Digital communication
Bundeswehr digitization: thick order for Rheinmetall
In its communication, the Bundeswehr still relies on technology that is getting on in years. That should change – the federal government is awarding billions of orders to the armaments industry.
In the digitization of the Bundeswehr, Germany’s largest armaments group Rheinmetall has landed a large order. The company in Düsseldorf said that one is now responsible for the establishment of a digital communication network. The volume of the ten -year -old framework contract for a management system for communication and the directional radio is several billion euros.
For this purpose, Rheinmetall received a first order of around 1.9 billion euros, which deals with a communication network for a Bundeswehr division – it should be delivered in the period 2026 to 2029.
The technology of the German army is getting old. The Digitization of the Bundeswehr is a mammoth task in which Rheinmetall is involved. In December, the company together with the armaments group KNDS had already been commissioned to equip 10,000 Bundeswehr vehicles with digital radio.
dpa
Source: Stern
