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Kronshtadt Group (Группа «Кронштадт»)

Kronshtadt Group (Группа «Кронштадт») is a private Russian defense-technology holding that makes unmanned aircraft, simulators, and electronics, best known for the Orion drone, Russia's first large production UAV.

Krosaki Harima

Krosaki Harima Corporation (黒崎播磨株式会社) is a Japanese refractory manufacturer headquartered in Kitakyushu, founded in 1918, producing heat-resistant materials and ceramics chiefly for the steel industry and becoming a wholly owned Nippon Steel subsidiary in 2026.

Krško nuclear power plant

The Krško nuclear power plant (Slovene: Nuklearna elektrarna Krško, NEK) is a 696 MW nuclear power station near Krško, Slovenia, in commercial operation since 1983.

Krugerrand

The Krugerrand is a South African gold bullion coin first struck in 1967, containing exactly one troy ounce of fine gold; it was the first modern gold bullion coin.

Krummel nuclear power plant

Krummel nuclear power plant (German: Kernkraftwerk Krümmel) was a boiling water reactor at Geesthacht in Schleswig-Holstein near Hamburg that generated electricity from 1984 until its license expired in August 2011.

Krutrim (कृत्रिम)

Krutrim (कृत्रिम), meaning "artificial" in Sanskrit, is an Indian AI company founded in 2023 by Bhavish Aggarwal of Ola. It became India's first generative-AI unicorn in 2024 and now provides AI cloud services.

Kruzenshtern (ship)

Kruzenshtern (Крузенштерн) is a Russian four-masted barque and sail training ship, built in Germany in 1926 as Padua and transferred to the Soviet Union in 1946.

Krylov State Research Centre

Krylov State Research Centre, also known as KSRC, was a Russian state shipbuilding research institute in Saint Petersburg, established in 1894 as the first ship model testing institution in Russia.

Kryo

Kryo, also known as Qualcomm Kryo, is the CPU brand inside Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips, introduced in 2015 with the Snapdragon 820, later built on Arm Cortex cores.

KS-23

The KS-23 (КС-23, Karabin Spetsialniy) is a Soviet 23 mm pump-action carbine classified as a carbine for its rifled barrel, used for riot control since 1985.

KSAZ-TV

KSAZ-TV, branded Fox 10 Phoenix, is a Fox-owned television station licensed to Phoenix, Arizona. It signed on in 1953 as KOOL-TV and joined Fox in 1994.

KSDK

KSDK, branded NBC 5 St. Louis and formerly KSD-TV, is an NBC-affiliated television station in St. Louis, Missouri, and the city's first television station, signing on in 1947.

KServe

KServe, formerly KFServing, is an open-source platform that deploys, scales, and routes machine learning inference workloads on Kubernetes, developed by Google, IBM, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, and Seldon in 2019.

Ksi Lisims LNG

Ksi Lisims LNG is a proposed floating LNG terminal on Pearse Island in northwestern British Columbia, led by the Nisga'a Nation and designed to export 12 million tonnes annually.

Książ Castle

Książ Castle, also known as Zamek Książ or Fürstenstein, is the largest castle in Lower Silesia and third largest in Poland, home to the Hochberg family from 1509 until Nazi confiscation in 1941.

KSK Mahanadi Power Project

The KSK Mahanadi Power Project is a 3,600 MW coal-fired power station at Nariyara village in Chhattisgarh, India, developed by KSK Mahanadi Power Company and acquired by JSW Energy in 2025.

ksqlDB

ksqlDB (formerly KSQL) is the streaming SQL database of Confluent, part of IBM since 2026, built on Kafka Streams under the Confluent Community License; it now ships only in Confluent products, with Flink recommended for new workloads.

KSR Bengaluru–Ernakulam Junction Vande Bharat Express (केएसआर बेंगलुरु–एर्नाकुलम जंक्शन वंदे भारत एक्सप्रेस)

The KSR Bengaluru–Ernakulam Junction Vande Bharat Express (केएसआर बेंगलुरु–एर्नाकुलम जंक्शन वंदे भारत एक्सप्रेस) is a semi-high-speed Indian Railways service linking Bengaluru and Kochi, launched in November 2025.

KSTAR

KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) is a superconducting tokamak in Daejeon, South Korea, that reached first plasma in 2008 to develop long-pulse fusion operation for ITER.

KSTW

KSTW, branded Seattle 11, is an independent television station licensed to Tacoma, Washington, and the second station in the Seattle area, signing on as KTNT-TV in 1953.

KT Corporation

KT Corporation, a South Korean telecommunications company founded as the state telephone monopoly in 1982 and privatized in 2002, is the country's second-largest mobile carrier behind SK Telecom.

KT&G

KT&G (주식회사 케이티앤지) is a South Korean tobacco and consumer-products company headquartered in Daejeon, privatized in 2002 and now selling cigarettes, heated tobacco, and ginseng foods in about 140 countries.

KTBC (TV)

KTBC, also known as Fox 7 Austin, is a Fox-affiliated television station in Austin, Texas, owned by Fox and formerly part of the Johnson family broadcasting fortune.

KTM

KTM is an Austrian motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Mattighofen, Upper Austria, founded in 1934, producing race-oriented off-road and street motorcycles under the slogan "READY TO RACE".

KTM 390 series

The KTM 390 series is a family of single-cylinder street and dual-sport motorcycles of about 400 cc, built by KTM with Bajaj and sold as the 390 Duke, RC 390, and 390 Adventure.

KTM 690 series

The KTM 690 series is a family of single-cylinder motorcycles built by the Austrian manufacturer KTM around its LC4 engine, spanning the 690 Enduro R and 690 SMC R.

KTM Class 26

The KTM Class 26, known as the Blue Tiger, is a class of 20 diesel-electric locomotives delivered to Malaysia's KTM in 2003 for passenger and freight service.

KTM Komuter Southern Sector

KTM Komuter Southern Sector, or Shuttle Selatan, is a KTMB commuter rail service in Johor, Malaysia, launched in 2026 with Kulai–JB Sentral and Pasir Gudang routes.

KTM X-Bow

The KTM X-Bow, pronounced "crossbow," is a lightweight two-seat sports car built since 2008 by Austrian motorcycle maker KTM, with a carbon-fiber chassis and Audi engines.

KTO Rosomak

The KTO Rosomak, Polish for wheeled armored carrier "Wolverine," is an 8×8 armored vehicle built in Poland since 2004 under license from the Finnish Patria AMV.