Marine reacts to Finnish Defense Forces Main Exercise 2021
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- This exercise involved thousands of FDF personnel to include the army, navy and air force!
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I was in the exercise northern forest 21 and actually were the squad leader of Combat camera team! We edited the whole video in 48h hours after the exercise so it could be published soon after the exercise! Combat camera man Seargent järvinen ;)
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When it comes to artillery Finland is on top of the game with other countries
No doubt
During the wars Finland was on the receiving end of some of the biggest artillery barrages in the history of warfare - the mass of the soviet artillery had a quality of its own. In the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, 100km front had an average of 1 Soviet tube per 10 meters.
Finland learned from this - and now not only being largest in Europe - it is also arguably some of the best in the world.
@@ottohonkala6861 finland learned and is the on top of every other countries when it comes to artillery
@@Mzz-rz2fo I would agree with you on that - but didn't want to sound arrogant, so said arguably.
@@dimapez The finnish artillery also used a new invention, the finnish word for wich was "korjausmuunnin". This device allowed a single finnish artillery observer to concentrate the fire of a multiple batteries firing from different locations on a single target extremely quickly.
At tali-ihantala the finns were able to effectively concentrate the fire of 21 batteries (254 guns) on single targets, a feat no other army could accomplish at the time. A captured russian officer remarked that tali-ihantala was worse than stalingrad, specifically because of the artillery.
As for the English used in the video - all units also learn to operate with NATO standard radio protocols, which are practiced during exercises involving units from abroad. This is quite prominent, especially in Finnish naval, coastal and airforce units.
Swedish is the second official language of Finland, but the VAST majority of the population is more familiar with English than they are with Swedish.
So just using English to chat with the Swedes is for the best. Swedes too would probably rather have Finns just speak English than try their "Jag heter Pekka, Vad heter du?" -level of Swedish. Finnish youth are exposed to English all the time, but to Swedish only in the class room.
Swedish speaking skills of Finns are like Spanish speaking skills of your average white americans.
Of course there's the 5% Swedish Speaking Finn minority that can speak Swedish fluently. But you can't use the skillset of 5% of the population as the standard for the remaining 95%.
@@DruidEnjoyer pretty sure it's even less than 5% now, and it's dropping slowly
Doesn't every Airforce use English? As it's the global aviation language too
You said the Finnish language just right. A talented dude.
I was in the video, I was part of the mortar company and honestly it was a huge pleasure to serve for Finland even tho, I’m an American. I’m a Finnish person born in the US. Great to hear the reaction.
Thanks, buddy!
Thank you for your service. I hope we can count on you if Russia gets some weird ideas..
That useless pen at 1:57 brought back so many memories...
Coastal Jaeger here! Uudenmaan prikaati/Nylands brigad is the place where we're trained. It is the only swedish-speaking brigade in Finland. As you say, because of the cooperation with Sweden, our radio language is English.
I was a coastal Jaeger but then got transferred to reconissance, I got a very interesting year in the "Finnish marines"
Missed this exercise because my company were on leave which is sad. No NH-90 Heli for me 😭
friend/colleague of mine is a reserveofficer in nylandbrigad. he has been called on kertausharjoitus so many times all over the baltics too many times so i envy it a bit
Really? Damn we've really been working towards nato all this time.
Huge thanks to you Sir for watching and share your thougs about finnish army.
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This is New ACE airforce exercise video👍🏻
Thanks! And always a pleasure
Ritva and Ruska pronounciation was pretty good, and i think they spoke english because brittish marines were training on that same exersice, not 100% sure but remimber seeing article on that on news paper sometime ago
English was used between the Swedes and the Finns aswell (regardless of swedish language being mostly common for the nations), as that is the Nato compatible way to do it. Airforce always uses english, as that is the international aviation language on the civilian aviation side aswell.
@@kcfacademy2496 only like 10-20% of Finns have sufficient levels of Swedish to hold a conversation to save their lives, lot more people can speak decent English
@@kcfacademy2496 I was going to say. Nearly all NATO countries use English as their base and a great percentage of all their soldiers use it...but I believe it is must for the officers.
English is used when communicating with the air force, for international operations compatibility.
Hi Theo, yes I like the new format, I'm very impressed with Finland and their exercise they are very professional with very nice equipment, and the British armed forces were in that exercise probably the Royal Marines.🇬🇧👍
Nice of you to keep checking out FDF content. I took part in Northern Forest part as a reservist. I'm positioned within the command structure, so no footage of what I'm involved with for security reasons (our phones are locked away in a strongbox too when at the CP). If I'm not mistaken this was the first time the "final war" exercise for each military branch was at the same time and also took part in the same "big picture war" (as in, c&c systems shared the strategic data, usually you just see your own exercise).
finland has the largest artillery in the entire europe
I actually believe we have the second largest (if you don't count Russia as Europe, because they have a huge number of ex-soviet artillery) the Ukrainians have more artillery if I remember correctly but theirs are older compared to ours.
@@paavolaurila2949 Obviusly if Russia is counted they posses very large artillery reserve. Ukraine in my opinion has less artillery capability compared to Finnish defence forces (not same as numerical strengh). It is important to undestand how fire control and tactical doctrine effects survibilility and effectivity . Ukraine do possesses strong artilley component in it's defence forces that said it will take considerable time to build effective and capable defence forces. If you have information or videos to share about the training or the doctrine of Ukrainian artillery please share to us for evaluation and education.
@@redherring3110 I very much agree with you, Finlands artillery is much more capable. I only wanted to note that if we only talk about the amount of guns then they do win.
As somebody who served right next to hauwitzer and granadeer companies...... We do?
That's what needed when you have a 1340km/832mile border with Russia, unless there is a nuclear war. We have actively maintained civil defence shelters. Like in the apartment block that I live in, they expanded the shelter and they check them quite regularly. We also have an areal warning system (for disasters or an offensive attack) that are checked regularly the same time every week. Nobody here has forgotten the war with Russia.
Awesome Work Bro 👍 Thanks Greetings from Helsinki Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸
Wow. So cool video! They're not messing around 👍
Good work ! You reacts like US General ! 👍
Nice videos here, keep up the good work. Suprised who many vids are about Finnish military witch warms my old heart and brings good memories on my military days
Awesome to see you reacting to our videos! I might send you a Combat Camera patches in mail sometime.
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Like the new format!
Your finish is very good. Usually Americans butcher the words , but you pretty much nailed it. Good stuff.
My second time in your reaction videos! I was as a conscript in the MVH20 last december which you reacted to, and now as a reservist in the Northern Forest 21. We were told that if there was no covid, at least Norway and USA wouldve also participated. There was supposed to be 20k+ men in the NF21 alone
In that case the exercise would have been called Arctic Lock but since Covid most of it was cancelled, but rest assured there will be many big international exercises in the future.
Nice vid! I liked the switching concept, made it cleaner somehow. Only noticed the sound lag after reading a comment about it ;)
For more coastal stuff I would recommend "Meritiedustelukomppania - Opetuspaketti" from FDF-channel. No subtitles, but I think it would be pissible to get the context. I might have recommend ed this earlier, sorry if I am being repetative XD
Hope you get some time growing the moustache! Coming along nicely!
Again,interesting reaction. Thanks
My brother was in Ritva 2021 and he talked about it every time he came home, before and after the event. He is a boat driver that drops of the Coast Jaeger solders on land
Southern coast of Finland is full of islands and small waterways. It's easy to dump a lot of naval mines to all the main waterways and effectively make them impossible to use for enemy ships. The missile (land to sea) is most likely a RBS-15SF-3.
feels good to see myself on your video :D
i have been waiting for you too react to this video since this was my final excercise in fdf. At 5:50 im one of the guys with the backs turned to the camera.
Haha badass
Ruska means the time during fall when all the leaves change colors :)
Indeed!
My main exercise was Kaakko 15 in the december 2015. My entire platoon got destroyed by recce guys. Really good and neat work from them since they were done and gone by the time we got out and started to gather our resistance.
5:26 As someone in active duty in the finnish army, we, in our battalion, never leave our gas masks behind. We always carry them with us.
How are snipers trained in the Finnish army? May I ask what tactics you use?
@@birdiesanders7788 We aim while not getting spotted and we shoot while not being spotted
@@birdiesanders7788 I'm a sniper. They train us depending on what the unit does. Sniper's idea is to provide support to an engagement. Key is to be efficient and provide chaos from priority targets so enemy will get as confused as possible. And not get yourself compromised.
As a Finn, I really like the way you pronounced Ruska. Great channel.
Your pronounciation is very good!
1:58 they have winter jackets on that's why they're a bit lighter in colour and the lighting also looks brighter
The quality is extremely good when one takes into the consideration that combat camera unit is made of conscripts.
Ah northern forest was an experience for sure. We were watching 2:13 live from our drone =D Got out two months ago
My man is trying out a new look aswell! Nice stasch bro ;)
It's coming along haha
That stash and the DILF shirt though me off at the beginning lol. Good stuff as always 💪🏻
Love from Finland! ❤️
Kiitos!
Funny anecdote about the Finnish defense forces take on anti-armour capabilities: the old field uniform from the 1960's up to the late 1980's had multiple hooks on it to carry anti-tank mines, I believe up to 8 pieces per soldier. 😁
Ryhtinappi FTW.
The lighter camo pattern you saw at 1:58 is the M05 cold weather camo. It was pretty cold and windy some days of the NF21 and looks like some decided to wear their winter jackets :D
I myself was part of NF21 and Arrow 21 as my "final war".
I'm not coastal trained myself, but I'd assume the truck is hiding among trees most of the time, moving to a more exposed firing position only for as long as it's strictly necessary, and then withdraw back to the greenery. Finland is pretty much covered in forests, after all.
If you are talking about the missile truck, we had one hiding in urban areas in Leijona-94. In Hyrylä. Don´t know the range, but I guess it had plenty still.
I would imagine not. The standard artillery way of doing things is to cut a hole in the forest with a chainsaw. Way safer that wondering out in the open. Just can't do that during training. We had to cut down a tree in one of the exercise areas because they changed the firing position specs(reduced minimum elevation) after we had already emplaced. The exercise leadership was not impressed.
Fax
I actually was in the northern forest training event, i was in tactical communications. It was a good training though.
English works as an official command language together with any other country. In Finland the comman language is always Finnish, also with the Swedish speaking Costal Jäger Brigade in Tammisaari-Ekenäs. Our minority language in Finland is Swedish. Good work soldier, from a Jäger Batallion (Santahamina the Military base island, Helsinkis defence) Staff Seargeant (in reserve)!
Most of Finnish infantry are jaegers, they just differentiate between each other such as armour jaeger (destruction from the forest), coastal jaeger(wet boots), guard jaeger(city slickers) etc.
cool video i didn't know the finnish military used the new Archer, mobile howitzer. the fins sure know what they are doing. oh and the Tash! looks good mate :)
The archer came with the swedish that took part in the exercise.
@@kcfacademy2496 Oh ok thanks. It's I've been checking out about howizters due to the UK is looking into replace theirs and the archer is one on the list. I prefer the K9 from South Korea myself.
@@dannyblackwell2426 Ah, we have that maavoimat.fi/panssarihaupitsi-k9
@@kcfacademy2496 cool. Yes it one of the top 3 howitzers out there. I hope UK MOD takes SK up on offer to build them.
Nice vid
I believe I read somewhere that after Russia, Finland has the largest artillery in Europe.
Yes it is just search europes biggest artillery on google
Holy heck your pronounciation has improved a lot!!
I thought I saw Rokka!
Im pretty sure every Finnish person has seen The Unknown soldier due to it being streamed on tv every independence day
To be honest it’s one of the most boring movies I’ve ever seen
@@marcuspietarinen2678 perhaps but we like it
5:25 im there between the cars. Without the combat gear, on strong medication because of my back pain :D
If you have any questions about what we did, i'll gladly answer
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1:58 That is the cold weather variant of M05 camo. It has the light green replaced with grey to present snow/frost.
6:40 MTO 85 for "Meritorjuntaohjus 85" or "Anti-Ship missile model 1985". Swedish RBS-15 that is being replaced by the Israeli Gabriel 5.
7:50 Your pronunciation is ok, also the "Jehu" was pretty close. You are surely getting better at it! :)
Oh and the start of the video had a slight video/audio desync issue. Maybe caused by the new setup?
Ritva21-exercise was the "final war" for my conscript service. It was truly nice experience and would go again if i had the chance.
I was in ritva 21. A spotter for the coastal artillery. TJ1
That t-shirt though, lol!
shore-to-ship missile is swedish Saab Bofors Dynamics RBS-15 .
Nice shirt ;)
It would be nice to chat about these events but the policy of our Defence Forces does not allow it in a "wide" spectrum. In the nutshell we are allowed to talk about them inside the base gates :) Like your vids tho! Really neat that someone sees our nation's Defence work tho! Keep up the good work!
There's a 15min long coastal recon troops movie "Meritiedustelukomppania", not sure if you have checked it out.
Fun to see my selfe in this video :)
Haha oh snap
Welcome visit Finland 😊👍🇫🇮👌 summer it ,s best
Great shirt! 😄😎
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Love that Nintendo 64 Bond game. Good memories!
dang i got on video thats dope
English is the official radio language for Finnish military. I think probably for Sweden too. And that is for international cooperation purposes. And not all Finns speak very good Swedish and generally Swedes don't speak any Finnish so English is most often the best option for communication.
Finns and Swedes...we will stick together. Always.
until it comes to sports. We are the worst enemies then and we only wish bad luck to each other 🤣
@@sadetta9312 Except when Finland or Sweden drops out from ice hockey world championship tournament. Then we cheer for the other one who still fights.
@@formatique_arschloch nope, we wish that the other one loses 😂
Wait, wait, WAIT! Is that an Amynedd song in the end of your video?!
We use english when we are communicating via radio and we have to learn the NATO alphabet so that we can communicate better. But mainly we speak finnish when communicating via radio.
The fact Finland survived and defeated the soviets in many was during the Soviet invasion is a testament to there resolve
Unknown Soldier has the #6th highest movie budget produced in Finland, only at 7M, highest budget ever was Angry Birds Movie at 73M, which is quite alot more.
Isn't it interesting how a movie can be made so professionally and to look so good, provoke emotion with such low budget?
I don't mean to bash American war movies but they really romantizise and glorify war most of them, not all, but most, with huge budgets.
Thats fine and all because you gotta get recruits somehow.
Finns are good at managing the resources we got.
Your pronunciation of ''Ritva'' and ''Ruska'' was pretty close, bravo!
Drone shots are like the cutscenes from the Battlefield Bad Company 2 :D
actually on northern forest there was like 7000 people there (i was there too) and 2000 of them were reservist.
didin't see much people or anything becouse i am scout so i was like away from most people :D
You should take a look at a video from a while ago called "how fast can nato react if an ally is under attack".. Pretty cool
You should react to Taistelusukeltajat its about combat divers and their training.
how's the grooming standard tho? :D "ajetaan" ps. that camo is winter version of m05 then there's the snow suit on top of that if needed
Cold weather, not winter. Winter version is white with light grey details.
@@wanhapatu yes sorry I ment the cold weather summer jacket he's rocking... And while that might be more accurate I don't know anyone who had the winter m05 only those coveralls. And to be fair the white is snow pattern not winter.
@@autorage5337 True, it is "snow", not "winter". 👍
We have APILAS and NLAW's for destroying enemy Main Battletanks, and M72 LAW's for light tanks and APC's.
ps. Every shot that they speak English is with Swedish co-operation.
The first clips looked like from rovajärvi. Not sure because it was 25 years ago and winter.
We study swedish in school, but in reality very few actually learns it. Mostly because theres is no use for it in daily basis, english you need basically every day. Pretty much the same for swedes as their language is as useless as ours what comes to international stuff. So it might just well be the case while training with swedes. Most of the times theres also some small groups UK and US forces. I never had the chance to participate in these while I was serving.
Rolling r's works well!
What's that puukko in the background? Is it Iisakki Järvenpää or Marttiini?
You should react to Croatian ZSS
Nice moustache! 👍
If im right Finland has only artillery range in atleast Europe where you can go to maximum range of your guns and all other pieces of artillery
this is not a comment, it is an offering to the almighty algorithm
What's that on your face? A John Holmes memorial mustache?😉😁
Your pronouncing is very good
Cinematography reminds me of MW3
@ 5:58 One korpisoturi i.e. Finn with Sisu means ten Russian.
You're saying them quite well
About antitank, when i were in army in -94 every squad had anti tank man with apilas and others carried LAWs too. I hate apilas regards antitank man moved to signal man in reserve.
I dare US to train one patch in or like Finland, then put them against earlier patch in war exercise!
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Many AT possibilities? yes, i had full soldier gear, 2 bazookas and 2 mines, one 122 bazooka. a hundred pounds of geart in total
a little bit different weapons in Finland today as in 1596
Like one of our generals said, Finland is the best country for us Finnish and it is worth of defend. RUK214.
Ritva is a Finnish woman's name and ruska means autumn colors.
And that's because Ruska has usually been flown in the autumn time. Not sure why it was so early this year.
Biggest artillery force in Europe
Great videos, thanks for the eye-opening on no-bs reactions (especially for our little but sisu-minded forces). Without fair insight of third party viewers like you, it would be near impossible to have legit comparisons of this level, on different aspects and troops of militaries around the world.
Sincerely, "panzer-jager" of '99, now a reservist.
Stalinin Urut at 48 second mark! Of course finnish artillery is impressive when you have people like me behind the barrel. ;)