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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 :)-
"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.
@@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.
K9 A4 155 59 kalibre topu tamamen otomatik olarak ateş ediyor insansız savaş kulesini entegre ettim 35mm 8 namlulu 35mm stamp entegre ettim etkili mevzil 140km azmi mevzil 250km
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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Egypt just became the 9th country to adapt K-9.
and now Romania no.10 country to adapt K9 Thunder
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.
I heard that this new batch has new version of engine, customized for high altitude environment.
@@kapfazo And new version of FCS also, the FCS optimized for high altitude air pressure that maximize its targetting and accuracy
@@kapfazo What will they do with the engine? It is still the MTU. Maybe some tunings?
@@hishot1078 It's very high altitude, means lack of oxygen. I believe they must have installed a turbo charger on the engine
@@hishot1078 Maybe yes. More boost expected at least
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.
Precisely. That type of urgency just can't be duplicated. It has to be real.
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.
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.
No, only after A2 it will be operated by 2 or 3
Not yet
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.
여름엔 진짜 존나덥고 , 겨울엔 존나게 춥다 ,,그래서 무기 테스트하기엔 좋다 😢
Indian Army is extremely happy with its K9 fleet and might order more for mountainous operation against China
Just heard from IDU that 200 more K-9 will be ordered by India, probably via license agreement, as for the first 100.
10 of K9 crashed 36 of wheeled artillery as Caesar against Pakistan. Good~!!!
중국좀 상대해주셈.
북한상대하고 있을께
K9 is currently the world's best-selling self-propelled gun, but it is gradually evolving
A very good and detailed overview of the K9 Thunder SPH Platform.
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.
I was told in army that K9 was also far easier to train conscripts with compared to PH2000
Because korea has conscription but germany no longer has conscription
Well at the time of the PzH2000 got into the army it hat full conscription.
if it is easier to train conscript, then that's what you exactly need for full scale war.
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.
Egypte is on board.. so now they are on 4 continents.
3:30 - also: K9 chassis has been adopted as rescue plan for Polish SPH "Krab".
plus tech transfer for future Polish vehicles
@@hishot1078 Krab - so many problems. Poland decided to import Genuine K9 from Korea. K-9 needs K-10, Krab can't be connected with K10.
Wonderful video with detailed explanation to understand the weapon
Korean love their K like American love their M
K for Korea and M for Murica so it makes sense
@@minggus9649 😂 finally, i got the answer
@@PSP-lr7ms for me it is, MERICA
Very objective, very nice video. thank you for sharing!
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.
Yeah but how much time will it spend in the mountains of Australia if an attack came from the north?
But all the same I like the chose.
@@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.
Inbred been all over Australia as an Australian, I'm pretty sure it's only a few feet above sea level...
@@soundknight don’t tell me they’ve bulldozed the Snowy Mountains since I was last there! And the Blue Mountains… And the Atherton Tablelands…
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.
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.
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
Great and detailed video, thank you.
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.
K9 reportedly deployed on Line of actual control facing China.
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.
The restriction of Germany also applies on South Korea since it uses same engine.
Put this k9 turret on t90 like MSTA
India : sweat in confuse
@@hishot1078 No problem for South Korea, they have alternate Doosan Engine & S&T Transmission.
@@BlackHawkTejas they started own engine not so long ago, and it will be co-dev with UK
@@hishot1078 What? They have the SoKo PowerPack ready!
Thank you for this good contents. Just one thing to correct is the manufacturer of K9 is Hanwha Defense, not Hanwha Techwin.
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Poland has become the latest customer of the K9
Great video ! Please make one on the RCH 155 Boxer variant! !!
Egypt government confirmed purchasing of k-9 10 and 11 package
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
india ordered 200 more few days back
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.
21st century high-tech luxury self-propelled howitzer K-9 THUNDER
S. Korea should make an upgraded K-9 SPH that matches the German PzH's range & ammunition carriage capacity.
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 WoW!
@@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.
@@jonny2954 Korea is going for either 58 caliber or 60 caliber for A3.
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
I thought the AS90 is compatible with all standard NATO 155 mm ammunition. How is it not NATO standard?
@@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 As the bi-modular charge was cancelled and the AS90 still uses the L31 39 calibre gun it currently meets NATO standard.
@@DCTriv e 39 calibre AS90 is NATO standard, but countires r now looking for 52 calibre SPG, 30km vs 40km rng with ERBB rds is a lot of diff.
@@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.
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.
Also, in case of war with NK, SK can easily get replacement parts from those countries.
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When India got K-9, I thought we had made it on our own.
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.
@@libshastra I meant a fully indeginous design.
@@Abdullah-mn6sw drdo atags...that is totally indigenous.
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❤Amazing Video! Thanx!
Can they increase its shooting range?
Everybody want their own SPH drift.
Can you do a review on Firtina II? Based on the video available on TH-cam, the automatic feeding mechanism is VERY different from K9A2.
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
Good analysis. Also, Fırtına has no direct fire capability, different from the K9.
I think he said only one export variant of K9 has direct fire ability.
@@ardaarsen Wikipedia says that the Korean version also has direct fire capability, but I'm not sure
I am sure have direct fire capability, however you really don't want your artillery going direct conflict.
@@habahan4257 Koreans train direct firing, but Korean K9 don't have equipment until A2 variant while India and Norway already have.
Turkey also trains direct firing, but without gunner's sight, similar to South Korea, but Korea has more situational awareness from commander's sight.
Also, Koreans are more flexible to provide technology transfer
I wonder if the (South) Korean's would export the K 9 ( or one of the variants ) to Israel
@@prasadchaturdesale5795 WRONG !!!, The IDF uses M109A2's SPH's when hitting hezbollah rocket and missile sites over the Lebanese border
@@prasadchaturdesale5795 Israel is not small.
@@prasadchaturdesale5795 in comparison to India, however if you would walk the length, you will notice it's not so small
@@prasadchaturdesale5795 is a conscripted army, maybe you should inform yourself before commenting.
@@prasadchaturdesale5795 never said they not well trained. Also army is not small. Btw don't be a smartarse
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 :)-
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Excellent video 📹
60 % cheaper than the German model.?
When comes war time, it's money game. Must make cheap and good quality at the same time.
Do you have the 3D-model from the video?
"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.
bottom line is, it wasn't free, it was never free, freedom isn't free
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.
Cost effective
I trust this guy, he's korean
@@razgriss5882 Yes but I was not an Artillery man.
@@yhk9474 well you still did your mandatory service, so you know more than the average people on the internet
@@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.
I only believe a weapon is successful if it does either of two things: (1) Wins conflict or (2) Prevents conflict
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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.
0:59 elephants waving their noses while walking in a line
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.
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 I agree with you. Poorly expressed argument for WD
@@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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Who is better, K9 or PzH2000 ?!
each has pros and cons
Pzh 2000 for sure, but k-9 is so much cheaper. Why buy 1 2000 when you can buy 3 k-9s?
Just read Switzerland was the first customer of k9 Howitzer. The number in this video seems to be a bit exaggerated.
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Wait whot?
In 2010?
Good for a small NATO country like Bulgaria, Poland also will get more in a new megadeal with Korea.
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.
DIDNT EGYPT JOIN THE GANG?
48 rounds at 6-8 rounds per minute gives you 6-8 minutes of rounds.
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.
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the southkorean army k-9-thunder in 155mm. is similar to the 155mm us army paladin.
The Paladin has a 39 calibre gun and 30 km range while the K9 has a 52 calibre gun and 40+ km range. They are not similiar
Totally different, M109 is outdated, even with it's updating. K9 has more internal space, automated etc
Paladin is equivalent to Korean upgraded K55A1.
k9 is vest werpon
K2 to K9 to Kpop 😂
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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
Russian uses 152mm
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.
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Thank you for this explications
@@bgshin2879 unfortunately you right
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발음이 한국인이신데...
Audio is terrible..
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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.
I think Aussies should've got the German gun. Also a few of the South African g6
G5 is only 45calibre
apologies, I meant g6
Why? Australia is not surrounded by hostile nations. As, K-9 is cheaper & works fine it should work well for Australian Army.
@@alanbstard4 G6 uses e same gun as G5
If German give away with half price
And still more expensive even do that
Another almost another half Jerry rigged Russian kaput something..well almost propaganda
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.
The Archer Artillery System, or Archer - FH77BW L52, or Artillery System 08 is way more better than this.
so how many you sold?
@@hishot1078 15.000
@@tomeng9520 K9 just sold 200 more units to India, what do you think?
@@hishot1078 Good luck and when it's break down you can always buy The Archer Artillery System.
Stay safe take care, Skål Tom.
@@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