At a K9 User Club gathering in Estonia, Hanwha Aerospace outlined a new operational concept for howitzers aimed at enabling faster and more accurate artillery strikes on the battlefield.
The concept pairs K9 howitzers with vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Under the proposed setup, the drones would operate as forward assets, spotting and tracking threats before generating target coordinates and transmitting them to the K9’s fire-direction system.
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