DREHTAINER - Protective Solutions for Infrastructure and Vehicles

Since 1982 DREHTAINER has been concentrating on the development and manufacture of special containers and vehicles in the fields of defence and nuclear technology as well as on industrial applications.

The aspect of protection is hereby in the focus of our work. For us, it is this aspect that makes the difference to traditional developments. To satisfy our ambitions, we are closely cooperating with classification societies, perform blast impact and shelling tests in national and international test facilities and use our internal DREHTAINER test centre to permanently advance our products.

Thanks to the supreme protection level (up to STANAG 2280 Level C5) of our defence-technological solutions the lives of numerous soldiers could already be saved in several cases of hostile attacks in Afghanistan.

Camp protection

DREHTAINER has delivered more than 3.500 containers to the Bundeswehr on the Balkans and over 2.500 protected containers to the armed forces of Germany, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands while complying with the high standards of STANAG 2280.

Protection will either be integrated into the containers or may be provided adaptively. This makes it possible to provide a higher protection level to non-protected or only slightly protected buildings. The modular camp concept of DREHTAINER enables the construction of buildings of varying sizes that may provide diverse functionalities such as accommodations, dining rooms, command posts or medical facilities.

DREHTAINER has already constructed several double-storey buildings that comply with the highest protection requirements. This has given the opportunity to accommodate under supreme protection a higher number of soldiers even in small camps.

DREHTAINER employs its own staff to establish these buildings all over the world, thereby guaranteeing DREHTAINER's high standard of quality.

Watch tower

The DREHTAINER watch tower is used for surveillance and protection purposes, and favoured for camps and military installations with limited access. The 10ft watch tower can be mounted on top of another container. Two 10ft watch towers can be coupled to reach the 20ft ISO dimensions for transport. On the roof top Remote Controlled Weapon Station or surveillance equipment can be installed.

Command posts

In the past years, DREHTAINER has implemented numerous projects in the development of containers for command post solutions. Here DREHTAINER does not only meet the special requirements of anti-ballistic or blast impact protection but particularly the technical specifications for HF attenuation of shielding, antenna technology, integration of server systems and the required matching air conditioning technology. So DREHTAINER is able to develop containers that can be used for different functions. Relevant examples include EW systems, Ground Control Elements for UAV, mobile command and control systems for headquarters at division or corps level and containers for fire control systems.

Among others, DREHTAINER has produced protected special containers for:

• EW systems
• The mobile CCIS of the German Air Force
• C-RAM MANTIS
• MP stations

Mobile solutions

For the Modular Flexible Drive (MFD) project study DREHTAINER has developed four sub-concepts to be integrated individually or as a whole in the form of installation kits onto or into vehicles. The sliding frame allows docking of up to five truck-mounted containers in order to provide large rooms.

The vehicles stop side-by-side and align the containers using the docking frames into a position where they interconnect. In the resulting large space, applications such as command posts, medical facilites or other functionalities may be integrated. The developed protected driver cabins provide not only protection alone but also the necessary space to transport the working staff for the containers.

Zero Shock® System

Against the threat by mines and IEDs DREHTAINER has developed the so-called Zero Shock® System which counters this threat effectively by not just damping but completely decoupling from shock and blast effects. Its unprecedented performance could be proved in several test series run by German and international defence-technological institutes. Shock and blast effects in the interior of the vehicles could be minimised down to zero. This can also be integrated in the dockable containers or the driver cabins. This future-proof system can also be retrofitted into almost every existing vehicle make.