Picture of the Day: ROK Armed Forces Day Ceremony
President Yoon Suk-yeol salutes troops while reviewing them at a ceremony marking the 74th Armed Forces Day at the Gyeryongdae military headquarters, 160 kilometers south of Seoul, on Oct. 1, 2022. (Yonhap)
It’s pretty interesting that this guy stands in the car, saluting his soldiers when he has effectively cut to the bones the Research and Development budget for the South Korean weapons industry. Yes the same arms industry that has sold $30 billion worth of exports to Europe, Asia, and the Middle East this year – and the same industry which is expected to challenge Germany, the UK, and even the US arms exports in the coming decades. But all that is going to go down the drain soon because this shit turd doesn’t believe in homegrown weapons, but prefers instead to buy American with no limits to their pricings – and defects with poor aftersales service that often comes with American machines (think of American cars). Instead, he wants South Korea to remain a US vassal, a country utterly dependent on the US for everything including defense. Unbelievable, but that’s the Korean Conservative party, typically.
Pres. Yoon despite his promises of a stronger military has not included major weapons programs in next year’s budget.
https://imnews.imbc.com/replay/2022/nwdesk/article/6411813_35744.html
However, it was confirmed that the budget for the F-35A was not reflected in the budget for next year submitted to the National Assembly by the Ministry of National Defense.
Among the budgets related to the three axes in response to North Korea, such as kill chain, it was confirmed that this was not the only thing that was not reflected as shown in an internal document of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration.
The UH-60 special operations helicopter, which will take charge of transporting special forces in the so-called ‘beheading operation’ that neutralizes the enemy’s leadership, and the large attack helicopter project were not reflected.
Korean Person, half of the F35’s delivered are not even operational due to defects. And the US is extortioning Korea to already ‘upgrade’ the planes costing billions more. So what is Yoon’s response? Purchase 20 more of these sitboxes. No wonder Rokdrop.net love him.