Rheinmetall

Rheinmetall appears in roughly 2 monitored articles per day as of October 3, 2026. Mentions are up 51.9% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages +0.94 — neutral-to-positive.

Rheinmetall AG is a German arms manufacturer, headquartered in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The group was promoted to the DAX, Germany's leading stock market index, in March 2023. It is the largest German and fifth-largest European arms manufacturer, and produces a variety of armored fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, in both wheeled and tracked versions. Furthermore, the company is one of the largest munitions manufacturers within NATO; it produces air defence systems and, since 2026, has also been building warships, including at the traditional Blohm+Voss shipyard. The company also manufactures loitering munitions. Through partnerships and joint ventures, it furthermore produces reconnaissance radar satellites and centre fuselage sections for the F-35 fighter jet. Its name is derived from the German-language words Rhein and Metall, translating to "Rhine-metal" when combined.

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Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
2
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+51.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
+0.94
neutral-to-positive

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Rheinmetall mentions per day: 90 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-10-030.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 3

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Rheinmetall coverage tone: 90 days, latest tone 0.94 on 2026-10-03+50-5Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 3

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Rheinmetall: 89 days, latest 514.00 on 2026-10-020.005001000Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 2

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).