Diehl Defense
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | October 1, 2007 |
| Seat | Ueberlingen , Germany |
| management | Helmut Rauch |
| Number of employees | 2,325 |
| sales | EUR 470 million |
| Branch | Defense technology |
| Website | www.diehl-defence.de |
| Status: 2019 | |
Diehl Defense is a subgroup and division of Diehl based in Überlingen on Lake Constance in Baden-Württemberg . It includes all defense technology business units of the parent company. The largest subsidiary is Diehl Defense GmbH & Co. KG, but since companies are often founded for individual projects, especially in the armaments sector, there are also many joint ventures with other armaments companies as corporate units.
Diehl Defense GmbH & Co. KG
history
The company was founded on September 17, 2004 through the merger of the companies Diehl Munitionssysteme GmbH & Co. KG (DMS) and Bodenseewerk Geräteechnik GmbH (BGT). While DMS was already a 100% subsidiary of Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG , the French company Aerospatiale-Matra, as a minority shareholder, owned 20% of the BGT shares that had been acquired by the Diehl Group in 1989. BGT emerged from the aviation activities in the former Lake Constance plant . Diehl ammunition systems have their origins before the Second World War, when Diehl's metalworks were classified as an important war operation and began to produce fuses and cartridges. From 1960, Bodensee Geräteechnik was the general contractor for the European production program of the Sidewinder AIM-9B air-to-air missile . A homing head was developed from this experience. Diehl Defense is therefore the general contractor and project coordinator for the air-to-air missile program IRIS-T . Since 2008 Diehl BGT Defense GmbH & Co. KG has been the main component of the newly created Diehl Defense subgroup. Diehl Defense is the German cooperation partner of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems for the production and marketing of the Predator B on the German market. The defense business of the Diehl Foundation has been brought together under the umbrella of Diehl Defense GmbH & Co. KG since February 1, 2017.
Fields of activity
Today the company mainly deals with the conception of missile sensors and the program management of guided missiles, which is also reflected in the four-part division structure, which is dominated by missile products and projects.
- Missile systems land & sea
- Missile systems air
- Ammunition and missile systems
- Sensor and security systems
production
Diehl Defense produces ignition devices, medium, large-caliber and pioneer ammunition as well as pyrotechnic smoke ammunition at the sites of the former Diehl Munitionssysteme in Braunshausen (Nonnweiler) and Röthenbach an der Pegnitz . Missile components such as seeker heads and control units are manufactured at the Überlingen site.
Cooperation partner
EuroSpike GmbH was founded in 2004 after several years of successful cooperation between Diehl Defense (Überlingen), Rheinmetall Defense Electronics GmbH (Bremen) and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. (Haifa / Israel) founded.
Products and Concepts
IRIS-T SL
LFK NG
PARS 3 LR
EuroSPIKE
UAV helicopter
- Missiles against air targets
- AIM-9 Sidewinder : air-to-air missile
- IRIS-T : air-to-air missile / surface-to-air missile
- IRIS-T SL: surface-to-air missile
- New generation guided missile : surface-to-air missile
- RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile : Sea-to-air missile for short-range protection
- IDAS : Sea-to-air missile for helicopter combat for submarines
- Artillery ammunition
- GMLRS : artillery missile
- SMArt 155mm : search fuse ammunition for tubular artillery
- Ammunition against sea targets
- RBS15 : anti-ship missile
- Supercavitating underwater barrel (introduced in 2005, not developed to series production)
- Drop ammunition
- HOPE / HOSBO : Medium-range precision bombs (program status unclear as there has been no news in the press since 2008)
- Missiles against ground targets
- PARS 3 LR : Air-to-ground anti-tank missile for helicopters
- EUROSPIKE : anti-tank missile
- ARMIGER : missile to combat radar systems (program discontinued)
- Hand weapons
- Self-protection systems
- Directed Infrared Counter Measures : guided missile defense for aircraft
- Active Vehicle Protection System (AVePS): Self-protection system for land vehicles
- Air defense systems
- IRIS-T SLM : Modular air defense system short and medium range
- Training systems
- Flight profile recorder (FPR) for aircraft
- In-Flight Electronic Warfare Simulator (IFEWS): EloKa simulation system for aircraft
Diehl BGT Defense was the German cooperation partner of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems for the production and marketing of the Predator B on the German market.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ diehl-defence.de ( Memento from July 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ New subgroups Diehl Defense and Diehl Aerosystems . ( Memento of May 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Diehl Foundation press release of October 2, 2007; accessed on July 14, 2010
- ^ Defense business under one roof Press release from Diehl Defense GmbH & Co. KG dated February 1, 2017
- ↑ diehl-defence.de ( Memento from March 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (German, accessed on December 23, 2010, 2018 dead web link replaced with English information)
- ↑ Diehl enters into partnership with General Atomics . ( Memento from March 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: Wirtschaftswoche , October 15, 2004