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Rheinmetall CEO Papperger: 'Robots will come, that is absolutely clear'

Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger says Germany's missile stockpiles remain worryingly low and production must accelerate dramatically, while detailing the company's plans for cruise missiles, humanoid robots and space technology as it ramps up capacity to meet Europe's rearmament needs.

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00:07The Racketensystems are in the current state.
00:09How is the current state?
00:11I think that is still the case.
00:13So quickly can't produce Rakets so quickly.
00:15That is the reason why we as Rheinmetall
00:17are a big investment program.
00:19But not only we, but also many.
00:22There are huge impacts on the rocket engines,
00:25but also on the Luftscape.
00:26And we have to be very much faster,
00:30to get Germany, but also Europe and the NATO
00:33to get enough, if we are dangerous.
00:37Where are we at the Skyranger?
00:40The devices are sold, but they are still still?
00:43How fast is that now?
00:45The Skyranger is a narrative that always comes in.
00:50In the Skyranger is it so,
00:51that we have the Serien-Lieferung light
00:53laut Vertrag in 2027
00:57and that will also be delivered.
00:59And it is minimal,
01:01which we have in the Augenblick.
01:03We have a few technologies,
01:05which we have to renew.
01:06That is one of the chassis,
01:08that is the radar technology
01:09and that are the missiles,
01:10which must be integrated.
01:11But I am sure that we have
01:13with the BNBW,
01:15but also with the Ministerium,
01:17we can find a good solution in this area.
01:19Our people work day and night there.
01:21And as they know,
01:23the capacity of the Skyranger
01:25will be built in the Skyranger
01:27to 400 per year
01:28or we can build
01:30at the end of the next year.
01:32So I see there no Bedenken.
01:34The Deep-Strike-Fähigkeiten.
01:36There are a Joint Venture.
01:37Where are we?
01:39That Joint Venture,
01:40that we have on the one side with Destinus
01:42and on the other side,
01:43that we have with Lockheed Martin.
01:45With Lockheed Martin
01:47we do the role of Artillery-Rakets.
01:50The Cruise Missiles
01:51we do with Destinus.
01:53These two Joint Ventures
01:55are in the absolute end phase
01:56of the description.
01:57And we are looking at
01:58the end of this year,
02:00the end of this year,
02:01the end of this year,
02:03the end of next year
02:04the first Auftrag
02:05for the Cruise Missiles
02:07would be able to build
02:09simple things,
02:10but more.
02:11That doesn't show the Ukraine.
02:13Yes, we do.
02:14But that helps
02:15in some areas not.
02:16If you see today
02:17the performance of a Skyranger
02:19is that you can
02:20a rocket,
02:20the Mach 3
02:21can run away.
02:23That can't do
02:24with a interceptor
02:26and that can't do
02:26with a simple device.
02:29If you talk
02:30with the inspector
02:32of the German army
02:32today,
02:33he says,
02:34in two years
02:34the way
02:36the Skyranger
02:37is really
02:38something that
02:39has multiple
02:40capabilities.
02:42That can
02:43we
02:43with our
02:44interceptor
02:45or with our
02:45simple solutions.
02:47We have
02:47for example
02:47.50
02:49guns,
02:50with which we
02:51can
02:52of
02:52the
02:53number
02:53of
02:53number
02:58of
03:02the
03:03we
03:03have
03:03a
03:03better
03:04solution.
03:05We
03:06are
03:06a good
03:09job
03:09motor.
03:13We are
03:13in the
03:14civil
03:15range of
03:1734.000
03:18people.
03:20We
03:21have
03:21about
03:2210.000
03:23per
03:24year.
03:24Our goal
03:25is to
03:25up to
03:2670.000.
03:28But then
03:28to have a
03:30210.000
03:31people.
03:32If
03:32they
03:32are
03:33300.000
03:34people,
03:35it's a
03:35job
03:35.
03:38How
03:39can
03:39you
03:42do it
03:43as
03:43as
03:43as
03:43,
03:44we
03:45can
03:45do it
03:45and
03:46we
03:46do it
03:46as
03:46as
03:46as
03:46as
03:46as
03:47as
03:47as
03:47as
03:47as
03:48we
03:48do it.
04:02what
04:03we
04:04do
04:06is
04:06We have doubled the LKWs, also the logistical and the tactical vehicles.
04:12We are doing that.
04:14But we don't have any more than we do.
04:18Rheinmetall has an investment program over 6 years of 30 Mrd. Euro.
04:24This is insane, what we invest in the moment.
04:27And so it is so important that this sign,
04:30that we are today again set,
04:31that the Minister here is, that the Minister also kümmert,
04:34that we are not only building the capacity,
04:37but that the people have work.
04:42That was for me a great Zeichen,
04:44a very good Zeichen.
04:46And that was a little bit,
04:47so that the Bundesregierung here really takes place.
04:50Letzte Frage.
04:51What is next?
04:53The drones were now a very big issue.
04:56So since the conflict would I say,
04:57Azerbaijan, Armenians on all.
05:00What is next?
05:01Is it the world-time or is it already?
05:04Or are it also Kampfroboter?
05:06Humanoide Roboter?
05:07So was.
05:07The Roboter will come,
05:09that is very clear.
05:10We have a research center in Bremen
05:12for the Bereich Humanoide Roboter.
05:14We are working on that.
05:16We have no series of products.
05:17So we are not in the media.
05:20But we invest in there very much money.
05:22The world-time is something,
05:24where we also invest in very much money.
05:28We have a question,
05:29but also for the communication,
05:33that is,
05:34all the information we receive from the satellites
05:36will be managed to be performed,
05:39and the drones will remain.
05:41And the rest will remain.
05:43The rest will remain.
05:44Also for the battle of the bandits,
05:47we need artillery,
05:48we need war,
05:50we need war,
05:50we need war,
05:51we need war,
05:58the thing, how much one of all needs. It must be a mixture in this area, and that will
06:03change. That means the amount of the individual areas will change.
06:08Thank you, Mr. Barberger.
06:10Gerne.
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