Overview

• Series production begins with about 25,000 rounds in 2025, rising to 350,000 at Unterlüß in 2027 and 1.5 million across all sites that year.
• NATO’s Mark Rutte, Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius and SPD leader Lars Klingbeil attended today’s inauguration, as protesters in Cologne pressed a court‑sanctioned campaign against the company’s expansion.
• Rheinmetall invested nearly €500 million in the new line and site upgrades, creating roughly 500 additional jobs at Unterlüß.
• The company is adding a rocket‑motor plant and planning an RDX explosives line at the site, and it says it is in talks with Lockheed Martin about producing ATACMS and Hellfire components.
• Rheinmetall reports plans for a roughly €1 billion munitions factory in Bulgaria to produce 155mm rounds to NATO specifications, with details pending contract signature.