By Gareth Jennings | 04 July 2025

加雷斯·詹宁斯|2025年7月4日

 

Rheinmetall is to build F-35 fuselages at new Weeze facility in Germany (Northrop Grumman)

莱茵金属公司将在德国新的韦策工厂制造F-35机身（诺斯罗普·格鲁曼公司）

 

Rheinmetall is to shortly begin building fuselage sections for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) at its newly completed Weeze production facility in Germany.

莱茵金属公司不久将在其位于德国的新落成的韦策生产设施开始为洛克希德·马丁公司的F-35闪电II联合攻击战斗机（JSF）制造机身部分。

 

Lockheed Martin announced the impending milestone on 3 July, saying that centre-fuselage production is to commence later in the month.

洛克希德·马丁公司于7月3日宣布了即将到来的里程碑，称中机身生产将于本月晚些时候开始。

 

The plant in the Kleve district of the North Rhine-Westphalia region is part of a wider industrial offset package for Germany following the country's decision to acquire 35 F-35A aircraft for the Luftwaffe.

于北莱茵-威斯特法伦州克莱夫区的工厂是德国决定为德国空军采购35架F-35A飞机后，德国更广泛的工业补偿计划的一部分。

 

“One of Europe's most modern factories in military aircraft construction has emerged on the Lower Rhine – in less than one-and-a-half years of construction time. In the future, up to 36 fuselage centre sections for the F-35 fighter jet will be manufactured here annually,” Rheinmetall said. It will turn out a total of at least 400 F-35A centre-fuselage sections for the wider international programme in all.

莱茵金属公司表示：“在不到一年半的时间里，欧洲最现代化的军用飞机制造工厂之一出现在下莱茵河。未来，每年将在这里生产多达36架F-35战斗机的机身中心部分。”。它将总共生产至少400架F-35A中机身，用于更广泛的国际项目。

 

Northrop Grumman, which is currently responsible for building centre-fuselage sections for the international F-35 programme, is to replicate its automated manufacturing technologies for the line in Weeze.

诺斯罗普·格鲁曼公司目前负责为国际F-35项目建造中央机身部分，该公司将为韦策的生产线复制其自动化制造技术。