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The Swiss Federal Council has rejected an application to sell 96 Leopard 1A5 combat vehicles to the German company Rheinmetall. These combat vehicles were to be exported to Ukraine, writes the Swiss publicationSRF. The Swiss defense manufacturer Ruag bought these tanks in Italy in 2016 with the intention of reselling them either as combat vehicles […]
The German arms concern Rheinmetall will hand over 14 Leopard 2 tanks ordered by the Netherlands to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The first one will arrive in Ukraine in January 2024 Tagesschau writes about it. “Rheinmetall has announced that the order is in the triple-digit million euro range,” the statement said. It is noted that […]
German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is ready to produce 600,000 shells a year for Ukraine, the concern’s chairman Armin Papperger told the Handelsblatt newspaper. He spoke about this after European Commissioner for Industry Thierry Breton visited the Rheinmetall plant in Unterlüs (Lower Saxony), the BBC reports. The publication reminds that the EU has promised to provide […]
German concern Rheinmetall is negotiating the establishment of a tank production plant in Ukraine. The company’s CEO, Armin Papperger, told Spiegel. The plant’s construction is estimated to cost about 200,000,000 euros. According to the CEO, the plant will be able to produce up to 400 new Panther KF51 tanks per year. The final decision on […]
Against the background of the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, the German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall has revised its plans for further work and insists that Germany needs to increase the production of weapons, because the reserves are now exhausted. What does it mean Rheinmetall produces a number of defense products, but probably its most […]
Germany is handing over heavy-duty military trucks to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On behalf of the German government, the Rheinmetall concern started the transfer of new MAN HX 8×8 trucks to Ukraine. In total, 26 such high-speed vehicles with a hook loading system will be transferred to Ukraine. These machines are used to transport […]