For 125 years, the Volkswagen plant in Osnabrück, Germany, built cars. Soon it may build the guts of Israel’s Iron Dome instead. The quiet handover reveals just how thoroughly Europe’s industrial base is being repurposed for war. Volkswagen has agreed to sell its Osnabrück factory to an Israeli-led investment group, with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, the state-owned firm behind Iron Dome, lined up as the plant’s first anchor tenant. What looks on paper like a routine corporate restructuring is, in substance, the conversion of a civilian manufacturing hub into a foreign military production node on German soil, and it fits…
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