{"id":2442,"date":"2023-02-24T02:52:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:02:25","slug":"k-9-vajra-t-howitzers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/k-9-vajra-t-howitzers\/","title":{"rendered":"K- 9 Vajra- T howitzers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About K- 9 Vajra- T howitzers :<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>155 mm, 52-caliber tracked self-propelled artillery system<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>built by Larsen &amp; Toubro<\/strong> with <strong>technology transferred<\/strong> <strong>from<\/strong> <strong>South Korean <\/strong>defence major Hanwha Defense based on its K9 Thunder.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feature<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>It has <strong>all-welded steel armour up to 19mm thick<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>main weapon<\/strong> is the <strong>155mm \/ 52 calibre gun<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>burst rate of fire of three rounds per 15 seconds<\/strong> and a maximum rate of fire of six to eight rounds a minute for three minutes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Range: 40 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>K9 uses a digital fire control system<\/strong>, by which it <strong>can fire multiple rounds<\/strong> that can impact a given area at the same time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>\u00a0Q1)\u00a0What is an Artillery system?<\/h2>\n<p>Artillery system is a long-range weapon. Artillery fires munition far beyond the range of infantry &amp; tank. Artillery gun aims &amp; fires a projectile without relying on the direct line of sight between the target and artillery gun. Hence, artillery gun uses various system to track &amp; locate target out of its line of sight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicworld.com\/india-news\/general-news\/indian-army-orders-100-additional-k9-vajra-self-propelled-howitzers-articleshow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Army Orders 100 Additional K9 Vajra Self Propelled Howitzers<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K- 9 Vajra- T is a 155 mm, 52-caliber tracked self-propelled artillery system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}