Rheinmetall is moving its loitering-munition business from demonstration to serial production, with the FV-014 set to enter output in the third quarter and manufacturing centred in Neuss. At Eurosatory in Paris, the company showed a mobile launch container that holds 18 drones for salvo firing, turning a shipping-container format into a deployable strike cell.
The setup points to a production model built for scale rather than bespoke trials. Rheinmetall is converting an automotive supplier site in Neuss for the airframe, with the container and munitions aligned to the same industrial base.
That gives operators a launch package designed for massed effects, not single-shot use.