France moves to industrialize large-scale military drone production via automotive-defense partnerships

France is shifting from policy goals to industrial implementation to scale military drone production, leveraging partnerships between automakers, suppliers, and defense firms. Plans include new French production lines and targets such as up to 1,000 Toutatis loitering munitions per month from 2027 and around 100 drones per day by November, aiming to rapidly ramp output in a crisis.