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  • [RADIO STATIC]

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • SHANE SMITH: Nearly every industry in the world has a

  • trade show.

  • You have car shows, electronics shows, even comics

  • have their own trade shows.

  • But here in Jordan for the last 14 years, in huge tents

  • in the middle of the desert, they have a massive

  • trade show for war.

  • It's called the Special Operations Forces Exhibition,

  • or SOFEX for short, and it's hosted by Jordan's King

  • Abdullah II, one of America's only allies

  • in the Middle East.

  • I wanted to know exactly what was for sale and just who was

  • selling it at the world's largest special-forces

  • supermarket.

  • But I'm a magazine guy, not a gun guy, so I brought along an

  • ex-Marine and an Iraq War vet, Matt Ruskin, to help me sort

  • through all this stuff.

  • SHANE SMITH: It gets interesting, because when you

  • walk through security and you come to this, it's sort of

  • like a trade show out in the middle of the desert.

  • And the first thing you see are like any other trade show,

  • advertising.

  • But here it's like, F-16 with sniper targeting pod, the

  • Hellfire missile, the Javelin missile.

  • It's crazy.

  • It's the first thing you see.

  • And all this advertising is aimed at

  • one audience, generals.

  • So we're here at the beginning of SOFEX.

  • They're going to have the keynote speeches.

  • As you can see, there's pretty much every general in the

  • world here.

  • It's crazy.

  • SHANE SMITH: The arms industry is estimated at anywhere

  • between $350 billion to $500 billion a year, one of the

  • largest industries in the world.

  • And these are all the guys, the military advisers, the

  • generals, who come here to buy weapons systems.

  • Where are you guys from?

  • MALE SPEAKER 1: From Jordan.

  • SHANE SMITH: Jordan?

  • The hometown boys.

  • Where are you guys from?

  • MALE SPEAKER 2: Togo.

  • SHANE SMITH: Togo?

  • MALE SPEAKER 2: Yeah.

  • SHANE SMITH: Nice to meet you.

  • Tanzania, very good guys.

  • MALE SPEAKER 3: Lebanon.

  • SHANE SMITH: Lebanon.

  • [LEBANESE]

  • MALE SPEAKER 2: [LEBANESE]

  • MALE SPEAKER 4: [LEBANESE]

  • SHANE SMITH: When I was a kid, they used to talk about the

  • military-industrial complex.

  • Well, this is it right here, the business of war.

  • All the generals coming with billions upon billions of

  • dollars of taxpayer money to buy weapons to fuck shit up.

  • [MILITARY MARCH MUSIC]

  • SHANE SMITH: Here we go.

  • It's all going to kick off now.

  • King Abdullah's arriving.

  • So here come some of the special ops forces.

  • Jordan has a profound, almost pathological, fixation with

  • special ops.

  • Why?

  • Well, one, because it borders with Syria, Israel, Saudi

  • Arabia, and Iraq.

  • And two, because "special ops" is code for taking down

  • terrorists, insurgents, or anyone else that the

  • government deems to be undesirable.

  • And since 9/11, if you join the fight against global

  • terrorism, it also means that Uncle Sam will cut you a nice

  • big check for weapons, especially if they're

  • American-made.

  • So we just saw the show of force.

  • They took over the building.

  • They dropped the people in.

  • There was a hostage crisis.

  • They did it all, they killed everybody.

  • And now SOFEX is going to begin.

  • And if you didn't know that the military industrial

  • complex was a party, you'd be wrong.

  • So we're going to go in with all of the generals, see what

  • everybody's buying.

  • It's like a parody.

  • I kind of feel like Austin Powers is going to jump out at

  • some point, because it's like a million Dr. Evils getting

  • their special laser weapon systems.

  • It's like kids at a candy store.

  • [SINGING]

  • For your eyes only.

  • I think that's the wrong Bond.

  • And it's not just arms you can buy at SOFEX.

  • If you make a big enough purchase, they'll train you on

  • just how to use them, too.

  • To this end, they've created a state-of-the-art military

  • training facility where you can learn how to raid an

  • airplane, or assault a gas station, or not freak out

  • while all around you, bodies are burning.

  • And all of this is brought to you

  • courtesy of General Dynamics.

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: This is a coordinated effort between the

  • US and Jordan.

  • It's about a $200 million facility as it stands right

  • now, all constructed in the effort to, basically, have a

  • one-stop shop for

  • special-operations-type training.

  • So you can come and you can work on your urban skills.

  • You can work on your aircraft assault skills and just the

  • whole gamut.

  • SHANE SMITH: Who trains on it mostly?

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: Well, a number of countries, I won't

  • say exactly which ones.

  • What we have here is a Airbus 300.

  • What it allows us to do is various types of training as

  • it relates to special operations, whether it's a

  • hostage situation inside of an aircraft or if we want to

  • replicate some sky marshal training.

  • [FLYING NOISES]

  • [MACHINE GUN FIRE]

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: Because in the aircraft here, we can

  • simulate certain battlefield effects.

  • We can initiate smells and sounds of the battlefield that

  • may go along with a certain kind of scenario.

  • What we can do is we can pull out the mannequins--

  • [RECORDED BABY CRYING]

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: And actually put--

  • SHANE SMITH: Don't shoot the baby.

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: That's right.

  • The mindset's a big factor for each operator.

  • And the more you can expose them to in a controlled

  • environment like this, the better operator he's going to

  • be, the more surgical he's going to be.

  • SHANE SMITH: Right.

  • I understand why, because the baby sound

  • just freaked me out.

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: Yeah.

  • SHANE SMITH: Yeah.

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: This is the 100-meter range, and the

  • 100-meter range has a system built by Saab.

  • It's basically a pop-up target system.

  • SHANE SMITH: Saab, the car manufacturer?

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: Yeah, I believe it's the same guy,

  • Saab Systems.

  • SHANE SMITH: Right.

  • I never see any press on this stuff ever, so I think I'm

  • sort of a maverick, although not a

  • maverick like John McCain.

  • SHANE SMITH: Now Jennifer does PR for these General Dynamics

  • war villages, which must be the weirdest job for a soccer

  • mom ever created.

  • So they bring people from SOFEX here, why?

  • JENNIFER MONTESANO: Oh, to see it.

  • Gotta see it to believe it.

  • SHANE SMITH: So they like it.

  • They see the plane.

  • They get afraid by the baby, and then they go come to you

  • and say, I want it.

  • Now what's next?

  • JENNIFER MONTESANO: Great, well, we go, and we talk to

  • them, and say, they either want it in their country, or

  • they can come here and train.

  • SHANE SMITH: Right.

  • I'm going in.

  • Live hostage situation.

  • [MACHINE GUN FIRE]

  • SHANE SMITH: He got them all before I even got in.

  • I wonder what the Jordanians think about these guys being

  • the bad guys.

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: We're approaching the urban area.

  • The urban area consists of about 52 structures.

  • The structures range from banks to small/large villas.

  • We have an embassy complex over on the right, gas

  • station, and just all kinds of other structures.

  • There's a machine gun--

  • simulated machine gun in that window.

  • We have wave cannons on all the rooftops.

  • SHANE SMITH: Are wave cannons real things?

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: They're--

  • [EXPLOSION]

  • SHANE SMITH: Whoa, shit.

  • Is that a wave cannon?

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: That's a wave cannon.

  • SHANE SMITH: [LAUGHS]

  • [MACHINE GUN FIRE AND EXPLOSIONS]

  • SHANE SMITH: They're after us.

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: I've been told that in the building,

  • they've initiated some kind of an odor, as well as probably

  • some smoke and so on.

  • [HISSING SOUND]

  • I smell something.

  • I don't know what it is.

  • [EXPLOSION]

  • This is like the worst thing I could possibly think of right

  • now, being hung over, and they're going to make it smell

  • like rotting flesh.

  • MALE SPEAKER 5: Burnt hair, oily machinery, dead body.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • SHANE SMITH: Is there ever a worry that baddies would come

  • and use the area as training?

  • Because you know, you have Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria,

  • all those neighbors, and you just wonder who

  • gets to come train.

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: Well, Jordan's in a tough

  • neighborhood.

  • There's no doubt about it.

  • SHANE SMITH: Jordan is in a tough neighborhood.

  • In fact, both Egypt and Syria are currently trying to put

  • down popular rebellions, and Iraq is basically in a full-on

  • special-ops civil war.

  • And where are they getting all these weapons?

  • SOFEX.

  • How hard is it to come and buy arms on the open market?

  • SHANE SMITH: And we noticed that they sell kits.

  • For example, you can buy a regular helicopter, but you

  • can buy a kit to upgrade it to add in a missile system or

  • Gatling gun system quite easily.

  • RAPHAEL DE SUPERCAZE: Yes, of course.

  • SHANE SMITH: So I can buy a helicopter from one country,

  • and I can buy a weapons system from another country, and then

  • have an attack helicopter?

  • RAPHAEL DE SUPERCAZE: Yes.

  • SHANE SMITH: So North Korea's bought some of these?

  • RAPHAEL DE SUPERCAZE: Yes.

  • SHANE SMITH: Can I have a key chain?

  • FEMALE SPEAKER 1: Yeah, sure.

  • SHANE SMITH: Thank you.

  • Where are you guys from?

  • SHANE SMITH: Kazakhstan.

  • Czech Republic.

  • Is that made in Azerbaijan?

  • FEMALE SPEAKER 2: Yes.

  • SHANE SMITH: Yeah?

  • So Azerbaijan makes the biggest, longest

  • rifle I've ever seen.

  • Where are you guys from?

  • MALE SPEAKER 6: Germany.

  • SHANE SMITH: Germany.

  • Turkey is here.

  • China is here.

  • Jordan is here.

  • The Russians are here, all selling weapons systems to

  • whoever wants to buy them.

  • You want jets?

  • You want rockets, helicopter grenade,

  • RoboCop killer systems?

  • [ROBOT VOICE]

  • You have 20 seconds to comply.

  • You got it.

  • That's an automatic grenade launcher.

  • MATT RUSKIN: That's my favorite weapon in the entire

  • Marine Corps arsenal there.

  • SHANE SMITH: No one's stopping him.

  • No one's saying, hey, you shouldn't be actually playing

  • with the grenade launcher.

  • Now fucking around with these dudes and their guns was fun.

  • But after a while you start to freak out, because you realize

  • that they're selling weapons the same way that you'd sell

  • next year's car model.

  • MALE SPEAKER 7: The world's most demanding

  • shooters demand SIG.

  • This is the world's most revolutionary pistol.

  • We have the resources and the energy to solve

  • any small-arms problem.

  • SHANE SMITH: Javelin would be one of the most innovative

  • weapons systems.

  • SHANE SMITH: And when he says successful, what he really

  • means is that it's great at destroying stuff.

  • And we weren't the only ones to notice, like the Marine we

  • ran into who had just finished his second tour in Iraq.

  • SHANE SMITH: And the biggest sellers by far are the

  • American companies.

  • In fact, 16 of the 20 largest arms manufacturers are based

  • in the United States.

  • And being the biggest store in the mall means selling a lot

  • of weapons to a lot of people.

  • What's crazy about this is that America gives a lot of

  • these countries foreign aid so that they can come here and

  • buy weapons systems from their companies.

  • It's kind of like a parent giving their kids the credit

  • card and saying, go to the mall that I own and just buy

  • whatever you want.

  • So the last time you were in the Middle East, you were in

  • Iraq as a Marine.

  • Does it spin you out to see like Northrop Grumman, General

  • Dynamics, all these American companies making tons of money

  • off of war?

  • MATT RUSKIN: What's the trip is you see Norinco right here

  • next to an American arms display.

  • And they used to launch 9-foot Norinco rockets on us.

  • SHANE SMITH: Really?

  • MATT RUSKIN: Yeah.

  • SHANE SMITH: The insurgents would buy Norinco rockets and

  • then use them against you.

  • And they're right next to the American military companies.

  • Interesting.

  • So we went over to the Norinco booth to see if they could

  • explain how their weapons ended up in the hands of Iraqi

  • insurgents.

  • Hi.

  • [CHINESE]

  • MALE SPEAKER 9: Hi.

  • [CHINESE]

  • SHANE SMITH: Hi.

  • How are you?

  • MALE SPEAKER 9: Where are you from?

  • SHANE SMITH: From America, Vice.

  • BBS?

  • News.

  • MALE SPEAKER 9: Oh, news.

  • SHANE SMITH: News, news.

  • MALE SPEAKER 9: I'm sorry.

  • Maybe I'm not [INAUDIBLE].

  • SHANE SMITH: Oh, OK.

  • MALE SPEAKER 9: OK.

  • SHANE SMITH: OK.

  • Thank you.

  • MALE SPEAKER 9: I'm sorry.

  • Sorry.

  • SHANE SMITH: [CHINESE].

  • I must have bad BO.

  • They're all walking away very rapidly.

  • [CHINESE].

  • MALE SPEAKER 10: [CHINESE].

  • SHANE SMITH: Everyone just left.

  • While we couldn't get an answer from the Chinese,

  • sitting right there on display in the next booth over were

  • shells that were exactly the same as the ones Iraqi

  • insurgents used to make roadside bombs, or IEDs.

  • MATT RUSKIN: All right, they take the tips off of these,

  • and you can see it's pretty hollow in there.

  • And they'll pack this whole thing full of C4, and it

  • creates some hellacious shrapnel.

  • SHANE SMITH: And here you can just buy it like you would a

  • chocolate bar.

  • MATT RUSKIN: Exactly.

  • [GUNSHOTS]

  • SHANE SMITH: We're just outside of Amman, Jordan, at

  • the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center for

  • the Ultimate Warrior Competition.

  • There's some Marines here.

  • There's some Tanzanians here.

  • There are some people from Saudi Arabia.

  • And then the hometown heroes, the Jordanians.

  • They're part of the special branches.

  • It's basically bragging rights for who's the biggest badasses

  • in the world.

  • [GUNSHOTS]

  • And so these are the best of the best, counter-terrorist

  • special-ops groups.

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: Yes.

  • SHANE SMITH: And so if they win, they're like, we're the

  • biggest badasses, basically.

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: Yeah.

  • I guess it does give you a little bit of

  • bragging rights if--

  • SHANE SMITH: Well, that's good.

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: So as you can see, it's designed to hit

  • on as many of the skill sets that these guys possess, and

  • challenge them in all those, stamina,

  • endurance, shooting skills.

  • [GUNSHOT]

  • SHANE SMITH: Do they do Indian leg wrestling?

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: Indian leg wrestling?

  • No.

  • Maybe--

  • SHANE SMITH: Because I could compete on that.

  • CHARLES REDLINGER: What about potato-sack racing?

  • SHANE SMITH: I could compete on those two.

  • Now I have to admit, watching these special-ops guys strut

  • their stuff was pretty impressive.

  • MALE SPEAKER 11: [SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

  • SHANE SMITH: But when you start thinking about the

  • countries that some of these guys come from, you can't help

  • but wonder the circumstances in which these urban assault

  • skills are going to be put to use.

  • And if the recent uprisings in the Arab world are any

  • indication, the answer is simple, at home.

  • [GUNSHOTS]

  • SHANE SMITH: How you guys doing?

  • Good.

  • You going to win?

  • MALE SPEAKER 12: [INAUDIBLE]

  • SHANE SMITH: Yeah?

  • Now how you boys doing?

  • You going to win?

  • MALE SPEAKER 13: If they don't win, then I'll put my

  • boot in their ass.

  • I'm happy.

  • And what do you think about competitions like this?

  • MALE SPEAKER 14: Friendly competition's always a great

  • thing, because it lets you know what you need to work on.

  • And you should get up, get to meet new people.

  • Because connections around the world right now is a big deal.

  • So getting to know guys you might see down the road in

  • Afghanistan and recognize faces

  • definitely goes a long way.

  • [GUNSHOTS]

  • SHANE SMITH: And recognizing faces is important.

  • In fact, facial recognition technology is just the latest

  • feature being built into many unarmed aerial vehicles, which

  • are also known as drones.

  • You know, when you were a kid, you used to have those little

  • model airplanes.

  • And there'd be like, somebody's dad would be a real

  • nerd and have the model airplane.

  • Now, it's all model-airplane-style drones

  • that can take pictures or drop bombs.

  • The sad thing is that countries who actually buy

  • this stuff rarely end up using it against foreign militaries.

  • More often than not, they're turning it

  • against their own citizens.

  • And thanks to the number of governments who are afraid of

  • their own people, business is booming.

  • ADAM THOMAS: We've just made an assessment of the global

  • security market spending.

  • And our assessment this year is we think spending on

  • security's between $180-190 billion.

  • We now see that doubling to $400 billion in

  • the next four years.

  • SHANE SMITH: $400 billion just on--

  • ADAM THOMAS: That's everything, from border

  • security, homeland security, anti-immigration, anti-drug,

  • protection of oil fields, and everything else.

  • SHANE SMITH: So even in a recession--

  • ADAM THOMAS: Yep.

  • So you can see two to three times more on security

  • spending than there's going to be on

  • defense tactical spending.

  • Hence, the importance of SOFEX.

  • SHANE SMITH: So we just left SOFEX.

  • We're pretty spun out.

  • A lot of generals, a lot of weapons systems, missiles,

  • tanks, planes, helicopters, and it's kind of a bummer.

  • And as we left SOFEX, the magnitude of what we

  • just saw hit us.

  • If the arms markets are doubling every year in sales,

  • it means that the armies are actually using and expending

  • their weapons, which means, quite simply, that they're

  • killing people.

  • MALE SPEAKER 15: 260's--

  • MALE SPEAKER 16: Come on, fire.

  • [MACHINE GUN FIRE]

  • MALE SPEAKER 17: Roger.

  • [MACHINE GUN FIRE]

  • MALE SPEAKER 18: Keep shooting, keep shooting.

  • Keep shooting.

  • Keep shooting.

  • [MACHINE GUN FIRE]

  • [MIDDLE EASTERN POP MUSIC]

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