Английская Википедия:Heavy Industries Taxila

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Heavy Industries Taxila (Reporting name: HIT), (Шаблон:Lang-ur) is a state-owned enterprise and a defense contractor located in Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan.[1][2]

The HIT is wholly owned owned and sponsored by the Ministry of Defence Production and its programs are managed by the Army GHQ who approves its corporate appointments..[3] The HIT promotes, markets, engineers, develops, and undertakes heavy engineering works for Pakistan's military and for the civilian law enforcement agencies. It has extensive experience in the overhaul and upgrade of tracked armored fighting vehicles for the Pakistan Armed Forces.[1][4]

Besides developing the heavy works, HIT also provides military gears for Pakistan's military, building krytron and developing technology involving the solid-state lighting. In 2004, HIT had a work force of about 6000 engineers and highly skilled persons.[1]

Production

Main battle tanks (MBT)

  • Al-Khalid - jointly developed with China, entered service in 2001.
  • Al-Khalid I - upgraded variant of Al-Khalid, entered service in 2020.
  • Al-Khalid II - (under development) Al-Khalid next-gen successor incorporating redesigned turret.
  • Al-Haider - Chinese VT-4 export tank built under license as 'Al-Haider'. First batch delivered in 2020.

Infantry fighting vehicles (IFV)

  • Viper IFV – The prototype IFV was showcased in IDEAS 2018. The IFV is based on APC Saad/M113 chassis with 6 road wheels, weighs 16 tons, and has appliqué armour. Viper can accommodate 13 fully equipped troops; and has a modified Turra 30 remotely controlled weapon station (RCWS) armed with a Slovak-made Shipunov 2A42 30 mm automatic cannon, Kalashnikov PKT 7.62 mm medium machine gun (MG), two ready-to-use 9M113 Konkurs (AT-6 'Spandrel') anti-tank guided missiles and smoke dischargers.
  • Al-Hamza – IFV based on APC Saad, fitted with 25 mm automatic cannon. It was developed as an export product and is not in service with the Pakistan Army.[5]

Armoured personnel carriers (APC)

Reconnaissance vehicles

  • Maaz – Based on the APC Talha, armed with the Baktar-Shikan anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) launcher and operated by a crew of four. There is capacity for eight extra rounds and the missile firing unit on the roof is retracted into the cabin for reloading.
  • Mouz - Talha variant is armed with either the Anza or RBS 70 air-defence missile systems. The missile firing unit on the roof is retracted into the cabin for reloading.[5]
  • Sakb – Armoured command-and-control vehicle based on APC Talha.[5]

Engineering & support vehicles

Armoured utility vehicles

Weapons

  • 125mm Smooth bore tank gun – for Al-Khalid & Al-Zarrar tanks.[8]
  • 155mm Self propelled (SP) gun – for M109A2 (overhauled) self-propelled howitzer.

Former products

See also

References

Шаблон:Reflist

External links

Шаблон:Ministry of Defence Production (Pakistan) Шаблон:Defence industry of Pakistan Шаблон:Automotive industry in Pakistan Шаблон:Authority control

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT) GlobalSecurity.org website, Retrieved 28 September 2021
  2. ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  5. ↑ 5,0 5,1 5,2 5,3 5,4 5,5 Шаблон:Cite web
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  7. ↑ 7,0 7,1 7,2 Шаблон:Cite web
  8. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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