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K9 Thunder

Self-propelled artillery · Land · Hanwha Aerospace · South Korea

Wikidata: South Korean self-propelled 155 mm howitzer

Operators among the 24
5
Active, across the 24
1,680
On order, across the 24
24
In service since
1999

Catalogue entry

Designation
K9
First flight or launch
–
In service
1999
Retired
–
Generation
–
Unit cost (US dollars)
not published in Wikidata
Manufacturers
Hanwha Aerospace
Wikidata classes
artillery model
Identifiers
Q488232 · factbase.org/sys/2HDG599K42 · Wikipedia

Dates, makers and classes from Wikidata (CC0); specifications stop at what Wikipedia and the manufacturer publish.

Variants

Operators

Each of the 24 nations that holds the platform, with its active count (variants summed). A nation that holds it with no published count shows no bar.

NationActiveReserveOn orderVariants
South Korea1,240
Türkiye280
India100
Ukraine54
Australia624AS9 Huntsman

Transfers

Deliveries recorded by the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, by year, to every recipient. Derived figures only; source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database.

2004: 2802016: 242018: 2442019: 242020: 242022: 2662023: 72025: 6200420152025max 280
SIPRI-recorded deliveries of K9 Thunder by year

Recipients: Poland (332), Türkiye (280), India (100), Ukraine (54), Finland (48), Norway (28), Estonia (24), Egypt (7), Australia (2).

In the same category, in service within 15 years

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