GMV Makes Further Progress on Developing Europe’s Artillery Munitions of the Future

At the end of 2025, GMV hosted the first general assembly (GA) meeting for the FIRES2 project (Future Indirect fiRes European Solution 2), at the company’s headquarters in the city of Tres Cantos near Madrid. This is a project supported by the European Defence Fund (EDF), and during the two-day meeting, the consortium’s members reviewed the progress made on the project during its first year, and laid out its roadmap for the next two years.

In addition to the general assembly meeting, specialized workshops were held to review the concepts of operation, functional architectures, and system requirements, to establish a baseline that will guide the ongoing design work for the various subsystems. GMV is playing a key role in the project, as the design authority for the rocket artillery system and leader for the guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) subsystem, with the priority of improving accuracy in GNSS degraded and electronic warfare environments.

The FIRES2 project has a duration of 36 months, and it is built upon the work completed during the FIRES1 project, which was part of the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP). The overall aim is to make further progress on designing Europe’s future artillery munitions, including prototyping and testing of key elements such as the seeker, GNC, and propulsion subsystems.

The FIRES2 consortium is made up of 21 companies from 13 different countries, and its members gave GMV a very positive appraisal for its organization of this latest event. They also agreed to continue with the current collaboration dynamic by holding another workshop in the near future, as well as having a meeting with the panel of experts and end users from the participating member countries, to present them with the design decisions adopted.