For air defense and ballistics: RheinMetall and Lockheed Martin localize the production of missiles in the EU

The main reason for this step is the lack of production facilities in the United States to meet demand in Europe, said Papperger. "Sometimes you have to wait ten years to get rockets from America, so it is too long. Therefore, both partners wanted to create a European" Center for Competence "from missiles. For example, missiles atacms, GMLRS, Hellfire, Jagm and PAC-3 can be produced together. AtacMS missiles are about 300 kilometers.

Hellfire and Jagm are Air Earth's weapons and PAC-3 is one of the two missiles used in the Patriot Air Defense System, "said the head of the German concern. According to him, the plans to establish supply chains, to develop production capacity up to 10 thousand rockets, as well as to produce the same number of large and small missile engines per year.

According to Papperger, the production line will be ready in 12-13 months, but the project requires the approval of the US government, which both partners work on. Rheinmetall CEO said the current need for customers in rockets is 600-800 ATACMS missiles per year, about 2500 GMLR missiles, 5,000 Hellfires missiles, 5200 JAGM missiles and up to 300 PAC-3 missiles.

At the same time, European customers prefer ATCMS up to 300 kilometers, and in Germany also discussing the creation of a rocket with a roundabout up to 600 kilometers. Lockheed Martin confirmed the plans of such a project. He currently defines the key needs in the weapon market and is also trying to find ways to implement projects in European countries.

Currently, Armin Papperger's words have been confirmed in the American concern that the further development of this project would require "the approval of US and German governments" as negotiations are still ongoing and all published details are "premature and unofficial. " Earlier it was reported that Rheinmetall has shown new capabilities of Skyranger 35.