German Army to receive additional batch of Future Soldier C2 systems

German Army to receive additional batch of Future Soldier C2 systems

Rheinmetall is to expand delivering its latest dismounted Future Soldier command-and-control (C2) system to the German Army.

2aec586e ab19 4fda 8c0f e16c7c219962 1As per a company announcement on 26 January, the German Bundeswehr has contracted Rheinmetall to deliver its ‘Infantryman of the Future – Extended System’ (Infanterist der Zukunft: IdZ-ES) to soldiers.

Fourteen ‘IdZ-ES’ “platoon systems”, comprising 476 systems in total will be delivered to individual soldiers, the announcement said.

Valued in the mid-double-digit million euro range, the contract was placed in December 2022 after Germany’s Bundestag approved a EUR100 billion (USD108 billion) defence fund, the announcement added.

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