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Just 3 days after uploading of this video, Indian army has confirmed acquiring additional 200 units of K9 after successful deployment in high mountain region of ladakh against China. All units will be manufactured locally in India by L&T.
More than 1300 K9 are paced and being operated in ROK. It's quality is proved by ROK in the field. Korea climate is very hot in summer and cold in winter.
Indian Army also recently selected the K-9 as it's primary tracked SPG. 155mm commonality with the already in service Bofors and M-777 towed/heli lifted guns must have been an important factor. Also the ability to function in mountain terrain against china must have been very important
while we have only One 155mm Howitzer , China has two models 155mm and a 152mm, not to mention numerous SPHs of 105mm and 122mm. while Indian army outnumber China in towed artillery but not in self propelled. If only we would be able to complete Bhim SPH.
I would suggest that the basic reason the K9 is so successful is that it was developed by and for a country that has a reasonable expectation of fighting a high intensity war within the service life of the K9. the quality followed that and the sales followed the quality.
how Incredible S. Korea is so small country which love freedom and democracy. but have heavy industry with world's most giant shipbuilding, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, digital speed, 6th military power with KF-21. and more S. Korea is a non-oil producing country but export many oil products following 1semiconductors, 2shipbuilding, 3cars.
The K9 has a crew of 3 actually. It has a auto loading system and also it has auto resupply unit called the k10 which made it more appealing while being cheaper than most units out there. Also licensing plus servicing is a bonus.
One of the main reason why Norway chose K9 over PH2000 is that during the winter testing, PH2000 engine failed to start up in the freezing cold morning, where as K9 engine started right up.
@@davidjacobs8558 Yes, K9 was the only vehicle that passed driving test, which includes turning the engine in the morning after super cold winter night.
It's a track system , so basically, it can go anywhere , offers better protection. The loading system is efficient and fast, also the ability to land 3 round simultaneously is another added feature. It has a good engine and good range. The armour can also be upgraded or added, so its a good artillery system over all. India made a good choice because this artillery unit can fight in Himalayas as well in the Plain of Rajasthan and beyond.
K9 offer better protection because the crew do not need to be exposed as the K10 Ammunition Resupply Vehicle feed the K9 with ammop automatically. What I heard, K9 is the very best there is today.
World-class performance Over 50% cheaper than the competition 5x faster production capacity than competitors Compatible with U.S. and NATO military standards No reason not to buy
German Pzh2000 is clearly an outstanding self-propelled gun. However, since the number of units currently in operation is small, problems arise in production and maintenance costs. On the other hand, Russian ones do not follow Western standards. And both Germany and Russia may have complex political and diplomatic problems in arms exports.
Indians bought these in large numbers and named it Vajra, now building it in India through private firm L&T. ...Indians are very clever ppl, they are also using few of disposed T54-55 tanks as matchbox artillary guns....what a use of decommissioned tanks guns as stationary Artillary on high mountains of Himalayas
I am former paladin crew now retired. The paladin and K9 thunder same capabilities with the exception of automation in which my M109A6 lacked and just plainly embarrassing. A 155mm shell are heavy and manually handling them and loading them is taxing especially firing multiple rounds mission. The K9 thunder automation to handle loading and firing a 155mm shell makes it seamless. There a difference of stupid and smart. The U.S. Army was just plain not smart on when the M109 A6 first came out. I crewd M109 A6/A5/A3 and M110 8 inch cannon self propelled finally 105 mm towed howitzer. When you have to pick up a full combat load to m109 A6 howitzer it is manually picked up and stowed along with it's charges and fuzes plus crew serve ammunitions. You will be exhausted. The thing about military enthusiast is you are just an enthusiast and never actually get to operate these weapons system and feel how difficult they are and also have to know what are you doing. I am empressed with the K9 thunder and I was stationed in Korea during military career and have seen it also was jealous. I like your videos and keep it up educating everyone.
Australia is more mountainous in some regions than most non-Australians believe, despite having nothing taller than 7310ft/2228m. It’s a big country with much variation, so a SPH that can do it all seems necessary. Also, countries where Australian forces have been deployed could have any type of terrain, as we’ve seen with the likes of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the mountainous terrain of our nearby neighbours in SE Asia. The tracked vehicle makes total sense with this in mind, as opposed to say Germany’s needs for a more focused vehicle for the plains.
To add more - German SPH is costlier. As China is Germany's largest foreign trade partner in terms of German export market, Germany may cause problems to halt or delay the parts supplies in future. This is already proven with evidences as Germany continues to halt or bans arms of German origins supplies to Ukraine in multiple times. It even forbade the States to supply the arms to Ukraine. Reason was - Nord stream Gas pipeline from Russia to Germany & to uphold Germany's plan to establish natural gas as an equivalent to low carbon emitting fuel resource.
@@YaMomsOyster I honestly don’t believe there will be a land attack against Australia. It’s just too far, too large and too well defended from the air and sea for any capable nation(you know who) to take without committing so many resources that they would have to leave themselves extremely vulnerable to attacks from our treaty partners. Having said that, who knows where the next operational deployment might be, and in what context? A do it all SPH does make total sense.
The capitals of the two Koreas are confronting each other with artillery because they are too close to the ceasefire line, and K9 is operating more than 1,000 units as one of the core of South Korean artillery forces. The northern part of South Korea, which is confronting North Korea, is a mountainous terrain, with temperatures ranging from 30 degrees Celsius in summer to minus 20 degrees Celsius in winter, and I think operating without problems for nearly a decade has had a significant impact on exports.
haha same here. Fırtına is advertised so much in Turkey. I have always thought it was fully indigenous. Now the battery powered version is about to come out. I wonder if it is Korean too.. The same goes for MBT and Fighter Jet. They all have Korean blueprints. At least we do alot of r&d, that makes me a bit happy. I wish they were a bit more transparent about these tech transfers and pay some respect to Korean brothers.
We did. A lot of components are license made however, L&T added their own part as well. For eg: Chasis is Korean but the internal firecontrol system is L&T. Also all the India specific enhancement are all done by L&T.
Korean Military: This weapon has to function in extreme temperatures between -20 to 35 degree celsius and in vast degree of climate including typhoons, snow, rain. The vehicle needs to mobilise over extreme mountainous ranges and be able to easily cross any creeks and rivers. We will pre-order 1000 units right away. Foreigner: Cool! Such an adoptive weapon! You must be developing this for global export! Korean Military: ?? No, it's for internal use.
The Indian military has modified the K9 to run from -50 to +50 degree celcius, which is the temperature in the Himalayas and the Thar desert respectively.
The main reason many are buying this is because South Korea is giving them out for a cheap price and also allowing technology transfer. This is something Turkey, Australia ,Poland and India want and what the Germand and other countries will never allow. K9 is actually little inferior to the German PzH 2000. The majority of the big countries that bought the K9 did it for the tech transfer and will probably never buy another SK artillery system. That is the truth. That is how India and Turkey operate.
and so they produce under license domestically. South Korea cannot meet demand by producing all orders domestically, lack of industrial capacity and manpower. so it is reasonable to offshore production under license. that is why south korea sells its products to strategic partners, like turkey, poland and australis, countries that are also favorite FDI countries to ROK.
The other 2 main factors is that there r only 3 tracked 52calibre 155m avail in e market. PZH 2000 is way more ex, AS90 is not NATO standard. So leaving only e K9. Also it is e only 1 with autoloader
@@DCTriv e AS90 started as a 39 calibre gun system. E 52 calibre version use a bi-modular charge tat fails to meet NATO insensitive munitions requirements & was in e end cancelled
@@sohmingjian Yeah, the AS90 is definitely an older platform so I can see why they would want to go for something newer in higher calibre but I wanted to clarify that it definitely still is NATO standard compatible.
That's what the K9A2 is, at least in terms of range. I wouldn't be surprised if ammunition carriage is increased as well due to the space freed up by the autoloader.
Rheinmetall currently develops a new 155 mm with significantly larger chamber and 60-calibre barrel. German DoD request is 75 km range, Rheinmetalls aims at 83 km. Gotta step it up.
@@jonny2954 They've probably already reached that (press release just says "more than 80 km") and that was with an unguided shell. Guided shells with (à la M982 Excalibur) could easily reach past 100 km.
Ukraine war proved that artillery is still king of the battle. Foreign volunteer fighters in Ukraine are complaining that they never see Russian soldiers just Russian shelling from their artillery killing from far distance. S Korea is equipped with 3000 SP artillery (K9, K55 and K105HT), 5000 105/155mm towed artillery, 6000 60/81/107/120mm mortars and 570 MRL(360 K239, 58 M270 and 156 K136) seating on 12 million rounds (during WW2, total of 11 million rounds were used) enough to deal with Chinese army :)-
@@razgriss5882 South korean army got trauma from Korean war. They did not have any tank and have only 95 unit of 105mm howitzers in the beginning of war. This trauma made south korean army focused on fire power.
"US was so generous in building Korean military infrastructure" is big mistake. Koreans fought with the US in Vietnam, which proved its worthy as an alliance member. The US did not support nor like about Koreans making its own weapons prior to 1970s.
well, everyone has to earn their respect, there is no free lunch. Question is did the US meet up to its end of bargain and I think they did. that's why the alliance between ROK and US is rock solid.
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Simple the foundation strong engough. South Korean Army maintain over 1,200 units of K9 SPG are in service. And they are going to upgrade like a K9A1, K9A2 even K9A3
Germany is not a mountainous terrain ? News to me. It's flat in the north and north west and east, the centre however mountainous and lots of hills, south has the Alps. Australia has number of mountain ranges going from the south to the north and a full alpine region in the south east.
Germany does not expect an invasion from Austria, Switzerland or France. Yet, South Korea is preparing for a possible war on its mountainous northern border.
@@habahan4257 well true, however stating Germany is not mountainous is wrong, same with Australia. Also if you consider a potential attack from Russia, than only the north east is flat.
@@jantschierschky3461 You are wrong. Germany and Australia is definetly not mountainous relative to the countries he mentioned. Just because you have mountains don't mean the country is mountainous. 70% of land in Korea is moutain terrain, Norway 90%, Turkey 80% and India ~30% which is still twice of Germany(~15%) in land percentage. India is also significantly larger than Germany. Other than Australia, all of the purchasers have significantly more mountainous terrain than Germany.
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Only first 3 minutes = 24 rounds, then barrel cool down will reduce the firing rate for sustain. Even considering that the ammo will get empty fast, but you keep feed it with K10.
You gotta move anyway at that point to avoid counterattack. There are several MOS in any military just to track the location of enemy artillery by looking at the shot placement.
Good work: in this instance--& in my view as usual--WeaDet has provided clear, unfussy, suitably particular analyses of broadly tactical, & logistic parameters alike, marred just slightly by small errors in English; e. g., more range (distance) may be correctly termed, long(er), great(er), added, enhanced, extended or increased, but NOT high(er) or large(r) as I think I recall your video... In the future, if u'd deploy text editor(s) as good as those u've regularly used for film & war, ure videos would improve correspondingly!. Of course, the wild cards here may be points of view! I could be just as blind to military & cinematic errors u're making as to the English errors I'm aware of but be, myself, too unknowingly ignorant of film & war to see them... Meanwhile, in order for Weapons Detective to find a better text editor, your (WD's) own core English competence would have to improve enuf to recognize the errors u probably wouldn't make if u could see them well enuf to vet a better text editor whom, in that case, you probably wouldn't need.
S. Korea sells a supersonic FA50 air fighter. It is a 21st century version of F16 with 1/3 operation expences and more advanced electronic control system than F16. Last year S. Korean president Mr. Moon was on board the FA50 and aviated in front of many buyers from all over the worl to show up its safty. FA50 is easy to operate and very safe. Soon, S. Korea will show a KF21 or a baby F22 air fighter with very attractive price.
Just cheeper??? You especilly emphasize on the term,Cheeper.You Indian dont ignore how hard Korean have made its tearful efforts in the process of develop and produce it.Cheep Indoan And other developing nations peoples always try to down the abruptly risen South Korea.Watch up your country level,please.
south korea also has poltical issues espically with aircraft and naval technology, they are very reluctant to supply large amounts of certain systems to other coutnries.
Develoing countries must follow and learn the ways and technologies South Korea has accumulated and developed many hi end goods,without mouthes and cheap judgements.They have to experience how hard and tearful its efforts have been. Dont put mouth before you try it.
I didn't get it with what this K9 is better than the german's PzH 2000 Howitzer . Maybe less expensive . Then the Russian Howitzer would be less expensive
PzH2000 is a brilliant platform developed over 30 years ago. No major upgrade since and only less than 400 produced. Maintenance and spare parts are difficult at best. K9 had 2 minor upgrades and 2 major upgrades, K9A2 just passed operational readiness test end 2021 with full autoloading (unmanned turret). There are 1,700 units in operation with more to come as they develop their own power pack to bypass German export restrictions. Maintenance and spare parts are readily available with reasonable cost and deliveries. A military system requires constant maintenance and that costs more than the system at acquisition. Also the whole purpose of the system is to be utilised at moments notice. No military can afford to have a system out of action for 6-18 months. If the Eurofighter saga is anything to learn from, European produced systems are extremely high cost to maintain and time consuming to acquire necessary parts. There are plenty of comments re cost effectiveness of K9 at acquisition but the true strength is operational readiness. RoK have operational readiness close to 90%. ie apart from regular scheduled overhaul, no real outage from ca 1,000 units they use. On top, new upgrades come in all shapes and sizes. The producer does not see the upgrades requests as nuisance as some European or American or even Russian developers, they see it as a paid opportunity to develop and refine the system. The delivery of K9A2 is scheduled for 2024/2025 (to coincide with the retirement of old artilleries), and K9A3 development is from 2023. We will see how things will pan out with new competitions coming from US, Russia and Europe. But unless those developers change their customer care philosophy, the Koreans will remain a formidably competitors for them.
@@hishot1078 tom eng is trolling you, the Archer never reached any export market XD The Archer howitzer is an excellent piece of kit but way too expensive and too complex for a weeled howitzer
