\u2019s radar, according to Bundeswehr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a decision on a next cannon still outstanding, what\u2019s clear is that it will need bigger projectiles with higher velocity, one unnamed German acquisition official is quoted as saying. 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