Europe commits to long-range fires but countries move in different directions

European armies are accelerating long-range artillery programmes after the war in Ukraine demonstrated both the need for deeper reach and the drone-dominated danger zone around opposing forces. Croatia selected South Korea's K239 Chunmoo, Sweden committed to the U.S. HIMARS family, and France chose the MBDA-Safran Thundart solution, reflecting different operational and industrial priorities. These choices broaden precision-strike inventories while emphasizing mobility, survivability, supply resilience and national access to ammunition. The resulting landscape is a set of parallel national procurements rather than a common European system, with interoperability and logistics depending on how each country integrates launchers, munitions and command networks.