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Le Figaro: Armenia purchased 36 newest CAESAR   howitzers  from  France

Le Figaro: Armenia purchased 36 newest CAESAR   howitzers  from  France

ArmInfo. Armenia purchased 36 newest CAESAR  self-propelled howitzers  from France. Jean-Christophe  Buisson, deputy editor-in-chief of the French Le Figaro daily wrote on his Twitter microblog (X).

According to him, the howitzers  will be delivered to Armenia within  the next 15 months.

On June 18, Minister of the Armed Forces of France Sebastien Lecornu  announced that France will sell CAESAR self-propelled howitzers to  Armenia as part of another arms deal between the two countries (a  155-mm 52-caliber self-propelled howitzer  developed and manufactured  by the French Nexter company). And on June 17, the Armenian Defense  Ministry reported that during the working visit of the Armenian  Defense Minister Suren Papikyan to Paris,  a military-technical  cooperation agreement was signed between the Ministry of Defence of  the RA and the French military-industrial company KNDS. 

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