In April 1933, Rheinmetall bought the locomotive manufacturer Borsig, which was about to be liquidated, and thus came into possession of a large factory in Berlin-Tegel. This led to Rheinmetall being renamed Rheinmetall-Borsig AG in 1936.

The Rheinmetall-Borsig MK 103 ("MK" - Maschinenkanone) was a German 30 mm caliber autocannon that was mounted in German combat aircraft during World War II. Intended to be a dual purpose weapon for anti-tank and air-to-air fighting, it was developed from the MK 101.

Sep 6, 2017 · 15 cm sFH 43 Selbstfahrlafette Rheinmetall-Borsig (Drawing Copyright Hilary Louis Doyle) On January 7th, 1943, Rheinmetall produced three more designs. In reality, these were the same vehicle, but with different armaments.

The self-propelled mortar Karl (“Karl-Device) built by Rheinmetall-Borsig was just one further example of his megalomania. Similar to Krupp’s super-heavy howitzer Big Bertha (Dicke Bertha) from World War I, Karl fired 40mm rounds against the fortress at Sevastopol in Crimea.

Mass deployment of German and foreign forced labourers in all the factories of factories of Rheinmetall-Borsig AG

Rheintochter was a German surface-to-air missile developed by Rheinmetall-Borsig [1] during World War II. Its name comes from the mythical Rheintöchter (Rhinemaidens) of Richard Wagner's opera series Der Ring des Nibelungen. The missile was a …

Zwischen 1944 und 1945 übernahm Rheinmetall-Borsig die Trägerschaft der Ausländerkinder-Pflegestätte in Unterlüß, die zugleich ein Entbindungsheim für Zwangsarbeiterinnen war, wie auch eine Tötungsstätte für deren Kinder. [16] Zeitweilig waren in Unterlüß auch ungarische Jüdinnen aus einem Außenlager des KZ Bergen-Belsen eingesetzt.

Rheinmetall-Borsig was involved in the occupation policy in countries such as the Netherlands, France and Poland by taking over operating facilities. This also included the mass use of forced laborers, both of deported people from the countries occupied by the Wehrmacht in Western and Eastern Europe and of prisoners of war, especially from the ...

The Rheinmetall Borsig Waffentrager is a tier 8 German tank destroyer that features a 150mm gun that can deal over 700 damage with just one shot. The first armament available on the vehicle is the 128mm that the tank had in real life, but the 150mm is much more popular.

From the middle of the 1930s, Rheinmetall-Borsig, as with many other industrial enterprises at the time, developed and produced weapons and munitions in response to orders from the Reich War...