Diehl and Nammo open 155mm shell production in Bavaria

Diehl Defence, Diehl Metall and Norway's Nammo inaugurated a 155 mm artillery-shell body production line at Röthenbach in Bavaria, expanding European manufacturing of NATO-standard ammunition components. The facility will produce shell bodies for the jointly developed DiNa ammunition programme, which subsequently require loading and final assembly before becoming usable rounds. The industrial partnership is designed to increase regional supply capacity and reduce manufacturing bottlenecks as European forces replenish artillery inventories. The opening marks the start of a manufacturing operation rather than the delivery of a specified quantity of finished ammunition, and the companies did not disclose an exact annual production rate in the announcement.