Here, fuselage details for the American bomber F-35 will soon be built here. 400 jobs arise. Rheinmetall not only invests more than 100 million euros, but also marks a new business -obstruction with aircraft spare parts. Until now, the group has been engaged in business with tanks, artillery, aircraft and ammunition. Now he pushes into a promising aviation area, which also includes drones and satellites.
Rheinmetall is a representative of the entire industry. The group has blossomed from a medium -sized supplier to one of the most important suppliers in the Ukrainian secretary over the past three years. The boss Rheinmetall Armin Papper carries politics. The course of the stock market of his company has increased by 18 times from the moment of attack on Ukraine in February 2022, since then the orders and expectations of business have almost tripled up to 62 billion euros. Sales and profits are growing steeply, the number of employees should increase by a quarter to 40,000 over two years.
The Papperger step is not surprising, manufacturers of drones currently have the highest growth potential for the professional world. Helsing from Munich also feels it. Although the company is relatively small with 400 employees, it recently raised another 600 million euros from investors. Bundeswehr is also interested in Kamikaze Drone HX-2 from Helsing, which is already flying in Ukraine.
Euphorically mood in Dynamit Nobel Defense & Co
This is the ascent paid by taxpayers. As a result of a decrease in Ukraine, the bundester is modernized, and the reserves of weapons are increasing. The costs of the military partially, with the exception of the debt brake, were determined by special assets per 100 billion euros. Now the federal government wants to eliminate a narrow place when buying weapons: in the future, especially urgent orders, in particular, should not be advertised not throughout Europe, but only at the national level.
Thank you industry. Bundeswehr will need up to 1000 new wheel armor by 2035, “In addition, you can add up to 600 new combat and rifle tanks,” said Alexander Sagel general director of Renk Group on Tuesday HandelsblattHe expected the first orders at the beginning of next year that the need was huge. A group from Augsburg is located outside of Russia and the leader of the Chinese global market for military products, for example, for tanks or frigates.
The mood is also an euphoria in Dynamit Nobel Defense, Diehl, Heckler & Koch – or in Hensoldt from Bavarian Taufkirchen, sensors and radar systems. Over the past three years, sales have increased by about half to 2.2 billion euros. In 2025, the company would like to take at least 2.5 billion euros from its about 9,000 people, 2030 – colossal 6 billion.
Hensold radars are in Eurofighter Kampfjet, and are also used in Ukraine to protect the population from air strikes. The company also produces periscopes for armored vehicles and underwater sections.
Acute shortage of qualified workers
Kiel’s subsidiary of the ThyssenkrupP industrial group is also engaged in business with Bundeswehr. Marine Systems Thyssenkrupp (TKMS) in accordance with its own information-8,500 leaders of the world market of employees for non-nuclear submarines and are fully used until the beginning of the 2040s. In December, Bundestag approved the construction of four other compact classes of Class 212 for the Military Fleet. In total, ten such boats should be built on TKMS – six for Germany, four for Norway. The group recently also received an order for 800 million euros for the modernization of six submarines from the Navy.
According to his own statements, the industry has long suffered from about 100,000 people from an acute shortage of qualified workers. Since positions are deleted in the automotive industry, the BDSV weapons Association has developed a concept called “Auto2DEFENCE”. But workers are not just from the automotive industry. It all started with a Continental car supplier, whose employees in Gifhorn, Lower Saxony were offered jobs at the ammunition factory in Rheinmetall in the lower part of Lux in 50 kilometers. At the former Alstom Waggon factory in Gurlits in Saxony The Panzerbauer KNDS is now building details for the Leopard 2 combat tank, Schützfanzer Puma and a wheeled armor.
