EDEX 2025: Egypt Presents New K11 Fire Control Vehicle With First Full K9A1EGY Howitzer Battery.

Egypt publicly introduced its new K11 Fire Control Vehicle in Cairo, displaying it alongside the first complete K9A1EGY self-propelled howitzer battery at EDEX 2025. The rollout signals that Egypt’s multibillion-dollar K9 program with South Korea has shifted from the contract stage to an operational artillery network.

During the Egypt Defence Expo 2025, known as EDEX 2025, on 1st December 2025, Egypt publicly rolled out its new K11 Fire Control Vehicle as part of the first complete K9A1EGY self-propelled howitzer battery shown in Cairo. The tracked command post stood in line with six K9A1EGY guns and a K10 ammunition vehicle, confirming that the Korean Egyptian artillery package has moved from contract signature to fielded capability. For Egyptian artillerymen, the K11 now acts as the digital brain of the 155 mm K9 network.
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The 37-ton K11 Fire Control Vehicle is a tracked, armored command post for Egypt’s K9A1EGY howitzers, using a digital fire direction suite to coordinate up to six guns. Powered by a 1,000 hp diesel engine, it provides mobile, protected command and control alongside frontline mechanized units (Picture source: Army Recognition Group).

Built on the K9 chassis, the K11 displayed in Cairo weighs 37 tons and measures 7.5 m long, 3.4 m wide, and 3.7 m high, with 41 cm of ground clearance. Mobility figures match the gun platform: a 1,000 hp diesel engine pushes the vehicle to 60 km/h with a 360 km road range, while it can ford 1.5 m of water and climb 60% gradients and 30% side slopes.

Those numbers sit inside a much larger industrial story. Egypt’s K11 is part of the K9 package signed with Hanwha Aerospace in early 2022, a deal valued at roughly 1.6 to 1.7 billion dollars that covers hundreds of K9 howitzers, K10 ammunition vehicles, and a planned fleet of around 51 K11 fire direction vehicles under a technology transfer scheme with state-owned Factory 200. Open sources point to an Egyptian requirement for about 216 K9A1EGY guns and 39 K10EGY vehicles, giving the country one of the largest K9 fleets outside South Korea.

The K11 itself is a clean sheet command post tailored to Egyptian doctrine. Publicly available material and Korean industry reporting describe a tracked fire direction control vehicle carrying an indigenous command and control suite, able to command the fire of six K9A1 howitzers per vehicle by fusing target data, friendly positions, and meteorological inputs and sending firing solutions digitally to the guns. A December 2024 contract for K11 tactical control and K9A1 fire control computers, with deliveries through 2028, underpins a multi-year production run that will gradually localize assembly and integrate Egyptian optronics and radios into the vehicle’s mission systems. Reporting from EDEX 2025 confirms that at least one full battery with a K11 has already been handed over to the Egyptian Armed Forces.

The K11 gives Egyptian artillery commanders a hardened, mobile nerve centre that can sit close to the gun line rather than in soft-skinned tents or trucks. Multiple operator consoles inside can manage fire missions from target detection to battle damage assessment, pulling in data from counter battery radars, unmanned aerial systems, or coastal surveillance networks, and then allocating missions across the six K9s under its control. Because it uses the same tracked chassis as the howitzer, the command post keeps pace with mechanized brigades in Sinai or along the Red Sea coast and enjoys comparable protection against fragments and blast. For export customers, the K11 is presented as a ready-made fire direction solution for K9 users that lack modern C2 vehicles, offering a heavier and more survivable option than the lighter command posts typically paired with rival PzH 2000 or Caesar gun systems.