France Fields the Jaguar R3: The SCORPION Family’s Combat Scout Comes of Age
The French Army has begun receiving the Jaguar in its R3 configuration, the first standard that the Direction générale de l’armement and the land forces have certified… 
The French Army has begun receiving the Jaguar in its R3 configuration, the first standard that the Direction générale de l’armement and the land forces have certified as fully “fit for war.” Twenty-one vehicles of this standard had been handed over by early September 2026, after qualification in April and operational clearance in July. The arrival is more than an incremental upgrade. It completes the original combat package of the Engin Blindé de Reconnaissance et de Combat and, with it, a central piece of the SCORPION programme that has been reshaping French contact forces for more than a decade.
SCORPION, launched in 2014, was conceived…
