So this is the power of the French they cant even make trucks anymore
>>65128899i dont see a problem
>>65128899I'm an American and I also prefer German trucks to French trucks.
>>65128899Arquus is now owned by John Cockerill?
>>65128899it could be that Renault is too busy designing and building Chorus drones (in collaboration with the guys who designed the Aarok, picrel) to take up this contract, or it was traded to the Germans as part of their workshare agreements
>>65128960Aarok can carry Hammers?
>>65128960>we are going to get a ww11 tier global push to industrialize and produce weaponsYay>it's all going to be for dronesAwwwww
>>65128973>the drones are just temporary cope until they design the Franco-German cruise missileYay>if you know your ww11 history you know that going down this path means most of us are going to be killed / raped / starved / shoah'd / conscripted in a couple of decadesAwwwww>>65128969no idea and it doesn't matter because Aarok is just a modelChorus is a French Shasneed
>>65128973Be glad we even get that, the original plan was multicultural democracies offshoring as much manufacturing as possible to nationpialist authoritarian regimes and nothing bad would ever happen by making authoritarian regimes rich on western money. End of history is a hell of a drug.
>>65128960>The bicycle-artillery-munitions-truck-car-ev-lingerie-bra-fabric-apc-airplane company decided it wanted to build drones now?If anything this is the rule rather than the exception.
>>65128977>Zoomies get drafted because cringe uncs too old to fightKeep coasting my fellow moomers.
Renault sold their truck division to Volvo, but the defense part ended up with Arquus (like Panhard and Acmat). In turn they were bought by Cockerill.Lots of production capability and IP were lost in the process.The Renault GBC was already a warmed up older design (Berliet).
>>65128899/k/ is seething and comparative advantages again.
>>65128977There's no WW happening, ever, not now not tomorrow not in 25 years
>>65128899>In France at MolsheimVery french name.
>>65129324Allow me to introduce you to a little something called Alsace-Lorraine
>>65128899Likely because Renault and Daimler Benz are partner companies (along with Nissan) and Mercedes-Benz makes arguably the best medium commercial vehicle based military trucks on the market right now. The other major Euro option is Rheinmetall-MAN which is just owned by Volkswagens Traton truck division which also owns Scania, but that has no French ownership. Arquus runs the military side of Renault which already uses a bunch of Mercedes stuff and inversely Mercedes also uses some Renault stuff.
>>65129014>AcmatI actually really want to buy one of these. The way they are engineered, you can easily swap in a modern Volvo diesel engine and transmission with a drop in kit. They were designed to be endlessly modularly upgraded. Ships of Theseus.
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>>65131054>Mercedes-Benz makes arguably the best medium commercial vehicle based military trucks on the market right nowhow fucking hard is it for anyone to reverse-engineer that shit, seriously?
>>65128927t. Adolf
>>65129248They'll pull out, it's not built to land on a carrier.
>>65128899the frogs cars and trucks are a fucking joke.
>>65131458Why do that when you can just buy them?
Neither Germany nor France ranks among the world’s top ten truck producers.https://statranker.org/economy/truck-manufacturing-by-country-in-2025-global-leaders-trends-and-insights/
>>65128960Don't mix Renault and Renault trucks, two different companies nowadays.Renault trucks is a subsidiary of Volvo trucks, which has possibly no tie with Volvo.Don't know if Renault trucks still actually make trucks or is just a badge factory.
>>65128952>Arquus is now owned by John Cockerill?Renault Trucks managed to sell it someone? I guess guess they are happy now, it took like couple decades to find a buyer French government would approve.>>65129014Volvo/Renault Trucks bought Panhard back in the day for sole purpose of making defense division of Renault Trucks more attractive to potential buyers. First they tried to sell it to Nexter, French government wasn't happy about idea of Nexter being a national monopoly
>>65131458Not that hard. Problem is trying to turn it profitable. Why would anyone buy a new truck when Benz has extensive repair network and distributors everywhere?
>>65128899macaroni has an absolute hard on with the whole MUH EVROPA deal and absolutely want to bend over to the germans.a bit like vichy but instead of hitler it's just some lame and gay chancelor
>>65131458If its a friendly enough nation it's simply cheaper to buy it and arrange some kind of maintenance package deal with the hopes that in the next 20-30 years your countries won't stray from eachother geopolitically. For western European countries right next to eachother that's a fairly safe bet to make.
>>65131897>>65132246that's short-termismbuilding locally is how you acquire knowledge, grow your economy, and secure domestic supply chains>>65132262within the>next 20-30 yearsyour investment in local manufacturing would have paid itself back, and morecountries used to do this all the timenow they just give up and accept that "we'll never ever ever ever be able to build anything like that"
>>65128980NTA but for anyone asking, no this is not a /pol/ post, this is litteraly what has been happening since the 80's.
>>65133240Because no government lasts more than 10-20 years in the west, so a 40-50 year industrialization plan isnt worth running on. Youd need mass voter education to have demand for that.
