These are very capable artillery pieces that Estonia is purchasing from South Korea:
South Korean troops take part in an exercise using self-propelled artillery near the Demilitarized Zone on May 10, 2016. According to reports on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, a South Korean company has entered into a $54 million deal to sell howitzers to the Baltic nation of Estonia.
Estonia has agreed to buy South Korean artillery in a $54 million deal that officials say will substantially boost the small Baltic country’s defense capacity.
The Estonian military procurement agency says the contract with Seoul-based weapons producer Hanwha Land Systems is for 12 K9 Thunder howitzers, training, maintenance and spare parts.
Agency director Col. Rauno Sirk said after a signing ceremony on Tuesday that the artillery pieces “will bring Estonia’s defense capacity to a new level and be one of the most considerable steps of building up armored maneuvering capacity.”
The first howitzers are to arrive in Estonia in 2020. [Stars & Stripes]
