{"id":266410,"date":"2025-07-16T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266410\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:54:11","slug":"what-does-germanys-new-tank-joint-venture-mean-for-mgcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266410\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Germany\u2019s new tank joint venture mean for MGCS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent announcement of the formation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.shephardmedia.com\/programmes\/detail\/main-armoured-tank-of-europe-marte-germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MARTE<\/a>, a joint venture headed by Germany\u2019s Rheinmetall Landsysteme and KNDS Deutschland, raises a significant number of questions on future Main Battle Tank (MBT) development in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these German contractors are already engaged in the larger and more complex <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.shephardmedia.com\/programmes\/detail\/main-battle-tank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MGCS<\/a>, a Franco-German project to develop a new MBT to replace the currently deployed French Leclerc and the German Leopard 2 MBTs. It also includes other armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs), tracked and wheeled.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first effort by the two countries to jointly create a tank.\u00a0KNDS presented<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent announcement of the formation of the MARTE, a joint venture headed by Germany\u2019s Rheinmetall Landsysteme and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,101530,101531,78715,101532,17460],"class_list":{"0":"post-266410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-knds-deutschland","12":"tag-main-battle-tank","13":"tag-marte","14":"tag-mgcs","15":"tag-rheinmetall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114862546263377090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}