The Polish army successfully closes 1 of the stages of the modernization of artillery. The latest transportation of K9 Thunder self-propelled Haubics to the 1st Mazurian Artillery Brigade marks the execution of the 2022 contract for 212 guns. It will not take long for another contract to be implemented. Preparations are already underway for the start of next year's deliveries of the Polishized version of K9PL.
Artists from 1 The Mazury Artillery Brigade of the 16th Mechanized Division Less than a period ago, they picked up the party. South Korean self-propelled Haubic K9. In the meantime, more copies have already arrived in Węgorzew. Paweł Bejda, Deputy Minister of defence on platform X, informed about this. As he wrote, the latest transportation marks the conclusion of the executive contract of 2022 to get 212 haubic.
Prior to the conclusion of that implementing agreement, the Armed Forces Agency signed Framework agreement, which assumes the transportation of 672 haubic K9A1 to the Polish army and the division in the Polish version of K9PL. The contract besides included accompanying vehicles (ammunition, command), training and logistics package, ammunition supply and method support from the manufacturer.
Michał Karwacki, K9 task manager at Hanwha Aerospace Europe, announced at this year's global Defence manufacture Salon in Kielce that the K2PL version of the haubic supply would start next year. That's the second effect. Executive Agreement of December 2023 for the acquisition of 152 division K9 (of which 146 in the K9PL version).
Korean Haubica K9 Thunder is equipped with a 155 mm cannon and device guns cal. 12.7 mm. The cannon can harm targets up to 40 km away, and the vehicle itself has an operational scope of 480 km and can travel at 67 km/h. The drive is simply a 1000 hp diesel engine with automatic transmission. The weight of the drum is 47 tons.
K9 Thunder version A1 is operated by 5 people: commander, cannon, cargo, cargo attendant and driver. K9PL will have a conventional charging system, but at this year's arms fair in Kielce Hanwha company presented the K9A2 model with automatic charging system. This increases the velocity of fire and allows to reduce the number of soldiers in the crew to three.
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