ROME — Germany’s Rheinmetall has signed a deal with Italy’s Leonardo to discuss the development and building of hundreds of new tanks and tracked fighting vehicles for Italy, weeks after European giant KNDS walked away from a similar deal with Leonardo. Rheinmetall and Leonardo signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Wednesday to create a new […]
PARIS — KNDS, the French-German maker of the Leopard tank and the Caesar howitzer, will set up a unit in Ukraine that will work with local firms to set up equipment maintenance, manufacture spare parts using 3D printing, and produce 155mm artillery shells. KNDS hopes to establish the subsidiary in Ukraine later in June, following […]
German defence company KNDS says it is not in a position to deliver further weapons to Ukraine in the near future, according to managing director Ralf Ketzel. KNDS, formerly Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), manufactures arms, including Leopard 2 battle tanks, which Germany has been supplying to Kiev since the beginning of 2023. “The ability to deliver […]