- Title: Arms manufacturer Rheinmetall expects orders worth 'billons' in the next months
- Date: 15th June 2023
- Summary: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (JUNE 15, 2023) (REUTERS) CEO OF GERMAN ARMS MANUFACTURER RHEINMETALL, ARMIN PAPPERGER, GIVING AN INTERVIEW IN THE NATO HEADQUARTERS (SOUNDBITE) (German) CEO OF ARMS MANUFACTURER, RHEINMETALL, ARMIN PAPPERGER, SAYING: "A lot of points were discussed that I don't think we want to discuss in public. But, of course, it's primarily about the capacity that we
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- Keywords: Germany Rheinmetall Russia Ukraine arms manufacturer
- Location: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
- City: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
- Country: Belgium
- Topics: Europe,NATO,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001027615062023RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Rheinmetall expects to strike an ammunition deal worth billions of euros with the German government in the coming weeks and will deliver the first 35mm rounds for Gepard anti-aircraft guns to Ukraine in July, its CEO, Armin Papperger, said on Thursday (June 15).
Papperger said the deal would be worth several billion euros, and he hoped that Rheinmetall, one of the biggest producers of artillery and tank shells in the world, could announce it in the next six weeks.
For the entire year, Papperger expects defence orders worth a "double-digit billion euros" sum.
He said he anticipated a whole variety of deals - on vehicles, ammunition, electronics and radar systems.
The talks in Brussels were meant to focus on ways to ramp up supplies of artillery shells, air defences and precision-guided, deep-strike ammunition, missiles with a range of hundreds of kilometres such as the British Storm Shadow.
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