• Rheinmetall secured additional Schakal armored vehicle orders valued in the mid-hundreds of millions of euros.
• OCCAR awarded the contract to Artec, ordering 35 vehicles for Germany and 34 for the Netherlands.
• Deliveries are scheduled between May 2032 and November 2033.
• The option exercise raises total orders to 291 vehicles from the 222 contracted in October 2025.
• Germany’s parliamentary budget committee cleared the first option exercise on June 24, 2026; the original contract allows up to 200 additional vehicles.

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