Swedish Veteran describes the Horrors of Close Combat - Marine reacts

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  • @richardschleenvoigt4374
    @richardschleenvoigt4374 Рік тому +488

    As a Swede who used one of those machineguns (ksp58, our version of the m240) I can tell you that we do indeed not mess around.
    We were thought to use them to cut down entire walls in appartmentcomplexes if needed. Using ammunition is better than using lives is what our officers told us.

    • @chrisburke624
      @chrisburke624 Рік тому +66

      Good teachings. Bullets are bullets, they can't remotely take the place of people.
      Ex Canadian Forces here. We were told to fire through cars also, if enemy run & take cover behind a car. The rounds will fire right through unless it's the engine block.
      (Same applies when in firefights using our standard combat rifle, the C7A2/C8A2)

    • @juliangriffiths9583
      @juliangriffiths9583 Рік тому

      @@chrisburke624 im joining the dutch army in about 2 years. How does the c7 shoot? Since its our service weapon too! Is it any good or is it worde than any nato service weapon?

    •  Рік тому +7

      Yeah, my experience too, and loads of 7,62 AP for both 58’s and Ak4’s.

    • @chrisburke624
      @chrisburke624 Рік тому +8

      @@juliangriffiths9583 Best of luck when you join, good sir! 🙂
      The C7/C8 series of weapons are solid service rifles, in my opinion. They shoot well, durable enough, fairly easy to clean & maintain, and versatile with mods.
      I deployed to Afghanistan twice rocking my C7A2 (front handle, ACOG, and Pac-4 on the rails) and only had 1 stoppage on each tour.
      The SA80, the service rifle the Brits use, is the worst rifle in NATO!!
      (The new A2 model they've introduced is apparently much better, but overall is still a shi**y design...)

    • @SonsOfLorgar
      @SonsOfLorgar Рік тому +8

      And first guy in is always mr hand grenade

  • @abcbadpassword
    @abcbadpassword Рік тому +402

    That guy has one of the best swedish podcasts (even won podcast of the year) called Krigshistoriepodden, where they talk about military history! Great guy and great pod!

    • @magnus1liljeqvist
      @magnus1liljeqvist Рік тому +14

      Best podd ever.

    • @IAM1337OP
      @IAM1337OP Рік тому +20

      Ära

    • @AlexKall
      @AlexKall Рік тому +6

      Yes they are brilliant, they compliment each other perfectly!

    • @GustavafLindholmen
      @GustavafLindholmen Рік тому +1

      Evig ära!

    • @magnus1liljeqvist
      @magnus1liljeqvist Рік тому +5

      @@AlexKall yes and they really have to put many hours into one episode. Read some books. Spend time on internet. Write script and then talk to the other one about how to split everything up and so on.

  • @herrakaarme
    @herrakaarme Рік тому +146

    That Swedish soldier really knew what he was talking about. Impressive video. After watching this with your comments, I know I'd like to clear buildings even less than I'd have thought before. Not that I'd have had much training for it anyway, so it would be an abnormal situation for me, anyway. But anything can happen in a war.

    • @dman5501
      @dman5501 Рік тому +3

      Watch "You don't give in to Tyrants" which is a Swedish volunteer who survived the russian onslaught on Kiev in the earliest stage. Incredible story

    • @jeffccr3620
      @jeffccr3620 Рік тому +2

      The way I view it is I have the advantage if I am outside and they're in a building
      I can cut off all supplies and wait them out or burn them out
      Only way I would go inside a known enemy structure is if it's a rescue mission
      If it's not a rescue mission then they're the one's that needs to be rescued from me

  • @FDCNC
    @FDCNC Рік тому +34

    I've Seen the Swedish Marines do CQB and they are as smooth as butter.

  • @docgillygun9531
    @docgillygun9531 Рік тому +16

    This was a great 1st person explanation that I really enjoyed. What is so interesting to me is that room to room house to house, building to building CQB clearance is so fast, up close and personal with instinctive primal responses backed by highly conditioned training, but at the same time longitudinally progress can be so painstakingly slow that the absolute physical and emotional grind is absolutely relentless. And this is repeated again and again without any time for any sort of emotional processing and recovery. These guys are literally line finely tuned super cars that are running a race by doing a burnout from start to finish.

  • @niklaso1113
    @niklaso1113 Рік тому +111

    Apparently the legendary Conrad von Hötzendorf was an expert at close combat warfare.

  • @TheSwede9
    @TheSwede9 Рік тому +9

    Cool reaction. First time as a Swedish person that I think I've seen a reaction video where it's subtitled in english and the person speaking is swedish. The translation was pretty spot on and this was an enjoyable watch! I had never heard of the person narrating this but he was so good at explaining all the details to a layman like myself. So captivating and also highlighted the difficulty of a soldier with the analogy of fighting in a lighted sports arena. I have never served but I have all the respect in the world for you guys and he really put it into perspective.

  • @ratdevil5393
    @ratdevil5393 10 місяців тому +3

    I´m trained as a Urban warfare in Sweden , this man explain it real good

  • @Osvath97
    @Osvath97 Рік тому +101

    Interestingly, if you listen to the accounts of Medal of Honor winner David Bellavia, who were fighting in Fallujah, they started on the fly to use similar tactics to the Swedish CQB doctrine (especially with the machine guns and automatic rifles), as they realised that was just the safest in an extreme CQB environment like that.

    • @Solidaritas1
      @Solidaritas1 Рік тому +10

      Lets not underscore that we also flattened Fallujah, yet we cried when Russia did the same to Mariupol, just because they're white people rather than brown.

    • @robertohlen4980
      @robertohlen4980 Рік тому +22

      @@Solidaritas1 Oh, I really love some whataboutism, got any more?

    • @Solidaritas1
      @Solidaritas1 Рік тому +11

      @@robertohlen4980 Not whataboutism in this case because I'm not using it to deflect from what Russia is doing, merely that we care when anybody else does it, but when we do it then its a priori just and right.

    • @mrolsen6987
      @mrolsen6987 Рік тому +15

      @@Solidaritas1
      The different is that the Russians have been shooting civilians just walking or on a bicycle, un armed..
      And they have been doing it for fun.
      Even childrens.

    • @Solidaritas1
      @Solidaritas1 Рік тому +16

      @@mrolsen6987 apparently you haven't seen the footage from brave people like Chelsea Manning who show our soldiers gunning down civilians for fun, treating them like rodents or cockroaches.

  • @sethburns1971
    @sethburns1971 Рік тому +14

    Always appreciate your vids brother!

  • @kristofferhellstrom
    @kristofferhellstrom Рік тому +28

    Oooh. I remember his voice :D That guy has a really good Swedish pod called "Krigshistoriepodden".

  • @johneriksson9356
    @johneriksson9356 Рік тому +5

    I listen to his/their War history podcasts everyday while I work it's such good and interesting stuff

  • @andersholmstrom3571
    @andersholmstrom3571 Рік тому +7

    This was a really good and informative video.
    This fellow obviously knows what he is talking about.
    During my time in the Swedish army I mainly trained for delaying actions in rural areas.
    The guy in the video mentioned that you get paranoid. The danger can come from anywhere,
    For years after my military srvice I constantly checked the terrain along the road when I was drivining.
    Constantly looking out for likely places for a fire assault.
    Being trained for delaying action, fire assaults is what you maily do so I was very much aware of the vanurability of trafick on a road passing suitable terrain for a fire assault.

  • @magnus_lundgren
    @magnus_lundgren Рік тому +7

    In the tail end of the Cold War, Sweden planned six battalions to be specialized for urban warfare. I don't know how many of them that got set up before the cut-down of the armed forces, but my conscription back in 92-93 was for the battalion for central Stockholm. Back then, they told us that with a 10:1 advantage, they expected to take a defended building with only 50% losses. So simple math, they expected to lose five times as much as the defenders even had.
    On some of the exercises, we slept in the culverts of a former hospital that just had some "maintenance heating" making it 4 degrees Celsius (39F), and the floor just drained the heat straight out of us. We longed to get out and sleep in a tent in the forest, because a tent during winter would be warmer. I heard later that was a mistake, and it was supposed to be heated, and the other companies stayed in heated locations. But I think experience that level on suckage during training was a good thing, as the real deal is definitely a lot worse.
    As I'm back in green as part of the home-guard, I got a refresher training in CQB basics earlier this year, which for me was kind of a thirty year anniversary visit to one of the training sites shown in that video. Some details have changed, like the second holding the hand on the shoulder/back on the first (which, besides pushing also is for a bit of communication) and what to do directly after entering the room. A lot was the the same. So it was more a tweak of what we learned back then.

  • @SwedishVilsten
    @SwedishVilsten Рік тому +25

    Some cool videos on that channel. Like the former swedish contractors encounter with Serbian warlords on the Balkans. Worth a watch.

  • @randomguy4184
    @randomguy4184 Рік тому +3

    Militärt is a gold mine of videos, i recommend that you look at some more of them!

  • @davesaunders568
    @davesaunders568 Рік тому +8

    Very impressive video, he had certainly been there seen it and done it. Good skills 👏

  • @Jonsson474
    @Jonsson474 Рік тому +3

    That channel, Militärt, is superb. Really high quality content.

  • @EricTheSwede
    @EricTheSwede Рік тому +87

    We might be a small nation, but I'm so immensely proud of our men and women who served, and continue to serve. We might not have been in a war of our own for a very long time, but we have almost a hundred years of experience in others'. From medical duties in Korea, to peacekeeping in Kongo, Bosnia, Mali and Afghanistan we've accumulated a TON of experience that I'm glad gets used in some capacity!

    • @tomw6947
      @tomw6947 Рік тому +6

      How do you feel about Sweden joining NATO? Sweden is a great country and huge respect too your military from the UK.

    • @2011granit
      @2011granit Рік тому +4

      You forgot Libanon, Cyprys Liberia,Somalia, Iraq, Syria

    • @andersmalmgren6528
      @andersmalmgren6528 Рік тому +8

      @@tomw6947 i have been pro NATO my entire life. Just now my fellow swedes wake up :)

    • @aONE_
      @aONE_ Рік тому

      @@andersmalmgren6528indeed

    • @Brecconable
      @Brecconable Рік тому +2

      @@andersmalmgren6528 Nah you've taken the blue pill and gone woke.

  • @PiffyPerssson
    @PiffyPerssson Рік тому +3

    This is spot on from the training I got as a northern ranger in Sweden long time ago. Happy to see that the intensity is the same

  • @Pih_TV
    @Pih_TV Рік тому +13

    As a Swedish vet myself we used a lot of these tactics in actual sitautions. But, we also ignored a lot of it. If there is a threat in an urban environment you just blow yourself inside and being even more violent than in this video.

    • @zlirren
      @zlirren Рік тому +3

      nu är jag inte någon veteran själv men min körlärare i gymnasiet va major på A3 innan det lades ned och av det han sa så uppfattade jag att överväldigande eldkraft och brutalitet va det som vinner strider.

  • @gameram6382
    @gameram6382 Рік тому +1

    Remember doing a compound raid and building cleaning. At night, very intense, just moving up to the target area was stressful enough

  • @jaskapenttila7644
    @jaskapenttila7644 Рік тому +21

    There's a video of Finnish Jägers in a International unit in Ukraine. Sniper team from what I understood and they encounter a BMP/BTR and one of them takes a hit. It's an interesting watch and it has some funny references to Finnish popular culture.

    • @Forrestlynx
      @Forrestlynx Рік тому +2

      A link would be nice.

    • @jaskapenttila7644
      @jaskapenttila7644 Рік тому +1

      @@Forrestlynx of course here:
      ua-cam.com/video/lWlk_OHJQ3Q/v-deo.html

    • @TheDeltasteve
      @TheDeltasteve Рік тому

      Yes, a link please

    • @kuukkeli8865
      @kuukkeli8865 Рік тому

      @@Forrestlynx ua-cam.com/video/lWlk_OHJQ3Q/v-deo.html

    • @stridsbulten
      @stridsbulten Рік тому

      @@TheDeltasteve ua-cam.com/video/lWlk_OHJQ3Q/v-deo.html

  • @fabianbergstrom1306
    @fabianbergstrom1306 Рік тому +2

    Like someone else said you should watch more videos from this channel. They are great!

  • @Legjia
    @Legjia Рік тому +1

    Thanx for a great vid! I spent alot of time doing CQC/CQB so I know exactly what this guy is on about, I started writing a comment but it started to sound like an essay so I stoped and just to say again thanx for the video :D

  • @jeffreytoledo5130
    @jeffreytoledo5130 Рік тому +4

    It was funny people were talking shit about how long it took the Philippine Military in taking Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, Mindanao. It took them about 5 months in clearing the city. The know-it-alls of this world are freaking funny.😂 Great vlog, brother! Keep it up! Stay Safe!😉

  • @Proximax9
    @Proximax9 Рік тому +9

    as an ex tank guy, we only did a little bit of CQB training, but it was very interesting. Would have loved to dive more deeply into it. But of course our focus was on tank warfare, so for us general rule of thumb was to just avoid getting into fights in cities.... so no luck there :D

    • @Proximax9
      @Proximax9 Рік тому +1

      @@abrahamlevi3556 well the leo2 which we used doesn't have enough gun elevation to survive very long in urban environment. But cqb on foot was fun to try out :)

  • @johankaewberg8162
    @johankaewberg8162 10 місяців тому

    There was an Amiga game named SWAT which was all about clearing a building with a small squad.. The man is basically explaining the way to play. Respect.

  •  Рік тому +18

    During the early nineties I served in a national guard QRF in Stockholm. We actively opted to stay with the AK4 (7,62) instead of switching over to the AK5 (5,56) to be able to penetrate brick or concrete walls better (especially with AP). We also had loads of offensive grenades, a ridiculous amount of AT4's and a lot of explosives (and ladders). If remember correctly we always trained using max force and agressiveness as the enemy planned for were Spetznas/GRU or VDV.
    I think the plan was to possibly sacrifice some civilians rather than risk losing momentum and also to keep our own casualities down as Sweden at that point probably had not fully mobilized.

    • @winstonsmith2539
      @winstonsmith2539 Рік тому +4

      Just a correction the national guard QRF (hemvärnets insatsplutoner) did not opt to keep the AK4 for any of those reasons, the whole national guard was forced to keep them for budget reasons (and silly traditionalists). And they still use them to this day all over the country. I think you are mixing up the national guard (hemvärnet) with stadsskytte. some of the stadsskytte infantry and mech infantry units specifically tasked with defending Stockholm, and other cities in the late 90s actually kept the AK4 for a few years extra for the exact reason you mention.

    •  Рік тому +6

      @@winstonsmith2539 Nope, we were a quasi experimental outfit for evaluating motorized qrf type units in "Hemvärnet" and we really had some freedom regarding armament.
      The unit, Södra Kretsstabens Skyddspluton, is long since disbanded. Apart from the AK4 we had 4xAK4B, 4xSteyr SSG69 (later swapped for PSG90), and 4x KSP58. One recurring guest was the head of the Swedish Defense Material Administrions small caliber section (anything less than 20mm). We trained at least one weekend every month at the urban combat center at Livgardet.

    •  Рік тому

      We also, like Evans Carlsons Marine Raiders, had no real rank structure and each group decided themselves who would be squad leader.

    • @winstonsmith2539
      @winstonsmith2539 Рік тому +1

      @ oh well, a unicorn unit.. who could have guessed. Did you get to have a beret to? :-) sounds like something out of nittiettan..

    • @tommieberggren3324
      @tommieberggren3324 5 місяців тому

      "And then we masturbated, sitting in circles."

  • @RemoW74
    @RemoW74 Рік тому +4

    As a finn, it's always good to have great neighbours.

  • @jimmya1646
    @jimmya1646 Рік тому +7

    This was intense and interesting. I am a Swede, never seen this before. But I've seen some US military videos showing the same techniques with instructors, interesting to see that some countries utilise smilar or the same techniques! Should make for an "easy coop international operation" in the field I guess?

  • @Markush444
    @Markush444 Рік тому +2

    For me is something strange, when in videos those light blocks are referred as concrete wall in US or Canada, what ever they are called. In Nordics "old" normal concrete wall is full poured molds with cement/sand/gravel/random stone and rebar, without pre casted bricks. Its pretty much totally different substance. I find it funny when they shoot 12.7mm/.50cal thru those blocks, try it on Swedish concrete 20cm thick. I bet fail.

  • @maghambor
    @maghambor Рік тому +1

    He's got a lot of good points and so do you. Well done!

  • @TheQuantumPotato
    @TheQuantumPotato Рік тому +2

    One thing that occurred to me when I was watching this was how much of a deathtrap those fire doors that have a heavy spring to close them automatically must be. I was just thinking that every door in a building I was in today was one of those doors. If you boot them open, they'll be half closed by the time your foot is back on the ground.

  • @lafeeshmeister
    @lafeeshmeister Рік тому +1

    24:26 "Fighting in urban areas will be like fighting in a lighted sports arena." Modern gladiators.

  • @galenbjorn443
    @galenbjorn443 Рік тому +5

    my father is educated and traind in city combat, and when he talk about what they did in training and practicing its sounds like hell. I'm from Sweden as well

  • @Kottekungen
    @Kottekungen Рік тому +4

    The soldier is named Per, today he is a awsome podcaster and father of 3.

  • @Denzao-D
    @Denzao-D Рік тому +7

    This is why those home guard soldiers or national guards soldier(or what it is called) comes in. Having like the main army fighting in cities they are not from is difficult. Better to use those home soldiers. Luckily in Sweden we have a lot of them, so I thinknwe would manage urban combat quite good. Knowing your terrain, alleyways, forests and so on, really makes a difference.

    • @simonceesay2187
      @simonceesay2187 Рік тому

      Im in the homeguard, and we are severly lacking training in cqb. We are meat for the grinder :) but as you said atleast there are alot of us

  • @Gripenace
    @Gripenace Рік тому +2

    Very informative clip. I guess it matches the actual environment in war, which is very brutal.

  • @pyttpytts2690
    @pyttpytts2690 Рік тому +1

    At 4:15, they make a mistake, the guy opening the door, would not be the guy entering, usual one would had a guy+cower, on the other side, who only job is to open the door, reason, so you don't take down your gun, and are always ready to fire
    at 19:07 they do it more right, except none is stacked up and ready to go

    • @SonsOfLorgar
      @SonsOfLorgar Рік тому +1

      It also depends on if the door is in a corridor, a single room or a stair well and how far in each direction you've cleared or have covered by overwatch.

  • @sterneis1
    @sterneis1 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for your videos. you analyse very well. i am a metal craftsman, not a soldier. but its interesting to learn the art of war.

  • @KarILsson
    @KarILsson Рік тому +1

    7:52 If i remember correctly the Azovstal steel factory was build to better withstand a nuclear explosion during the cold war and have Nuclear-proof bunkers under the build as well so its like a fotress.

  • @mrrobbra
    @mrrobbra Рік тому +4

    www.youtube.com/@Krigshistoriepodden
    Thats their poddcast, sadly they have not added subtitles yet. But it is wery interesting to listen to them because they have a way to explain history like you are a couple of friends talking over a beer 🍻

  • @Richie8406
    @Richie8406 Рік тому

    4:30 The fist thing has to be an awareness check, Stack 12345. Also to say I am here, push forward.

  • @saruwarti
    @saruwarti Рік тому +1

    you asked for in the end for video, where they go through what happens mentally and physically I would recommend Har du dödat någon? (Have you killed someone?) It is a swedish mini documentary about what is like to do a tour abroad, how is it coming home and what question can you get if you tell you been or they know you been. unfortunately it's available in swedish without subtitles, but militärt which had this video also has a one about the effects of combat fatigue mentally.
    Also Sebastian Junger has a couple of good speeches about why some soldiers miss war and have a hard time to adjust back to everyday life.

  • @theodoreconley-bf4qh
    @theodoreconley-bf4qh Рік тому

    Hand contact is from left to right shoulder so you know where your 6 has a shot moving or prone, squeeze of the hand gives him heads up of a verbal command

  • @Breadman-k6d
    @Breadman-k6d Рік тому

    3:49 He's actually saying "The Yankees call it "The Great Equaliser"" lol
    In Denmark we've transitioned from dynamic entry to "defensive entry" i.e. slicing as much as possible of the room before entering. I assumed this was something we had learned from the Americans?
    UF Pro has a video lecture on this style of entry on UA-cam if you're interested.

  • @emil37094
    @emil37094 Рік тому +6

    great video from a swede, could we get some more SOG reaction videos? :)

  • @peterrobinson9402
    @peterrobinson9402 Рік тому +4

    Worse when the enemy combatants look the same as the civilians and the civilians hate you too.

  • @Richie8406
    @Richie8406 Рік тому

    24:00 Specific, to nuclear? Interesting, guessing you guys have to learn some light fission, how it works. Also, very specific clearing compared to war, I am guessing. Blueprints ready, every room etc.

  • @DjJ0SHWA
    @DjJ0SHWA Рік тому +14

    I'd love to see your reaction to Civ Div's combat footage from Ukraine. Especially his newest 4 part series starting off with Destroying a BMP with an NLAW

  • @mattiashartzell4640
    @mattiashartzell4640 Рік тому +1

    Love from Sweden

  • @rosen9425
    @rosen9425 Рік тому

    Oh, I do remember us having light CQB training. Just a bone standard detached rural house was impossible to clear effectively, we would've been taken out very easily. There's a reason specialized units exists for this.

  • @EddieTheEagle1978
    @EddieTheEagle1978 Рік тому

    4.12 its not about pushing coward friend into the room. It`s about communication and working together.

  • @ericmyrs
    @ericmyrs Рік тому

    Bajsfäller. Oh my god, that's certainly a word for punji sticks. I love it.

  • @pqsnet
    @pqsnet Рік тому +2

    That is so true ---> 19:22 This winter, we went to the swedish countryside in Södermanland to a cottage in a willage where people have lived for at least 1000 years, and the maps goes back to the 1600s. In that modernized Blockhaus, we had the warming just so the water wouldnt freeze, went in there with full winted gear, took of the shoes with doubble socks put on, and i frooze my feets in 20 min and couldnt feel my toes. And when putting the boots back on, they were freezing too. Cold houses is no joke. And if in concrete, its even worse beacuse of the moist.

  • @Richie8406
    @Richie8406 Рік тому +1

    This is how you say Yankee in Swedish: Jänkarna 3:46

  • @matthewbaxter8558
    @matthewbaxter8558 Рік тому

    Iam very impressed by his analysis. Ill go and check out the battle Hue.

  • @chrisbukowski2431
    @chrisbukowski2431 Місяць тому

    “Welcome back to Wombat Charm channel!”

  • @boundbytanks8883
    @boundbytanks8883 Рік тому +5

    Oh btw
    "Militärt" has the "ä" in it (the 2 dot above A) which is pronounced like the Ae in aeroplane
    instead of "mili-tart" xD

    • @RyanRyzzo
      @RyanRyzzo Рік тому +1

      A of "apple" is a better example :) and more likely pronounced as Ä

    • @boundbytanks8883
      @boundbytanks8883 Рік тому

      @@RyanRyzzo i feel like Ä is more eeeeh than Aaah
      speaking as a swede.. of course

    • @daw7563
      @daw7563 Рік тому

      Oj det var ju viktigt att reda ut.... suck

  • @mantori762
    @mantori762 5 місяців тому

    It's really need alot if handgrenades and full auto.. and you still will take huge casualties

  • @Pederfoggy
    @Pederfoggy Рік тому +6

    Do more vids about Sweden!❤

  • @IstvanThree
    @IstvanThree Рік тому

    Almost 10 years ago I saw a clip here on YT from a soldier with PTSD, who was in Iraq and did this exact thing, he blew a hole into the back of a building with a MLAW (I think it´s called) - what he did not know was that behind that wall was a family of 4 and his rocket killed the husband and the 2 children in a pretty nasty way. This had him having a complete mental breakdown there, which again the mother noticed and in the end comforted him and told him inshallah, if it´s gods will.
    A both horrible and heartwarming story in one.
    Just saying because he talks about errors that can be made during such times.

  • @jensskjeld2598
    @jensskjeld2598 Рік тому

    Great vid dude

  • @JustYesNo
    @JustYesNo Рік тому +1

    That swede also have a military history podcast called krigshistoriepodden.

  • @chrillemekniven
    @chrillemekniven Рік тому

    In the Swedish soldiers instruction from 1956, they write a way to recognize friend or foe in CQB. Stick sand paper to your back so that your team can feel that you are ar good guy, or smearing your self with Garlic oil so that you can smell your friend... When we entered rooms to clear them in exercise, if the element of surprise is gone, you just go full auto with the FN Mag after a grenade or two, you don´t have time for slicing;-)

  • @johanfabritius95
    @johanfabritius95 Рік тому +1

    Hello sir it would be intressting if u did a react video about the Swedes in afganistan there is a mini serie about them its called war for peace sweden

  • @johanbtheman
    @johanbtheman Рік тому +1

    Would be cool to see some reaction on MACV SOG, old but relevant

  • @bedtimestories4927
    @bedtimestories4927 Рік тому +8

    Very good overview. Hard to comment anything on other than there are actual academical books and research made on urban warfare. Just take Col. Liam Collins, PhD. His studies alone are the basis of all modern urban warfare research.

  • @Broken_dish
    @Broken_dish Рік тому

    imop you can neve have enough nades in these situations never enough...great video

  • @pqsnet
    @pqsnet Рік тому

    He sounds as if he is from Örebro Where the former Royal life-guard Regimente was 1815-1974.
    But his accent has ben Stockholm-ofized. Also, lol he says right here 12:18 "Svenne-banan" - Directly translated "Swede-banana" whish is kinda pun-slang for ordinary swede or mild way to say "Yankee-wanky"...

  • @viktoria.j.a.1066
    @viktoria.j.a.1066 Рік тому +1

    Underbart Heja Sverige

  • @MatteV2
    @MatteV2 Рік тому

    A buddy of mine told me that when it comes to CQB, explosives and firepower reign supreme, and if all you need to do is remove an enemy, fuck the building and express deliver a 12cm HE shell through the window from a Leopard 2.

  • @caeliss3324
    @caeliss3324 Рік тому

    Just a question, how do they decided who's the first one to enter? Do they already have a formation or it's whoever is closer to the entrance?

  • @_brlek_7164
    @_brlek_7164 Рік тому

    There is one on yt, the arrest of el chapo. Filmed by mexican marines. Complete madness, there was also a dude with an rpg standing on top of the starirs.

  • @korallrev3497
    @korallrev3497 Рік тому

    this is a good comparisson to Sarajevo in the 90's never got overtaken

  • @viralata2907
    @viralata2907 Рік тому

    As a comunist my self, is always good see military specialists talking freely about this stuff help a lot!

  • @bengt-goranpersson5125
    @bengt-goranpersson5125 Рік тому

    13:41 - My home town

  • @jonber9411
    @jonber9411 Рік тому

    If you have many alternate routes of entry, like several windows and doors- could you use the fear and tension of the enemy to force his focus.
    By this i mean, make it seem like you are coming in through the door nr 1, throw grenades, light it up. Then quickly and silently change position and make entry by door 2.
    The guys inside should be really afraid as well and their focus ought to be directed at where the entry team last made noise. If you gain one or two seconds of their focus that should mean much right?
    I have no clue since i am not trained in this. But inutiviely it feels like handing an advantage to enter without trying to trick or feind the opponent.

  • @SamGray
    @SamGray Рік тому +1

    Many nations train-train-train clearing buildings and have extensive techniques about it, but what about Defending buildings?

  • @JohanHaagg
    @JohanHaagg Рік тому +4

    Kinda funny story a friend of mine told me after he did a tour in Kosovo. They hade 4 women in their squad (late 90ies so this was very uncommon). 2 of them used the KSP90 (Our version of the m249). They soon got a reputation for house clearing, and at a couple of time the serbes actually turned tail and ran out the back, as apparently 2 short good looking blondes with light machine guns, sending a lot of bullets down range was very scary thing to encounter.

    • @listrahtes
      @listrahtes Рік тому +1

      I highly doubt that story of europeen women on the frontlines doing CQB . It is still "very uncommon" because of the physical capabiliites needed alone in carrying weight not even considering other factors. There were several hundred women in the albanian guerilla fighting and women in the european force in supporting roles. I know swedish army is very progressive and has conscription for men and women as the same terms for professional soldiers. Still there is a reason why close to never will see a woman in that role. There are just limits esp. in that environment . I call that a myth.

    • @JohanHaagg
      @JohanHaagg Рік тому +1

      @@listrahtes it is you choice if you wish to belive such arcaic and chovenistik bullshit. I know to be true, as I know one of the women personally. And just google, you can see there is a lot of women on the front lines. Resently women even made it into US rangers. And Israel have hade women serving on the front lines for decades. So yeah.

    • @listrahtes
      @listrahtes Рік тому

      @@JohanHaagg I am not talking Israel and I respect and welcome women in the military. So you can go away with your chauvinism nonsense. But rangers were forced to lower entrance requirements for women that's why they got in which is very bad development not because the are women but of involving woke politics in the army. Army should only be about merit and that's how the Israeli approach it. If you say you know her personally and trust her ok I take that back and believe you. Still it's very very uncommon. Look at Ukraine right now were thy need ever soldier and you won't find women in kraken or other Frontline cqb units etc simply because the can't manage that stress load. F.e. they simply can't carry what's often necessary. If they pass the requirements I welcome women in every unit.

    • @JohanHaagg
      @JohanHaagg Рік тому +1

      @@listrahtes It is uncommon, yes. But saying women cant reach the standards is BS. And the statement about Ukraina is also falls, takes about 2 seconds on google to find pictures, videos and articles about it. Women have served in active combat units there since 2016. In the swedish armed forces they have served in active combat units since 1989. 13% of our active personel are women.
      Also eh… stress thing. It is proven time and time over that in general women are more stress resistent then men.
      No offence, but your statements are very out of date. Most of the armed forces in europe have active women. The fact that there is more men then women comes down to that men are generally more likely to join (we like blowing shit up after all).
      I cant speek for the Rangers requirments, all I can say is that most of the western world have not lowered it, and women have passed.

    • @marcusaurelius3487
      @marcusaurelius3487 Місяць тому

      @@JohanHaagg Studies and reality disagrees with you.
      In Ukraine women are not frontline soldiers, they serve as support in logistics, medical or sometimes artillery.
      When it comes to stress and other emotions
      Men: Smaller deep limbic system: less reactive to emotions and less prone to depression.
      Women: Larger deep limbic system: more reactive to emotions and more prone to depression.
      There are other plethora of biological differences which makes men superior soldiers in everything related to combat compared to women.
      There is also a study, USMC on female infantry, where female soldiers were inferior in everything that relates to combat.
      And as for requirements, a lot of exceptions have been given to women and requirements have been generally lowered as they were deemed "unrealistic" and what have you mental gymnastics to justify lowering.

  • @martinsolden77
    @martinsolden77 Рік тому

    Also you need people outside protecting the building or buildings your breaching...and thats takes even more people and shortens your time frame..

  • @DeathForSk8
    @DeathForSk8 Рік тому +3

    Sounds like the guy in the front is used as a meat shield. Why not equip him with a bulletproof shield similar to the riot shields?

    • @SonsOfLorgar
      @SonsOfLorgar Рік тому

      Because a shield would just make it more cumbersome and him more vulnerable to melee attacks from the side as he moved in since a shield only covers one direction.

  • @squidcaps4308
    @squidcaps4308 Рік тому

    A tip: platoon or a company does not say anything to a lay-person, there is no indication of scale. That could be beneficial, to know at least is it 10 or 10 000..

  • @scottyfox6376
    @scottyfox6376 Рік тому

    Do soldiers use any form of hearing protect during combat or is it too dangerous to limit any hearing ?

  • @dexterstunt542
    @dexterstunt542 Рік тому

    Just for translations sake, when hes talking about the punji sticks, in sweidsh he litterally says a giant variant of "vietnamese p'''p traps" "vietnamesiska bajs fällor"

  • @timkeenan7419
    @timkeenan7419 Рік тому

    House clearing is dangerous scary work

  • @Xceqter13
    @Xceqter13 Рік тому +4

    Krigshistoriepodden ❤️

  • @zacteakell4373
    @zacteakell4373 Рік тому

    So if you’re a breacher are u just a guaranteed deadman as your first or second going into these places it feels like that’s 100% on that.

  • @kongchen3122
    @kongchen3122 Рік тому

    Could get a car mirror and check the room out before, save a lot of Grenada, it’s not like you can drag every room

  • @tomryner5830
    @tomryner5830 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for being a true soldier reaching out to allies. We all do need each other,
    It is So annoying when some people in the west crap on other countries defence and defence industries.
    The F35, Typhoon et al will work in unison with the Saab Gripen E. Just different aircraft with the same goal. To defend democracy, as are soldiers from different countries in our ur free world.

    • @tomryner5830
      @tomryner5830 Рік тому

      Shouldn’t say “West”. Should say Every ally pro democracy

  • @victoralexanderkangas8756
    @victoralexanderkangas8756 Рік тому

    It is interesting how most people are interested in CQB as a combat form, while it is the most dreadful and guaranteed death or wounded scenario for each individual, at least highest probability. As for training it is fun but in reality, i'd guess some form of scouting/recon mission or sabotage/hit and run would be the go to for those who seek some frontline action with more probability of survival.

  • @mikewright7964
    @mikewright7964 Рік тому

    The ending scared me. I wonder how the world will look like in the future. I hope there will be some sort of revolution to fix this crazy crap.

  • @asimkasir
    @asimkasir Рік тому +1

    Marawi Siege another best example of urban close quarter combat😆 Marine running with coffee evry morning😆

  • @sveannnnnnn7578
    @sveannnnnnn7578 Рік тому

    can you show a video when you show your medals and talk about your deployments best you can when you got the medal

  • @boombook6508
    @boombook6508 Рік тому

    You can first launch light grenade and then enter why that is not an option

  • @hauptfachhauptfach6202
    @hauptfachhauptfach6202 Рік тому

    2 main reasons why i dont want to go to CQB unless i have too 1 reasons traps 2 hand to hand combat

  • @ciilqabeduubi3953
    @ciilqabeduubi3953 Рік тому +1

    Can someone tell me where can i find that footages of Russian troops in Mariupol? I once saw the trailer but couldn’t find it

    • @alexxxXXXrus
      @alexxxXXXrus Рік тому

      Western PR agencies wont pay for that

  • @karl-erikmumler9820
    @karl-erikmumler9820 Рік тому

    I trained in this. I know that I never want to have to do it for real. Stockholm is a Swiss cheese underground.

  • @TBFI_Botswana
    @TBFI_Botswana Рік тому

    Not having taken part in a war for 220 years - well dob
    e Swedish person 👊👊