삼성테크윈 K9, 인도 자주포 입찰에서 러시아 앞질러 Techwin K9 selected for Indian Army SPH requirement

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러시아,  아직 공식 통보를 받지 못해

Larsen & Toubro will manufacture a version of the K9 Thunder for the Indian Army. Source: Samsung 

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러시아는 인도 자주포 입찰 결과에 대한 공식 통보를 받지 못한 상태라고 «UVZ» 공보실이 타스 통신에 전했다. 10월 언론들은 입찰에서 삼성테크윈의 K9 자주포가 «MSTA-S 2S19»를 내세운 러시아를 앞질렀다고 보도했다. «러시아는 입찰 결과에 대해 인도 국방부의 공식 통지를 아직 받지 못한 상태»라고 공보실이 전했다. 한국이 UVZ 를 이겼다는 발표를 '정보 주입'이라고 부르며 «아직 결정난 사실은 없으며», «현재는 입찰 결과가 불명확하다»고 러 기업이 전했다. UVZ 사는 2S19М1-155가 세계 유사품에 적합한 성능을 보유하고 있음을 보여주었고, 구조가 간단하여 사용이 편리하다고 지적했다. 그 밖에도 공보실은 그 누구도 발주자의 요구사항을 완전히 만족시킨 쪽은 없었다고 강조한 후 «시험 과정에서 때론 2S19М1-155가, 때론 K9가 우위를 입증했다»고 전했다. sputniknews

Rahul Bedi, New Delhi - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

India's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has shortlisted the Samsung Techwin K9 Thunder 155 mm/52-calibre self-propelled tracked (SPT) howitzer for the Indian Army's long-delayed USD800 million tender for 100 such guns.

Official sources said the selection in late September followed desert and high altitude trials in 2013 and early 2014, in which the K-9 bested Russia's MSTA-SP (2S19) gun modified to 155/52 standards and mounted on a T-72 tank chassis.

Senior artillery officers told IHS Jane's that the K9 outperformed the Russian gun in operational mobility, speed, accuracy, and overall rate of fire.

The guns endured a further round of maintenance acceptability trials in mid-2014 undertaken by the Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers and the Directorate General of Quality Assurance.

The MoD is now expected to open negotiations with the South Korean government in 2016 for Samsung-Techwin to supply kits to its local private-sector partner Larsen & Toubro (L&T) for assembly at its Pune facility.

The option of L&T licence building the K9s - to be acquired under the 'Buy and Make' category of the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) - at a later stage is also under consideration.

Industry sources indicated that negotiations for the K9 could well be conducted under the forthcoming DPP, which is being prepared for publication.

The army's SPT howitzer programme suffered a major setback in 2005 when the MoD banned South Africa's Denel, which had successfully developed the Bhim SPT in the late 1990s by mating its T-6 155/52 turret to the chassis of a locally designed Arjun tank, over alleged wrongdoing in a separate contract to supply the Indian Army with 400 anti-materiel rifles.

The ban was lifted in 2014 after the Central Bureau of Investigation was unable to prove any wrongdoing, but it was too late to resurrect Bhim.

The Indian Army has outlined a SPT howitzer requirement for over two decades, aimed at countering the Pakistan Army's 150-odd US-supplied M109A2/3 self-propelled howitzers.

http://www.janes.com/article/55127/k9-selected-for-indian-army-sph-requirement

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