CAESAR – CAmion Équipé d'un Systeme d'ARtillerie (truck equipped with an artillery system).
Developed by GIAT (now Nexter) Industries in Versailles with assistance from Lohr Industries, the CAESAR was first unveiled to the public in 1994. Testing began in 1998.
When it was accepted by the French army in 2003, it was mounted on Mercedes-Benz Unimog U2450L six-wheel, six-wheel drive chassis. It was subsequently adapted to the Renault Sherpa 5 six-by-six chassis.
As NATO and other countries began ordering CAESARs, the gun proved equally adaptable to the Czech-produced Tatra 815-7T3RCI eight-by-eight chassis with 410-hp engine.
In February 2022, Nexter introduced a next-generation artillery system on a new chassis and powered by a new 460-horsepower engine.
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