Sponsored by Private Internet Access, Use the following link to access their promotional offer: www.piavpn.com/Perun This video was recorded produced under pretty austere travel conditions but I hope you enjoy the way it came out in the end. I will have a more fulsome channel update next week if all goes well, and will be updating the source and reading list with, well, my sources and reading list as soon as I have access to it again tomorrow. Hope you enjoy, apologies for pushing this back a day, and I hope to see you all again later this week.

@sya_7489

5 ай бұрын

Tanks with frickin laser beams attached to the turret!

@Therealpro2

5 ай бұрын

All good. Quality over quantity!

@rocko7711

5 ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️

@JosephKano

5 ай бұрын

Sharks with fr'kin laser beams on their heads is totally going to be a thing.

@Banedragon

5 ай бұрын

Frickin lazer beams, now we just have to install them on the foreheads of sharks

FIRE THE POWERPOI..... I MEAN THE LASER!

@LeonardTavast

5 ай бұрын

Fire the laser pointer !

@anthonyoch8285

5 ай бұрын

I am now imagining mixing Styropyro with Perun. Interesting.......

@Claymann71

5 ай бұрын

_HALF-LIFE: Full-Life CONSEQUENCES!_ *Gary's Mod Sfx.Laser*

@karldubhe8619

5 ай бұрын

No,non non. It's "Fire 'Ze Lazors' Wait, I mean missiles!

@McNubbys

5 ай бұрын

Nods in Jingles

'Destroying the vehicle is a pretty reliable way to take out the optics' The Russians have developed an escape mechanism to allow their turret optics to escape the destruction of the hull.

@reticenti6365

5 ай бұрын

Lol awesome!

@Goulmy86

5 ай бұрын

There went my coffee 😂😂

@thelukesternater

5 ай бұрын

“Sergei eject the turret!! We need to save the optics!!” *flying frypan nosies*

@avroday949

5 ай бұрын

Soldiers the first time they saw a flyingTurret "The mini boss has a second stage😲" 🤭

@defective6811

5 ай бұрын

@@thelukesternater 'The Cast Iron Curtain'

I think 5-10% of the US defense budget goes to acronym brainstorming sessions.

@mickkelly6389

5 ай бұрын

Or invent acrnym, then devise weapon.

@maxpower3990

5 ай бұрын

A weapon may be effective but want get funding unless it sounds cool.

@kemarisite

5 ай бұрын

I'm sure it's hard-coded in the first six months for any development effort.

@AlleonoriCat

5 ай бұрын

I'm sure they think of a name first and then brainstorm the words to turn the name into acronym

@grahamstrouse1165

5 ай бұрын

That little?

Laser Physicist here, and a couple of comments. Firstly laser weapons may not necessarily effect thermally. There are other mechanisms based on much shorter pulses which come with their own set of advantages and disadvantages. Secondly is that in cost per shot calculations, the cost of the optics is typically neglected. Optical systems tend to degrade over time, and depending on the exact nature of the system this can be significant. Another aspect which plays into this is how susceptible the optics are to damage if they get dusty or dirty, which if combat footage is to be believed, military vehicles often are.

@fourthknower9831

5 ай бұрын

What would be the best ways to prevent optocs from getting dust and dirt on them? Beyond routine cleaning.

@luddite31

5 ай бұрын

could you just send a sailor out to polish the optics between use, or would they need to be totally replaced?

@macattackmicmac

5 ай бұрын

@@fourthknower9831 I mean cleaning needs a bit more than a wipe with a cloth. At best you might be able to find a coating with a low coefficient of friction to reduce stuff sticking to it. If that coating still has good optical properties is another question. Dust particles as small as a few micrometres can be enough to cause major damage so it's hard to keep an optic in the wild clean. As far as preventative methods, covers such as what you might find on binoculars are a good bet. Any moving parts though also lead to an increase in particle generation so it's push and pull.

@wojtek4p4

5 ай бұрын

@@macattackmicmac Would a constant airflow of filtered air reduce the optics getting dirty? And could the majority of cleaning from small dust be done automatically by washing them in a clean, filtered liquid (water, acetone, IPA), then disposing of the liquid (or repurifying it)?

@pauly230678

5 ай бұрын

Could you use shutters? Like the opposite of a camera?

> Warhammer fans have power axe, power sword and power fist. > Perun fans have powerpoint. Edit : damn ! Thanks for the likes

@Ish_Fire

5 ай бұрын

Clearly we have the superior weapons... Logistics

@padorupadoru4477

5 ай бұрын

still counts as a Power weapon

@gnaskar

5 ай бұрын

The standard issue power weapon of the Ultramarines.

@DanielWW2

5 ай бұрын

*_Laughs in Roboute Guilliman._*

@Numtalegau

5 ай бұрын

*Into the fires of battle, unto the anvil of war!* Lets not forget about the mighty shovel. A Kriegsman goes nowhere without one.

"The sun is a deadly laser" what a great frikn callback Perun 11/10 sir.

@daveogfans413

5 ай бұрын

Always nice to see that reference pop up somewhere.

@pougetguillaume4632

5 ай бұрын

Bill wurtz is actually 100% correct, google what a nicoll dyson beam is and then take a look at what a rkm/rkv is The weaponization of a the sun is an... *Interesting* prospect.

@DudokX

5 ай бұрын

I love that he probably put that there when editing because his voice is little different like its a different time of day.

@Sreven199

5 ай бұрын

Definitely was not expecting a Bill Wurtz meme in current year

@stayniftyGuyFaceMannPersonDude

5 ай бұрын

If only everything could be as pure as Bill Wurtz's love of music (& possibly psychoactives)

Terminator, "Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range." Pawnshop Owner, "Hey, just what you see, pal!"

@TheSimonPhoenix

5 ай бұрын

love it

>Perun tells us we have to wait another day for an update >Perun shows up the next day with FRICKIN' LASER BEAMS ... your terms are acceptable.

I LOVE that the Emperor's flashlights got an honourable mention 😂

@ChenAnPin

5 ай бұрын

and even while there are lasguns in the 41st millennium that are supposedly the top of the line weapon for any non-augmented humans there are still projectile-based autoguns being used that are not too dissimilar to an AK

@Condorito380

5 ай бұрын

Ma Deuce is still out there in the 41st millenia

@maxpower3990

5 ай бұрын

@@Condorito380of course the is. It’s called the the Heavy Stubber.

@Negativvv

5 ай бұрын

I think las guns and the best stubbers are around as capable as each other. It's when you get into the billions per unit that las makes logistical sense...

@kemarisite

5 ай бұрын

Now he'll have to do an episode on protective gear so he can mention the Emperor's t-shirts.

I love just how far the US goes to make everything have a cool acronym.

@jhwheuer

5 ай бұрын

No cool acronym, no funding. It’s a dog-eats-dog world out there.

@Claymann71

5 ай бұрын

Laserpig got his Nickname from the Laserbear, a Russian 'psy-op' where they claimed they could use a laser satellite to destroy another enemy satellite. So, the USA *BUILT A REAL 1!* 👏 🤣👌 Russia: _It was at this moment, he knew,_ *he messed-up!*

@dx-ek4vr

5 ай бұрын

New Perun Powerpoint idea: "How Acronyms shape armies"

@taara69

5 ай бұрын

@@dx-ek4vr HASA

@benjammin9745

5 ай бұрын

​@jhwheuer not all of it. Not everybody. Not all the time

There should be an award for most creative way to cram a military acronym in a cool sounding word

@hieronymusbutts7349

5 ай бұрын

Turtle Island Commission for Outgoing Naval Defense, Energy-weapon Redirection, and Other General Armaments

@hieronymusbutts7349

5 ай бұрын

(for people who don't know, "Turtle Island" is an indigenous term for North America - because the continent looks like a turtle)

@veldin25

5 ай бұрын

USA will always be the acronym champion haha

@WraithMagus

5 ай бұрын

I'm sure there are. There's a lot of effort put into having catchy acronyms because Congresspeople love them and they actually make it easier to get funding for your projects. (See also things like how the PATRIOT act was a hideous backronym just to try to make a ridiculously controversial piece of legislation sound more "patriotic".) I wouldn't be surprised in the least if defense contractors would pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses for a good acronym.

@sgtbaker2072

5 ай бұрын

And the award, of course, should itself have an acronym.

-general we have new super weapon -OK but what it's vulnerabilities? -Clouds

@ratking1608

2 ай бұрын

The Ace Combat School of Missile Design has moved on to lasers, I see

Finally settling the long standing debate that going “Pewpewpew” with your finger guns is WAY more powerful than saying “BANGBANGBANG”

@Canoby

5 ай бұрын

I was one of those kids who tried going for the Megatron arm-mounted fusion cannon. I had as much luck hitting things as he did in the weekly cartoon 😞

@_Twink

5 ай бұрын

Except most kids don't have big enough hands to go "PewPewPew".

@jimb9063

5 ай бұрын

I tend to go Brrr Brrr Brrr. Far superior rate of fire than PewPewPew or BangBangBang, and no noticeable loss in accuracy.

@TheMoopMonster

5 ай бұрын

​@jimb9063 How do you compare rates of fire with a continuous laser beam vs a discreet projectile? If you're going by number of projectiles, the laser transmits millions of photons per second. I guess you'd have to calculate the actual energy transfer rates. Also lasers don't make any sound 😊

@murphy7801

5 ай бұрын

Whumwhumwhum microwave emitting child

"How did you get that mirror so shiny?" "...Polish?" "Proszę mi wybaczyć. Jak uzyskałeś tak lśniące lustro?"

@jackthompson6296

5 ай бұрын

lol

@sjonnieplayfull5859

5 ай бұрын

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie

@DnBastard

5 ай бұрын

Cha cha dobre

@cryhavocandletslipthedogso1873

4 ай бұрын

mamma mia

@ratking1608

2 ай бұрын

I hate this joke because there's no way to tell it verbally

Hi Perun, I am a microwave engineer so I can comment a bit about the efficacy of microwaves vs higher frequency laser systems. Caveat is that I have very little experience with optics so I won't talk too much about that stuff. One of the main advantages of lower frequency radiation in comparison to high frequency is that he amount of energy lost on the way to the target is much lower for low frequency radiation. In simple terms, a microwave system and a laser system with the same output that both illuminate a target at the same distance, the microwave radiation will contain more energy than the laser. This is offset by the fact that the beamwidth of the laser is much tighter than the microwave system but it is a significant contributing factor. The next advantage of microwave systems is their ability to operate in cloudy environments where direct line of sight to the target might be obscured by water vapour clouds or dust. As you can imagine, not every situation will be in ideal operating conditions so this is a really useful feature. The last one I would like to just mention is that generating high power microwaves is very easy and cheap with modern technology, especially when you don't have to worry about the harmonic content of your signal which I assume you don't care about when trying to destroy something. None of this is to say microwaves are superior to lasers in this regard but they have clearly defined benefits over lasers and weaknesses such as actually getting the microwave energy to interact with whatever you want to damage.

@subtlewolf

5 ай бұрын

Whatever non-organic you want to damage anyway.

@atkpw1108

4 ай бұрын

@Dr_le_Quack just to confirm, water blocks microwaves?...and what else blocks microwaves and lasers?

@MamySilva

3 ай бұрын

@@atkpw1108search defeating microwave

As a Warhammer Nerd i am so happy that you presented the almighty Imperial Army Lasgun to a broader audiance

1 minute 13 views 17 comments. Community engagement has been acquired.

@dhill4001

5 ай бұрын

Sensor net has detected PowerPoint and rules of engagement consulted...target engaged.

@nickcharles1284

5 ай бұрын

How did these people 'view' the content in 1 minute? How could their comments be germane?

@the_undead

5 ай бұрын

​@@nickcharles1284all KZread requires to tally someone looking at a video as a view is you clicked on the video and watched at least 10 seconds of the video (not including the ad at the beginning if there is one)

@nickcharles1284

5 ай бұрын

So what is the significance then of 13 views in one minute? @@the_undead

@the_undead

5 ай бұрын

@@nickcharles1284 That means at least 13 people have clicked on the video in under a minute, most channels, even ones that can regularly pull million view videos. Don't get those kinds of numbers

Perun the sole channel on youtube where I don't know if the VPN Ad Read is an Ad Read or an actual part of the subject matter.

@Canoby

5 ай бұрын

His transitions are silky smooth

@edmundgennings3025

5 ай бұрын

If I ever want to sell a product to this viewer base, I would use him. He has the only ad sections I do not skip.

@avroday949

5 ай бұрын

He worked it in so seamlessly

@plumbthumbs9584

5 ай бұрын

He does have a laser-like focus.

@nelson2095

5 ай бұрын

Perun's transition makes LTT's segways look amateurish.

"(...)We're raiding Toy'r'us" for weapons of war" - Perun. Love it. On the spot again.

@_Mezzanine

4 ай бұрын

Maybe toys'r'us would still exist if they sold weapons

Since we are getting this over the internet and many of us are watching the video, this is actually a light speed discussion of laser weapons.

One day I will understand why I must watch these weekly PowerPoint presentations. Today is just not that day. Keep up the great content.

@WOTArtyNoobs

5 ай бұрын

It's because Perun goes to extreme lengths to put together an unbiased appraisal of the subjects he covers. He's not swayed by propaganda and speaks with many experts who've been able to provide as much declassified opinion on the war and its progression.

@joaoaugusto1009

5 ай бұрын

@@WOTArtyNoobs please provide a PowerPoint explaining your analysis and conclusions. The preferred method of sharing is in a video format with a voice over. Thank you.

@WOTArtyNoobs

5 ай бұрын

Sorry, too busy producing videos for my own channel to supply you with a Powerpoint on Perun's subject. However, I did provide a comment (see below) which pointed out that the first directed energy weapon tank was not the Soviet one. It was a British Matilda II tank called the Canal Defense Light and was built during World War 2. The conventional gun turret was removed and replaced with a 13 million candela carbon arc light that could be directed at the enemy to blind or dazzle them. It was only used once in action for the crossing of the Rhine, but not for the purpose that it was built.@@joaoaugusto1009

@hafor2846

5 ай бұрын

People read books and newspapers and go talks of experts. How is this any different? I would say it's rather normal to listen to somethibg like this. Not everything has to be 3 minute videos while half the screen is about someone playing an unrelated game and a random dude doing faces in the bottom right corner.

@Pnaraasi94

5 ай бұрын

@@hafor2846 It's also easy to just listen to Perun and not watch at all, or only occasionally take a glance at the presentation. That makes this format arguably superior to newspapers and books, albeit in a very condensed way in the latter case, since you can get the same knowledge, while being able to do something else at the same time, such as commute to work, work out, cook or do chores. Good stuff.

Praise be. Our sermons have been answered. The Omnissiah has graced us with another Perun banger.

@olic7266

5 ай бұрын

Must be Monday

@chezmoi42

5 ай бұрын

Banger? I didn't hear anything.

Im biased as a brit, but "Dragonfire" is a badass name for a laser

@tdb7992

5 ай бұрын

It’s a very cool name. Please, please, sell it to us Aussies. Please!

I question the quality of Private Internet Access' performance. If they were any good, surely they'd be Sergeant Internet Access by now.

@_Twink

5 ай бұрын

I won't even get out of bed for anything less then Private First Class internet access, seesh 🙄

@avroday949

5 ай бұрын

That's why I use General Internet Acess😊

@citricdemon

16 күн бұрын

boooo

Finally the Bond villian episode!

@simonnot8487

5 ай бұрын

Now that's what I call solar power!

@diamond_tango

5 ай бұрын

Fricken laser beams

How about an episode about Baltic states defence strategy (and Suwalki gap+Kaliningrad as a sidementione). Keep up the good work.

@gdtacos7082

5 ай бұрын

I’d like to add to this by saying that an episode dedicated towards choke points around the world (suez, mallaca strait, Taiwan straight, Panama Canal, gulf of aeden, etc) would also be really interesting. Especially how these choke points will work in a WW3 or larger scale war scenario when both sides of the conflict will (most likely) have it within their interest to affect these areas to their advantage.

@B1gLupu

5 ай бұрын

Baltic defence strategy now is basically 2 pages, with one containing the word FINLAND and the other POLAND, both at font size 72.

@nian60

5 ай бұрын

@@B1gLupu 3 pages in that case, with Sweden on the 3rd page. Sweden will have military presence in Latvia. (In reality it is and will be EU wide).

@ElijsDima

5 ай бұрын

Realistically, the strategy is basically "panik". If it comes to actual physical action, then frankly we're doomed.

@southbirdsouthbird

5 ай бұрын

Yes. I have mt ideas buit want to know yours.

I love the pedagogy that explains space-age laser weapons by starting with throwing rocks

It has to go "boom". 30 years ago the big mucky mucks came to the Arizona desert to watch a tank go boom at the local weapons test station. So the underlings made sure to cram the interior of the tank with gas cans. The resulting sound and pyrotechnics were magnificent. Everyone was best pleased😅

@tdb7992

5 ай бұрын

You Americans always get the coolest stuff. I wish we had even half of your cool toys here in Australia.

I’m still amazed that I have seen the development of real laser weapons in my lifetime. My favorite application of them is deployed as several systems defesively on a carrier, fueled by it’s nuclear reactor. Pretty much infinite, low cost ammo that’s available immediately. Thanks Perun!

@krissteel4074

5 ай бұрын

Once they start building ships, vehicles and aircraft around these as dedicated systems, instead of the bolt-on's that are happening now. Then you'll see the next step up. Then, building a land-sea-air doctrine around their use and inclusion in combined arms. I worked with civilian microwave and lasers for close to 20 years and its been a staggering advancement over that time, systems that used to be 'laptop' sized components that didn't leave you much change out of 200k that arrived with a security guard, within about a decade they became the size of a thumb drive and a thousand bucks on express freight. Plus a lot of ancillary systems that involve beam forming and targeting moved out of 80's sci-fi star wars defense initiatives into the civ-sector about 25 years ago now and are in common use around the world. So by my approximation, the really bleeding edge stuff is probably at least within about 2-decades more advanced than anything I was ever messing around with. That's mostly the Euro-UK and USA development along with Japan, I don't really see anyone else having the development to advance the tech past the current equipment in the field (ie- China, Russia, Iran etc) just going what I've seen of their civilian grade equipment What I know about the US equipment. Well its literally ridiculously more advanced than even the best European equipment

@donaldduck830

5 ай бұрын

I am waiting for shields and thus the immediate relevancy of battleships.

@thelazy0ne

5 ай бұрын

"UN LIMITED PAWA!" *Limited range may apply, check with your local weather report for additional information. *Physics will apply *Do not look directly in the beam.

@GrigoriZhukov

5 ай бұрын

It just point defense and in the kilowatt range, useless except as a range finder for something in the triple digit terrawatt range.

@grahamstrouse1165

5 ай бұрын

Except we don’t have anything that would reliably work now. And probably not for some time, even on a boat as a big as a carrier.

"The sun is a deadly laser" xDD Incredible overview once again, thanks & gg Perun.

@lilruc

5 ай бұрын

I miss Bill Wurtz.

The point about confidence and their ranges being shorter than more expensive protection systems was very strong and I hadn't considered it at all.

Perun: Your sarcasm is EPIC!!!!

@arthurmoore9488

5 ай бұрын

Wait, you mean to tell me the USAF does things other than develop ground based systems. Though I will admit, a project that was cheap, fast, and worked well enough is suspicious.

I am 100 percetn sure that once smaller microwave beam weapons get mounted on vehicles for the infantry (an anti air Humvee) that we will see GIs cooking an MRE with it.

Honestly kinda fascinating that the best use case for the most high-tech-sounding weapons might actually be against the cheapest possible threats.

@freddierhodes8201

4 ай бұрын

I mean, historically that's often been the case. Don't like the hoards of peasants descending on your holy army endowed by God with rusty farm equipment? Try guns! Don't like the hoards of conscripts charging your extremely nice trench system? Try the machine gun! Can't see what Jeff is doing because he's five miles away and behind a hill? Try aircraft! Jeff is still too far away? Sattelites! It's cloudy? Infrared and ground-radar!

I'm really glad that the people working on these energy weapon systems have made it a priority to come up with cool sounding acronyms for each one.

@arthurmoore9488

5 ай бұрын

When you have to say the name ludicrously often, and put it on all the paperwork dealing with an unpronounceable acronym is annoying. Imagine having to say "SCRA" hundreds of times a day.

@boobah5643

5 ай бұрын

@@arthurmoore9488 Skra isn't too bad. It's RTNR that gets to be a pain. Not to be confused with the RTHR (read as "Arthur") or RHNR (read: "Runner.")

“Are those fricken sharks with fricken laser beams attached to their fricken heads? You’re the best evil son an evil father could ever ask for.” -Dr. Evil

Perun, just wanted to drop you a line right quick to say that "you muh boy!". Love the channel and the content. Haven't even had time to watch the episode obviously, but from one analyst to another, you are doing God's work my friend! Keep it up!

@warbler1984

5 ай бұрын

Ok

The forward deployed clean rooms in the desert to service the Raytheon laser are pretty wild.

22:24 "no-one has yet found a good way to bend..." Radio-hams: hold my beer.

I'm sure some PFC will heat up his MRE using this wonderful microwave technology sometime in the future.

This video is truly a game changer.

@ricardoabh3242

5 ай бұрын

I would say a force multiplier 😂

I really liked the very strong presentation of pros and cons on several issues. This is the sort of balance that is woefully absent in so much other reporting. Keep up the good work!

67 minutes on lasers and not a single mention of sharks with lasers or babies with laser eyes, ala the Boys. Travel surely makes it more difficult to add in the comedy. Seriously, this was great. Personally I'm in the camp that says lasers will never quite be the weapon of today.

THOR - Tactical High-Power Microwave Operational Responder. Seriously, can we just take a moment to appreciate US military industrial complex acronyms? seriously, what the hell, it's like a parody of itself at this point. Can't wait to see the acronym for Mjolnir... Modular Joint Operational Laser in Near Infra Red...

Honestly the single biggest misconception of Laser weaponry is that they're visible from the side like they are in images and sci-fi movies and shows. The entire point of lasers is to be focused onto a single point, so ofc they're invisible from anywhere other than that one point.

@larsandersson5974

5 ай бұрын

The developers have to work on that. Also the sound needs to be developed properly.

@melanoc3tusii205

5 ай бұрын

Although sufficiently powerful lasers are absolutely visible in-atmo - past a certain point they end up converting the air they travel through to glowing plasma.

@cremsen1

5 ай бұрын

wouldn't dust-scattering make the beam visible?

@davidgoodnow269

4 ай бұрын

​@@cremsen1 Yes, it does. The continuous-beam laser the U.S. shot two satellites with was located in the Nevada desert, and on one of the shoots enough dust was kicked up at a high enough altitude that the beam was visible in Texas.

@citricdemon

16 күн бұрын

​@cremsen1 dust, and water vapor. clouds. humidity. you'll see when lasers are fired from boats because of this. you'll also see them deflect off exhaust, and even regular air. the good ones may create "lightning channels" of ionized air to their targets. for some dews (ion guns, electron beams) this is (kind of) desirable.

I forgot the release was delayed,basically a bonus video for my Monday. Go Perun!

7:21 Point of order - a microwave weapon typically behaves _exactly_ like a laser, because most modern microwave emitters are in fact a type of laser, just firing in the microwave frequency. Their beams are coherent, potentially more so than their IR / visible / UV counterparts, since we can just generate coherent wavefronts using antenna elements. The reason they still might spread out more than a visible light laser is down to the wavelength of the radiation - microwaves just generally spread out faster than visible light does, which is partly why we evolved to see using light, not microwaves.

@R4002

2 ай бұрын

Not to get too deep into physics, but coherent light (photons, but also electromagnetic energy, higher *frequency* = smaller *wavelength*) and microwaves (electromagnetic energy, closer to the radio/microwave area of the electromagnetic spectrum vs. light). Microwaves operate at (relatively) lower frequencies (relatively larger wavelength. But yes, E=mc2. Energy is mass, electromagnetic *energy* does also equal mass (photons).

@citricdemon

16 күн бұрын

it's weird how most people don't understand that electromagnetic waves and light are the same thing

@citricdemon

16 күн бұрын

​​@@R4002this is technically incorrect. for photons it equals momentum, not mass - light has momentum but no mass. you should be using E^2 = |p|^2 c^2 + m0^2 c^4. Microwaves are photons. Lasers are photons. they're all photons. they're all light. the electromagnetic spectrum is all light. it's the same thing. the only difference is energy. Even energy and wavelength/frequency are the same thing, as E=hf and f=1/L.

@citricdemon

16 күн бұрын

light exhibits particle/wave duality, so trying to distinguish between photons and waves is unphysical. it's both, except for when it isn't.

*Shows Las Gun*: "this is a funeral prop". How dare you! Your loyal enforcers have served their rogue trader and the Imperium adequately with such holy weaponry!

Oh how I've been waiting for this episode. Nuclear-powered UV laser cannons, here we go!

@ricardoabh3242

5 ай бұрын

Pew pew 😂

I find the term "directed energy weapon" kinda funny. ALL weapons are directed energy weapons. Directing energy is the one and only way to cause damage to people and things.

@Terri.m.a.1975

24 күн бұрын

You think its funny till its pointed,at you… fallowing you, and firming at you every few sec every day!!~!!! It fucking hurts!!!!

@ashscott6068

24 күн бұрын

@@Terri.m.a.1975 A hat made of tinfoil deflects that kind of thing quite nicely.

"phase plasma rifle in 40-watt range" - terminator

First video of yours I watch. Great analysis. I like the tone/inflections you use and the peppered jokes here and there, delivered completely flat but effectively. Even with the best Geopolitical vids I tend to nod off after a while but something about your delivery makes it possible to keep watching for a long time! Great job sir.

Quibble: particle beam weapons are lumped in as "directed energy" per Wikipedia. As such they are kinetic. It's just that the projectiles are really tiny and the velocities really large.

@andrewharrison8436

5 ай бұрын

Nice quibble. Is anybody except CERN developing them?

@tonysu8860

5 ай бұрын

No, particles in a particle beam don't deliver damage by kinetic impact and transfer of mass, it's the energy that causes damage. Your definition of "directed energy" isn't the problem, it's your definition of a kinetic weapon. So, Wikipedia is also still correct.

@warmachine5835

5 ай бұрын

@@tonysu8860 Except that you're not so much transferring mass but transferring energy. The kinetic energy (force) imparted by the mass as it decelerates (mass times acceleration) imparts energy into whatever was decelerating the projectile, causing that object to rapidly disassemble itself. Thus a bullet is a directed energy weapon, directing force to an object and imparting it as it impacts or passes through. Aren't semantics fun?

@hphp31416

5 ай бұрын

extra small particles and extra big photons are close to each other in terms of military use

@apollyon1

5 ай бұрын

Oh quiet, you :p

Now I have something to listen to while walking around doing my tasks today. Thanks Perun! I usually get it on Sunday and just lay around gaming and listen, but now I can not be bored during the day!

Congratulations on 500k Perun, you definitely deserve it! Class and quality content with dry humor sprinkled in? What is there not to love?

I remember when DEW stood for Distant Early Warning, the line of radar stations in the Arctic designed to warn of a Soviet attack.

@Melody_Raventress

5 ай бұрын

Welcome to the future, babe.

Thanks yet again, you managed to allow yourself to publish on a monday!!! Kudos mate, keep up the great work @PerunAU!!

Congratulations on over 500.000 subscribers! 😍 Understandable, excellent content 😍

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and OPERATIONAL KZread channel!!!

To summarize, energy weapons are happening with a lot of qualifiers and unknowns and this is like the fourth time they've poured money into the energy weapon money pit so be patient and temper expectations.

"No one has found a way to bend a laser beam in combat" 22:35. I am going to put a marker down you later talk about one of the problems with lasers being that after prolonged use they start to bend. So I lost my marker. Anyway another technical problem with laser weapons is that if used in a small area (not moving) over time they will heat up the air they are shooting through, which will cause the lasers to bend via refraction.

Re: “Lasers are the weapon of the future and they always will be” I can’t help but wonder how many R&D tracks that have existed but never been true front-burner priorities are going to see increased priority in response to the proliferation of drones. It increasingly seems true that the need for a low cost per drone kill system is critical to large militaries. The ongoing Red Sea incident is perhaps the best example. Even the US doesn’t want to continue the current exchange rate of interceptor cost vs cheapness of attacking drones.

Super interesting subject that I had definitely been interested in but tend to neglect in my own research; thank you for the clarity and professional touch🙏 Simply the best defense-oriented channel on KZread, period!

There's a maniac named "Styropyro" who treats the net to the most ungodly dangerous laser and chemistry experiments-- DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME stuff. when the FBI came to ask about all the orders, they met his adorable pet squirrel :) He's very entertaining and knowledgeable!

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational Power Point.

🎶 THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER 🎶

@satakrionkryptomortis

5 ай бұрын

not anymore now there's a blanket..

@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts

5 ай бұрын

China broke again...

503 K today! Congrats Perun on your rapidly growing subscriber base. It demonstrates the market for informative, exceptionally well researched, unbiased content.

Great video, thank you Perun for the analysis of these technologies and implementations.

Even with a days delay I will always be there for this when they're uploaded

You've made my lunch break 10x more better! Thank you for the great content

I get so happy anytime Perun makes a Warhammer reference ❤

I've become a regular listener to the PowerPoint podcasts. Always lots of information here, although sometimes it's a bit like drinking from a fire hose. Thank you for all the time and effort you invest in these.

Fun drinking game, take a drink every time a new Acronym is introduced

@freddierhodes8201

4 ай бұрын

The issue is that about 10 minutes in you become too drunk to realise they're acronyms

I have to comment before finishing the video. The Star Wars "bolt of light travelling slower than a bullet is not laser" clarification reminder was very enjoyable to hear. This has been a pet peeve my whole life. Even in my most childish sci-fi fantasies I could never even fake some pseudo scientific mechanism for it. Though we have to admit it's just not as emotionally impactful to destroy things with an invisible ray of light energy and nothing is flying. Maybe it's because humans have been throwing stuff at each other for tens of thousands of years and it feels like closure when it hit the mark.

@arthurmoore9488

5 ай бұрын

Then you get to the part of the episode where someone actually admitted that's one of the challenges.

@peterwindhorst5775

5 ай бұрын

however there is a idea of slug throwing lasers. the idea being is that you use tesla coils to focus light into a slug like a bullet and release all the energy at once - then it fires out the barrel like a kinetic bullet at the target. this has only been able to used in lab conditions and at current tech levels (last I heard of the project) it could burn through a pad of paper three-to-four sheets thick.

Very good video for helping people get up to speed on a complex subject, and the dry sarcasm just makes it fun, lol.

Dear Perun, First congrats on your 500K, feel proud on your accomplishment. Secondly, i wonder if the development of the SMRs (small modular reactors) mean for the future use of these kinds of weapons on larger naval warships. The IAEA states that a small one could have an output up to 10MW(e). If put on a (for example) French Mistral class (it has the space, heck, its propultion is electric controlled) the ship would gain an alternative propultion power and the power to opperate verry heavy lazer/microwave weapons if needed. This offcourse also for different but equally heavy vessels.

4:00 Vipukeihäs on the top. Translation: Lever spear. Fun things, one summer I built one and threw it around on an old field till it landed so that the spear slid against the ground when it landed and got tangled so deep in the roots and underbrush that I couldn't find it anymore.

@jesseestrada8914

5 ай бұрын

I believe in English it is called atlatl

@boobah5643

5 ай бұрын

@@jesseestrada8914 Only in the sense that that's the term most commonly stolen by English-speakers for the weapon.

Perun, you make me chuckle, I have served but mostly living in a tree for a few days with weeks of dietary prep, not educating the world. I think we both served in our own way. Thank you, nobody else could reestablish my confidence in my country's ability to defend itself. Frank from Erindale PS - You Kids are gutsy AND Clever

Good to see Fantastic get Helios One working. Didn't expect it'd be for the navy though. He told them he had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard!

PowerPoint Man! 😡 Where's my weekly defense slideshow presentation?? 😡😡

7:15 that Warhammer Lasgun dig was amazing. Also when can we expect a logistics of the indomitus crusade episode?

@madtoffelpremium8324

5 ай бұрын

That would truly be an amazing april fools episode!

Honestly, amazing stuff, as usual, spat out my coffee at 24:25. The dry humour is as funny as the powerpoint is informative. Keep up the good work.

@tristanridley1601

5 ай бұрын

Ooo I'm at 21:00 Thanks for the heads up. Lol

AGEWISE - Another Great Episode Well Informed and Skillfully Edited - see what you've started now? Huge congrats on the 500K, well done and well deserved. Loved this vid particularly, been waiting a while for it, thanks from the UK 🤗

Congratulations on the half million subscribers! Well deserved!

The bacronyms alone are enough to bring a patriotic tear to my eye

“Unleash the directed energy weapons!!” It’s a microwave TV dinner, Barry. You’ve been watching Perun again.

YAY! Ive been waiting for this one since the 3rd video you did on military armament and programs!

One thing's clear: Whether talking about offense with energy weapons, weather issues, or defeating potential defensive measures, the solution is the same in both cases: MORE POWER!!!!

I had no idea how used to watching these on Sunday. I had gotten until I noticed yesterday that there wasn't one. I hope our friend didn't beat himself up about it

@CarmenSanata

5 ай бұрын

Yeee he posted in his Community section on KZread that there was a delay due to him travelling :) I got worried too as soon as I saw he didnt post Sunday

@Ben.....

5 ай бұрын

He keeps people in the community tab painfully away

I just love how Perun is more and more embracing the internet

I’ve wanted to see a video on this topic for a long time. Thanks for providing it in such detail, and with just that edge of cautionary cynicism.

Missed opportunity: none of these anti-electronic microwave systems are named GREMLIN. Disappoint.

That's funny, I just read a news article about it and thought "wonder if Perun has something about this", and here it is, released minutes ago.

Outstanding information. Thank you for your dedication to inform us of the latest and greatest weapon systems.

Fantastic briefing of history, technology, and current acquisition efforts. Thank you.

I love these future tech episodes

Those microwave missiles reminded me of something I cooked up in a space navy RTS called Nebulous. I had two cruise missile designs that paired with each other: one carried a kinetic payload with stealth coating, and the other carried active directional jammers. I'd fire the two in tandem, and one would screen for the other.

@hairychris444

5 ай бұрын

*MALD has entered the chat*

@jacksonmagas9698

5 ай бұрын

@@hairychris444 still the greatest weapon name of all time

I waited all afternoon yesterday, but no Perun. then today at last, a cup of coffe and Perun and it feels like Sunday.🙏🙏🙏

Also don't forget that a laser designed to heat something up is only going to do so if what it's hitting is suitably absorbent to the lasers specific wavelength, so making the target reflective enough not only protects it pretty well, but also creates the risk of unintended casualties via reflection