{"id":374613,"date":"2026-10-28T17:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=374613"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:06:54","slug":"k9-vajra-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/k9-vajra-t\/","title":{"rendered":"K9 Vajra-T"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Ministry of Defence has granted in-principle approval to procure over 300 additional K9 Vajra-T howitzers to modernise the Indian Army\u2019s artillery.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><b>About K9 Vajra-T<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/defencemanufacturingindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1.png?resize=424%2C260&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"K9 Vajra-T\" width=\"424\" height=\"260\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Defence Manufacturing India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The K9 Vajra-T is <\/span><b>India\u2019s variant of South Korea\u2019s K9 Thunder,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a 155 mm, 52-calibre tracked self-propelled howitzer.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A howitzer is an <\/span><b>artillery weapon <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">designed <\/span><b>to fire explosive shells at high angles,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> allowing it to strike targets behind obstacles such as hills, mountains and walls.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Manufactured by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is manufactured by <\/span><b>Larsen &amp; Toubro (L&amp;T) at Hazira, Gujarat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, in partnership with South Korea\u2019s Hanwha Aerospace.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"yellow-h2-box\"><b>Key Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 550px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9243%;height: 30px\"><strong>Features<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0757%;height: 30px\"><strong>Details\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9243%;height: 10px\"><b>Type<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0757%;height: 10px\">\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0a <strong>155-mm, 52-calibre tracked self-propelled howitzer.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a<strong> customised version of South Korean K9 Thunder<\/strong>, which is widely recognised as the world&#8217;s most exported self-propelled howitzer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 60px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9243%;height: 60px\"><b>Artillery Regiment<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0757%;height: 60px\">A K9 Vajra regiment <strong>comprises 20 guns, including 18 operational guns organised into three batteries of six guns each<\/strong> and two reserve guns.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 60px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9243%;height: 60px\"><b>Indigenous Components<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0757%;height: 60px\">\u00a0It includes the <strong>fire-control system, communication suites, hull, turret, environmental control and NBC protection systems.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 60px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9243%;height: 60px\"><b>Imported Components<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0757%;height: 60px\">Critical components such as the <strong>gun barrel and breech mechanism continued to be sourced from South Korea.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 60px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9243%;height: 60px\"><strong>Weight<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0757%;height: 60px\">It weighs <strong>50 tonnes and can fire 47kg bombs.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 60px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9243%;height: 60px\"><strong>Crew size for operation<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0757%;height: 60px\">It operates with<strong> a crew of five personnel.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 60px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9243%;height: 60px\"><b>Mobility and Protection<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0757%;height: 60px\">\n<ul>\n<li>Its tracked<strong> chassis, armoured steel hull and rotating turret provide battlefield mobility and protection<\/strong> against small-arms fire, landmines and shell fragments.<\/li>\n<li>It can<strong> turn around at zero radius,<\/strong> basically at the same place where they are standing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 180px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9243%;height: 180px\"><b>Shoot-and-Scoot Capability<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0757%;height: 180px\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can <\/span><b>fire at enemy positions and quickly relocate <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to reduce the risk of counter-battery attacks.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can <\/span><b>fire 6\u20138 rounds per minute in burst mode <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and achieve a <\/span><b>maximum road speed of approximately 67 km\/h.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9243%;height: 30px\"><b>Limitation<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0757%;height: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Its <strong>heavy structure limits its use in steep, rugged and road-inaccessible Himalayan areas.<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Ministry of Defence has granted in-principle approval to procure over 300 additional K9 Vajra-T howitzers to modernise the Indian Army\u2019s artillery. About K9 Vajra-T The K9 Vajra-T is India\u2019s variant of South Korea\u2019s K9 Thunder, a 155 mm, 52-calibre tracked self-propelled howitzer.\u00a0 A howitzer is an artillery weapon designed to fire explosive shells&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/k9-vajra-t\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">K9 Vajra-T<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11959,1738,12039],"tags":[11872,10503],"class_list":["post-374613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-defence","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-business-standard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}