There’s a very good likelihood you are studying this on a Samsung smartphone. Even when you aren’t, you in all probability affiliate the model with client electronics. But do you know that, up till a couple of years in the past, the South Korean tech big produced all kinds of army {hardware}, together with weapons, howitzers, and tanks?

Through a subsidiary known as Samsung Techwin (now Hanwha Vision, a subsidiary of Hanwha Group), the corporate developed and offered artillery techniques, assault autos, helicopters, jet engines, and comparable army {hardware}. In the early Nineties, for instance, Samsung developed a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer known as K9 Thunder. Mobile and highly effective, the K9 continues to be utilized by the militaries of South Korea, Turkey, India, and Australia.

Samsung Techwin additionally made machine gun robots. The futuristic, if not dystopian, know-how was developed in cooperation with Korea University and used within the Demilitarized Zone between North Korea and South Korea.