Germany’s Rheinmetall May Produce Lockheed’s ATACMS, Hellfire Missiles At Europe’s Largest Artillery Plant

By Tyler Durden

The Deep State’s favorite weapons giant defense contractor, Lockheed Martin – which may or may not be next on Trump’s partial nationalization schedule – wants to have German peer Rheinmetall manufacture ATACMS and Hellfire missiles in Germany, business magazine WirtschaftsWoche cited a Lockheed executive as saying.

“We are already actively discussing additional manufacturing – including for ATACMS and Hellfire missiles,” Lockheed’s Europe head Dennis Goege told WirtschaftsWoche, adding that it would take place at Rheinmetall’s expanding Unterluess site in northern Germany.

The two companies said in April they would expand their cooperation beyond a memorandum of understanding signed in 2024, with the U.S. group providing missile and rocket technology, and Rheinmetall manufacturing and selling missiles in Europe.

Goege also told the magazine that the final list of missiles had yet to be determined.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited the Unterluess site on Wednesday, together with German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil, to attend the opening of an artillery production line at what will be Europe’s biggest ammunition factory as Germany sets out to massively expand its military.

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Read Full Article Here…(zerohedge.com)

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