Korea & The Changing Global Arms Market - Inside Korea's Biggest Defence Exhibition (KADEX)

[@PerunAU]

Come for the discussion on the rise of the Korean Defence Sector in the global arms market and examination of trends in system development and marketing - stay for me get caught off guard by some K2s popping smoke? Hope you enjoy the change of pace, and a look inside what was a pretty interesting event. Apologies for the slightly delayed release - this whole "video" thing has a way of introducing production complications beyond the ever reliable PPT.

[@concept5631]

13 minutes

[@applepiepieapple5464]

How much can you bench?

[@Syndr1]

Hi Perun, where was the Pager 📟 and walkie-talkie 🔘 section?

[@Syndr1]

Ps. Did you just badmouth Video,lol.

[@rocko7711]

❤

[@pieterfaes6263]

Perun now with moving images. What a time to be alive.

[@dx-ek4vr]

And it's crazy we got that before GTAVI

[@DrownedLamp9]

Maybe the real gift was the gif we found along the way.

[@crumpY-k1s]

Its just a very fast PowerPoint don't be fooled!

[@jeckjeck3119]

@@dx-ek4vr Who caresfor GTAVI.

[@patrickjordan2233]

"what is this with this magic?!?"

[@mr.understood4119]

What are those? 30 slides per second? Unbeliavable!

[@PerunAU]

It introduces all sorts of complications in the creation and upload process too - probably just a phase before everyone adopts superior PPT technology

[@elektrotehnik94]

@@PerunAU 👀 This superior PPT technology must be the West's secret weapon! ^^ 🔫❤️ Love your work ❤️, Love & greetings from Slovenia! ❤️

[@moggy1998]

​@@PerunAU amen to that

[@Syndr1]

Too fast for my Eyes 👀,it burns 🔥

[@patrickjordan2233]

"inconceivable!!.." - TPB

[@NothingIsKnown00]

”Hello I’m from the Washington Post. Here are my credentials.” “Yes, thank you. Would you kindly wait here to the side? I see Perun is coming this way.”

[@whowhy9023]

Perun should be a VIP at these events & In contrast to nearly every journalist Perun is actually qualified. All ministers of defence should be required to watch every release twice & take notes. The Germans & US would save billions… 😂😂

[@matthewspencer2094]

I imagine they can somehow recognize Perun as he is, canonically, a human slideshow projector.

[@generictag1050]

@@matthewspencer2094im just imagining perun as a floating powerpoint that talks now

[@Grendelmk1]

To be honest, if Canada elected me as Prime Minister, one of my first priorities would be to get Perun as an advisor. Imagine letting him loose on the Canadian procurement system, with full authority to fire everything that moves. SO MANY out of work "advisors". We'd have to hire him some protection. Maybe just let some Emus loose wherever he goes?

[@EEWombat]

​@@Grendelmk1I look forward to endorsing this consulting services RFP.

[@ArturKala]

Those K2 tank movements during the demonstration were very well Koreagraphed.

[@TheMcspreader]

Dude, how many decades have you been waiting to drop that one?

[@sh4dowchas3r]

That's the worst pun I've read in a long time. That's an audible groan then a good 90 seconds of internal groaning, including quite a lot of swearing. Therefore it is also the best pun I've seen in a long while.

[@IsaacHenryinAK]

Well done.

[@dickhornmedicineman2766]

Great pun!

[@knpark2025]

Nice🤌

[@peterklemenc6194]

"This wasn't a SHAHED....This is a BETTER SHAHED!" Damn that got me...

[@the_undead]

I just imagine whatever engineer was presenting that understanding that meme to some extent and maybe even being familiar with this channel and then pouncing on the opportunity to on the civilian day of the event. Share some technical information after having been bombarded by questions from regular civilians

[@richardaubrecht2822]

"Better Shahed" looks simply like a IAI Harpy/Harop clone. Of which is Shahed also a clone.

[@afelias]

I know lots of people were already waiting for this one, but I like to imagine that someone in the Korean defense business whose plan it was to invite Perun as Media, is now rubbing his palms together as he watches this

[@N1ghthavvk]

Funnily enough, his invitation is part of the South Korean Soft Power strategy which he mentioned in his videos before!

[@MrNicoJac]

It was a genius move!

[@Spartansareawesome11]

I imagine a fly when people mention rubbing hands together

[@kniazjarema8587]

As if an average person can afford to buy such weapons. Who needed to know about KADEX already knows. I dont think theyve invited Perun for publicity or anything like that.

[@romanbabynyuk946]

@@kniazjarema8587 sort of. You-d be suprised by how much military procurement is affected by public opinion. It's also why you see Lockheed Martin, Rheinmetall, etc put ads for their weapons on youtube. Taxpayers want to feel their taxes are being well spent, and will support the military acquiring things they see as necessary/cool, with the reverse also being true. So these kinds of media campaigns are in a way also aimed at the average citizen, to influence them to approve their country's military acquisitions.

[@j.l.boekestein3201]

"Our factory or yours?" Who says romance is dead? :D

[@Grimmwoldds]

They're serious too. I know LG sends engineers practically everywhere(personally saw them in both power plant construction and petroleum refining). Anything you ask and they scratch their heads, call the home office, then submit you a plan with all the modifications. If you want to do "a thing" and it's not the way things are done, you ask the South Korean engineers. They can get solutions made to order. But they're not just exporting manufactured goods. They're exporting skill and knowledge(and getting practice on your dime)

[@nyern]

And that, kids, is how I met your MOAB

[@SaneIndividual]

My favorite part of the video.

[@jimsvideos7201]

Hey a loading dock is a loading dock.

[@zankou5611]

​@@nyernI'm dying 😂

[@bangmo7]

congratulation that they look at you as 'somebody' here in South Korea, to the extent that they paid some part of the expense. I am one of those Korean KZbinrs, who introduced your insight about the South Korean arms industry , in my Korean language episode. ^^

[@jooot_6850]

absolutely wild that Perun has become a genuinely prolific person in the Korean arms trade

[@sanha7007]

뱅모님이 여기에 댓글을!!😮

[@KarlKarpfen]

@@jooot_6850 well, Perun is one of the largest and most serious military KZbinrs out there. If the guy from procurement watches KZbin on his work topics, there is a great chance that he will watch Perun.

[@waterconsultant10]

In that case, much thanks Bangmo! As a westerner, it's good to have a popular western pop-military-analyst like Perun be able to get access and give us an analytical peek into the South Korean arms industry and all the development trends coming out of it

[@20chocsaday]

Korea is not afraid to let the world know what is coming. Pleased that the world should learn and act.

[@TRPilot06YT]

I cant believe Perun went to Korea to acquire tanks, ships and arms for his illegal Private Military Company His actions will undeniably cause more chaos and tragedy in Kiwiland Truly what a time to be alive

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

I'm going to be the one to say it out loud. We all knew that Perun is assembling a PMC led by Chris Hemsworth, at the behest of the PM of Emutopia, in order to conduct a covert Special Military Operation against Kiwiland in the very near future.

[@cyclesaviorn2700]

Its only illegal if he gets caught

[@LukeBunyip]

It's just a purchasing front for the Emutopian military

[@RasAlHaq]

Kiwiland recoils in horror

[@MeeesterBond17]

I vote he calls his new PMC "Death By Powerpoint"

[@Space_Reptile]

korea using brown smoke is honestly something incredibly sensible yet i have never seen it done before it makes perfect sense

[@GrigoriZhukov]

I suspect that is driven by what that smoke works against besides visual. You also want ir and radar.

[@jintsuubest9331]

​@@GrigoriZhukov Radar reflector tend to be shiny, because they are metallic in nature. IR emitting element doesn't have to be any specific color. My guess is they determined that brown smoke stand out less than white smoke against the element?

[@alltat]

@@jintsuubest9331 Usually the visibility is irrelevant, as the smoke cloud is large enough that shooting into it is meaningless. With vehicles, you usually have at least half a dozen smoke launchers per vehicle. If a platoon deploys smoke, no one will see anything.

[@TheEvilMrJeb]

The brown smoke makes sense in dirt environments, but white would make sense for snow. I do wonder why nobody else has thought of doing it before… probably the cost of the smoke, or maybe it is toxic in some way…

[@arnesieper8332]

@@TheEvilMrJeb smoke is cheap. like, very cheap. unless you talk radar reflector smoke, which is "only" pretty cheap. that is not an issue. its also easy to manipulate the color. if i had to guess id say that for most people the only difference is basic visual regocnisability you might get five to ten extra seconds before the opponents realize the smoke if its color is matched to the environment, which, for most cases where you would use smoke in the first place, wont make much of a difference. remember that range of engangement in the korean kontext comes at what might generously be described as premium. most modern armys will try to not go for "close range" tank engagement, and therefore the extra few seconds dont end up mattering. for seoul with the danger of close distance engagement and short distances to cover, it absolutely makes a difference.

[@GregMcNeish]

In literally any other setting, beginning a Powerpoint presentation with a fighter squadron flyby would be highly inappropriate. But when it's Perun, it just fits.

[@bigjo66]

Eh, pepper it with some corporate buzzwords about teamwork and 'flying high' and it wouldn't be out of place in a lot of board rooms.

[@emmettturner9452]

Pretty sure Qualcomm’s “Born Mobile” keynote with stage actors had some CGI flybys in the presentation but it was total cringe-fest from start to finish. “Tornado82!” -Rando Gamer guy.

[@venanziadorromatagni1641]

I’m very happy to see that the industry recognises you as a highest-quality content creator! 🙇‍♀️

[@venanziadorromatagni1641]

@@ArtoriasTheme He explicitly said (In the first minutes of the video) that unlike earlier exhibition visits, he was specifically there as a media person, and that part of the deal was for him to produce an episode.

[@tonychan647]

I hope Perun keeps the PP format as much as possible. Videos drifts to theatre. Hearses and graves bring profundity, human suffering to the Art of War. Videos of streams of tears, gushing wounds bring a different response from us. I follow Perun for his brilliant humour, insight, and style to this horrible war, but maybe his videos will move me to a different space . 🤔😮

[@venanziadorromatagni1641]

@@tonychan647 I’m I’m not quite sure how a few seconds of tankagility ballet footage in your mind can be misconstrued as a menetekel of this channel going into blood&gore territory, when you have near 250 hours of evidence to the contrary, but sure, you do your pseudo-moralistic You.🙄

[@whowhy9023]

@@venanziadorromatagni1641it’s the potential trend… with humor…

[@venanziadorromatagni1641]

@@whowhy9023 I still don’t get it. This guy sounds like the type of person who, when Oreo launches a special edition with a chocolate filling feels the need to proclaim: “If this leads to a filling made out of puppy & kitty paws in the future, I might not buy them anymore”

[@angmori172]

So basically, if you are a Korean or Polish drone manufacturer, you could potentially make a deal with your own government and with Ukraine where you give thousands of drones to Ukraine for free, in exchange for combat data and some reasonable subsidy from your own government. Because as the Korean or Polish government, you pay a relatively small sum to get cutting-edge domestic drone production going. The company gets the data it needs to stay competitive, and Ukranian gets more meme materiel.

[@RasAlHaq]

We all win!

[@nikolaideianov5092]

​@@RasAlHaq exept the russian solders But whos asking them anyways Not putin ofcource

[@Veteran-Nurse]

That's been happening since the 1870s when technology exploded in the 1860s.

[@michaeltschuertz]

Poor german companies. 😢

[@zanaduz2018]

in this particular instance, the technology is *literally* exploding.

[@priyan605]

Why, this is..... No.... Impossible.... To think I'd see the day when Perun's videos have moving pictures

[@TheUrbanSpartacuz]

It's just more slides put together in a rapid sequence.

[@nikolaideianov5092]

​@@TheUrbanSpartacuz i think its between 30 and 60 slides per second Scary

[@alicebrown6215]

​@@nikolaideianov5092 the human mind was never meant to comprehend so many slides per second

[@jonasprusek4511]

Here i discovered, that aside from attending some, i want all the defense expos be summarized and review by Perun. Hope you enjoyd KADEX!

[@jaxkommish]

"gently and harmlessly fragged" might just be my new callsign

[@lancekilkenny721]

Sounds good. Mine is Infidel Crusader.

[@FireflyActual]

One other thing that stands out in the Korean defence sector is their absolute devotion to delivery timelines. If a Korean company says they will deliver you a brand new self-propelled howitzer by 2026, they're going to bend over backwards to fulfil that promise.

[@positroll7870]

Seems like that time line went up in smoke where polonisation of kor tanks is concerned. Promised lots of tech transfer, no problem, now they say POL industry isn't ready... 🤷‍♂️

[@michaellim4165]

Because the Pol industry isn't ready for real. If you can teach someone all the tools and technology but they can't make them, what's the use?

[@FireflyActual]

@@positroll7870 It seems that despite the lengthy negotiations HRC are committed to the original timeline, which was outlined in the framework agreement. ​ @michaellim4165 Fair point. The absorption of the technology transfer from Korea will require major investments and changes within PGZ.

[@joncarolyn]

Koreans would likely have it done in a couple of months. That’s their biggest advantage 빨리빨리

[@Zaprozhan]

Your closing comments regarding the larger force awareness of the ROK was interesting. It bodes well when a service member has understanding of the larger operation of their unit and it's purpose. In times of crisis, you have people who understand the bigger picture and can improvise and adapt to changing conditions without being stuck in their assigned role.

[@elektrotehnik94]

❤

[@knpark2025]

As a country with a relatively free press and a very high rate of tertiary education an enlisted conscript soldier who knows more than his training wouldn't be so rare. Many Korean enlisted soldiers are conscripted while they are still college students. I won't be surprised if a vehicle crew present at the event were to speak flent English and freely explain what he was allowed to say (i.e., as a soldier and/or an RoK citizen in general) without a translator. All that needs to happen is a unit's savvy commander who placed a slightly longer vacation reward on the line to lure in "overqualified" individuals who could prepare themselves for questions from civilians, even foreigners.

[@TalkernateHistory]

The only vacation-based slide show I actually wanted to see.

[@anonyshinki]

This is some serious Tankwondo.

[@andrewgray573]

I fear not the man who has piloted one thousand tanks once; I fear the man who has piloted one tank one thousand times.

[@williamyoung9401]

I think they called that semi-autonomous tank a T-1 in Terminator 3. 😋

[@thedman9052]

My professor used to say, "Despite what the textbooks say, capabilities drive requirements."

[@PapaOscarNovember]

US military procurement really needs get away from the current top-down ‘waterfall’ methodology.

[@TheMcspreader]

Agreed. Part of the 'talent' of capability managers is horizon scanning and reverse engineering that into a requirement with a doctrinal demand signal.

[@Condorito380]

Also refer to Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design!

[@henrikoldcorn]

Surely it’s an inherently bidirectional relationship - you make your requirements reasonably match up to what’s feasible, at least if you’re good at your job, but capabilities are often be developed to meet needs.

[@egoalter1276]

Depwnds. In times of great innovation, such as now, wgen we havnt head a war that is worth the name in 40 years, yes, doctrines need to be overturned and new technological possibilities explored. But for example in 1950? Hell to the fuck no.

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

Thank you not only for the disclosure but getting into the weeds briefly about how this sort of international deal between event organizers and media personnel go down. It's one of those things that occur everywhere in the world today but very few people ever think about.

[@jaxvoice718]

With Russia rampant and US unpredictable, South Korea has suddenly become a major defence partner, for Europe in particular.

[@rhedosaurus2251]

It's going to be hard for Russia to be as rampant as Putin wants to with him losing so many tanks, artillery, and everything else. Not unless he wants to rebuild his forces by going the 'Made In China' route.

[@strongback6550]

Funny how both Koreas are doing major military exports into Ukraine

[@laurakastrup]

Not only that, Korea is a good place to find high quality cheap goods, as a European, getting an Abrahams tank is overkill for most budgets but getting a K2 is reasonably priced and fulfils your requirements

[@heinzaballoo3278]

​@@strongback6550 Anyone have Korean proxy war on their bingo card this year? I sure didn't 😅

[@opairsoft8100]

@@laurakastrupthe price difference really isn’t that much. A K2 is roughly 8.5 million (don’t know if that’s just the tank or tank+training/maintenance) whereas the Abrams is about 10.6 million counting training and maintenance costs. And it’s highly likely that the cost is actually more for a K2 compared to a Abrams for a European country assuming they are built in Korea and shipped.

[@josephd.5524]

22:02 Interesting to see coloured smoke rather than pure white- seems like an obvious idea to have your cover look more like dust than a marker easily spotted from a distance.

[@theoryo2586]

"Why isn't this vehicle have no artillery strapped onto it / Why isn't this artillery strapped into a vehicle yet" is definitely a motto ROK army is pursuing

[@bami2]

They saw Flash become bonjwa and defeat many opponents with marine tank micro and said "ready to roll out"

[@qforshort]

That bit about "occupying the most important objective, the rides, I mean, simulators." nearly had me in tears! I hope you know how much your humor brings to these videos. The info is top notch but your well placed jokes keep me coming back every week.

[@suntiger745]

It's a nice bonus when the rides are actually useful and relevant for your task and position within the armed forces and its adjacent civilian employees/contractors.

[@Ateesh6782]

Perun, as your follower AND a translator (interpreter) by profession, I appreciate the fact that you even mentioned translation/interpreting (language mediation) in your reporting on the expo.

[@warbler1984]

As a lifelong smoker I really appreciate him mentioning Smoke grenades!

[@robbabcock_]

Wow, Perun has hit The Big Time! Great report and congrats on joining the "big league" of online journalism. You do a great job and are deserving of the recognition.

[@Liam-B]

Really interesting to see the Polish-South Korean arms alliance. Who would have guessed this would be a thing 10 years ago.

[@zekielmientkiewicz5104]

Not me. But then when I consider the history of both countries (or my very limited understanding of it) certain parallels become apparent.

[@DrTssha]

Both countries having to be on guard against Russia comes to mind...

[@cohlroxkim4819]

There is a similar historical trauma for both counties being small countries trapped between two larger countries historically going to war against each other repeatedly. For Poland it was Russia and Germany and for Korea it was Japan and China.

[@u2beuser714]

Perun during the exhibition: "i fear no man but that thing *points to smoke grenades* it scares me"

[@williamyoung9401]

I fear that drone autonomy...especially allowing it to kill on its own if it loses communication with its operator. You know what else "lost communication" with its operator? SKYNET! 🤖

[@rasmuspetersen2480]

Happy Sunday- Perun

[@sebastian7424]

Hands down, one of the best episodes you've put out.

[@kemarisite]

31:48 "warmest regards to a set of grid coordinates", there is a reason the original M270 MLRS with twelve DPICM rockets was known as the "grid square eleminiator".

[@tomkelley4119]

Super cool that you got to go to the arms show! Congrats!

[@Cheattoe]

South Korea: YOU WILL MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT US

[@RasAlHaq]

ALL YOUR BASE

[@williamyoung9401]

@@RasAlHaq ...ARE BELONG TO US! 😂

[@Destroyer_V0]

​@RasAlHaq well duh! What else you going to do, not make use of Peru's viewer base

[@marvinparker9151]

I hope you jump on every opportunity to do something like this for the future.....very nice to watch and thematiclly refreshing! could make it a series of how national defence industries changed recently.

[@douglassun8456]

Agreed. Perun's commentary + the video makes this a particularly useful look at how defense tech is evolving - all the more important now, but useful at any time.

[@elektrotehnik94]

I would likely join Patreon, to fund that. ❤ Can't beat real-world data. 🏆

[@JMSouchak]

54:00 "hearing loss is not service related" that comment was gold.

[@kemarisite]

I can confirm my hearing loss is not related to my use of a TOW simulator displayed by the National Guard at the Oregon State Fair 30 years ago.

[@patrickjordan2233]

"3M lawyers have entered the chat..." (JK)

[@dx-ek4vr]

In all seriousness, I wonder if the VA has gotten any better over the years? Cause from my POV as just a civilian, I'm getting the impression the VA is the most dysfunctional institution our military has

[@JMSouchak]

@dx-ek4vr Since 2012, I've noticed improvements, but it's slow and their perpetually understaffed. I always appreciate the work that the employees and doctors do with the resources they have. #USMC Vet.

[@piedpiper1172]

@@dx-ek4vrEver since Reagan, we have seen a persistent campaign to cut funding to literally everything related to public services-from NASA to the USDA and even the VA-which has left us in a present where institutions are often defanged of authority and chronically underfunded and understaffed. If they have less than 10% vacancies, then odds are they haven’t been allowed to expand their work force to keep up with demand for decades. Alternatively, some have very high vacancies, but it’s because they don’t have the funding to offer competitive pay, so no one will take the job. The problem is compounded by the (predominantly Republican) strategy of always promising “smaller government.” For years they control the budget, they either cut funding or simply fail to increase it. Imagine your work place fails to add new positions or increase pay for 8 years, but demand keeps growing. Experienced people leave, taking their knowledge with them. New management comes in and authorizes new positions and better pay-for example, as Biden did with the IRS-but that amount increase is almost never enough in one shot to make up entirely for what it would be if there had been 8 years of annual inflation and demand adjustments. So this stacks up, over and over, where the attempts to catch up never quite match the full amount lost, cus doing it all at once is insanely expensive. Sometimes, catch up attempts are then cut again the moment control over the budgets swings back. And so we find things like the VA chronically and catastrophically understaffed and underfunded. The most pernicious part of this is that as people who interact with these services, we tend to blame the services. From our perspective, it’s the VA or the FDA or the FCC that fail to assist us. But those services and agencies do not control their own budgets or authority. The people putting them in the position to make failure routine are the legislators that deny them the basic funding they need to succeed. Those same legislators routinely prey on the gap between how we think of money as individuals and the scale of National institutions. A few billion is a lot to us, but it’s pretty much nothing to a service trying to meet demand for a population that’s growing towards 400 million. Also the endless fear mongering about National debt by the same people that drive it up the fastest, all while blissfully pretending a hegemon’s debt means anything, feels particularly cynical and dishonest.

[@cola98765]

A Perun style VLOG? YES!

[@James-rl5tj]

Watched starship booster get caught by a landing arm named mechazilla. That SAME DAY perun has actual video. What a day to be alive.

[@GrigoriZhukov]

Hosts coffee cheers cobber!

[@freedomfighter22222]

2 great technological achievements it is.

[@stevenclark2188]

The K2 ballet reminds me of the crazier shenanigans from Girls und Panzer much more than the usual standup slugfests of a WWII war movie. That just struck me.

[@Egorka413]

I was literally refreshing Perun page, waiting for release any second 😂

[@printeh]

Same! I just *felt* like the video was up!

[@NoName-fv2ib]

You are not alone 😂

[@TheAncientSnack.]

I woke up and didnt see a perun video and almost panicked. Not sure what i would have done without my weekly dose of defense economics.

[@Olifantenstaart]

5:01 We appreciate your transparancy regarding sponsors Perun.

[@noradrenalin8062]

OMG! OMG! Perun learned how to insert videos into PowerPoint slides!

[@lungshenli]

massive oversight not using "lets get the slideshow started" at 0:20

[@ricardoabh3242]

😂

[@matthiasbecker5064]

So... there is know a Korean translator who knows how Perun looks like... nahhh, the voice is so soothing, no need to disturb it with an image

[@cyclesaviorn2700]

She is somewhere in the comments

[@matthiasbecker5064]

@@cyclesaviorn2700 👀🤔

[@jamesb3497]

​@@cyclesaviorn2700She could be you! She could be me! She could even be...

[@owenstockwood5040]

@@jamesb3497 Blam!

[@inquisitorbenediktanders3142]

​@@owenstockwood5040 It was obvious! This is the north korean translator!

[@Perserra]

Awesome video Perun, I feel like I attended an arms show in Korea myself. You really walked us through it. I look forward to seeing what kind of goodies the Koreans will be supplying our allies with.

[@mattmcc7930]

This was one of my favorite episodes to date. And that's saying something because there have been some great ones.

[@PoulHansenDK]

I almost scrolled on but just a glimpse caught me, so i saw the full hour. Very interesting as it wasn't only about the Korean industry but also the general tendencies within arms industry as a whole.

[@michaellaramee1965]

As a Canadian the more I see of Korean gear the more I am in the opinion we should just give away all the stuff we currently have to Ukraine except for airframes and ships and buy all Korean equipment. I feel like Canadian procurement is such a mess and Canadians are really budget conscious at the best of times so this feels like a win.

[@avroarchitect1793]

You need to convince the populace to care enough to spend on the CAF first. If they cared then we wouldn't be in the state we are. Equipment would be regularly replaced and updated and the CAF wouldn't have as much of a manpower issue. Underfunding and lack of genuine concern for national defence has left the manpower working twice as hard to keep whats still servicable operational and feeling abused and ignored. All while not being allowed to voice their grievances publicly due to at least 3 different orders and policies preventing the enlisted from getting political or engaged publicly. Then add in the obscene procurement bureaucracy that is meant to reduce military aquisition to as little as possible (needs and capability be dammed) and as hard as possible to process simple aquisitions (ie you can't buy a new fridge for the unit breakroom without a competition to replace it due to it being more than $1k for an industrial sized one).

[@dlmsarge8329]

From my own personal experience I know that Koreans are good friends to have. It's pretty clear that that's also true when it's scaled up to the nation to nation level. I'm glad we're on the same side!!

[@edwardkim8972]

"I'm glad we're on the same side!!" This is what American Vietnam War vets say. South Koreans were highly effective in that war as U.S. and South Vietnamese allies.

[@UrbanCohort]

Sounds like you had a great time, and it certainly translated into making a great video. Cheers mate.

[@zacnewman7140]

Fantastic presentation, and mad props for being a big enough name in the journalistic space to land the invitation.

[@DSlyde]

This was excellent. I don't want it to replace our usual ppt sessions but I'd love a smattering of these every so often. Have a comment for the algorithm, you more than earned it.

[@anttibra]

AAAHHH! Moving pictures! My eyes can't handle it.

[@Grzyb032]

Yay! Field trip!

[@kinoonik]

Bravo! That was one of the best Perun videos. Amazingly, you can keep consistently producing such quality videos! My hat is off to you, sir! I hope we keep seeing similar videos in the future!

[@johnpijano4786]

The more time goes by, the more the line "this is advanced warfare" line in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will be a reality.

[@スガル]

Real life is getting closer to Black Ops 2 In 2025, we have a female president, drone warfare, hunter killer/switchblade, autonomous munition swarm, gun on drone/dragonfire, armed UGV/AGR, explosive RC car/RC-XD

[@Damocles3]

Quick note on editing: I know that blurring the borders of vertical videos is fashionable, but simple black background would work better

[@RasAlHaq]

Agreed - less distraction

[@Duke_Romilar_III]

Oh hell yeah!

[@renrutmat]

That population pyramid is astonishing. More so than anything else in this presentation.

[@MM22966]

Yep. Right into the bucket. Japan and China and quite a few others aren't that far behind.

[@A_Haunted_Pancake]

@@MM22966 Pretty much every developed nation, so in reality, the numbers-game in the big league is a much more level playing field than some people make it out to be. People seem to forget that until about a 100 years ago, the Worlds population never went above 2 Billion. With regards to resources & pollution, a significant drop would be a good thing but no, I don't suggest taking drastic measures to make that happen.

[@disbeafakename167]

Some people have been bleating loudly for years that the world is overpopulated and that people are destroying the planet. Many people listened.

[@MM22966]

@@A_Haunted_Pancake Yeah, with one caveat: It's only the developed nations (except the US) dropping like rocks. The UNdeveloped nations along the equatorial belt are squirting out kids like no tomorrow because they still have that medieval/agrarian mindset toward family growth. So world pop probably isn't going to drop as much as people think. It's just going to spill in from different places. I still remember everybody throwing their hands up in the air not ten years ago and the fifty-plus before that over the straight-line projections about 10-12 billion by 2100, world famine by 2050, mass starvation, the sky is falling, etc, etc. Things are never as good or bad as predicted.

[@martinhall1188]

My understanding is that South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world. Obviously a complex issue, but one of the main factors often put forward are the cultural expectations on married women (vs single women who are increasingly well educated, etc).

[@leflavius_nl5370]

live footage could be considered a really long slidesheet that plays really fast nice

[@KRIGBERT]

As a kindergarten teacher, I found this video to be less relevant to my work than usual. I still enjoyed it, but am looking forward to more videos on escalation management and the internal politics of the Russian military.

[@shanelyon414]

You must work at Oxfords kindergarten program.

[@hurgcat]

glad to see another kg educator loitering in peruns comment section

[@KRIGBERT]

@@shanelyon414 why's that?

[@KRIGBERT]

@@hurgcat likewise

[@johannesschubert403]

Gold comment!!!! 😂😂😂

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Nice to see someone geek out at an expo like I would have...living vicariously through the Australian PowerPoint Man

[@markhenderson6389]

Stunning! Easily one of my favorite videos on the channel, offering an in-depth, understandable overview and analysis of a defense exhibition. More than reciting equipment specifications, you offer thoughtful observations on industry trends and their potential impact on current and future conflicts. Thank you, exceptionally well done!

[@anothermike867]

I love that you mentioned how the younger military personnel could speak intelligently to the bigger strategic picture and their role in it, while they likely had to compete with their peers to represent their units, having anyone that well educated will be a force multiplier for their unit

[@Mihgolah]

Sir, your content is becoming more and more awesome. Please continue.

[@judithbradford9130]

Imagining what a dinner table would look like full of Perun fans at this expo!

[@robertbruce7686]

Code red! I repeat CODE RED 😂😂😂

[@katfrog98]

A refreshing and edifying episode. Thank you. Who can say what my country (USA) will do; we're all holding our breath until the election. Regardless of the outcome, it seems that Ukraine has options, and S. Korea is determined to provide good ones.

[@SianaGearz]

Unfortunately unless Korean political stance evolves drastically, Ukraine will not be allowed to receive any weapons procured there. Best case these can backfill some Polish-owned weapons while Poland supplies systems that have already been cleared to supply to Ukraine. But i don't think there's much room for that left. Koreans actually like Ukraine a fair bit; it's just that they're afraid of China more.

[@jintsuubest9331]

SK still want to play both side. None of SK stuff sent will be of any uses for combat. Kinda like Japan only allow the money donated to spend on administrative and humanitarian stuff. Ukraine is stuck with US, unfortunately. European still dragging their feet with the likes of Scholz being coward and Orban being Putin lap dog.

[@LackofFaithify]

What are you talking about? They aren't giving Ukraine jack.

[@katfrog98]

@@LackofFaithify That is a fact, and there are a number of reasons for our, at best, parsimonious contributions (none of them good enough to me). However, the US isn't the worlds only banker and weapons producer. It is plausible that Ukraine might survive if Harris does not win the election, though it will be a tight squeeze. S. Korea is a significant contributing factor, and there are others.

[@venanziadorromatagni1641]

“Armed Robodog” is basically the kinetik version of Airbud.

[@SGresponse]

The day Perun got his Media badge was the day that he must have seriously considered making Perun into a media brand with actual contributors and employees and press accreditation etc. We're here for it, Perun, just DO IT and don't look back!

[@christopherostrom6689]

You probably don't need to hear it, but thanks so much for the fantastic subject, content, presentation, etc.!

[@SpookyEng1]

Interesting topic this week! The Koreans are definitely upping their arms export game.

[@Mariner797]

Perun, thank you for coming to Korea, I hope my mainland kin were not too overbearing in their eagerness.

[@WD40a]

우린 하던 대로 해오고 있었는데, 어느날 갑자기 무기 딜러가 됐더라? 알고보니 남들은 평화를 즐길 때 우리만 고생하고 있었서.

[@drsteiner12]

북한, 중국, 일본이 주변에 있으니 어쩔수 없지.…. 우리나라는 약하게 보이면 주변에서 먹으려고 드니 ㅋㅋ

[@daiakunin]

I'm very excited about the channel's future as a travel vlog.

[@nohandlehere55]

This is great! When the class has a field trip day!

[@saint-miscreant]

a vlog?? in my powerpoint?! sacrilege!

[@stalincat2457]

It's obviously a powerpoint running at 30 slides a second

[@marcussassan]

I get up Sundays here in western U.S., get my coffee ready and check to see if you uploaded your video. Its a good day

[@fritztango]

This was absolutely fascinating. Thank you.

[@moonman8945]

Poland and South Korea are a goated dou. As an American I’m extremely happy to see our allies cooperating and creating next gen tech even better than ours. We’ll stand strong together in this shaky world

[@GunPotato87]

Little Timmy most definitely wants to know the price.

[@LegaliseFinland]

Love hearing Perun excited like this

[@jamesholden8256]

I bought my first DJI Phantom in 2015 and from the first flight knew that warfare was changed. Just the recon capabilities was insane.

[@m.streicher8286]

Asking for a guarantee that you'd make a video about the event is totally reasonable if they're gonna show you around early.

[@DrownedLamp9]

Can't fly a drone when all the open air around it disappears. #BringBackFlak And now to find out what actually works.

[@ieuanhunt552]

Also don't forget to bring grandpappy old "skeet" shotgun. That he definitely didn't poach with in the rationing era 1950s

[@r.k.5031]

Interesting thought: someone, somewhere, in the 1950's rationing era, probably poached something with a flak gun.

[@tandemcharge5114]

Flak never went away

[@PhysicsGamer]

@@tandemcharge5114 It kind of did. Imagine a .50-caliber or 20mm flak "shell" and how much easier it would be to hit drones with it without needing a guidance package. Until recently it was definitely conventional wisdom that unguided surface-to-air was at least somewhat anachronistic.

[@Appletank8]

To be fair helicopters are still vulnerable to being shot at, but one weapon system capable of attacking helis and planes makes more sense than carrying two different systems around. Drone are numerous enough that it seems wise to carry a dedicated counter now.

[@elektrotehnik94]

Love you all! ❤️

[@fredslipknot9]

Happy Sunday my dude!

[@levanaah]

You too!

[@tullythetiger7917]

Yay Perun post

[@colekarrh9114]

6:14 Did the peun just get a girl friend from the military industrial complex

[@Sean40K]

No, he got a girlfriend who does humanitarian work. He is the one in the industrial complex.

[@suntiger745]

I'm not sure how you got that from him talking about having a translator to assist him was incredibly useful for the kind of questions/discussions he did?

[@tdb7992]

Asianometry was at the exhibition too. Two of my favourite channels. You should've taken the Australian government's credit card with you and brought back some fun new toys Perun.

[@norbertt11]

K3 looks like something the GDI would use XD

[@Nainara32]

GDI got the "MRLS" which looked like an M270. NOD got the artillery piece.

[@Jarran91]

Look up the European tank in battlefield 2142 :D

[@BF-uh4rz]

Great vid as always

[@PatrolBoat-Riverine-Streetgang]

With regard to the unwillingness of Koreans to name competitor, when I lived there in the late 80s there were laws against comparing your product to your competitors in advertising. You could say your product was numba hanna (#1) but not say yours was better than your competitor. Not the same, but similar. Cultural difference maybe. I'm just an US military intelligence army veteran, I dunno.

[@TheTrolleyWhisperer]

I just looked it up and comparative advertising was illegal until 2001 but it's still not normally done as its considered arrogant. Very interesting.

[@PatrolBoat-Riverine-Streetgang]

@@TheTrolleyWhisperer Which explains why they were reluctant to do it. Thanks for doing the legwork, that helps make sense of it.

[@WilcovdSteen]

Perun field trip!! So hyped now, this will be great!

[@DrownedLamp9]

9:55 Development heresey? Like they don't light the incense till after they interface with the toaster? 😳

[@robertbruce7686]

😂😂😂😂😂 sooo true

[@beerandchips2545]

"Let's get these slides started." And a catchphrase was born.

[@grahamstrouse1165]

Warmate sounds like a terrifying kitchen appliance.

[@Chris-bb2cb]

Thanks Perun amazing as usual.

[@cia6264]

Perunday finally here again

[@SomeDiscussionRecommended]

Love to see a new video every Sunday! Thanks for all the work you put in to give us a new, interesting, informative video every week :)