Norway has dropped EuroPULS from its rocket artillery program, narrowing the competition to U.S. and South Korean systems and reshaping NATO’s long-range fires
  • Ooops@feddit.orgEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Interesting how PULS -developed by Israel’s Elbit Systems and only sold under the name EuroPULS in Europe via German-French KNDS- is a “German” system somehow, but GMARS -developed by German Rheinmetall in cooperation with US Lockheed Martin- is a US system…

    • Ooops@feddit.orgEnglish
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      20 minutes ago

      In parts maybe because who is actually producing PULS with KNDS only being more of a local distribution partner. It’s Israel’s Elbit Systems.

      So that “German” system is in reality an Israeli system (with French-German KNDS still looking for partnerships to produce compatible missiles).

      And the “US” system is co-developed by German Rheinmetall (with Lockheed-Martin) and fully compatible to the upgraded M270s (called MARS II/LRU/MLRS-I respectively) which Germany, France and Italy already build themselves under license and also run their own targeting software (UK, too, minus the common software project). In fact GMRS is a truckbased solution with the full-sized 2x 6 launcher like on the M270, unlike HIMARS with halfed capactity.

      So that German vs US system in the headline and article are kinda skewed…