British army use floating vehicles in Nato war games leaving American allies trailing behind
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
- The 156 metre stretch across the Drawa River in western Poland would normally be a perilous scenario for approaching armies.
But yesterday British engineers using specially designed floating vehicles opened a crossing for battle tanks in just 18 minutes leaving their American allies trailing behind.
As the US took an hour to assemble a regular ribbon bridge, British engineers raced ahead using the Army's M3 amphibious rig, a 24.5 tonne truck which folds out into a a floating platform.
The vehicles, which have their own nicknames ranging from M-3PO, after the Star Wars character, to M3 Hammer, after the rapper, first entered service in the 1990s and have not been used in combat since the beginning of the Iraq war.
However they have now become more strategically important than ever amid the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and the threat of Russia to Eastern Europe.
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So translation: The British force was scheduled to go first by the organizers of the exercise.
My thoughts exactly... I was like what?? Um no
Umm translation, read the description. Crossing in 18 minutes, whereas it took the americans an hour to just assemble.
yeah no misunderstood.Good try
@UKGrizzly_Bear the British used a amphibious vehicle while the Americans was assembling a bridge. Of course the Americans would take longer.
@@UKGrizzly_Bear The "British" amphibious rig is being manufactured by General Dynamics
Is that because we only had 10 soldiers and 2 vehicles (AKA British armed forces) in total to move?!?
Who has a user name Mark-kh1ny? This is so "bot" ish
@@QAYWSXEDCCXYDSAEWQ 🤣 🤣🤣coming from your username?!? 10/10 for making yourself look completely unaware how this all works, the platform lets more than one user use the same username. In the background it appends a unique string to differentiate between the accounts.
UA-cam then changed the rules to display the entire string. No one “chooses” it.
Keep up!!!!!
@@Mark-kh1nyI definitely chose mine
The british engineers are so smart no one will ever notice them setting up a bridge at a river
Okay, but could they survive a 100 bucks drone bought from aliexpress rigged with homemade bombs?
Those guys controlling the bridge pieces need some actual protection from incoming fire.
they probably have coverage and in any real war they wouldnt be getting shot at, there are multiple ways to protect a force beyond just armour.
The only country needs protection from incoming fire is Ukraine, all buildings are collapsing and population had disappeared. Even Zelensky is safe and enjoys watching Netflix in Florida with Trumps Family
@@Victorianukelandholy disinformation tovarich
@@Victorianukelandyou should blame putin instead
@@fridaynight3181huh? pf course its putin fault. zelensky only want to join NATO and build base. there is no such thing like libya here
What utter click bait. The M2 Bridging Rig……I was using them 45 years ago in the BAOR…..🇬🇧
M3 rig now
@@thomasbrown3281 cheers…..👍👍
@@mikewinston8709 I was at 28 engineer regt which doesn't exist now
@lapdog5067British Army of the Rhine
It’s nice to see Europeans tilting towards a major war again after just 80 years.
"Bridging the gap: Army validates division-led river crossing...Defense experts have long considered U.S. bridging capability inadequate, particularly in the European theater...“The U.S. clearly does not have enough river crossing capability, and river crossing is an important part of what’s happening in Ukraine,” retired Army Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, who previously led U.S. Army Europe...bridging capability, are a corps-level asset..." 15 Dec 2023 Defense News. River crossing wasn’t a top priority for the US Army until the war in Ukraine with the abundance of rivers in Europe.
The Ukrainians found river crossings to be expensive at Krinky.
@@Jocular-mt3jb “The Russians Lost An Entire Battalion Trying To Cross A River In Eastern Ukraine...The better part of two or more Russian army battalions-potentially 100 vehicles and more than a thousand troops-in recent days tried to cross a pontoon bridge spanning the Siverskyi Donets River..."11 May 2022 Forbes.
@@reecom9884 Am amazed that the Russians packed a thousand troops onto a pontoon, Krinky was a graveyard for Ukraine but even they did not use a pontoon.
All the lads getting ready to cross the Dniepr
Ww2 engineering.
That vehicle is well known
My father drove amphibious vehicle in WW2. They were called DUKs
Was the exercise carried out under simulated enemy fire from the other side or an unopposed crossing? Might be nice from a logistics stand point or a surprise attack assuming by some miracle the enemy doesn't notice them but looks like big targets if the enemy is actively defending the river bank on the other side.
Take a moment to read Kipling's "Tommy". Be proud of our soldiers at all times.
Food for the fodder.
These guys love their war games 🙄 what a bunch of jokers they are. Promiseing there will be no troops deployed but doing their silly little practices simulating what they say isn't a possibility...like it wouldn't just cause nuclear war if they even tried such a thing.
UK military is a bad joke. They barely have enough men to operate, 50 battle capable Challenger II(at best), 30 k Frontline infantry (maybe). UK is no longer a significant military. Sad
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When we "lost" the empire I in my young mind wondered how we would survive and have come to see it was by subjecting our previous colonies to commercial colonisation, and our ever shrinking army was not so important to protect 'our' resources.
did the propellers all stay attached this time ?
Hahah … crossing a river is now a sign of British military superiority 😂
I hope the exercise isn’t just a drag race
Well done, Royal Engineers.
What it the point of’racing ahead in a coordinated op?
And in a real war this stuff will be completely useless
I for one salute the proud work Meowmiral Of The Fleet Sir Larry the Cat has been doing while on a secondment from Chief Mouser.
Great for when we go to another countries border and accuse them of attacking us.
What a joke. We've got a navy that cant float too
Just like a scene from Kelly’s Heroes!
UK’s army concentrating more on how much their tanks can float instead of building tanks with good armor that can resist enemy’s firepower lol
The armour in the US abrams is basically the same as the armour in the British tanks because it was developed in Britain 😂
@@89schofe not those who are developed in Area 51 tho.
@@revolutionariesoffreedom2374 👽
Yup its happening 😢
“Floating vehicles”
Lots of expensive mechanized weapons to be taken out by a twelve hundred dollar drone. 🙄
cheaper in most cases....
Russian soldier on Patrick Lancester show, said FPV drone costs $500.
The Chally 3 has hard kill APS and equipment being added to stop drone attacks.
Like the destroyed ones had?@@PoliceBodycamVideos
Yes, as if NATO doesnt know defenses exist. As if UK isnt one of the leaders in drone defense along with France and Germany 😘
@@PoliceBodycamVideosPolish K2PL tanks will also be equipped with an anti-drone system. NATO countries are slowly starting to introduce such systems. Which is good.
Who says that NATO did not attack SFR Yugoslavia?!
Will it solve homeless veterans out though
Errrrrrrrrrrrr No.
#MHLivingHistoryLeapyear2024
OK this is not new next
AKA... the british force was scheduled to go out ahead. Pontoon bridges are nothing new, and nothing america doesn't have. We have the same stuff
There’s a bridge 2 mile away
When will British troops enter Moscow, Russia.?
All the world's a stage.🧐
thanks, matshanssen2070!
This will have Putin shaking in his boots - from laughter.
Translation from the "journalist": I have no fking ideas what I am writing about
Ha! We have the same stuff.
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The thefts are coming on your way black boats
Wow
Did they just imply NATO is in the Ukraine doing war games?
0:43 there was …
No, they clearly stated it was in Poland.
No. The intern spliced two sentences together with a comma.
"This exercise in Poland was part of a Major NATO war game in neighbouring Ukraine"
"NATo war game in Ukraine"
Actually, what's written is, "This exercise in Poland was part of a major Nato war game exercise, in neighbouring Ukraine...(next clip)...a similar crossing could prove fatal for both sides."
The writer spliced two sentences together and misused the ellipses.
Replace the comma with a period and the ellipses with a comma.
"This exercise in Poland was part of a major Nato war game. In neighbouring Ukraine, a similar crossing could prove fatal for both sides."
British army are very well underfunded and below par. I understand Innovation in a war exercise or peace time. They where once mighty and now are a shadow of their former self. Now I'm only saying this in a peace time scenario. But America would come to rescue of the U.K. before they come rescue EU. We did we did in WW2 and we will do it again. We are connected.
The only thing that connected the US with the UK was the bank.
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LOL. It's so cute how happy people get when the US plays to lose.
The US doesn’t play to lose, it actually loses. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia….to name a few
@@cplcabs This Britoid sure talk a lot for someone who lost all their colonies to:
Afghanistan
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahrain
Barbados
Belize
Botswana
Brunei
Cyprus
Dominica
Egypt
Eswatini
Fiji
Ghana
Grenada
Guyana
India
Iraq
Israel
Jamaica
Jordan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Lesotho
Libya
Malawi
Malaya
Maldives
Malta
Mauritius
Myanmar
Nauru
Nigeria
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Saint Lucia
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
Somaliland
South Yemen
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Tanganyika
The Bahamas
The Gambia
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
United States
Vanuatu
Zambia
Zanzibar
Zimbabwe
British army should get focus on getting an actual army for the real war games 😂
What like the US army that can't even win war because they are so bad?
War game my arse! It is nothing more than puffing out the chest bravado to poke the bear.
Nothing more? I'd probably say it's a bit of both, but considering what is happening in the world at the moment, it would be stupid if they weren't performing training exercises like this.
@@Benjd0 I agree but we do have rivers at home that are not on their doorstep
Yet Russia is anhilating nato forces in Ukraine, 200sq km in one day ....Ukraine hasn't got a chance
Bit of a difference between fighting Ukraine and NATO itself though isn't there?
r/UKCitizenArmy ✅
Go back to your hole
Not the real thing , if in ukraine , those frossing would al,l be destroyed before it set sall again , Russia is not afganistan , bunch of farmers and civillians the americans and british have been so used to in combat , peoole that could not fight back .
when NATo will send troops to protect western Ukraine ?
NATO want fight on Donbas or near Warsaw/ Ryga ?
If NATO troops were sent to Ukraine, the war would come to Poland even more because then Russia would no longer have any objections to attacking in retaliation.
Why should NATO protect Ukraine?
@@cstgraphpads2091Because putin is a tyrant and we must all stand up to tyrants
Mike rowe wya cowpoke upload the segment
Whatever the size of Britains armed forces........Their quility is second to none.
Lol
Lol, the British got the loudest mouth in the world why Britain is beholden to the United States for its own security
MD.BAJA TERAPUNG..
TITANIUM..TNT
Is this video clap back in response to Real World 7th Transportation Group building a Floating Pier in Gaza? Ohhhhh
When it comes to stealing resources and supporting a genocide the US can do anything.
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Old tech
Ubique
Genius idea by the British
British Engr's are the Best!
британские инженеры и войска это школота, которая в реальном бою обосрется и утонет
Maybe America can license build or outright purchase the same successful amphibious vehicles.
Well Britain and the US are the most powerful countries in nato. 1 for 1 British soldiers are better than the US, the issue is Britain has only got like 55 thousand of them
We have over 200,000 people on our military
@@Jh19999150k of them are called Ahmed lol 😂
@@Jh19999 Yes but among those are clerks and cooks, stores etc. Only a small percentage are front line combat troops.
What's wrong with Ahmed? @@chucky2316
@@Jh19999 I meant infantry
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But when Americans do get across they have more than 20.
They’ve got money for WARS but can’t feed the POOR. ~~ Amaru Shakur
2Pac said it on his track "Keep Ya Head Up" off his 2nd studio album "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z..." not Bob Marley.
Wars advances technology feeding the poor doesn't
meanwhile in real life the cia has inflitrated buckinham palace and is deciding what the lineage to the english king should look like
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Bigger crossing:
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Grifters
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Clown army would drown if they tried to cross a river
@@davebetneyWe already saw what happened to Russians who tried to cross the Seversky-Donets river, spoiler, they lost an entire battalion tactical group.
Woke army lol
About February 2024 .
3 x Royal Navy ships were stood in dock for a week or so , cos the Officers had to go on Queer courses . And brought back gender posters to place around the ships .
This all come from NATO , who's real HQ is Pentagon, full of perverts.
As an American, I have to say the absolute state of our military is a joke nowadays. Thanks to left-wing politicians, our military has become so castrated and neutered that our best weapon right now is just harsh language. Instead of recruiting individuals with applicable military skills (mechanical expertise, shooting experience, and a background flying planes), the government wants to enlist racial and gender quotas to “diversify the military”. I once saw a video of some government official talking about increasing budget spending for different type of socks for soldiers, especially ankle socks, because it’s what’s “popular in fashion”. This is what our country is investing for our national defense, instead of countermeasures for hypersonic missiles or resolving reported problems with the F-35s or designing and constructing next-gen tanks.
It's to save on the sunscreen budget.
@@jamiearmstrong3487 so your solution is to spend even more money on the f-35? We have already spent 1.7 trillion on the project alone.
200 immigrants 😂won't scare the Russians. Im a indengious brit btw
200 immigrants? What’s the significance of that? I don’t get it?
@@ArmUkraine he is a putler meat rider
@@ArmUkrainethe water the british part 😂 my pot noodle and halal menu 😂.I sure do miss mam and dad and a Warburtons not mutured crumpet 😂
@@chucky2316 I don't see the issue? most of the "immigrants" are still proud brits who would lay down their life for their country, which is why they're joining the military
@@python3215lmao true grit maybe there maybe a Nelson amongst them 😂😂
Bullshit
🥱. While leaving Ukrainian s to beg for help. It’s disgusting what we in the west are not doing to help Ukraine.
I think we should pull out. Ukraine is not western, it's in the sphere of Russia.
And Russia is defending a region that wants to be away from EU policies which are wicked.
@@winburna2075 yes, the ukranians agree with russia so much that they're fiercely fighting back against their invasion
the ukranians dont want to be with russia, that was the whole reason they overthew the government in 2014, it was because their leader was making decisions that hurt the ukranian population, in favor of being pro-russia. (such as when they pulled out of the EU pipeline)
russia is being an expansionist war criminal, the ukranians dont want any part of it
USA and lackey UK are rotting from inside. They should focus on their own problems. UK has an Indian Hindoooo (what caste?) PM, and a Pakistani muslim mayor of London. UK should focus on Baltis and Curry Houses and try to standardize them, improve them.
Meanwhile, Ukrainians took US guns to kill ethnic Russians. Ukrainians were naïve. They are being punished by Russia for their crimes. After Russia pulverizes Ukraine, they will be wiser.
@@winburna2075 Oh so wicked unlike that just and wise Russia!
Brits and yanks in war games ! ..no contest😂😂😂
USA and lackey UK, ... two countries that are both rotting from inside.
если они так ртами будут под огнем щелкать.... то и переправляться будет не кому .. и не на чем! хорошее подразделение .. и танки они на своих плечах через реку потащать)) по дну реки))
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