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Rheinmetall wins Bundeswehr order for 274 CT-025 turrets on Luchs 2 vehicle

Rheinmetall confirmed an order, signed in early February 2026 by GDELS for the Bundeswehr's Luchs 2 vehicle, worth a mid three-digit million-euro sum, covering 274 CT-025 unmanned turrets, Oerlikon KBA 25mm cannon and simulators, delivered by 2031.

Verified Rheinmetall AG press release, 20 February 2026

What it does not test. Does not establish the value or contractual status of the wider GDELS-Bundeswehr Luchs 2 vehicle programme, only the turret, cannon and simulator sub-order to Rheinmetall.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. Rheinmetall turret order for Bundeswehr vehicle; already all-German sovereign chain. European Sovereignty Index

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