Mercedes-Benz Trucks with armored driver's cabin from the factory

Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks is expanding its product range and will offer the Zetros truck series with a protected driver's cabin from the factory in the future. The three-axle, all-wheel-drive Zetros (6x6) is now available as a protected complete vehicle, with additional vehicle variants of the Zetros series ranging from the two-axle 4x4 to the four-axle 8x8 to be gradually produced with protection at the truck factory in Wörth starting from 2025. A Zetros 6x6 with a protected cabin from Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks will be seen for the first time at the Eurosatory exhibition in Paris from June 17 to 21, 2024.

Armored off-road vehicles from a single source

The protected driver's cabin offers the crew protection against gunfire, mines, and explosive devices without compromising the vehicle's off-road capabilities. Previously, vehicles manufactured in Wörth were typically equipped with an armored driver's cabin by partner companies before delivery to customers. Project-specifically, Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks will now mount the protected cabin on the 2nd generation Zetros itself. Rheinmetall is the development partner and supplier of the cabin.

The Zetros truck for military logistics and support tasks, as a cab-over-engine vehicle, offers a structural concept advantage for protected cabins: the cabin is located behind the front axle, so the weight of the cab does not fully load the front axle, but is distributed proportionally to the rear axle(s) as well. This way, the front axle is not overloaded even by the heavy armor and rough shocks in rough terrain.

In the protected cabin, up to three people can sit on air-sprung seats with four-point seat belts. The one-piece, large windshield provides a wide field of view. Variable mounting points on the cabin can be used for additional equipment elements. Furthermore, the protected cabin and the unprotected variant use as many identical components as possible to facilitate spare parts availability and repairs, and to increase interchangeability in mixed fleets.

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