On December 18, 2020, Nexter, Thales and Arquus, as a part of the short-term grouping of corporations (GME) EBMR (Engins Blindés Multi-Rôles), proudly celebrates the presentation of the 128th GRIFFON deliberate for 2020 to the French Delegation for Armaments (DGA).
Arquus launched a press release on Wednesday saying that “Beneath the phrases of the SCORPION program, and regardless of an unprecedented well being disaster that profoundly affected manufacturing, the three producers had been in a position to take the problem and meet their contractual targets.”
After this step, the final GRIFFONs must be submitted to the verification operations carried out by the DGA’s high quality division. The automobiles will then be transported to the Canjuers website the place the Military will proceed to take them into consideration; it’s then that the DGA will formally obtain them. To this point, 90 GRIFFON have accomplished this route, including to the 92 GRIFFON delivered in 2019. From January 2021, the final automobiles that left the manufacturing line in December will be part of them within the regiments, catching up very early in 2021 with the delay because of the well being disaster.
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From March 2020, Covid-19 has certainly strongly disrupted the economic group of this system. The location of Roanne, the place the GRIFFON and JAGUAR are assembled, was pressured to droop its exercise from March 20 to 30 with a view to enable the set up of a construction tailored to the resumption of the exercise underneath most security circumstances. Since then, two groups have been engaged on the strains in shifts of eight consecutive hours (2×8) to make sure that the strains are operational throughout these 16-hour days. Carefully linked to their authorities contacts and after consulting their suppliers, the members of the GME rapidly reviewed the preliminary schedule: the 2020 targets had been maintained for GRIFFON; the primary deliveries of JAGUAR had been postponed to April 2021; and this, whereas preserving the quantity of deliveries on the finish of 2021.
The yr 2020 was marked by the passage of a number of main milestones for the GME. In September, the DGA notified the third conditional tranche of the EBMR contract, enabling the second batch of automobiles (271 GRIFFON and 42 JAGUAR by 2023) to enter manufacturing. In November, the GRIFFON command submit automobile (EPC) was certified. Thus, among the many 128 GRIFFONs of 2020, 35 examples of this new variant had been introduced to the administration, a further issue that the EPC groups overcame. Lastly, the new-generation T1 remotely operated turret that can arm the GRIFFONs was additionally certified by the DGA.
Nexter, Arquus and Thales wish to pay tribute to the distinctive dedication of their groups. Their sense of obligation and creativity have enabled them to fulfill the expectations of the French Military and its combatants as finest they might, whereas enormously limiting the impression of the well being disaster.