Logistic vehicles – American Rheinmetall

The HX CTT features Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) that are ubiquitous in keeping operators safe in today’s civilian environments and game changers in safety in the military environment including lane departure warning, adaptive speed controls and more that will become common and crucial on future battlefields. The HX CTT incorporates a new open systems electrical architecture that allows rapid integration of leader follower and autonomous capabilities that focus on protecting our most valuable combat asset – the soldier. An advanced, interchangeable protected cab design makes survivability for operators the ultimate premium.

The HX CTT is a new, next-generation variant of the globally successful HX family of military-off-the-shelf tactical trucks. It possesses an extremely high level of commonality and modularity across variants: cargo, load handling systems, tankers, and line haul tractors. With an HX family that can scale from 4x4 to 10x10, the HX can meet any military need. This common platform approach offers crucial benefits that enable a more reliable, more efficient, and ultimately, a more ready logistics truck fleet that can support the nation in crisis and in peace.

By leveraging commercial technologies from the global MAN product line, and those found in the GM Defense portfolio, the HX CTT will offer defense customers best-in-class advances in safety, fuel efficiency, and emissions reduction. Ruggedized for the stresses of military service, the HX family includes maximum commercial content that benefits from large, streamlined commercial supply chains as well as adoption of future modernized technologies for larger commercial fleets, but transferable more easily into an HX system. Leveraging commercial content helps reduce technological obsolescence while also lowering the costs of modernization, expanding parts availability, and reducing sustainment demands.

The HX family of trucks have been sold to 20 customers globally including an active Allied user group consisting of Germany, Australia, United Kingdom, Austria, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, creating common global supply chains, training opportunities and integrated operations among key allies operating around the world. If the Army adopts the next-generation HX CTT as their solution, soldiers will benefit from the newest, most advanced technology from day one from a truck already operated by key global partners. Such a scenario enables immediate global interoperability, a streamlined supply chain, modernization cost sharing, in addition to increased confidence among the U.S.’s most critical allies in an uncertain, unstable, and increasingly challenging security environment.

American Rheinmetall and GM Defense formed a strategic collaboration to compete in the U.S. Army’s Common Tactical Truck (CTT) program. They bring together two world-class engineering and manufacturing giants in an effort to deliver a modern tactical truck prototype that enhances soldier capability through advanced technology. Rheinmetall brings its long standing experience and success in the global tactical truck market, represented by their proven family of HX tactical trucks, including the recently unveiled next-generation HX model. GM Defense brings to the team the ability to leverage world-class manufacturing, engineering, and advanced commercial technologies from its parent company, General Motors (GM). Together, they are a formidable team that can provide the U.S. Army with the enhanced capabilities required for CTT.