https://defence-blog.com/peru-to-locally-produce-south-korean-combat-vehicles/>Peru is partnering with South Korea's Hyundai Rotem and STX to modernize its aging armored fleet through a 15-year plan combining imports and local production.>Phase 1 (2026–2028): Import 99 K808 wheeled vehicles and 46 K2 tanks, with training.>Phase 2 (2029–2040): Produce 181 K808s and 104 K2s domestically at FAME SAC facilities, with 30% local components.>Hyundai Rotem will invest $270M in assembly lines, transfer technology, and train personnel. The program aims to create jobs, build defense self-sufficiency, and drive economic growth, inspired by South Korea’s K2 tank success. By 2040, Peru targets a mostly home-built armored force.>150 K2>280 K808Seriously, what are they up to? They're also building a 1500t submarine and 3400t frigates in partnership with Hyundai.
Nothing unusual, the Peru-Chile border is the most probable place for tank combat in the subcontinent and there's the Bolivia's question (access to the Pacific Ocean), both countries try to keep armored force of similar capability in case of conflict but without getting into an arms race. Peru acquiring the Gripen is probable too. What will they do with all the T-tanks?
>>64455468>What will they do with all the T-tanks?Sell them second hand most likely. But that's 10+ years down the road
>>64455436>Seriously, what are they up to? They're also building a 1500t submarine and 3400t frigates in partnership with Hyundai.We need the complete tech tree.But seriously I wish El Comando Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas could decide what to buy, we have been stuck with T-55s for 50 years now and we have seen what Leopards 2 can do to the T-series.
>>64455436I'm so fucking glad more and more nations are pushing to sign defense procurement contracts with local production in mind. Waiting well over a decade for a complete fleet of vehicles is and has always been a retarded idea and most likely a far more expensive choice than just doing tech transfers and local production lines>>64455717Does Peru have plans for a future IFV? Or are APCs and MBTs the current focus for right now?
>>64455436>Poles want them for their mountainous areasThey're the right choice. Abrams are divas to maintenance.
>>64455717>We need the complete tech tree.unironically. Like if you have the ability to domestically produce an advanced MBT, you will, as a result, have the people and knowledge and tools to create a precision manufacturing economy in general, which basically means being a developed country with an educated, affluent population. Like all these countries just have to look at what Mexico has managed on the back of its automotive industry over the past 30 years.
>>64455468Peru expected strategy has been for decades to just throw enough meat and metal to either Chile or Ecuador to grind it to a halt on a defensive stance while trying to bum rush the other:https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T00875R001500060019-6.pdfhttps://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84S00897R000200090006-2.pdfAside from that there is the other advantage we have which is to have troops with actual experience fighting guerrillas in places such as VRAEM.This is more or less what we did in the Cenepa War, where we faced a technologically superior force as the ecuatorians had been ramping up their military expenditures while we were just leaving a economic crisis and had an airforce and logistics in shambles, but just enough to keep a flow of soldiers into the frontier to sustain the war effort.
>>64455436They also plan to start making parts for the first non stealth tranche of the KF21 and want to purchase stealthy versions with partially local assembly if the stealthy KF21 actually comes to fruition before being replaced with a totally new design.>>64455436Unironically Peru will probably become pretty wealthy over the next decade due to a lot of resources. They've been way more efficient at funneling that wealth into education and development than the other clowns on the continent.
>>64455820God damn. Is Peru planning on invading someone? Or do they think that they'd get invaded?
>>64455633They originally planned to upgrade the T55 to a pretty damn cool upgrade standard that would have given it a 125mm gun with a bustle loader and a 10 piston flat boxer engine similar to what the T80UD and T84 use along with some new better Nozh ERA and French/Ukrainian optics but the Ukrainian company that was going to fabricate most of the parts and the engines is now a casualty of the Zigger invasion so that plan is died. They'll probably just donate them or maybe just turn them into an MLRS or mortar platform like what Chile plans to do with their old first gen Leopards.
>>64455828Let's assume you are the only crab in the bucket smart enough to build a staircase out. You think the other crabs are actually going to let you use it without a fight?
>>64455851Who would the other crabs be? Bolivia and Ecuador? I don't see how Columbia, Chile or Brazil would give a shit if Peru finds themself in a better economic position
>>64455858 Ecuador and Peru had multiple wars during the 1900s. And there's always a no nil probability of a country getting radicalized or being invaded and forced to have a puppet governments used to start a proxy war.
>>64455742>Does Peru have plans for a future IFV? Or are APCs and MBTs the current focus for right now?I suspect the K808 variant they're selecting is similar to the N-WAV, which is basically the newer IFV variant built for the Korean Marines. It would make sense if they're buying them to serve along with the K2.
>>64455436Where tf did they get the money for this? I was there several years ago and I always thought it was a middling poorfag country
>>64455436They want to be part of the supply chain for future sales of Korean weapons in South and Central America, similar to what Poland is for East Europe.Probably one of the smartest strategic moves they have ever made.
Every day, I’m checkin’ the news,New defense deals, who’s makin’ moves?Then I saw it made me say woo!Peru’s gettin’ K2s!Shiny armor, rollin’ strong,Korean steel, it won’t go wrong!Desert or the mountain zone,We’ll drive it all day long!I keep dreaming of that turret spin (pew pew!)Autoloader loaded up again (vroom vroom!)From Seoul to Lima, rollin’ in style,Oh, the K2 makes me smileWhat is K2? It’s that tank love, that true love!Tracks on the move South Korea sent us that groove!Maybe someday We’ll roll by Machu Picchu’s way!Tell me, tell meOoh, what is K2?
>>64456135It's... complicated, Peru's main issue isn't that it doesn't have cash, the average peruvian will never die of hunger (only rurals from very isolated communities die of hunger), instead Peru has an extremely weak government, this creates the paradox of people living in shanty towns and working informal jobs yet having LCDs and iphones, owning property and sending their children to private colleges, there is an economy there, in spite of the government, instead government gets the money from big corpos and foreign investors.Most people won't pay taxes because the businesses they own or work for officially don't exist. Meanwhile government is in a permanent shuffle on what bunch of despoilers got elected because people hated the other candidate.About the only thing where nearly all peruvians will agree is in defending the borders, with a poll revealing 62 percent of peruvian will be willing not just to support but actually fight for their country, for reference US was 41 percent. Peru has a muslim level of willigness to fight which means even when you defeat the conventional armed forces, you can expect decades of insurgency.Tl;dr: gov gets corpo and big money to buy weapons and trying to eat Peru isn't worth the indigestion.
>>64455436>Seriously, what are they up to?They're working their way down the list of nations to buy arms from. Eventually they'll have weapons from every nation on the planet.
>>64457389Peru has taken the strategy of diversification to its absolute extreme, which has ended up in the weird position where they host APEC, are part of Rio Pact and have the chink Chancay Mega port.
>>64459382Chancay is pronounced like Shanghai in Quechua. I was watching a video about trade between the ports of Chancay and Shanghai and it was very confusing.
