German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius arrived in Paris on Friday for final talks on a joint Franco-German armaments project worth billions of euros. Pistorius and French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding for an effort to jointly develop the Main Ground Combat System (MGCS), which is aimed at replacing the countries’ current main battle tanks. The MGCS project is conceived around not just a new main battle tank design, but also a series of systems and vehicles built off that platform that will connect battle tanks in a data network with supp…