Royal Marine Reacts To North Korea vs United States (USA) - 2021 Military / Army Comparison

what's up everybody and today we are reacting to north korea versus the united states 2021 military army comparison this is by the infograph show i'm excited to look at this one um because i feel like if i'm honest with you i feel like the us would just dominate north korea um but we're gonna find out we're gonna find out and for those of you who don't know i am incredibly sick um i was sick in the last i've been sick now for about three or four days um i got my results back from my rona test i don't have it which is nice um but i i feel like i've been hit by a bus which absolutely sucks but it is what it is also before we get started don't forget new huge announcement original adventures me and my wife my family are converting a old school bus and we're going to be traveling the us and we're vlogging every second of it so if you want to go and check that out the first two vlogs are up next one will be up on monday original adventures link down below to the youtube channel and the instagram but for now let's shut up let's watch north korea and versus the united states 2021 military army comparison the infographic show down on the 38th parallel the hermit kingdom of north korea versus the united states of america kim jong-un well we're not really sure who because this script was written before the presidential election it's the american bald eagle versus the north korean um trash pigeon that doesn't really seem like north korea has an official national animal it's a showdown the world's been expecting for decades but how do these two antagonist powers stack up who really has the advantage in a showdown on the korean peninsula for this scenario let's compare the two countries alone and without the help of allies to see how they really measure up against each other okay before we get started i'm gonna give my predictions um i feel like the u.s would just dominate they have more personnel they have more vehicles they have more missiles they have better technology i think what the infographic show just said then where they're taking away um people who would help out is a big thing because north korea have allies with like russia so it would be a little bit different than this but let's see what they say overall the united states is ranked as the world's number one military power and currently the only global superpower it's a common mistake to call russia or china superpowers but the definition of a superpower is a state that can exert economic cultural and military influence worldwide currently the us is the only nation with the military fleets and cultural and economic clout to do so north korea is no slouch though in the military department and despite being a financially destitute hermit kingdom it's managed to feel the military that places it at the number 25 spot in global rankings this is because most of the official budget of the north korean government goes to its military and the military also receives hundreds of millions in covert financing typically the result of state-sponsored criminal enterprises in terms of manpower the united states fields an active duty force of 1.4 million personnel versus north korea's 1.28 million the us also fields a greater force of reservists with 860 000 personnel versus north korea's reserve force of six hundred thousand the u.s surprisingly though north korea has way more than i thought they did way more than i thought they did um there's not that much of a difference there i mean obviously there's you know quite a big difference but there's not actually as much as i thought there would be actually how many times did i say actually then [Laughter] but yeah that's that's relatively surprising us barely has the numbers advantage here but in a grueling multi-year conflict the us has the population advantage with 4.2 million reaching service age every year versus north korea's measly 415 000. if north korea wants to win clearly it has to secure victory as quickly as possible wars cost money though and it turns out it's an extremely expensive affair the latest u.s defense budget is about 750 billion dollars versus north korea's 1.6 billion this of course is only the official government figure and north korea's real defense budget is easily hundreds of millions greater thanks to all that black market activity remember kids doing drugs may seem tubular but you're just going to help north korea go look at the budget difference there holy cow the us military budget is just through the roof that's ridiculous remember kids doing drugs may seem tubular but you're just gonna help north korea go nuclear but let's check out all the toys that those big budgets buy in the air the us fields 13 264 aircraft versus north korea's 949. not only is this a massive numbers disparity but a huge disparity in capabilities as well the u.s currently relies on the fbi legal and the f-18 super hornet as its primary air defense and air attack platforms these two aircraft are fourth-generation models but have received serious upgrades to their capabilities which boost them into a fourth and a half generation capability complementing us fighter forces are 187 f-22s the world's only fully operational fifth generation fighter and officially the world's deadliest fighter aircraft as more and more f-35s come online however and achieve initial operational capability status the entire us fighter fleet is poised to become fully fifth generation that's ridiculous that is absolutely ridiculous just think about how much power the us military has that's amazing significant battlefield advantage against any foe north korean air forces are decades behind the using capability its most numerous fighter aircraft the chengdu j7 was developed in the 1960s and exported by china its most capable aircraft the mig-29 was deployed in the 70s as a counter to the american f-15 however north korea's mig-29s number at only 35 and it's believed that they lack anything resembling modern avionics to make matters worse north korea's entire inventory of air-to-air missiles heralds back to the cold war and the nation possesses less than 500 of them yeah an air battle between the us and north korea would be hopeless for the hermit kingdom which is why its pilots are trained in kamikaze tactics if the world breakout north korea's air force would launch one-way attacks across the dmz knowing its air force could never survive an air war in the mountainous terrain of north korea perhaps no aircraft is more important however than the attack helicopter capable of taking out armored forces and providing recon and fire support in places regular aircraft would find it difficult to operate attack helicopters would be of paramount importance in a showdown between the two countries the u.s fields an inventory of 967 apache helicopters one of the deadliest kilos ever built not only is each apache equipped with state-of-the-art electronics and sensors but these agile birds are extremely tough to boot when an entire flight of apaches was ambushed in a protracted battle against insurgents on the ground in afghanistan the u.s famously only lost a single bird while decimating ground forces below them north korea's 20 attack helos are soviet-built mig-24 hinds an extremely capable attack helicopter that despite being dated still packs an impressive punch good thing for the u.s ground forces that north korea only operates a small amount of these powerful rights of prey on the ground north korea is almost neck and neck with the us so in the air the us would dominate and i feel like it doesn't even matter about these ground tanks like it doesn't even matter because if the us is dominating the airspace it just doesn't matter because these tanks can be obliterated by some of these um aircraft i feel like this doesn't really matter in terms of armored forces with 6045 combat tanks versus the us's 6289 the two tank armies are almost evenly matched in terms of numbers in terms of quality though well north korea once more suffers greatly north korea's most formidable tank is a native upgrade to the soviet t-62 known as chon mahol with the t-62 being north korea's most numerous nearly modern design large numbers of them were upgraded with a new armor fire and sighting systems and other sensors in effect these might be upgraded designs but the core model is still the 1960s era t-62 it's known that north korea operates at least a thousand of these tanks but may have upwards of 1200 north korea's second most prolific tank is the t-54 and t-55 of which it operates 2 000. i think it goes without saying the u.s would absolutely dominate let's be honest the u.s is nothing it's just a speck of dust compared to the us these dated underpowered tanks were terrifying when first fielded by the soviet union in the fifties but as a russian in the first gulf war present absolutely zero threat to the u.s modern abrams on the ground north korea's tank forces simply could not hope to do more than delay an american armored advance one area where north korea rises above the u.s though is in the size of its rocket artillery forces fielding 2110 versus 1366 rocket artillery may not have the endurance of fire of traditional artillery but provides one extremely crucial advantage over regular artillery by firing all of its munitions in extremely rapid secession rocket artillery puts all of its steel on target within seconds giving ships and vehicles little time to seek cover while the u.s fields more modern versions of rocket projectors the technology is so simple that even north korea's soviet era technology poses a significant and deadly threat to u.s forces okay so that's that's pretty surprising but again i don't think it really makes a difference like if you dominate the airspace you've pretty much won let's be honest think about the battle britain right world water if you dominate the airspace they're just not advancing because if you haven't got the air you can't get the ground it's as simple as that and i think um i don't know whether it will go into drones and stuff like that but yeah because all it takes is like think about it right so tanks have to have to move across terrain but if if you've got aircraft right you can cut off things like you can cut off supplies to them because they can go and take out ships they can go and take out different routes to for trade and stuff like there's a there's a lot there's so many more variables that an aircraft can take out than tanks or at least their missiles you know or at least i'm i'm confident there is let me know in the comments what you think on the seas the us fields a fleet of 490 ships versus north korea's 984. north korea may seem to have an advantage in numbers but that's because the vast majority of its ships are small torpedo boats and can't operate far from shore the second largest element of north korea's navy is its underwater forces with one of the world's largest submarine forces numbering anywhere between 60 and 80. 40 of these subs are the medium-sized diesel electric sango class built in the late 90s while not particularly advanced versus the us navy's los angeles and virginia-class nuclear submarines diesel electric submarines used in a defensive posture close to the shore can be an incredibly effective force even if technologically outclassed by loitering near the shore and running silently on battery power north korea could simply choose to have these subs lie and wait for oncoming u.s ships and launch deadly ambushes the nation's willingness to operate these craft in a kamikaze style similar to its air force only adds to the deadliness of north korea's submarine force by comparison the us operates 66 submarines most of which are los angeles class attack submarines these are in the process of being phased out by the new virginia class which incorporates many of the sea wolf class technologies at a lower cost and thus with less effectiveness than the deadly sea wolf which is sadly far too expensive to field in large numbers so i get it i get it but i feel like there's one thing that they're not putting into context here and that's military tactics i feel like the us is constantly innovating with military tactics and speaking to other countries so i know that when i was in the royal marines a lot of us marines would come over towards and a lot of us would go over to the us and um we trade tactics we trade tactics and even though that sounds strange trading taxes between countries it only boosts everyone up like all your allies you know like so the big thing that that we used to trade was cqb like room clearing so different techniques for room cleaning we would find what really works for us we'd go over to the us we'd show them what we're doing they'd show us what they're doing we train in each other's different techniques and we'd learn from it we'd pick what we think works what we don't think works and it boosts you up the us military tactics are some of the best in the world their tactics are phenomenal like phenomenal so where who's helping north korea with their military attacks russia maybe maybe a few other countries but is that anywhere close to the advancements that the us have made in tactics i don't think so i don't think so i think um we just we have the technology is so advanced that we can go through lots of different scenarios and work out the best situation and they can't do that they have to just go by the book of what they have probably been i haven't been taught by other countries like russia are just from trial and error so i feel like one thing that's not in in comparison here which is important is tactics three of the legendary seawolf class submarines remain in service with the navy with no near-term plans to retire them though the navy is planning on acquiring a new modern variant of the sea wolf to use on extremely important door sensitive missions with 20 aircraft carriers which include smaller carriers meant to support amphibious operations the u.s is guaranteed to have air power anywhere in the world it needs it by comparison north korea has zero aircraft carriers yeah we could not hope to ever operate one in its current economic climate let alone ensure it survives first contact against u.s forces despite all these naval advantages to the us though north korea once more has the advantage in one area mine warfare with 23 vessels especially equipped to mine sea lanes versus the us's 11 north korea is poised to make an amphibious attack against it by the superior us fleet a costly affair in terms of manpower and equipment clearing sea mines is an extremely time consuming and dangerous affair and with so many mine laying ships north korea could make entire beaches and ports completely inaccessible to us forces i hate i hate uh mines in any kind but sea mines are some of the worst because there's still mines out there from previous wars that we just haven't found because they don't track where they put them they just put them down and that's bad bad for future generations when the war's over bad for the environment bad for commercial use stupid i hate it so much the military advantage is clearly in favor of the us but a showdown between the two countries is far more nuanced than merely comparing numbers the us must maintain global commitments even during a war meaning that it wouldn't be able to commit more than 30 to 40 percent of its total force to a conflict with north korea that brings the number parity way down on the u.s side though the us's far superior equipment in training or force multipliers practically ensure a us victory however it would be an extremely costly victory for the us and its allies as north korea is well prepared to make a push north from south korea an exceedingly bloody affair with its mind lane capabilities the north korean navy could make the ocean around the korean peninsula inaccessible for weeks disrupting not just military operations but civilian traffic as well and shutting down one of the busiest trade arteries in the world then there's north korea's nuclear program the full extent of which is still not known what is clear is that north korea has the materials and technology for several bombs some estimates place the current north korean stockpile at 30 to 40 weapons even though most of these weapons could reach the u.s mainland they would make any conflict on the peninsula an extremely dangerous affair yeah losing kim jong-un likely to decide to use nuclear weapons against u.s forces and south korea rather than be deposed as so many dictators before him now go check out weird things that only exist in north korea or this other video instead so i'll leave a link down below for the og video definitely go check that out but i this there's many different things that i don't think they talk about here i obviously nuclear power is a big one but drones drones are a big one now like the us has so many drones the um i think um as long as the us has the money it can just keep throwing them at north korea right you don't have to lose any personnel at that point so the and then again the big thing that no one talks about here is tactics the military tactics of the us is just it's it's it's a true professional level do you get what i'm saying um very much on par with the uk and everybody knows the british british soldiers are some of the best soldiers in the world right and we've been all like i know i i never went over to the us to train over there but like i know friends who went to the us and were like holy cow these guys know what they're doing now that i'm in the us i get the most of all for i get the best of both worlds guys but um yeah the the us tactics are shockingly good and i feel like for the most part and i don't mean just tactics on the ground like room clearing i'm talking like officers who know exactly like look at the landscape and know exactly what to do like the train is just brilliant so i feel like north korea may have a good advantage on holding their country so like if you wanted to like take over north korea they'd be very good at standing their ground but other than that and i don't even think that would last either to be honest with you so yeah that's what my thoughts are on uh north korea versus the us let me know in the comments what you think uh good video really enjoyed it i'll leave a link down below to the og video i i think it was a fun video if you think i should react to more videos like this let me know in the comments uh but for now members you're amazing i love you i couldn't do this without you i honestly couldn't make videos every single day if it wasn't for these members right here so thank you for supporting the channel as much as you do i truly truly truly appreciate it um links down below to original adventures me and my wife are converting a school bus and traveling the united states and vlogging the whole 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Length: 19min 42sec (1182 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 10 2021