The Rheinmetall MAN Army Autos success story continues. At a ceremony in Munich, Michael Wittlinger, Chairman of the Administration Board of Rheinmetall MAN Army Autos GmbH, and Armin Papperger, Chairman of the Govt Board of Rheinmetall AG, along with the Head of the Land Assist Division of the German federal procurement authority Bundesamt für Ausrüstung, Informationstechnik und Nutzung der Bundeswehr (BAAINBw), First Director on the BAAINBw Jan Gesau, formally handed over the important thing for the brand new technology of palletized load-handling system to the German Armed Forces – represented by the Commander of the Bundeswehr Logistics Command and Normal Bundeswehr Logistics, Main Normal Gerald Funke, Brigadier Normal Frank Schmitz, Head of the Planning Division on the Joint Assist Service Command and Brigadier Normal Dr. Thomas Czirwitzky as consultant of the German Military Workplace.
A big share of the Bundeswehr’s WLS vans characteristic a protected cabin. The protected WLS will considerably improve the survivability, sustainment functionality and tactical flexibility of the logistic formations of the German Federal Armed Forces.An additional trigger for celebration was the supply of the three,000th Unprotected Transport Car, or UTF. The truth that the logistics automobiles are a showcase undertaking through which politics, the armed forces and trade work collectively efficiently was additionally expressed by the presence of different high-ranking guests from politics, the Bundeswehr and companion firms. Amongst others, the Bavarian State Minister of the Inside, Joachim Herrmann, the Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee of the German Bundestag, Henning Otte, in addition to Karsten Klein MdB, Chairman of the Price range Committee, and Bernhard Loos MdB from the Financial Committee took half within the ceremony.
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In June 2020 the Bundeswehr entered a framework settlement with Rheinmetall MAN Army Car Methods (RMMV) for the provision of as much as 4,000 palletized load-handling programs. The framework settlement runs till 2027. Recognized in German as “Wechselladersysteme”, or WLS, these palletized load-handling programs are mounted on RMMV’s profitable household of HX navy vans guaranteeing excessive commonality to the already fielded Unprotected Transport Autos, or UTFs. The prime characteristic of the WLS is the hook loader, developed by the Hiab firm. Which means that the flatracks in use with the Bundeswehr could be picked up and set down on nearly any terrain with out the necessity for extra dealing with gear. Alternatively, the automobiles can even transport an interchangeable flatbed or a container through the standardised 20-foot ISO interfaces.
The WLS is a critically necessary element of NATO’s Very Excessive Joint Readiness Job Power VJTF 2023, which the Bundeswehr will likely be furnishing. In March of this 12 months, instruction started for navy drivers within the first protected WLS. For a number of years now, the Unprotected Transport Car household has been contributing to the operational effectiveness of the German Bundeswehr’s logistic formations. In July 2017 the Bundeswehr contracted with Rheinmetall MAN to provide its new “UTF mil gl in den Zuladungsklassen 5t und 15t” household of unprotected vans able to carrying payloads of 5 and 15 tonnes.
“The UTF is a showpiece undertaking that paved the best way for brand new procurement strategies,” says Michael Wittlinger. “It was the primary large-volume versatile framework settlement. Financed by the German authorities’s pandemic restoration bundle, extra automobiles have been called-off and delivered. By the start of Could, 3,000 automobiles had been transferred to the client – nearly a thousand greater than envisaged within the authentic framework settlement for supply by 2024. RMMV is subsequently effectively forward of schedule on this undertaking.”
Armin Papperger additionally emphasised the excessive significance of the WLS and UTF for the corporate in his speech. “Each tasks from the sphere of logistics automobiles are carefully interwoven, not solely from a technical standpoint. They’re amongst our lighthouse tasks. WLS and UTF present how defence programmes could be carried out in exemplary style. This success is the results of shut cooperation constructed on mutual belief between the German parliament, the armed forces and the defence trade – for which nice thanks are because of all these concerned!”
A big portion of the worth added within the WLS and UTF tasks – over 75 % – is generated in Germany. In shut coordination with the Bundeswehr, RMMV has boosted its UTF capability to 1,000 automobiles per 12 months. In opposition to the background that logistical transport capacities are more likely to improve additional and extra automobiles will likely be wanted, the manufacturing capability for the Bundeswehr will likely be additional expanded. RMMV can also be transferring to vastly improve supply capability for WLS vans. Rheinmetall MAN thus stays a robust, environment friendly and dependable companion of the Bundeswehr, able to assembly its supply commitments even underneath extraordinarily tough circumstances, as demonstrated through the coronavirus pandemic and the Ukraine disaster.
Each the WLS and UTF are based mostly on RMMV’s sturdy HX car household. Designed for navy use proper from the beginning, they show excellent mobility even in powerful terrain. The broad distribution of the HX car household all over the world brings main benefits in the case of interoperability and logistics. Amongst different international locations, the circle of person nations now contains the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Hungary and Denmark. In cooperation with the armed forces of Germany and different companion nations, RMMV is raring to write down new chapters within the success story surrounding the corporate’s tried-and-tested HX automobiles.
