The expansion of the Rheinmetall plant in Unterlüß was completed with great fanfare on February 12. With the symbolic ground-breaking ceremony, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger sent out important signals after the EU clearly missed its delivery target of one million artillery shells for Ukraine by March 2024.