FRANKFURT, Aug 27 (Reuters) - U.S. defence contractor

Lockheed Martin ( LMT ) is seeking to have German peer

Rheinmetall manufacture missiles including ATACMS and

Hellfire types in Germany, business magazine WirtschaftsWoche

cited a Lockheed executive as saying.

"We are already actively discussing additional manufacturing

- including for ATACMS and Hellfire missiles," Lockheed's Europe

head Dennis Goege told WirtschaftsWoche, adding that it would

take place at Rheinmetall's expanding Unterluess site in

northern Germany.

The two companies

said

in April they would expand their

cooperation

beyond a memorandum of understanding signed in 2024, with

the U.S. group providing missile and rocket technology and

Rheinmetall manufacturing and selling missiles in Europe.

Goege also told the magazine that the final list of

missiles had yet to be determined.

Rheinmetall, which this year started making fuselage

parts for Lockheed's F-35 fighter jets, was not immediately

available for comment.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is scheduled to visit

the Unterluess site later on Wednesday, together with German

Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and Vice Chancellor Lars

Klingbeil, to attend the opening of an artillery production

line.

(Reporting by Ludwig Burger, editing by Thomas Seythal)