As noted in the community post, I made the decision to delay and coverage of Kursk (and the fighting in Donetsk and on other active fronts) at least until next week to give me time to clarify the situation and its significance as best I can. If I believe I can add some useful perspective or information to the discussion, that will go up next week. If not, I will delay the release until I can. Until then, please enjoy this reminder that we are now in a universe where drones are used to attack drones so the drones can't spot targets (that might then be engaged by drones). One correction though - at one point I refer to a Russian online commentator claiming that there were no wounded as a result of an airbase attack - the claim is in fact that there were no killed, the question of wounded is ambiguous.
I love the juxtaposition between modern slang and phrases, serious military discussions, and legitimate questions and desire for knowledge about evolving situations. It's Perun's channel in a nutshell, but I still love it:D Thanks for the chuckle
Quick is also valuable, as long as it doesn't pretend to be more accurate than it actually is. But most of the news industry is already centered around being quick. It's not hard to find articles reporting what Russia's press releases say, reporting that Ukraine isn't commenting, pointing out that Russia's press releases seem to contain inconsistencies with each other and reality, and pointing out that there isn't enough information to say what's really going on on the ground. It's the slower, more accurate reporting written when events aren't fresh that's harder to find.
@@SnakebitSTIThat's what all the VC data maps updated in real-time are for, as they're indeed heavily used by Perun.. after giving it a while to make sure it's followed up on and further scrutinized.
@@nickcharles1284 Lol, way to show off your brainwashing. I don't even understand what point you're trying to make here but if we focus on Perun's videos here... he's done no less than 2 videos on Bakhmut and related events. He rarely ever does episodes about individual battles or areas, so Bakhmut is a very blatant standout. I.e. the opposite of acting like it doesn't matter. This took me literally 5 seconds to double check.
@@EthanDyTioco Correct. He's repeatedly mentioned he deliberately avoids covering breaking news because, to paraphrase something military types like to say, 'the first information you receive ususally turns out false" What with the fog of war and the information campaigns going on on both sides, it's sensible to give the dust time to settle before you cover something in depth.
@@Kinzarr4ever i didn't say he didn't cover it. I'm saying he drew the wrong conclusions from it. If he had understood the situation, he would have predicted its fall as inevitable. If he understood the meaning of its fall, he would have seen it as the template for the way the rest of the war would go for Ukraine, and know the war was lost. But Perun knows nothing about war, strategy, tactics, the reality of wartime production and logistics, politics of the region, the cultures involved or the history of the region. So how could he understand what independent military and political observers could see what was inevitable 2 years ago?
And Flashgitz reuploaded their mash between Bluey, Warhammer 4k, and Furries. They're upset Australia sent them a C&D so they swapped the color palette.
Due to perennial logi issues; Pavil, Vadim and Alexei are expected to be no scoping gods.. because of a shortage of optics. "See Vadim, will not miss if held like this because you must not shoot self with bullet,"
The point you made that, if Russia were truly afraid of an attack by NATO, they wouldn't be using all their biggest air defense systems against Ukraine is so good. This is why I love this channel. You say smart things, and you do it casually.
People have been making that point for a while. Russia has also been conspicuously moving very large numbers of troops and equipment away from its actual borders with NATO and down to the war in Ukraine, which wouldn’t make any sense if NATO was threatening them.
@@lemming573 If you're looking for some broader coverage on the Russo-Ukrain war, then Anders Nielsen (www.youtube.com/@anderspuck) would be a decent source. Quick 10 minute presentations that go over current events in the war in broad strokes, and he talks about why Russia does the things it does.
Russia is under attack by NATO and the US right now. Good grief. It is why they finally went over the border in 2022. Perun has no grasp of geo political reality.
Regarding your exiting message: As someone who is certainly wanting to know more about the recent counter-invasion, I'll just say *please* keep prioritizing accuracy and fully verified or at least qualified information over turn-around-time, video churn, and clicks! Your videos are one of the most informative deep dives I (as a civilian) have been able to find for reliable and in-depth information on the war. Thank you for all the hard work I know these take to find relevant information and assemble a narrative worth sharing. Not a patron yet unfortunately, but will certainly when I decide I have the budget for it. I much appreciate anyone who is supporting you and your work right now.
Man I love that your slides themselves are not necessary for the video. Most of my sundays I have to drive two hours and your video is the perfect "Audio book" for the first our of the ride
Almost every Sunday I turn on your new video, take a shower, put on my uniform, and once the video ends, I head back to the barracks. This has been the routine from the beginning of my service in January and will likely be the routine till the end of my service in December. Great presentations, much better than what I see in training 👍
1:50 "The recent Ukranian cross-border roadtrip..." That was a phrase I never knew I needed so much to describe Ukraine's recent Special Military Operations in the Kursk region. 😂😂😂
Can anybody explain to me the purpose of this? It really just seems like a political move to convince the western politicians they still have some fight in them.
You mean Ukraine’s support for the totally democratic self-determination of the Kursk People’s Republic? Ukraine’s just protecting those people from Russian genocide.
Ukraine should organize a quick 'referendum' that would result in the new Kursk Independent Republic, complete with the request for military aid from Ukraine just to fulfill the 'Special Military Operation' requirements :)
The depressing truth is that that whole "the bomber always gets through" thing is still true. You can deploy the most radically advanced and thickest air defense screen around and sure, you'll reduce the number of strikes getting through by 60 to 80 percent. Which is good and better than having no air defense at all but still sucks when you are trying to defend civilian cities, hospitals and vital power plants.
Made me think of Dr Seuss. "Did you ever feel there's a Wocket in your pocket? Or a Jertin in your curtain? Maybe there's a Gepard in your back yard. "
Out of all the possible timelines we ended up with the one where hundreds of thousands of people watch PowerPoint presentations about war and geopolitics made by an Australian dude. Lol
"The problem with drones is you can hear them coming." Wonder how long until we get drones with a 'sleep' and 'wake up' timer, so the fighters scramble, a few drones abort the attack, park themselves nearby, and then a day later attack from half a km away, giving no warning at all.
I've seen footage from a much more local scale. Literally a drone waking up and taking out a half dozen people as a controlled mine. Stuff is terrifying. Battlefields were not particularly safe throughout history. This is a whole different addition.
41:14 for anyone wondering, that's the rear part of the ATACMS cluster missile. It doesn't explode when shot at a target. The missile spins (with tiny rockets) and then ejects about 900 softball sized sub-munitions, each with many tungsten fragments. The rear of the missile just hits the ground nearby.
Yup, that's why it's more-optimal to intercept during boost phase, the little longest window for stopping packages is the ballistic coast phase, but the greatest opportunity to actually achieve intercept is always on the terminal-flight phase. I am pretty sure you knew that, it's a comment for those who don't.
For viewers yes, but advertising numbers favor the early birds over accurate reporting. That's another reason I like Perun... the goal of accuracy seems to supercede the desire for more clicks.
I think when you say “the warheads mounted to FPV drones ….” You have to remember that three years ago, that sentence was inconceivable. They’ll adapt super fast.
It was very conceivable, people who knew just didn't want to talk about it because they didn't want their hobby/profession to get slammed with even more regulation.
The Houthi’s flew a bunch of drones into a Saudi oil refinery in 2019. That refinery was protected by a patriot battery. So it was conceivable back then.
The crazy thing is that back in the early 90s, long before quadrotors were a thing, I remember flying fixed wing RC planes in my school's RC club, and thinking how easy it would be to attach some sort of payload released by a servo. I remember thinking that there must be some fundamental thing I was missing, but no, that totally works and is really dangerous. And that was when the 386 was hot new tech.
If there is one thing this war has made everybody appreciate, it's how spoiled we were by the professionalism, detail-orientation, and sheer completeness of US/NATO air campaigns over the last 50 years. They made it look *easy* taking apart a modern air defence system.
NATO indeed has the technological and strategical edge when it comes to combined arms warfare. If we disregard the nuclear option, it's hard to imagine RUAF withstanding a full-scale NATO assault, even if I'm biased towards Russia myself
@@stanislav_skorobogatov In the nature of fairness to your statement, one thing I am NOT convinced of is that while NATO/US intervention at this point would rapidly destroy Russia from the air/sea, I am not sure how much they could do on land. Not because they don't have good gear, but Russia is a BYWORD for stubborn and have demonstrated a willingness as a people (not just in leadership) to take casualties that would make most NATO countries blanch. They've taken more casualties in the last 2+ years fighting Ukraine than NATO/US has taken since about the mid-1960's in all their conflicts. I am not sure if that is admirable, but it is a fact. NATO/US ground forces are expensively trained and relatively small (in proportion to their populations) precision instruments. I am not sure what would happen if they were committed to serious ground action along the Eastern Front in any depth/long time period. Historically, that hasn't ended well for the attacker (which sometimes includes Russia!). On the other hand, none of Russia's previous opponents had such total dominance via the air.
@@MM22966 "Not because they don't have good gear, but Russia is a BYWORD for stubborn and have demonstrated a willingness as a people (not just in leadership) to take casualties that would make most NATO countries blanch." Doesn't really matter in the face of the combined ground forces of NATO. Russia has less population than the United States alone, a nation who voluntarily, without any conscription whatsoever, just fought a 2 decade long war for little actual reason. At best they'd end up as partisans. "Historically, that hasn't ended well for the attacker" Historically, Russia also hasn't fought an opponent with anything even remotely resembling the logistic leviathan that is the United States + allies.
@@professionalschizo Your points are good, but I will stand by what I said. War is never as easy or as hard as it is made out to be from the start. Things get unpredictable. And we are both leaving out why this is just hypothetical armchair generaling: nukes.
I'm pretty sure that particular element is high on a lot of people's priority lists. Being able to quickly bore tunnels beneath your enemy's lines would make minefield defense a lot less viable.
Perun's PowerPoint is impressive always, I'm listening and enjoying this late afternoon chewing my delicious miraa and water, you're military eisodes make me addictive, can't wait every Sunday, thank you BIG THANKS my friend perun.
Right, it's backwards. Should be: Air-to-air attacks stick Air-to-air attacks shotgun Air to air attacks chainsaw on pole and so on. So that they stay together when alphabetized.
@@GizzyDillespee maybe they are sorted like: Stick air-to-air Stick air-to-ground Stick ground-to-air Stick ground-to-ground Who knows what secret military strategies Perun is privy to 🤔
Was watching Chieftain’s most recent video on the NTC and 11ACR and wondered what, and how, they’re evaluating Ukraine and how drones are affecting the battlefield, armor effects in that case. For air, I suspect if you’re cruising at a typical higher altitude you’ll have different threat challenges than if you’re in, say, an Apache flying ground ops. You don’t need to be a “near peer” adversary to leverage drones as an air asset now. But, generally, I haven’t seen much on how the US DoD plans on dealing with the “drone problem”. Especially the low cost smaller ones. I’d bet one of the current US “near peers” could field millions of them.
Yeah, they've been angling towards DEWs for a while now, I believe the UK recently attached one to a warship for testing? And of course jamming as per usual.
I've been thinking a lot about how China is the country with the largest production capacity for drones and components and what a war would look like if China decided to field millions and millions of fpv drones at the same time.
I forget his channel name, but you are looking for a guy who goes by _"Capi,"_ and his catchphrase is, "just an average infantry man trying to make sense of the world."
I can't get over how funny you are! Clever, dry and hilariously amusing ways of describing things are my favorite form of funny and you are a master at it. While the information you give is always of very high quality, the delivery is priceless. Thank you for that.
6:43 I was going to point out that a spotlight is a EM emission, just one we can directly perceive, then realized that radar is basically a fancy search/spot light working in a different spectrum. Don't know how I never made this connection before or why this isn't the LCD explanation of how radar (or LIDAR) works.
This is your best video yet. No shiz, this inspired me to start madly sketching out a drawing, for a much anticipated oil painting about drones; those little “eyes in sky”. Greatly appreciated, legend.
As a long-time EVE Online player, one of in-game feature that I least expected to see in real life was a swarm of reusable, lethal drones that are also expendable like ammunitions. There's a gamer in me that says "it's cool to see science fiction happen in real life", and also a gamer in me that says "it's terrible that video game violence is happening in real life".
When combat footage is more and more looking like C&C TibSun timeline.. or that MGS4 wasn't that far off in some aspects.. it's indeed terrifying. This war is currently changing the entirety of how P2P conventual warfare is understood.
Can't believe Eve is still going. Played it when it first came out & was part of the Mercenary Coalition. Loved it but wasn't time compatible with new born kids 😂
@@audiosurfarchive that's because it was based on stuff many people in defense circles had been talking about for at least a "little while". The game director is not some genius (except maybe creatively) or seer - he is well read, better read than 99% of the people who play his games. I mean, for godsake, a lot of the stuff from MGS2 was openly and frequently talked about is Pop Sci, Wired and IEEE magazines in the decade before that game came out.
@@gregs7562 I played from 2005-2014 ish, loved seeing what MC was getting up to..yall did good work. Meanwhile I just putted around low/null in frigs and cruisers dying gloriously ...or to gate guns. (Yall also introduced me to one of my favorite bands though the EVE Online - BDCI Capitalfleet 2005 video )
Sure. There are baby drones who are very curious and look at All The Things. There are mommy drones that beat up anything that tries to hurt their baby drones, and there are daddy drones that go and try to beat up other drones swarms for looking at things they shouldn't. ;)
Being not native english speaker. I alwats enjoy a lot reference or joke trown to us with the very serious narrator voice when i catch them. +1 for the warhammer reference :)))
Russia using its air defense missiles liberally seems like less of a "they don't consider NATO a threat" thing, and more of a "don't save up for a rainy day in a hurricane" thing.
What is most astonishing is the way Ukraine, and previously Israel, have knocked out the S300-S400 AAM which is supposed to be to defend against the very systems used to destroy them!
I mean, Moskva suffered the same fate a month into the invasion, that should have recalibrated everyone's expectations of the "second army of the world".
18:55 "Now listen up! Back in my day, we didn't have fancy tanks! We had sticks. Two sticks and a rock for the entire platoon! And we had to share the rock!" -Sgt Maj Avery Johnson.
I don't even know the name of your gaming channel, but really Perun. You made a bunch of gamers sit through a power point, are you serious? 😂 I think I'm going to rupture something. My side hurts from laughing so much. Ps. Love your work on this channel at least, and I guess I love the updates about your gaming one too. Win win
Oh boy, it's called Perun Gaming and that PowerPoint made PERFECT sense in the context! He's playing X4, and plotting the defense of a whole cluster of star systems owned by like 4 different factions against a common enemy. It was Needed. He also plays Xcom, Terra Invicta, Phoenix Point... and even helped kick off Tex of the Black Pants Legion's ahistorical playthroughs of Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnaughts!
Appreciate your choice not to rush out a piece, on the surprise incursion into Russia. A high quality Perun output when the dust is starting to settle is much prefered.
"getting a rock drunk" Isn't much fun. You'd think they'd be heavyweights and reach the bottom of the bottle, but dribble one sip on a rock and it will just pass out.
" listening out for things that sound like particularly murderous lawn mowers ".... This is just one of many data points that confirms without a doubt that he is Australian.
As noted in the community post, I made the decision to delay and coverage of Kursk (and the fighting in Donetsk and on other active fronts) at least until next week to give me time to clarify the situation and its significance as best I can. If I believe I can add some useful perspective or information to the discussion, that will go up next week. If not, I will delay the release until I can.
Until then, please enjoy this reminder that we are now in a universe where drones are used to attack drones so the drones can't spot targets (that might then be engaged by drones).
One correction though - at one point I refer to a Russian online commentator claiming that there were no wounded as a result of an airbase attack - the claim is in fact that there were no killed, the question of wounded is ambiguous.
Wake up Honey Bunches. A new PowerPoint just dropped
Maybe even give it a fortnight… love the content!
Probably a good idea, lol. I've seen the same speculation and unanswered questions shared over and over again for the last 3 days
I had really looked forward to Perun's perspective on the Kursk development. But i guess this makes sense.
Always appreciate the restraint, I can gawk and speculate on my own time 😅
I guess it's "Sticks and stones will break my drones" now.
That would be the equivalent of crashing into a tree or the ground.
… but words will get you NATO funding to hurt me?
I see what you did there. Clever. 👍
A russian drone tried to use a water bottle agaisnt another drone, hit it the enemy almost hit the ground but recovery fine
"but excessive AA will never hurt me"
"Particularly murderous lawnmowers" wasn't a phrase I knew that I needed
His wit is top tier. It's used sporadically enough that it doesn't wear out its welcome.
Do you regularly think about phrases you need in your life?
We need a new set of Bingo cards.
"Murderous Lawnmowers" is a great name for a band
@@LukeBunyip Time to start a metal band I see.
Finally, the answer to the question "what air defense doin?" and oh boy is it an answer...
I love the juxtaposition between modern slang and phrases, serious military discussions, and legitimate questions and desire for knowledge about evolving situations.
It's Perun's channel in a nutshell, but I still love it:D
Thanks for the chuckle
Shooting at anything faster and heavier than your average sized swan. The abundance mindset showing heavy.
"What air defense doin?!"
"Yes, but also no."
@@Akumasama"I used memes. Give me likes"
Everyone always asks "What is air defense doing?" but never "How is air defense doing?" :(
"My general preference is to prioritize being accurate over being quick." That is why we listen
This is the way
Quick is also valuable, as long as it doesn't pretend to be more accurate than it actually is. But most of the news industry is already centered around being quick. It's not hard to find articles reporting what Russia's press releases say, reporting that Ukraine isn't commenting, pointing out that Russia's press releases seem to contain inconsistencies with each other and reality, and pointing out that there isn't enough information to say what's really going on on the ground.
It's the slower, more accurate reporting written when events aren't fresh that's harder to find.
@@SnakebitSTIThat's what all the VC data maps updated in real-time are for, as they're indeed heavily used by Perun.. after giving it a while to make sure it's followed up on and further scrutinized.
Sunday isn’t complete without Australian PowerPoint man
I too, like Economics Explained lol.
And particularly murderous lawn mowers.😂😂😂
With the incredible power to get people to sit through an entire hour-long PowerPoint presentation!
Honestly, this would work even without PP, but not with only PP.
Best part of the Sunday routine is making a pot of coffee, sitting on the porch, and waiting for that Perun notification to pop up.
Weekend essentials: Nice dinner (1-3), Dance (4-6hrs), Perun Power Point (quant. suff.)
For us locals, it's have dinner, shower, get ready for bed and wait till midnight till the new Perun notification to pop up.
Cigarette coffee and perun essentials for a sunday morning
what a boring life you have
Sunny Sunday afternoon with a beer in the garden enjoying some powerpoint
your decision of delaying coverage of the Kursk - - operation has more than earned you my thumbs up and comment. Keep on doing what you're doing.
perun seems to have kept this principle for a while too, preferring to wait a bit to have a better view of things. i prefer it as well
@@nickcharles1284 Lol, way to show off your brainwashing. I don't even understand what point you're trying to make here but if we focus on Perun's videos here... he's done no less than 2 videos on Bakhmut and related events. He rarely ever does episodes about individual battles or areas, so Bakhmut is a very blatant standout. I.e. the opposite of acting like it doesn't matter. This took me literally 5 seconds to double check.
@@EthanDyTioco Correct. He's repeatedly mentioned he deliberately avoids covering breaking news because, to paraphrase something military types like to say, 'the first information you receive ususally turns out false"
What with the fog of war and the information campaigns going on on both sides, it's sensible to give the dust time to settle before you cover something in depth.
@@Kinzarr4ever i didn't say he didn't cover it. I'm saying he drew the wrong conclusions from it. If he had understood the situation, he would have predicted its fall as inevitable. If he understood the meaning of its fall, he would have seen it as the template for the way the rest of the war would go for Ukraine, and know the war was lost. But Perun knows nothing about war, strategy, tactics, the reality of wartime production and logistics, politics of the region, the cultures involved or the history of the region. So how could he understand what independent military and political observers could see what was inevitable 2 years ago?
@@nickcharles1284 ah yes please enlighten us with your objective wisdom mr account created 2 months before the start of the invasion
Perun finally answers the age-old question, "wat air defense doing?"
😂 what a callback
But nobody ask "How air defence doing?"😢
@@RonGardener4142doing okay, but could use some more launchers and munitions
29 degrees, earbuds, icecream, lovely breeze, Australian powerpoint.
Perfect. Sunday.
34 degrees, headphones, ice coffee, army base in ME, Australian PowerPoint.
Not the perfect Sunday, but I manage
* Confused Freedomer noises *
26 Degrees, headphones, glass (or two) of Australian wine, Australian power point.
New Zealand PowerPoint
77 degrees, freshly grilled burgers, lemonade, Australian power point man. 9/10 sunday
The family is watching Bluey and I'm watching Perun--Australia's two greatest cultural exports!
And Flashgitz reuploaded their mash between Bluey, Warhammer 4k, and Furries. They're upset Australia sent them a C&D so they swapped the color palette.
Isn't he in New Zealand?
@@Marinealver UA-cam channel info says Australian
be sure to venerate your local oak in his name 🙏
Me too! 🤣
Pavel's No-Scope skills shall not be denigrated!
Due to perennial logi issues; Pavil, Vadim and Alexei are expected to be no scoping gods.. because of a shortage of optics.
"See Vadim, will not miss if held like this because you must not shoot self with bullet,"
My wife just delivered our third child, its a beautiful day, and Perun uploads a masterpiece once again.
Life is good
Congratulations! I am going to have a cigar, join me?
Life is good, guys ❤
The question is: were you two watching Perun when that child was conceived? ;-)
@@clancyjames585if Perun was on there would be no interest in conception. Sorry babe, but Perun needs me for an hour!
She must have appreciated the time alone with the new baby before you finished the video. 😂
the "bloke with a shotgun in the backseat of a yak" approach to drone hunting is pretty legendary
I never thought war economics could be so interesting. Thank you for posting these classes. From the Bad Lands of New Mexico, USA.
Both interesting and, during actual war, somewhat morbid.
it's true, i did not have "stick air to air kills" on my bingo card
Same kinda vibe as f22 vs balloon
The point you made that, if Russia were truly afraid of an attack by NATO, they wouldn't be using all their biggest air defense systems against Ukraine is so good.
This is why I love this channel. You say smart things, and you do it casually.
People have been making that point for a while. Russia has also been conspicuously moving very large numbers of troops and equipment away from its actual borders with NATO and down to the war in Ukraine, which wouldn’t make any sense if NATO was threatening them.
@@phueal Forgive me, I don't spend much time on the war, Perun is one of the only sources for me at this point.
@@lemming573 If you're looking for some broader coverage on the Russo-Ukrain war, then Anders Nielsen (www.youtube.com/@anderspuck) would be a decent source. Quick 10 minute presentations that go over current events in the war in broad strokes, and he talks about why Russia does the things it does.
@@phuealNATO expansion threatens Russia's ability to practice divide and conquer strategy on its neighbouring countries.
Russia is under attack by NATO and the US right now. Good grief. It is why they finally went over the border in 2022. Perun has no grasp of geo political reality.
Regarding your exiting message: As someone who is certainly wanting to know more about the recent counter-invasion, I'll just say *please* keep prioritizing accuracy and fully verified or at least qualified information over turn-around-time, video churn, and clicks! Your videos are one of the most informative deep dives I (as a civilian) have been able to find for reliable and in-depth information on the war. Thank you for all the hard work I know these take to find relevant information and assemble a narrative worth sharing.
Not a patron yet unfortunately, but will certainly when I decide I have the budget for it. I much appreciate anyone who is supporting you and your work right now.
Man I love that your slides themselves are not necessary for the video. Most of my sundays I have to drive two hours and your video is the perfect "Audio book" for the first our of the ride
Yep.
Perun is running while I prep Sunday dinner.
Almost every Sunday I turn on your new video, take a shower, put on my uniform, and once the video ends, I head back to the barracks. This has been the routine from the beginning of my service in January and will likely be the routine till the end of my service in December. Great presentations, much better than what I see in training 👍
That unexpected Warhammer Vampire Lords reference got me.
You are not alone.
Perun is a Warhammer Fan. Lovely
Too bad he didn't say "Vampire Counts" in his Aussie accent
1:50 "The recent Ukranian cross-border roadtrip..."
That was a phrase I never knew I needed so much to describe Ukraine's recent Special Military Operations in the Kursk region. 😂😂😂
Quite a bumpy ride indeed
Can anybody explain to me the purpose of this? It really just seems like a political move to convince the western politicians they still have some fight in them.
@@thanksskeletor4812 they create a precedent, that might force Russia to divert more troops from the front to their (very long) border with Ukraine.
You mean Ukraine’s support for the totally democratic self-determination of the Kursk People’s Republic? Ukraine’s just protecting those people from Russian genocide.
Ukraine should organize a quick 'referendum' that would result in the new Kursk Independent Republic, complete with the request for military aid from Ukraine
just to fulfill the 'Special Military Operation' requirements :)
"A Gepard in every backyard" would be a campaign slogan I could get behind.
“Accurately over quick” is why Perun is the GOAT. (Maybe a stretch in accuracy). But warm greetings from Poulsbo, Washington
VDS. Vampire Deployment System. Honestly shooting ACTUAL vampires would probably not make the top 10 weirdest things I’ve seen in this war.
Vampires turned bats are kind of blood-fueled drones themselves
facts
I mean they're already using drones with pointed stakes in an anti drone capacity so they're already pretty well-prepared to adapt.
Cloudy with a chance of High Explosive Rain
The Russian supply convoy in Kursk had "Cloudy with a 100% chance of tungsten rain" and still neglected to bring an armored umbrella.
I can vouch for Pavel's noscope skills, very precise
Sunday is complete. Thank you, my fine Emutopian.
The depressing truth is that that whole "the bomber always gets through" thing is still true. You can deploy the most radically advanced and thickest air defense screen around and sure, you'll reduce the number of strikes getting through by 60 to 80 percent.
Which is good and better than having no air defense at all but still sucks when you are trying to defend civilian cities, hospitals and vital power plants.
Russians don't target civilians or hospitals.
@@johnsmith1474 yes they do
“ critical existence failure “ killed me 😂 keep it up ur videos make my day 👍
"A Gepard for every Yard" John C. Zombie for Zombie President, he's got my vote
Made me think of Dr Seuss.
"Did you ever feel there's a Wocket in your pocket? Or a Jertin in your curtain? Maybe there's a Gepard in your back yard. "
The unanswered question; was the stick mounted on the Drone a _pointy_ stick...?
Its too round it should be pointy. Pointy is scary
It had to be pointy otherwise it would not have worked
* point*ed* (eh formatting fail)
😁😆😅🤣
Pointy sticks, oh pointy pointy. Anoint my drones, anointy 'nointy
Using light prop planes to skeet drones is an interesting application of "don't be worth shooting at".
Out of all the possible timelines we ended up with the one where hundreds of thousands of people watch PowerPoint presentations about war and geopolitics made by an Australian dude. Lol
I love that this video comes out as the F16 is being integrated momentarily
Yes, in that sense air defense is a timely enough subject. I would worry more about Russian SAMs than fighters.
Non-Americans: soon... momentarily means for a very short period of time.
"The problem with drones is you can hear them coming."
Wonder how long until we get drones with a 'sleep' and 'wake up' timer, so the fighters scramble, a few drones abort the attack, park themselves nearby, and then a day later attack from half a km away, giving no warning at all.
I've seen footage from a much more local scale. Literally a drone waking up and taking out a half dozen people as a controlled mine. Stuff is terrifying. Battlefields were not particularly safe throughout history. This is a whole different addition.
Those already exist, and it's a common method of avoiding jamming taking down your drones.
Holy shit get a job at RTX dude
41:14 for anyone wondering, that's the rear part of the ATACMS cluster missile. It doesn't explode when shot at a target. The missile spins (with tiny rockets) and then ejects about 900 softball sized sub-munitions, each with many tungsten fragments. The rear of the missile just hits the ground nearby.
Yup, that's why it's more-optimal to intercept during boost phase, the little longest window for stopping packages is the ballistic coast phase, but the greatest opportunity to actually achieve intercept is always on the terminal-flight phase.
I am pretty sure you knew that, it's a comment for those who don't.
Accuracy is always better then speed in news. Thank you for your accurate coverage Perun!
For viewers yes, but advertising numbers favor the early birds over accurate reporting. That's another reason I like Perun... the goal of accuracy seems to supercede the desire for more clicks.
Not the only reason... I also appreciate the lack of politics unless it really is important for the topic... and no wedge issues.
45:21 I realize that's just an ad, but... that picture in the bottom right is just so on-point. "come to scenic Ukraine, get blown to bits"
I think when you say “the warheads mounted to FPV drones ….” You have to remember that three years ago, that sentence was inconceivable. They’ll adapt super fast.
It was very conceivable, people who knew just didn't want to talk about it because they didn't want their hobby/profession to get slammed with even more regulation.
@@ToastyMozartyeah this wasn’t surprising to anyone who has mounted a DSLR to a drone for filming.
The Houthi’s flew a bunch of drones into a Saudi oil refinery in 2019. That refinery was protected by a patriot battery. So it was conceivable back then.
@@Taskarnin man...I have Pentax K1...would I mount that thing on a drone it would be a warhead in its own right :D
The crazy thing is that back in the early 90s, long before quadrotors were a thing, I remember flying fixed wing RC planes in my school's RC club, and thinking how easy it would be to attach some sort of payload released by a servo. I remember thinking that there must be some fundamental thing I was missing, but no, that totally works and is really dangerous. And that was when the 386 was hot new tech.
Added to my lexicon: "using the Saudi Approach".
Defined as, (or similar to): Using a full size Interceptor to bring down a hobby drone.
If they could make the missile out of gold, and make the propellant out of cash... don't give them any ideas🤣
Hmmm..
I wonder what the KE would be for gold bricks dropped from orbit?
I thought he said “yeeting” rather than “using.”
Looking forward to your take on the, uh, 'cross border road trip'.
Perun with the cheeky Warhammer FB reference - this is way better than power points at work!
If there is one thing this war has made everybody appreciate, it's how spoiled we were by the professionalism, detail-orientation, and sheer completeness of US/NATO air campaigns over the last 50 years. They made it look *easy* taking apart a modern air defence system.
NATO indeed has the technological and strategical edge when it comes to combined arms warfare. If we disregard the nuclear option, it's hard to imagine RUAF withstanding a full-scale NATO assault, even if I'm biased towards Russia myself
@@stanislav_skorobogatov In the nature of fairness to your statement, one thing I am NOT convinced of is that while NATO/US intervention at this point would rapidly destroy Russia from the air/sea, I am not sure how much they could do on land. Not because they don't have good gear, but Russia is a BYWORD for stubborn and have demonstrated a willingness as a people (not just in leadership) to take casualties that would make most NATO countries blanch. They've taken more casualties in the last 2+ years fighting Ukraine than NATO/US has taken since about the mid-1960's in all their conflicts. I am not sure if that is admirable, but it is a fact.
NATO/US ground forces are expensively trained and relatively small (in proportion to their populations) precision instruments. I am not sure what would happen if they were committed to serious ground action along the Eastern Front in any depth/long time period. Historically, that hasn't ended well for the attacker (which sometimes includes Russia!). On the other hand, none of Russia's previous opponents had such total dominance via the air.
@@MM22966 "Not because they don't have good gear, but Russia is a BYWORD for stubborn and have demonstrated a willingness as a people (not just in leadership) to take casualties that would make most NATO countries blanch."
Doesn't really matter in the face of the combined ground forces of NATO. Russia has less population than the United States alone, a nation who voluntarily, without any conscription whatsoever, just fought a 2 decade long war for little actual reason. At best they'd end up as partisans.
"Historically, that hasn't ended well for the attacker"
Historically, Russia also hasn't fought an opponent with anything even remotely resembling the logistic leviathan that is the United States + allies.
@@professionalschizo Your points are good, but I will stand by what I said. War is never as easy or as hard as it is made out to be from the start. Things get unpredictable. And we are both leaving out why this is just hypothetical armchair generaling: nukes.
Thank you perun you always seem to give truely in depth balanced information thats hard to find elsewhere.
Just started eating, perfect timing as always Perun.
Reminding myself that Perun is not talking about Tunnel Boring Machines when he says TBMs
I'm pretty sure that particular element is high on a lot of people's priority lists. Being able to quickly bore tunnels beneath your enemy's lines would make minefield defense a lot less viable.
Space X isn't building its lift capability with a diameter larger than the Boring Company's machine by accident.
I usually don’t lol during my Sunday defense economics presentation but “particularly murderous lawmower” got me this week 😂
Perun's PowerPoint is impressive always, I'm listening and enjoying this late afternoon chewing my delicious miraa and water, you're military eisodes make me addictive, can't wait every Sunday, thank you BIG THANKS my friend perun.
I appreciate that Perun is more concerned with accuracy than speed. It's like "Last Week Tonight" for military matters (and without the bad jokes).
Babe wake up, a new 1 hour long defense economics PowerPoint has dropped
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are you woke nerd?
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Sunny with a chance of high explosive rain.😂😂😂
I’d love to see your storage and organization strategy if you have a folder named “stick air-to-air attacks”.
Right, it's backwards. Should be:
Air-to-air attacks stick
Air-to-air attacks shotgun
Air to air attacks chainsaw on pole
and so on. So that they stay together when alphabetized.
@@GizzyDillespee or just nest 'em all in a folder labele 'a-a'?
'chainsaw on pole' rofl
@@GizzyDillespee maybe they are sorted like:
Stick air-to-air
Stick air-to-ground
Stick ground-to-air
Stick ground-to-ground
Who knows what secret military strategies Perun is privy to 🤔
@@Otek_Nr.3 Stick ground-to-ground would be talking about the Sino-Indian boarder skirmish.
"electromagnetic equivalent of a spotlight" would be a..... spotlight :)
Perun your goal of being accurate instead of fast is exactly why your content is consistently excellent.
Was watching Chieftain’s most recent video on the NTC and 11ACR and wondered what, and how, they’re evaluating Ukraine and how drones are affecting the battlefield, armor effects in that case.
For air, I suspect if you’re cruising at a typical higher altitude you’ll have different threat challenges than if you’re in, say, an Apache flying ground ops. You don’t need to be a “near peer” adversary to leverage drones as an air asset now.
But, generally, I haven’t seen much on how the US DoD plans on dealing with the “drone problem”. Especially the low cost smaller ones. I’d bet one of the current US “near peers” could field millions of them.
Mostly a mix of DEWs and jamming from what I can tell. That and flying above quadcopters' flight ceiling because they don't do contested airspace.
Yeah, they've been angling towards DEWs for a while now, I believe the UK recently attached one to a warship for testing? And of course jamming as per usual.
I've been thinking a lot about how China is the country with the largest production capacity for drones and components and what a war would look like if China decided to field millions and millions of fpv drones at the same time.
I forget his channel name, but you are looking for a guy who goes by _"Capi,"_ and his catchphrase is, "just an average infantry man trying to make sense of the world."
@@davidgoodnow269 I believe his channel is "Task & Purpose"
Love the dry humor. Informative and digestible content.
A lovely sunday tradition. The content is good enough to pay money for!
Very insightful Perun , thank you
I'm looking forward to the next generation US anti-missile air defence truck: Defendems
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Yes, my quota of Perun sarcastic comments has been met for another week! Keep up the good work Sir.
Something to listen to while being sick!
Get well soon!
@@gdutfulkbhh7537 thanks!
I can't get over how funny you are! Clever, dry and hilariously amusing ways of describing things are my favorite form of funny and you are a master at it. While the information you give is always of very high quality, the delivery is priceless. Thank you for that.
6:43 I was going to point out that a spotlight is a EM emission, just one we can directly perceive, then realized that radar is basically a fancy search/spot light working in a different spectrum. Don't know how I never made this connection before or why this isn't the LCD explanation of how radar (or LIDAR) works.
Exactly, radio, radar, Ir, x rays, gamma rays etc are all just photons, the only different at what frequency are they ocilating at.
The LIDAR equivalent on the microwave spectrum would be the maser based MASER but the AESA is the next best approximation of that.
This is your best video yet. No shiz, this inspired me to start madly sketching out a drawing, for a much anticipated oil painting about drones; those little “eyes in sky”. Greatly appreciated, legend.
I'd really love to see a colab between you and William Spaniel. You two are the only channels that i watch every video that comes out.
"Accuracy over quick"
That's what I'm here for, keep it up!
As a long-time EVE Online player, one of in-game feature that I least expected to see in real life was a swarm of reusable, lethal drones that are also expendable like ammunitions. There's a gamer in me that says "it's cool to see science fiction happen in real life", and also a gamer in me that says "it's terrible that video game violence is happening in real life".
When combat footage is more and more looking like C&C TibSun timeline.. or that MGS4 wasn't that far off in some aspects.. it's indeed terrifying. This war is currently changing the entirety of how P2P conventual warfare is understood.
Can't believe Eve is still going. Played it when it first came out & was part of the Mercenary Coalition. Loved it but wasn't time compatible with new born kids 😂
@@audiosurfarchive that's because it was based on stuff many people in defense circles had been talking about for at least a "little while".
The game director is not some genius (except maybe creatively) or seer - he is well read, better read than 99% of the people who play his games. I mean, for godsake, a lot of the stuff from MGS2 was openly and frequently talked about is Pop Sci, Wired and IEEE magazines in the decade before that game came out.
@@gregs7562 I played from 2005-2014 ish, loved seeing what MC was getting up to..yall did good work. Meanwhile I just putted around low/null in frigs and cruisers dying gloriously ...or to gate guns. (Yall also introduced me to one of my favorite bands though the EVE Online - BDCI Capitalfleet 2005 video )
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Totally understand. Happy to wait Perun.
You always provide great info and analysis.
Thanks 🙏👍👍👍
Woohoo. Sunday afternoon!
Looks like I’m the first one. Thanks for your videos and your objective coverage and your support of Ukraine
Weekly ppppp!
(perfectly presentated powerpoint presentation)
Great job as always keep up the great work!
as always EXCELLENT thank you
Is this simply the best approach to informing on the conflict that there is on UA-cam? I think so.
But will there be Drones escorting other Drones, in order to take out anti-Drone Drones...
Sure. There are baby drones who are very curious and look at All The Things. There are mommy drones that beat up anything that tries to hurt their baby drones, and there are daddy drones that go and try to beat up other drones swarms for looking at things they shouldn't. ;)
I am hypnotised, it's official. This man can do no wrong!!
Being not native english speaker. I alwats enjoy a lot reference or joke trown to us with the very serious narrator voice when i catch them. +1 for the warhammer reference :)))
Thank you for your coverage and insights
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Thanks for the video.
Russia using its air defense missiles liberally seems like less of a "they don't consider NATO a threat" thing, and more of a "don't save up for a rainy day in a hurricane" thing.
you are the king of powerpoint. we all appreciate yer hard work. thanks
What is most astonishing is the way Ukraine, and previously Israel, have knocked out the S300-S400 AAM which is supposed to be to defend against the very systems used to destroy them!
I mean, Moskva suffered the same fate a month into the invasion, that should have recalibrated everyone's expectations of the "second army of the world".
I hope you never stop. I utilize your content to give me a clear and unbiased picture of what's going on. Everywhere...
18:55 "Now listen up! Back in my day, we didn't have fancy tanks! We had sticks. Two sticks and a rock for the entire platoon! And we had to share the rock!" -Sgt Maj Avery Johnson.
Thanks Perun. Hanging out for your coverage of the newest incursion.
I don't even know the name of your gaming channel, but really Perun. You made a bunch of gamers sit through a power point, are you serious? 😂 I think I'm going to rupture something. My side hurts from laughing so much.
Ps. Love your work on this channel at least, and I guess I love the updates about your gaming one too. Win win
Oh boy, it's called Perun Gaming and that PowerPoint made PERFECT sense in the context! He's playing X4, and plotting the defense of a whole cluster of star systems owned by like 4 different factions against a common enemy. It was Needed.
He also plays Xcom, Terra Invicta, Phoenix Point... and even helped kick off Tex of the Black Pants Legion's ahistorical playthroughs of Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnaughts!
If you're going to try to entice gamers into watching a powerpoint... you could do much worse than a powerpoint about shooting at stuff in the air.
Always good to see a new Perun video.
"Tell your missles where the target is or isn't." I see what you did there. 😂
I like when you add the conclusion and summary.
Appreciate your choice not to rush out a piece, on the surprise incursion into Russia.
A high quality Perun output when the dust is starting to settle is much prefered.
Thank you, this i watched from hospital.
Thanks
"What is Russia firing air defence against"?... "Yes" had me in stitches, love this guys whit and sense of humour, so so good!
"getting a rock drunk"
Isn't much fun. You'd think they'd be heavyweights and reach the bottom of the bottle, but dribble one sip on a rock and it will just pass out.
Really shouldn't be giving your pet rock alcohol though
nice. you and Battle Order doing air defense videos this week really tickles the noggin.
Ukraine 🇺🇦 should prevail. I am constantly surprised how they are coming with a ways to defend themselves
The threat of Russians erasing your nation culture language and future tends to inspire imagination and creativity.
Really interesting video, thank you a lot! 👍
" listening out for things that sound like particularly murderous lawn mowers "....
This is just one of many data points that confirms without a doubt that he is Australian.
Thank you again for offering us your learnèd perspective, Mr Perun.
19:15 Well Einstein did say WW4 would be fought with sticks and stones . . .