Who would have thought this was possible after WW2. KMW is a private German company and Nexter is owned by the French government.
KMW and Nexter say their new firm will employ more than 6,000 workers
generating nearly $2.7 billion in annual revenue. With $8.8 billion in
backlogged orders for weapons systems to be built, the company would
have enough work to keep itself busy for more than three years, right
from the start.
The combined companies would offer their customers everything the
modern armored army needs to roll, too: 155mm towed and self-propelled
guns, anti-aircraft guns, and tracked and wheeled armored personnel
carriers. The most famous products, though, would be France's Leclerc
main battle tank (from Nexter) and Germany's Leopard 2 -- a 62-ton beast
of a weapons system, featuring a 120mm Rheinmetall smoothbore cannon
that can penetrate 22 inches of solid steel from a range of 1.3 miles.
One of KMW's most popular products, the company has sold 3,200 Leopard
2s to 16 separate armies.
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