Arena, Iron Fist and a dying tank's last defense: Perun on active protection
A handful of Russian tanks carrying the Arena-M system, which shot down some drones before the attack failed anyway, gave the Australian analyst his starting point.
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Active Protection Systems: Protecting Armour In the Drone & Missile Era
Thirty-seven hours old and already near 300,000 views, Perun's newest episode asks a blunt question: what do you do when armour is not enough? Most of that crowd arrived on the first day.
The hook is a small Russian attack from this year. A few main battle tanks went forward fitted with the Arena-M active protection system, and it managed to shoot down some of the drones aimed at them. The description answers its own question about whether the attack worked: no. From there the episode widens out, from Arena to Israel's Iron Fist, through the reasons armies have been slow to adopt these systems and what it would cost to invest in keeping crews alive. The Patrons voted for this topic, and the pinned note says the next three winners from that poll are already in progress.
The comments read like a regular audience on its Sunday routine. Many joke about the episode arriving on time. Others spot a survivability onion slide they think The Chieftain would approve of, or a nod to the Humvee rush from Command & Conquer: Generals. Another running joke is the truck covered in reactive armour, which several viewers call pure Mad Max.
The Lyman episode on Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi, now nine days old, keeps drawing a steady audience behind it, and the channel is running at close to three times its usual daily pace. Among the military and geopolitics channels close to it in size, William Spaniel is on a similar run, while Blue Paw Print had the biggest week of the group.
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What viewers say
Actively protecting myself from Sunday evening boredom with my "New Perun Video" system.
@Belated_WisdomSee it on YouTubeA video on time? Outrageously outrageous.
@Raz0rkingSee it on YouTubeThe ERA truck will never not be funny...🤣 Unironically such a mad max vehicle.
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The videos drawing views on Perun right now
- Channel
- Perun
- Subscribers
- 644,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 728,613
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- October 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 299,949
- Views on its first day
- 251,223
The numbers
The figures from Perun's week are below.
💡 Test your knowledge
Iron Fist, one of the systems in Perun's episode, was developed in which country?
Iron Fist is an active protection system developed by Israel's IMI Systems, now part of Elbit.
