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Heavy Industries Taxila

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Industry
  
Defence

Services
  
R&D

Founded
  
1971

Area served
  
Pakistan

Headquarters
  
Taxila, Pakistan

Type
  
State-owned enterprise

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Native name
  
Urdu: ہیوی انڈسٹریز ٹیکسلا‎

Key people
  
Lieutenant-General Muhammad Naeem Ashraf (chairman) Col (R) Aqeel Ahmed, Si(M) Secretary HIT Board

Products
  
Ammunitions Artillerys Combat vehicles

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

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HIT is noted as being one of the largest defence contractor The HIT promotes, markets, engineers, develops, and undertakes heavy engineering works for Pakistan's military and for the civilian law enforcement agencies. 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.

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

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Former

  • Type 69-II – Main battle tank produced under license.
  • Type 85-IIAP – Main battle tank produced under license.
  • M113 – Armoured personnel carrier produced under license.

    • Main battle tanks (MBT)

  • Al-Khalid
  • Al-Khalid I
  • Al-Zarrar

    • Artillery

  • MKEK Panter towed howitzer.

    • Armoured personnel carriers (APC)

  • Talha – APC based on M113 chassis with 5 road wheels, accommodates 11 fully equipped troops. 250 delivered to the Pakistan Army by 2006.
  • Saad – APC based on the Talha design. Modified with extended hull and 6 road wheels, 14.5 mm machine gun, improved armour protection and a more powerful engine supplied by Germany's MTU. Accommodates 13 fully equipped troops.
  • Sakb – Armoured command vehicle based on Talha APC.
  • Al-Hamza – Infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) based on the Saad APC, fitted with 25 mm automatic cannon, an export product not in service with the Pakistan Army.
  • Armoured guided missile carriers:
  • Maaz – Based on the Talha APC, armed with the Baktar-Shikan anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) launcher and operated by a crew of 4. There is capacity for 8 extra rounds and the missile firing unit on the roof is retracted into the cabin for reloading.
  • Mouz – Based on the Talha APC, armed with either the RBS 70 or Anza I/II air-defence missile systems. The missile firing unit on the roof is retracted into the cabin for reloading.
  • Auxiliary armoured vehicles:
  • Al-Hadeed – Armoured recovery vehicle (ARV) based on Saad APC.
  • Al-Qaswa – Armoured logistics vehicle (ALV) based on the Talha APC.

    • Armoured cars

  • Mohafiz – armoured security vehicle based on the Land Rover Defender.

    • Under development

  • 155 mm Self-propelled artillery gun – Project revealed at IDEAS 2002 defence exhibition.
  • Al-Khalid II – Under development.
  • Burraq MRAP vehicle – Under development.

    • References

    Heavy Industries Taxila Wikipedia
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