France has spent over €3.2 billion ($3.5 billion US) arming and training Ukraine’s military for NATO’s proxy war against Russia, sending artillery and mortars, armored vehicles, small arms, mines, and SCALP missiles – the French equivalent of the Storm Shadow cruise missile which Kiev has used extensively to terror bomb cities in the Donbass.
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The aircraft, procured via the French Management Institute for International Security (THEMIIS), were provided to Mauritania under the aegis of the Ghawdat programme, part of the European Union-sponsored Mauritania security and development support project (PADSM).
According to Peer de Jong, THEMIIS’ senior vice president for development, the 2020 tender, which led to the selection of the G1, saw three companies bidding.