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Heavy Industries Taxila
HIT
Native name
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Company typeState owned enterprises
IndustryDefence
Founded1971; 53 years ago (1971)
Headquarters
Taxila Cantonment
Taxila
Punjab
,
Pakistan
Area served
Pakistan
Key people
ProductsAmmunitions
Artillerys
Combat vehicles
tanks
ServicesR&D
Websitehit.gov.pk

Heavy Industries Taxila (Reporting name: HIT), is a major defence, military contractor, engineering conglomerate, and military corporation located in Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan.[1]

HIT promotes, markets, engineers, develops, and undertakes heavy engineering works for Pakistan's military and for the civilian law enforcement agencies.[2] Leadership in HIT is provided through the appointments made in the GHQ by the chief of army staff who approves the appointment to its chairmanship.[3]

Besides developing the heavy works, HIT also provides military gears for Pakistan's military, building krytron and developing technology involving the solid-state lighting.[2]

Production

Former

Current

Main battle tanks (MBT)

Infantry fighting vehicles (IFV)

  • Viper IFV – The prototype IFV was showcased in IDEAS 2018. The IFV is based on 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.[4]
  • Al-Hamza – IFV based on Saad APC, fitted with 25 mm automatic cannon, an export product not in service with the Pakistan Army.[5]

Armoured personnel carriers (APC)

Armoured utility vehicles

Guns

See also

References

  1. ^ Contacting HIT. "Contacting HIT". Contacting HIT. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  2. ^ a b Products of the HIT. "Products of the HIT". Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  3. ^ Associate Press of Pakistan. "Defence Production Minister visits Heavy Industries Taxila". Associate Press of Pakistan. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015.
  4. ^ ARG. "Pakistan's HIT unveils Viper IFV". Janes.com. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d e f ARG. "Talha Armored Personnel Carrier". Military-Today.com. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  6. ^ a b c http://www.hit.gov.pk/commercial-tab.php
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