NEW: Volkswagen is selling its Osnabrück plant to become an Iron Dome production hub.

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NEW: Volkswagen is selling its Osnabrück plant to become an Iron Dome production hub. A consortium of Lower Saxony, investor Aurelius, and Israel's Rafael will convert the factory into a defense center making transport trucks, launchers, and generators for the Iron Dome system. The deal was structured to bypass VW shareholder Qatar, which had blocked an earlier VW-Rafael joint venture. The plant currently builds T-Roc Cabriolets with 2,300 workers; car production ends in 2027. Still a let