{"id":69068,"date":"2024-06-18T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/06\/18\/citing-missile-mismatch-lockheed-snarls-at-himars-challenge-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:09:01","slug":"citing-missile-mismatch-lockheed-snarls-at-himars-challenge-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2024\/06\/18\/citing-missile-mismatch-lockheed-snarls-at-himars-challenge-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing missile mismatch, Lockheed snarls at HIMARS challenge in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PARIS \u2014 Tensions are running high in the race to decide Europe\u2019s artillery rocket system of choice, with Germany emerging as a decisive player in a race between teams Rheinmetall-Lockheed Martin and Elbit-KNDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the opening day of the Eurosatory trade show here, all eyes were on the German-American duo, which have paired up to offer a European-made rocket launcher based on Lockheed\u2019s High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems<\/a> (HIMARS) to Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trans-Atlantic team is trying to claw its way back<\/a> into a tender for Germany\u2019s next multiple-launch rocket launcher in which Elbit, offering its PULS weapon, was seen as having a leg up. The German armed forces have said they want to buy five PULS systems to replace weapons donated to Ukraine, and army formations in neighboring Netherlands, which are closely linked to their German Bundeswehr counterparts, are also slated to get the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\t