On 5 December 2018, representatives of the Federal Agency for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Federal Armed Forces (BAAINBw) and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG (KMW) signed the contract to convert 18 more rocket launchers M270 MARS in MARS II. A first batch had already been converted in 2013. The budget allocated for this second wave of conversions is about 18 million €.
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Firing of rockets by a MARS II (Picture source: Bundeswehr)
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