Speeding tanks, booming howitzers, shaking bones: This is how South Korea sells weapons

Jack Watling, senior research fellow for land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute in London, says South Korea is the perfect testing ground. Its seasons range from deep-freeze winters to monsoons and summer heat of 30 degrees Celsius or higher – and it has both flat and mountainous terrain. “That is a pretty unique set of complex variables in terms of having a vehicle that’s reliable across climatic conditions,” Watling says. And that’s attracted foreign buyers, he says.