Rheinmetall Plans to Establish ATACMS and Patriot PAC-3 Missile Production in Europe - Militarnyi
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The German company Rheinmetall, in collaboration with the American Lockheed Martin, plans to establish large-scale production of ATACMS and Patriot PAC-3 missiles in Europe
  • xyroEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    Not sure what are the reasons to set up a new plant to produce outdated missiles that the Americans are about to discontinue production ?

    • realitista@lemm.eeOP
      22·
      6 days ago

      Still in heavy use in Ukraine when they can get ammo. And still very effective. USA won’t release their latest designs for production in Europe or use in Ukraine.

      • xyroEnglish
        7·
        6 days ago

        Agreed, so why not built as advanced with European technology instead of old American tech ?

        • realitista@lemm.eeOP
          18·
          6 days ago

          This is one of the few weapons systems that Europeans don’t have a decent analogue for. This is likely their short term plan while they develop something similar.

          Perun did a decent overview of the capabilities that Europe has in house vs those that they must rely on the US for if you are interested in more details.

          • xyroEnglish
            3·
            6 days ago

            Make more sense thanks ! I’ll take a look at the overview !

            • FaceDeer@fedia.io
              121·
              6 days ago

              I imagine there’s also an element of “what can we start building right now,” as opposed to waiting a couple of years for R&D before setting up the production lines. A weapon system can be the most wonderful and powerful thing on paper but if you’re under attack you can’t deploy a piece of paper.

              It’s also nice that it turns out old American tech is perfectly capable of dominating Russia’s current tech.

        • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
          5·
          6 days ago

          Quantity is also important. We can’t just rely on a few high-tech systems, we need volumes of simpler equipment as well. These systems are good candidates for stuff we can mass produce right now.

    • bluGill@fedia.io
      2·
      5 days ago

      Quantity matters. This war has proven the Europe and the US (either separately or together) has a lot of advanced tech -but in a real war we would by way behind because we can’t make it fast enough. Newer might be better, but realistically the issues with the patriot is lack of quantity and high prices, not lack of advancement and for the most part that isn’t expected to change fast. What war in the near future needs is the ability to shoot down lots of cheap drones.