German Army has awarded a contract to Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles (RMMV) for HX2 family logistics vehicles on 5 July. The $255 million contract covers an initial batch of 558 trucks to be delivered between 2018-2021.  The seven-year contract forsees the delivery of 339 five-tonne trucks and 219 15-tonne trucks starting in March next year. The new vehicles from the Rheinmetall HX2 family are set to replace the old KAT I generation of trucks made by MAN, some of which have been serving for forty years. 

The HX2 family comes in variants ranging from 4×4 to 10×10, configured for a multitude of different missions: cargo trucks and heavy-duty recovery vehicles, tankers and system platforms as well as folding-road and bridge-laying systems.