German arms manufacturers have the opportunity to benefit from the increasing number of international crisis areas, writes the German printed Edition. "the most important thing in Eastern Europe and in the countries-members of NATO, we registered a specific interest in the acquisition of military equipment or to its modernization ", - quotes the print Edition of the CEO of arms manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann Frank Hawn. the journal emphasizes that the head of the firm does Not call volumes and the number of projected applications of these areas. Experts in the field of weapons, for their part, believe that the demand for Western military equipment to the Ukrainian, Lithuanian and Croatian armies will only increase. according to the newspaper data, the Polish army is now considering the possibility 130 modernization of Leopard tanks, and equipped with weapons forces of Lithuania consider purchasing self-propelled howitzers of the German production. in each case, the benefit of new deals could get a Firm Krauss-Maffei Wegmann or her competitors Rheinmetall. A few weeks ago Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and the French company Nexter has completed the process of merger. In the end, the merger, the Company became the leading manufacturer of weapons in the European Union with a staff of nearly six thousand employees and a turnover of 2 billion euros, and considering some of the trend on the reduction of national budgets on defense, both companies suggest to strengthen its place in the global market. "If the new Union in cooperation with the firm Nexter, as planned, will start work in 2016, in the medium term even possible to imagine that the new Duo will join other manufacturers tanks from Italy or from the UK," emphasizes FAZ. No closed doors and for the German company Rheinmetall, associated with Krauss-Maffei Wegmann work on joint projects - the production of light wheeled APC Boxer and Puma armored car.