South Korea on Tuesday signed a contract to sell K9 self-propelled howitzers to Egypt in a deal worth over US$1.65 billion, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on Wednesday. South Korean manufacturer Hanwha Defense signed an agreement with Egypt’s defense minstry for the largest K9 export deal in Cairo’s Artillery House military facility, capping off 10 years of intermittent talks. The deal will see the production of K9s produced in Egypt and technology transfer affording to the to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA). The DAPA did not elaborate on details such as when the K9 howitzers will be supplied to Egypt and at what quantity. The deal makes Egypt the eighth foreign country to adopt the K9, joining Turkey, Poland, India, Norway, Finland, Estonia, and Australia.
