Why So Many Nations Want New K9 Thunder Howitzer?

K9 Thunder has 2 improvement variants including K9A1 and K9A2. In regard to the K9A1, this variant is equipped with improvements such as automatic fire control system, driver’s night periscope, and auxiliary power system for enhanced efficiency. The improved K9A1 provides increased range, fast fire rate, and higher mobility during day and night times. Meanwhile, the other general versions also include the K9A2, an advanced variant of the K9 Howitzer, the UK’s Mobile Fire Platform programme that is aimed at upgrading artillery capabilities of the British Army.

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[terryfreeman]

Korea has grown in to a powerhouse. I was stationed there in '85. I miss Korea.

[MohammadAdliadlious]

Egypt recently got a license to manufacture the K9 thunder, very impressive artillery system.

[adisura]

India recently bought these under the name K9 Vajra. About a 100 are in service and further 200 more are planned to be ordered. They are being made locally in India with some India specific upgrades.

[GoogIe_UK]

World-class performance

Nearly half the price of the competition

5x faster production capacity than the competition

Proven reliable in cold frozen Finland
and hot desert Egypt

Still haven't bought?

[garrykim]

Maximum firing range 18 km (M107, HE)
30 km (M549A1, RAP/HE)
36 km (K310, BB/DP-ICM)
40 km (K307, BB/HE)
54 km (K315, BB+RAP/HE)

[amitbhau]

L&T mnc company of India was also produced 100 k9 and delivered to Indian army, there is additional orders of 200 k9 in the pipeline

[UltimateTruthChannel]

Korean here. Our winters are Siberian cold. Our summers are Vietnam hot and wet. We can survive anywhere in the world. So can our weapons. Always built with extreme four seasons in mind.

[jeffstrong]

S Korea has the largest modern artillery units in the world with 1040 K55, 1200 K9 and 850 K105A1 supported by 58 M270, 367 K239 and K136 MRL. S Korean army also has about 5, 000 105/155mm towed artillery and 6, 000 60/81/107/120mm mortars stocked with somewhere around 12-15 million rounds.

[divinewind]

South Korea also doesn’t involve themselves in the politics of the customer nation. One of the key reasons why India went for this machine.

[muneirovalibas]

I remembered in the early 2000s Nkorea launched a sudden short bombardment of a Skorean border town. Reports that I heard that the K9s immediately responded as counter-battery.
The NKoreans suspended almost just as quickly, with reports saying the K9s precision and SKorean obviously superior radar inflicting heavy casualties on the norther side.

[michael]

Im amazed at the reload vehicle frankly

[arsevengumush]

Turkey is producing a version of this artillery under licence. Currently they are trying local power unit with additional electronics to increased firing speed and range.

[ttrruaminpn]

Wow that shot of field full of SPH blasting together would be hell for receiving end. That field full of guns are more than what many country has in their entire military and South Korea has 3000 of them. Jeez

[BrianHSC]

Forgot one important feature. Fully air conditioned.

[kimmoj]

Why many are buying K9s? Because Finns bought them first, and have been happy with them. Just used the option to full 96. We Finns are THE reference customer to have. Purchases are made tightly within budget. We buy only actually working weapon systems. Performance, price and supplier nation reliability within sphere of free world are our only criteria.

[rustcohle]

Because Korea is one of the few countries in the arms market capable of building stuff in large numbers. Doesn't matter if western equivalents are better or not. They gutted their manufacturing abilities.

[donghwankim]

With the exception of Germany and France, all countries prefer K9s. From this, it can be inferred that there is not much difference between the quality and price of self-propelled guns in European countries.
If you want to play tanks, it is appropriate to buy German tanks, but if you want to win a war, you should buy Korean weapons.

[deniz_]

turkey produced 460 t 155 storms under license, and this year the new version of the storm 2 has started to enter the inventory and will most likely be produced until a total of 1000. Also, we used them actively in Syria, Iraq and Libya.

[Terry]

The k9 also has a time-on target system(TOT). This is to fire three shots at different angles and drop three shots at the same time.

[davidwood]

From David A. Wood: One should pay close attention when examining this admirably amazing, economic development. After the short, but brutally grinding Korean War (1950-1953), South Korea was a mortally depopulated, hugely damaged and mostly impoverished nation with very little heavy industry and only a meager amount of arable land, and as such, had to respectively import all of its military equipment and food supply from Western countries like the USA for decades. Now South Korea is not only the World's10th largest and thoroughly industrialized economy that is highly self-sufficient in supplying its national, nutrition needs, but the country is both comfortably affluent and extensively industrialized enough to do two things that are definite signs of an immensely wealthy and highly industrialized nation.That is, the South Koreans are alternately building home-made and first-rate military equipment for their vigilantly prepared and necessarily sizable armed forces on an appreciably large scale and actively selling the remainder, a lot of it, to friendly, foreign countries that are sufficiently able to pay for the South Korean-built, military equipment. This latter activity of bulk-sized, Military Arms Merchandising will eventually put fully-industrialized South Korea into direct competition with the hugely populated and monetarily wealthy country that is presently the World's No.#1 Arms Manufacturer/Arms Merchant, the USA, in the several years to come. Granted, it will be a long time from now, to be sure, but that time of the American Arms Industry having to ably compete with that of South Korea's is eventually going to come!