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Manufacturer · Defence · Chemicals

Rheinmetall

The European ammunition and armoured-vehicle producer whose commissioned Unterlüß plant is the one operating ammunition plant this module records, and whose other figures are targets.

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Assessed as of
2026-09
Last reviewed
2026-10-03

AssessmentModerate confidence

No financials and no forecasts. A record carries what a published source states about an organisation, its published facilities and its dated claims, with each claim kept apart by kind. Nothing here is a view on any company.

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Locator — land outline from Natural Earth 110m (public domain); 1 place this record names, at the coordinates the module already publishes. No routes, boundaries, control or activity are drawn.

What this organisation is

Rheinmetall is the German defence manufacturer at the centre of the eastern flank's ammunition rebuild. One of its plants in this module is commissioned: the Unterlüß facility in Lower Saxony, opened in August 2025. Everything else the company has published about its European output — 140,000 rounds at Unterlüß in 2026, 350,000 a year from 2027, group output of around 1.5 million shells a year from 2027, and a Lithuanian plant at Baisogala that broke ground in November 2025 — is a target or an announcement, and this record keeps each apart from what has been delivered. It also appears in the equipment catalogue as a co-producer of the Boxer and PzH 2000 families.

The organisation whose stated output is the test of whether the five per cent commitment becomes delivered capability on the timescale the regional plans assume. ANNOUNCED IS NOT DELIVERED: the module reads its figures as the company's own, graded by kind.

Confidence: Moderate As of 2026-09Reviewed 2026-10-03

Official name: Rheinmetall AG

Published facilities

Each is a marker the module already publishes; the relationship is this record’s own claim, with its own grade and source.

What it produces

A producer edge says this organisation makes this equipment family. It is not a quantity, a rate or a delivery; those are dated claims below.

Dated claims — announced against delivered

Each claim carries its own kind. Nothing here is summed, and an announcement never counts as output.

2026-09Target Confidence: Moderate

140,000 rounds at Unterlüß in 2026 and 350,000 a year from 2027 — the company's stated output figures, not output.

Sources: Official government statements

2025-11Announcement Confidence: Moderate

The Baisogala plant in Lithuania broke ground in November 2025; the company says operations during 2026 with line qualification to year-end and a ramp from 2027, while one executive has said early 2027. No source read in September 2026 says it is operating.

Sources: Official government statements · Established international media reporting

Systems it belongs to

SystemDefence industry

Commodities and outputs

Artillery ammunition · Propellant and nitrocellulose

Owners, controllers and arrangements

ProfileGermany and the eastern flankProfileLithuania and the eastern flank

Watch questions bearing on it

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What remains unknown

  • No delivered quantity to any named force is recorded for the Unterlüß plant; the module carries commissioning and targets only.
  • The Baisogala plant's operating status is unestablished as of September 2026; the company's own statements differ on the date.
Sensitivity: public-contextual Confidence: Moderate Sources: Official government statements · Established international media reporting Methodology Corrections

Assessed as of — 2026-09 Last reviewed — 2026-10-03