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 "title": "Spain's Indra and South Korea's Hanwha Sign €4.55 Billion Binding Agreement to Produce 280 K9-Based Self-Propelled Artillery Vehicles in Gijón",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/spain-indra-hanwha-4-55-billion-280-k9-based-self-propelled-artillery-vehicles-gijon/",
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 "published": "2026-03-24T20:49:00.000+01:00",
 "updated": "2026-07-29T18:52:56.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMadrid, 24 March 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * Indra Group and Hanwha Aerospace on 24 March signed a binding agreement worth €4.55 billion (~$5.3 billion) to produce 280 tracked self-propelled artillery vehicles for the Spanish Armed Forces based on the K9 155mm howitzer family\n * Programme composition: 128 self-propelled artillery vehicles, 120 ammunition resupply vehicles, plus recovery and command-and-control variants; Indra designs and manufactures the hulls in Spain and provides missi",
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