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bobdina
10-10-2009, 12:07 PM
France Closer To Buying U.S. Javelin Missile
By pierre tran
Published: 9 Oct 2009 20:49

PARIS - A delegation of officials from the Direction Générale pour l'Armement (DGA) procurement office and the French Army is due to visit U.S. industrial sites as soon as advanced negotiations get under way for a prospective purchase of the Javelin anti-tank missile, defense sources said.

The visit during the week of Oct. 19 is intended to finalize arrangements for a buy of the infantry weapon under U.S. Foreign Military Sale rules, one defense source said. A Lockheed Martin-Raytheon joint venture builds the Javelin.

The delegation will go to the United States to negotiate the purchase and also will visit the joint venture's facilities at Tucson, Ariz., where the command launch unit is built, and Troy, Ala., where the missile undergoes integration, a second source said.

France looks set for a single short-term purchase of some 300 missiles and 50 to 60 launchers, with an estimated budget of 70 million euros ($103 million) for an urgent operational requirement for Afghanistan.

There are a range of procurement options, and the negotiations are intended to help determine the number of missiles and firing posts. The talks also will pin down the cost of spare parts, training rounds, training courses, delivery dates, documentation and other details.

Executives at Rafael have resigned themselves to the fact that France is about to chose Javelin over Spike, even though French Army evaluators preferred the Israeli weapon.

"It seems they have made up their minds for Javelin," a Rafael executive said. "They will have to negotiate and they will pay for it, since there's no competition." The executive added, "Spike offers faster delivery and a competitive budgetary offer."

The DGA declined to comment.

But until a Javelin contract is signed, executives insist on caution.

The U.S. government also holds out the prospect of a broader industrial cooperation.

"The real issue is cooperation in the future," the first source said. "Javelin could be the template for other programs in the future that could involve an exchange of real technology."

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4318767&c=EUR&s=LAN

Reactor-Axe-Man
10-10-2009, 05:13 PM
I can't imagine why they would consider such a thing...

YouTube - French ERYX Misfire

BooMBooM.OsM
10-10-2009, 07:44 PM
I can't imagine why they would consider such a thing...

YouTube - French ERYX Misfire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGf-sS4js5Y)

I saw this on the a.b.images.military awhile back. Lmao!
The French are so dysfunctional. I think it’s a bad idea to sell
any javelin missiles. You never will know where they will
end up.

Toki
10-10-2009, 09:54 PM
I saw this on the a.b.images.military awhile back. Lmao!
The French are so dysfunctional. I think it’s a bad idea to sell
any javelin missiles. You never will know where they will
end up.

Brits have had them for a while now and they love them. It's not like we're selling them to non-allies. Hell, look at the the JSF program.

BooMBooM.OsM
10-10-2009, 10:35 PM
Brits have had them for a while now and they love them. It's not like we're selling them to non-allies. Hell, look at the the JSF program.

Tokenvi my read is you trust the French? You know the
French developed the metric system.

ghost
10-10-2009, 11:35 PM
Tokenvi my read is you trust the French? You know the
French developed the metric system.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_anti-tank_missile#Operators

bobdina
10-11-2009, 12:47 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_anti-tank_missile#Operators

nobody thats a non-U.S. allied on that list.