French arms industry, after years of constrained budgets, ordered to produce more, faster, cheaper. In 2022, France was ranked third in the world as an exporting country, behind the United States and Russia.
France has in fact displayed, for more than sixty years, the desire to remain a leading military player without depending on another country. This led it to place deterrence at the heart of its defense policy and to protect the budget (52 billion euros out of the 413 billion planned under the 2024-2030 military programming law)