Depends on what you call good kit. The French Ministry of Defence
PR machine was working overtime a few weeks ago trying to demonstrate the country's important role in Afghanistan with fancy videos of the French Army displaying their BV206S vehicles to American forces in addition to sending their high-tech UAVs, uparmoured VABs and a handful of Tiger attack helicopters. Meanwhile, the UK looks to dump the larger Viking versions in favour of buying new vehicles from Singapore as they are not up to job, while the equipment brigade continues to shout foul over the British forces having a lack of suitable armoured vehicles and helicopters. France spent a staggering 100 million euros or so on new equipment specifically for Afghanistan last year while the UK's spending runs into several billions annually. All very fine, but unless France is going to match its commitment to having a bigger say in NATO ops that includes sharing as much burden as other NATO allies (obviously other the US) both financially and in terms of boots on the ground [fighting that is], all this is a pretty pointless exercise.