Trucks are one of the basic requirements of mobile operations of the armed forces. The supply of bulk and individual consumer goods as well as spare parts and, to an increasing extent, the provision of function carriers to the place of use is unthinkable without trucks. The safe and sustained operation of combat vehicles, aircraft and ships depends on the support of trucks.
In its concept for land mobility in the fields of protection, automation, functionality and fuel resilience, the Bundeswehr has made qualitative specifications and determined the overall scope for the different vehicle classes with payloads between 0.5 tons and 100 tons. The vehicles are provided in two categories: commercial trucks, which the mobility service provider of the Bundeswehr, BwFuhrParkservice GmbH (BwFPS), makes available for long-term or temporary rental, and militarized trucks, which are procured by the Bundeswehr itself. The different channels complement each other in order to realize the necessary procurement volumes of trucks.
Commercially available trucks – configured according to the requirements of the Bundeswehr – are procured by the BwFPS in coordination with the Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Bundeswehr. If military adjustments are necessary to a limited extent (e.g. weapon and equipment mounts, paint, hardening for off-road use), the vehicles are designated as commercially available with special military equipment (hümS).
In principle, it should be possible to register these vehicles without making use of special permits according to § 70 (4) StVZO. This will enable the trucks to be resold on the civilian European market after the Bundeswehr-specific replacement date has been reached.
For the land mobility system, the Bundeswehr has determined the conceptual need for wheeled vehicles for the capability profile by 2027 with around 67,000 vehicles.
This includes 16,500 trucks with protected and 16,000 trucks with unprotected driver's cabs in the operational and supply responsibility of the armed forces/military organizational areas. These vehicles are listed in the material target of the departments and are therefore considered "number-based". The associated procurement projects are presented in detail below. Of the commercial vehicles in the operational and supply responsibility of the BwFPS, 8,400 hümS and 7,300 hü trucks are also managed based on the number of units.
18,800 commercial trucks are procured in order to meet the specific mobility needs of the troops, which cannot be met with agency-specific vehicles.
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