The eurodrone, let's go
(BRUSSELS2) The Ministers of Defense — French, German and Italian — signed this Monday (18 May) at noon in Brussels the letter of intent for the development of a European MALE (medium altitude long endurance) drone.
A critical ability
« Committing together to this Eurodrone project (*) is considerable underlined the Frenchman Jean-Yves Le Drian. "It's a critical capability that we need to have, that we need to master. he underlined, acknowledging that he borrowed the term Eurodrone from his German colleague von der Leyen. “Ursula owns the copyright,” he joked. This topo was taken up and embellished in other languages by his European colleagues. It is " state-of-the-art technology ", a real " missing capacity stressed German Minister Ursula von der Leyen (Germany). " A critical capability today but also a capability for the future added Roberta Pinotti (Italy).
A trio open to other Poland or Spain?
This approach is “open”, stressed the French minister. " This trio, after the definition period, is undoubtedly destined to expand (...) Others will be able to join us tomorrow. Two countries are particularly "in the loop". " Spain and Poland have already expressed interest. he added
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Other details to follow on the Club