A South Korean defense company is to finalize a deal to sell its indigenous self-propelled howitzers to Poland, military officials said Wednesday. Under the $320 million deal, Samsung Techwin will export 120 of the K-9 self-propelled howitzers to Huta Stalowa Wola, the Polish public defense company, a military official said. The deal is scheduled to be signed later in the day, he added.

“The large-scale deal is expected to revitalize the defense industry, which has been weighed down by a series of corruption scandals and subsequent probes,” said another military official.

The two officials asked not to be identified, citing policy.

Samsung Techwin developed the 155-millimeter howitzer for the country’s armed forces in 1998 to replace its K-55 howitzers. Equipped with state-of-the-art firing and mobility systems, the K-9 has a maximum firing range of some 40 kilometers. (Yonhap)