MGCS: Industry establishes project company

Building tanks? Everyone is on board: "We - KNDS Germany, KNDS France, Rheinmetall AG, Rheinmetall Landsysteme, and Thales - welcome the agreement reached by the French and German governments on MGCS. We see it as a significant milestone for the development of a superior land combat system for the armed forces of the future."

In this sense, the four companies - KNDS Germany, KNDS France, Rheinmetall Landsysteme, and THALES SIX - intend to establish a joint project company to address the challenges of such a complex multi-platform system in the best possible and synergistic way. The jointly supported company will act in accordance with the bilateral Franco-German agreement. The new, innovative "LevelPillar approach" for implementation is designed to ensure a fair distribution of the workload in a balanced ratio of 50:50 between French and German companies, taking into account the complementary technical abilities and resources of the companies. "To realize a contract from 2025, the industry will soon enter into negotiations with the aim of efficiently and effectively implementing the development work in line with the customer's requirements", said in a joint statement by the companies involved in the MGCS project. The symbolic opening image shows an older concept from the French Ministry of Defense for the MGCS.

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