• The deliberate three way partnership is foreseen to develop into the market chief within the phase of unmanned and remote-controlled fight and fight assist automobiles.
• The primary objective of the partnership is to collectively develop an unmanned system for mine scattering and counter-mobility operations. A corresponding system demonstrator is to be offered in 2025.
Within the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of the Republic of Croatia Ivan Anuši? the Croatian UGS producer DOK-ING and the Düsseldorf-based expertise group Rheinmetall signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 28 October 2024 to ascertain a three way partnership. A particular characteristic of this partnership is the totally European origin and worth creation, which ought to lead to numerous unmanned floor methods (UGS).
The settlement offers for joint growth and subsequent advertising and marketing of the brand new DOK-ING Komodo platform. Rheinmetall AG is contributing numerous functionality modules/improve kits (e.g. for direct and oblique hearth, mine-laying, reconnaissance sensors, logistics, and so forth.), in addition to its worldwide market entry and industrial capacities.
The implementation of the MoU is topic to the prior approval of the related regulatory authorities, together with the European Fee and the respective nationwide competitors authorities.
As Dr Björn Bernhard, head of the Car Methods Europe division, explains: “DOK-ING and Rheinmetall symbolize two main European suppliers of their discipline, becoming a member of forces to hold out difficult initiatives. Collectively, we purpose to set new requirements and pave the way in which for the sequence manufacturing and utility of UGSs. We’re addressing the European market in addition to different associate nations.”
Vjekoslav Majeti?, founder and President of the supervisory board of DOK-ING: “The technological and industrial synergies between DOK-ING and Rheinmetall symbolize a singular alternative to develop state-of-the-art unmanned fight and armoured breaching methods in Europe. We see this settlement as a basic contribution to creating a typical future.”
Inside the framework of the longer term cooperation, quite a few fight and fight assist options shall be developed, together with a joint mission for an unmanned armed assist car (generally known as a Wingman) for battle tanks and infantry combating automobiles for reconnaissance and hearth assist can be to be developed. These shall be utilized in mixture with already recognized traditional Rheinmetall merchandise, such because the KF51 Panther, the Büffel-3 armoured restoration car and the Kodiak-3 armoured engineer car.
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