KMW and Elbit Systems intensify Rocket Artillery Cooperation
After having signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding in June this year, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Ulm based defence company Elbit Systems Deutschland and Elbit Systems Land have agreed to intensify their strategic cooperation.
Background is the modernisation and the capability extension of the European Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS / MARS II).
KMW and Elbit have established the concept “Euro-PULS” for the next generation European Long Range Rocket Artillery as the successor system for the MLRS. This concept has already been offered to the first European customers. The Euro-PULS system is based on Elbit Systems’ operational and in-service Multi-Purpose Universal Launching System (PULS) and a range of precision guided munitions. KMW complements the Euro-PULS with decades of know-how as system house and vast experience in building and customizing (rocket) artillery systems complying European standards. This provides the capability to integrate every rocket according to User’s requirements. Both companies envision a local rocket production to ensure Europe’s independence.
STAWITZKI Carsten: Beschaffen für das Heer in der Zeitenwende, in: Info Brief Heer, 28. Jg, H 3 (Juni 2023), p. 1-2
Für die Ersatzbeschaffung des Raketenwerfer MARS wollen wir auch in eine Kooperation gehen. Die Einrichtung einer bei Leopard und Boxer vergleichbaren Nutzergruppe wird von uns angestrebt. Eine Ersatzbeschaffung wird hier durch einen Wechsel auf radgestützte Raketenwerfer erfolgen.