France plans 36 billion euro boost to rearmament, nuclear deterrent expansion
France 24 →France plans to add a further 36 billion euros to its defence spending between now and 2030 under an updated military planning law that expands its nuclear arsenal and boosts missile and drone stocks.
Defense Budget of France Gives Army and Navy Big Sums; Appropriations for Next Year Total Approximately $732,073,000; Plan Huge Air Armada; Danger of Enemy Raids Brings Reorganization of Factory Centers
Copyright, 1884, BY The Associated Press) Paris Nov. 27.—The French chamber of deputies Tuesday completed its approval of defense budget for next year totaling approximately $732,075,600. It quickly agreed to navy and aviation budgets as presented by the respective ministries and heard the government advocate plans for increased aviation developments as a mainstay of the French military machine. The budgets passed Tuesday were as follows: Navy—2,087,900,900 francs approximately $195,800,000. Aviation—1,655,185.45 francs approximately $100,206,000. Last Friday the chamber approved an army budget of 5,680,215,505 francs approximately $371,337,000) and an emergency appropriation for new army equipment of 608,100,000 francs approximately $51,640,000). Francois Pietri, minister of the navy, avoided mention of the new 18,000-ton battleships of Premier Mussolini of Italy when he asked for the navy appropriation, but said he preferred stronger light warships unless bigger ones should become "indispensable." The ministers, in asking the aviation appropriation, said the French air fleet was full of obsolete types of airplanes," but Victor Denain, minister of war, announced he was embarking upon a three-year plan for reorganizing aviation manufacture. He said the danger of enemy air raids destroying France's airplane factories had caused him to determine to reorganize the industry and scatter it over the country as Germany already has.
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