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 […]
BERLIN (Reuters) -Italy is planning to buy hundreds of tanks from Rheinmetall in what would be the German defence group’s biggest ever order, valued at around 20 billion euros ($21.50 billion), the Handelsblatt business daily reported on Wednesday, citing industry sources. According to the plan, the Italian government would buy at least 350 Lynx armoured […]
Rheinmetall is to start building its Lynx infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) in Ukraine, the German arms manufacturer announced from the company headquarters in Dusseldorf on Wednesday. A memorandum of understanding had been signed on the sidelines of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin, Rheinmetall said. The Lynx has to date been produced only in Germany […]
MILAN — Rheinmetall has established a maintenance center in western Ukraine to repair German-donated military equipment damaged in combat, as more arms manufacturers are setting up shop in the embattled country. The Rheinmetall Ukrainian Defense Industry repair facility, a joint venture project between the German company and the Ukraine state-owned enterprise Ukroboronprom, was inaugurated on […]
BERLIN (Reuters) -The German army intends to order 200,000 more artillery shells from armsmaker Rheinmetall than it had planned, a letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday from the Defence Ministry to parliament’s budget committee. The army plans to get 200,000 additional 155mm artillery shells worth about 880 million euros ($960 million) within its framework agreement […]
The German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall plans to build a new plant in Lithuania for the production of 155-millimetre artillery shells. The German defence contractor and the government of the Baltic EU and NATO member state signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday in the presence of the Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, Economy Minister Aušrinė […]
The Rheinmetall AG logo can be seen on the facade of an administration building. Henning Kaiser/dpa The German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall plans to build a new plant in Lithuania for the production of 155-millimetre artillery shells. The German defence contractor and the government of the Baltic EU and NATO member state signed a memorandum of […]
By Rachel More BERLIN (Reuters) -German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall said on Thursday it expected record sales and increased profitability this year, as the war in Ukraine drives up defence spending in the NATO bloc, in a trend set to buoy the company for years to come. Rheinmetall expects to crack the 10-billion-euro ($10.93 billion) mark […]
Germany’s biggest arms manufacturer, Rheinmetall, has won a contract to supply the Skyranger air defence system to Austria. The company said that the contract is worth a figure in the mid-three-digit million-euro range, and plans to start delivery in 2026. Rheinmetall is acting as a subcontractor of GDELS, a vehicle maker tasked with upgrading Austria’s […]
Germany’s largest arms company, Rheinmetall, signed a memorandum of cooperation with Ukraine on 17 February and plans to open an ammunition plant in Ukraine. Source: Rheinmetall on Twitter Details: The memorandum was signed in the presence of Oleksandr Kamyshin, Ukraine’s Minister of Strategic Industries, and Oleksii Makeiev, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Germany, on the sidelines of […]
German defence concern Rheinmetall is to build a new ammunition plant to cover the needs of the armed forces of Germany and Ukraine. Source: Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall, cited by Bild Papperger said the German federal government and the arms industry work together productively. “A lot has changed for the better in the field […]