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Posted on 03/24/2026 6:55:35 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Volkswagen is in discussions with Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defence Systems regarding a deal that would convert one of the German automaker’s factories from car manufacturing to missile defence production, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
The plan involves transforming Volkswagen’s Osnabrück plant to produce components for Rafael’s Iron Dome air defence system, according to the report. The Israeli state-owned company’s system would be manufactured at the German facility under the proposed arrangement.
The deal aims to preserve all 2,300 jobs at the Osnabrück site in western Germany, which has faced potential closure. The two companies plan to market the defence systems to European governments.
The German government is actively supporting the proposal, according to the Financial Times report.
Production at the converted facility could reportedly start within 12 to 18 months, contingent on workers agreeing to transition to weapons manufacturing.
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Is my ‘66 VW bug involved?
Depends.... hardtop or convertible?
Straight-up Sea-Dan....
Barely 200k mi.
Germany has no natural reason to be in a war with anybody. Now they are beating plowshares into swords, and killing all their energy sources. All while picking fights with Russia...
The term “Blockhead” for the Krauts didn’t just fall outta the sky.
Barely 20K on the 50 yr. old engine rebuild....
LOL!
My great grandfather was one of Kaiser Wilhelm’s body guards, but left and came to the US before WWII. He had one of those spike topped helmets.
The Formation of Gog-Magog War.
Papa Ferdinand built tanks for the Nazis, so why not?
PLEASE tell me you got that helmet!!
Looks like cha-ching for the military industrial complex.
Silliness, now Germany is mixed up in a pre-Revelations arms race?
Those are cool.
He was my mother’s grandfather and her brother took it after he died even though my mom took care of him when he got older and my dad gave him medical care for free. LOL! I would have loved to have helmet!
As a kid I had one of the spiked helmets and a WWI doughboy helmet with a map of Europe painted on it, I also had Nazi daggers and iron crosses and misc. stuff, back then the real stuff was still around.
Building the plant in Peenemünde, ja?
Dang! If I had gotten that spiked helmet, it would have been on of my prized possessions! Oh well……
In my case I think my dad would sometimes come by the house and take back things he had given me, when he needed money, I guess some of it he brought back from the war and he may have done a little buying and selling in the years after, at one point I had a shrunken head he may have gotten during his time in the Pacific or Brazil but I can’t remember how almost all those things disappeared.
So cool. My best friend's dad was one of the first troops in Japan. He was supposed to be in the first invasion wave until Hiroshima. He brought back a Samurai sword and a bunch of other stuff, and his uncle had stuff from Germany. We all knew so much about the war as kids from talking to them, and those objects made it come to life.
No kidding, back then a kid would dig through his dad’s closet and show his buddies a German Lugar, or a Japanese flag or other related things.
I took a German bayonet to elementary class show and tell.
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