Operation Lionheart - West Germany '84

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  • @yoshbiginz
    @yoshbiginz 5 років тому +3689

    T H E G O O D ' O L D A Y S

    • @user-xp8nq5mf9y
      @user-xp8nq5mf9y 5 років тому +38

      same thought

    • @Mr.Sam321
      @Mr.Sam321 4 роки тому +4

      @@user-xp8nq5mf9y qqq

    • @ianclarke7547
      @ianclarke7547 4 роки тому +48

      it was better for the west Germans

    • @obiwankenobi2083
      @obiwankenobi2083 4 роки тому +5

      I preferred with sword and shield.
      Bombs and guns are for pussies...

    • @Krisslbild
      @Krisslbild 4 роки тому +29

      Yeah, the good old days where we got almost killed in the atomic holocaust. Great.... really great days.

  • @kevinwaterfield7400
    @kevinwaterfield7400 2 роки тому +1973

    Best exercise I ever did, came back home and my marriage was over

  • @snakeplissken2148
    @snakeplissken2148 4 роки тому +2313

    Good times. The farmers here in germany quickly made friend with officers involved of those exercises. As soon as a tank drove through a field, they got really high damage refund by our government. It was measured at the highest possible profit of the field, no matter if it was even prepared.

    • @toukairin354
      @toukairin354 3 роки тому +239

      the British Forces public affairs channel uploaded a video about Ops Lionhear and your point is also told in the video. They asked the military unit to "bulldoze" their old warehouse etc AND get money on top of it.

    • @buckplug2423
      @buckplug2423 3 роки тому +68

      Working as intended

    • @skitt155
      @skitt155 3 роки тому +54

      my dad was an officer in the engineer corps who rpaired all the damages

    • @inheritorsoftheearth33
      @inheritorsoftheearth33 3 роки тому +22

      @@skitt155 That is so amazing. If I may inquire, how long was your father an officer in the Engineer Corps?

    • @sharmoutha
      @sharmoutha 3 роки тому +2

      @@toukairin354 can you send the link for that video please?

  • @USN1985dos
    @USN1985dos 3 роки тому +2357

    It's so cool seeing this transition period of military technology. Abrams and A-10's operating alongside Leopard 1's and Chieftains.

    • @KoljaGamer
      @KoljaGamer 3 роки тому +154

      And it says that the Leopard 2 got tested in Operation Lionheart for the first time by dutch army and a few from the Bundeswehr (German Army) itself.

    • @loganbaileysfunwithtrains606
      @loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 3 роки тому +114

      The Steel to Kevlar transition I like to call it

    • @SnakePliskin762
      @SnakePliskin762 3 роки тому +4

      And warriors

    • @mrchoke9554
      @mrchoke9554 3 роки тому +7

      Soviet T80 1 shot and Abrams R.I.P. :/

    • @f00koff42
      @f00koff42 3 роки тому +73

      @@mrchoke9554 same way around really. Back then whoever spotted each othet first won.

  • @tholusamon2818
    @tholusamon2818 3 роки тому +703

    Now this is what I remember..... the German population were very friendly. I remember our Chapparral broke down and a German farmer and his family would give fresh pastries every morning since we were about 150 meters from his farm. Meet the British Infantry, which was awesome. Had only been in for three years and this was a great experience. Participated in two Reforgers before wall came down.

    • @Mac-ih1zf
      @Mac-ih1zf 3 роки тому +22

      A chapparral is an anti-aircraft vehicle right?

    • @garynew9637
      @garynew9637 3 роки тому +4

      Nice memories.

    • @mrchocolatebean8878
      @mrchocolatebean8878 3 роки тому +21

      @@Mac-ih1zf yeah it was an anti air missile system

    • @allenseeallendo5844
      @allenseeallendo5844 Рік тому +5

      That’s awesome. You should be proud to be part of that history. Hope you’re doing well.

    • @rickpotter9359
      @rickpotter9359 Рік тому +5

      I was in Reforger 88 and remember how the Germans were friendly and interested in our equipment

  • @joeblow5214
    @joeblow5214 5 років тому +732

    Look at the adorable Ferret tanks.

    • @kektuss
      @kektuss 4 роки тому +32

      you can buy your own for pretty cheap now

    • @jyotirmayamohanty5723
      @jyotirmayamohanty5723 4 роки тому +22

      Ferrets and Wiesels would make a lethal combo.

    • @peterderiemer3854
      @peterderiemer3854 4 роки тому

      Cute ne?

    • @bencarver8164
      @bencarver8164 4 роки тому +37

      @@kektuss My dad owned one (mid-life crisis lol). They are absolutely great fun; 4 tonnes, can go 45mph, can do the same in reverse due to the pre-selector gearbox meaning it has the same number of forwards and reverse gears. It was great fun being picked up from school in it, my only regret is he sold it before I could drive it.

    • @stevenbreach2561
      @stevenbreach2561 4 роки тому +14

      Armoured Car,never a tank,never,ever

  • @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns
    @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns 3 роки тому +239

    1:32 German commitment to efficiency right there. A war is no excuse for late trains.

    • @scanida5070
      @scanida5070 2 роки тому +78

      I think Lenin once said something along the lines of: „If the Germans were to ever occupy a train station, they would first buy tickets.“

    • @cyllxx9112
      @cyllxx9112 Рік тому +24

      German trains rarely arrive on time tho

    • @steinerstine2845
      @steinerstine2845 Рік тому +19

      ​@@cyllxx9112 the trains during 43-45 did

    • @billtate2835
      @billtate2835 Рік тому

      @@scanida5070
      Fuck le*in

    • @yuigahama3189
      @yuigahama3189 Рік тому +2

      ​@@steinerstine2845still late

  • @Roberto9696-q7s
    @Roberto9696-q7s 3 роки тому +498

    Nice footage my dude. My dad was part of this exercise as a German conscript in 1984. He carried an Uzi back then. I showed him this video and he got hit with nostalgia really hard haha. Thank you for making these videos man

    • @KASHKUR_7.62
      @KASHKUR_7.62 2 роки тому +35

      Aaaawn what a wonderful pal
      🤣🤣🤣
      The 80s, FAL's, G3's, Black Shades, and Tactical Mustaches...

    • @BASEDKAISER
      @BASEDKAISER 2 роки тому +19

      @@KASHKUR_7.62 comically large berets

    • @KASHKUR_7.62
      @KASHKUR_7.62 2 роки тому +12

      @@BASEDKAISER The Ghillie Camo Helmets 🪖🪖🪖
      Very 80s, so vintage 😎

    • @АлександрХ-ш2р
      @АлександрХ-ш2р 10 місяців тому +4

      А мой отец был танкистом в конце 70х,механик-водитель. Служил в ГДР, кенигсбрюк. Советская армия

    • @asiangaming8409
      @asiangaming8409 10 місяців тому +4

      @@KASHKUR_7.62actually i was watching a video of operation lionheart and I could spot guys using Uzis

  • @williammontroy9024
    @williammontroy9024 5 років тому +2141

    It's amazing when you think how bloody that war would have been on a conventional level alone .
    Edit .. holy shit ! Thanks folks never had any clue this got over 2k likes !

    • @elektronischemusik1903
      @elektronischemusik1903 4 роки тому +21

      ua-cam.com/video/j9DJrnyXMYQ/v-deo.html

    • @MrIrishscouse
      @MrIrishscouse 4 роки тому +248

      It's not too hard to conceive. Vietnam, Yom Kippur, the civil wars in Angola, Rhodesia, Lebanon and Nicaragua, the Iran-Iraq and Soviet-Afghan wars were all conventional conflicts with huge death tolls. If Western Europe had an outbreak like that, the thought of capitals like London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, Brussels and Amsterdam degenerating from tourist havens to war ravaged dystopias like Kabul, Beirut or Belfast is scary, alright.

    • @michael522
      @michael522 4 роки тому +59

      @@MrIrishscouse ayyy belfast, its a good thing we had a war in Northern Ireland, if we didn't i wouldn't have 0 rights, also wanna put out that im not advocating for another conflict, I'm just thankful that the people that came before me fought for my rights

    • @MrIrishscouse
      @MrIrishscouse 4 роки тому +49

      @@michael522 The need for conflict, especially one that came from longstanding injustice, doesn't make it less of a nightmare. I don't doubt that living in Belfast during the 70s and 80s could be scary and my initial comment wasn't intended to trivialise what happened in Northern Ireland. If anything the conflict in Ulster offered a glimpse of what was happening in countries like Lebanon which had its own sectarian civil war.

    • @michael522
      @michael522 4 роки тому +9

      @@MrIrishscouse yea no worries, I knew what you meant and was just commenting as someone from Belfast, I thought the conflict was necessary.

  • @wiryantirta
    @wiryantirta 4 роки тому +715

    Harriers coming out of tree lines and taking off from public roads is aesthetic.

    • @nickm7395
      @nickm7395 Рік тому +13

      one hunnit. The dudes carrying the fuel pod with a strap through a field also mega kino.

    • @kimjongun2081
      @kimjongun2081 Рік тому +2

      @@nickm7395I swear to god you are 100 percent right

    • @JohnZiTAB
      @JohnZiTAB Рік тому +1

      ⁠@@nickm7395timestamp for harriers and fuel pod?

    • @nickm7395
      @nickm7395 Рік тому +2

      @@JohnZiTAB just a few lads @1:41

    • @SashaAvendale
      @SashaAvendale 6 місяців тому

      Harriers always was aesthetical 😉

  • @lonnietoth5765
    @lonnietoth5765 Рік тому +31

    1984 to 86 I was a 16 E-10 , Hawk Radar Operator , stationed in Butzweiler Germany ( outside Trier ) . I lived with an old Germany couple and fell in love with a local girl . I went back in 2017 and we resumed our relationship . The smell of the land , the sight of a foggy dark village street with the added smell of burning wood brings back so many memories or her and the friends I made and lost ! I wrote a song about Butzweiler , " Butzweiler Stays Bravo battery 2/62 ADA 32nd ADA Command .. " Raise Up Bravo "

  • @arbabmir3424
    @arbabmir3424 4 роки тому +141

    Sophisticated for the period of time. Even today a lot of
    Armies don't have that level of equipment forget about back in 84.

  • @hakimcameldriver
    @hakimcameldriver 4 роки тому +268

    Where did the DECADES GO, i was 18 when this happened, i thought i saw myself, the mg 3 gunner under load.. made my hips hurt.. too old to be called up now, also my division was disbanded back in the 1990s.

    • @USN1985dos
      @USN1985dos 3 роки тому +34

      I envy you. That looked like a great time to serve, with some awesome music to boot.

    • @tholusamon2818
      @tholusamon2818 3 роки тому +6

      no kidding, I was 22 and loved it. Sad that age is taken a toll.

    • @lonewaffle231
      @lonewaffle231 3 роки тому +5

      1:21 is that you? Thats awsome!

    • @hakimcameldriver
      @hakimcameldriver 3 роки тому +9

      @Lone Waffle it looks like me, not many short Germans, ich bin volksdeutsch, mothers side of family is German so i did my national service when i turned 18. Great time, life expectancy if the East German & Wasaw pact troops came west was very short..

  • @99hockeynhl
    @99hockeynhl 3 роки тому +389

    3:06 IDK there is a good chance this man is still alive today, but goddamn just the way he moves/looks back at the camera makes it look like he is fighting in WWI

    • @aniellord7088
      @aniellord7088 3 роки тому +50

      @Graf von Losinj Yeah he has a WWI vibe in him

    • @qboxer
      @qboxer 3 роки тому +41

      I'm pretty confident that there is a scene in 'They Shall Never Grow Old' that is similar

    • @99hockeynhl
      @99hockeynhl 3 роки тому +24

      @@qboxer True, very true. I think you are correct, he looks like a particular soldier in some famous footage of ww1. Maybe its his grand dad lmao.

    • @99hockeynhl
      @99hockeynhl 3 роки тому +6

      @Graf von Losinj oh shit you said the same thing but earlier, oof. Still though, yes!

    • @samb8860
      @samb8860 2 роки тому +1

      Dangggggggg you right lol

  • @leaitihr9885
    @leaitihr9885 2 роки тому +146

    Camouflage for battling:
    In the woods: woodland
    In the hills: woodland
    In the jungle: woodland
    In the city: woodland
    In the desert: desert woodland
    In space: star woodland
    Woodland good

  • @chaz725
    @chaz725 5 років тому +212

    I was on crusader and lion heart.. Great experience.. 129 fld sqn Royal Engineers. Hull.. Just thinking the last few frames of the para drop would make a good print... Unfortunately 129 sqn was disbanded in 1991... 73 and 74 . Engineer regiment.. Good memories..!

    • @chaz725
      @chaz725 4 роки тому +10

      @Joshua N. Ajang
      No was an engineer sqn. Minefield laying. Bridging. Harrier track laying.. General stuff.. Loved every minute of it.!

    • @louiewatson9389
      @louiewatson9389 4 роки тому +2

      Essayons

    • @thecuttingsark5094
      @thecuttingsark5094 4 роки тому +3

      Joshua N. Ajang if I had a pound for every time people confused a Royal Engineer with REME!

    • @chaz725
      @chaz725 4 роки тому +5

      @@thecuttingsark5094 I know the bloody insults..from yes mate REME..or you bend me we mens em .lol

    • @chaz725
      @chaz725 4 роки тому +1

      I mean mend em

  • @scanida5070
    @scanida5070 2 роки тому +189

    This just defines 80s vibes for me. The music, the M1 helmets which the Germans wear, the Harriers, the Leopard l, the long hair of some of these gentlemen and the A10s...it‘s all sooooo 80s and I love it! :D

    • @veryprogamer5108
      @veryprogamer5108 2 роки тому +19

      that's cause it was the 80s 😂😂 1984

    • @normalplayer7377
      @normalplayer7377 Рік тому

      Aye

    • @stormlah
      @stormlah Рік тому +3

      fam you left out moustaches

    • @matthewjones39
      @matthewjones39 Рік тому +2

      Uh… no. You aren’t the only one. The video literally shows things from the 80s.

    • @RudiHartanto-o3k
      @RudiHartanto-o3k 6 місяців тому +1

      Oh.......ya, in 1984...........🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕

  • @onkelwonkel229
    @onkelwonkel229 2 роки тому +106

    N A T O W A V E ❤

  • @jaykulina6064
    @jaykulina6064 5 років тому +218

    Major Samm we salute you✊✊

    • @MajorSamm
      @MajorSamm  5 років тому +35

      I salute you right back

  • @lukassakul892
    @lukassakul892 Рік тому +13

    Crazy how all these abilities that the German Bundeswehr once had just washed away in last 20 years. This is what an exercise has to look like these days. But we will never be able to accomplish that in the next 10 years I guess. What a shame.

  • @royalirishranger1931
    @royalirishranger1931 3 роки тому +35

    I served in the Royal Irish Rangers during this exercises as the battalion mortar officer. Ended up in an ad hoc airborne Bde commanded be a brig Jeeps I believe his name was. A great exercise, many fond memories.

  • @hyttsten22676
    @hyttsten22676 4 роки тому +38

    I watch this and when I can’t, I listen to the song while I drive at night and I’ll tell you.. I still haven’t figured out where my lonely dreams ever go, even my own.

  • @echohunter4199
    @echohunter4199 Рік тому +10

    Yep, I was there, 19 years old at the time, I was an Anti-Armor Infantryman with the US Army (MOS 11H) and stationed in Aschaffenburg, Germany with 1-7 INF, 3d ID.

  • @aggebah98
    @aggebah98 4 роки тому +371

    3:06 Tfw your going to WWIII with the lads.

    • @spacewurm
      @spacewurm 4 роки тому +48

      I think that guy snuck in to the exercise. Escaped from the local insane asylum the night before.

    • @Roger-rh5lu
      @Roger-rh5lu 4 роки тому +3

      Lmaoooo

    • @Roger-rh5lu
      @Roger-rh5lu 4 роки тому +18

      @@spacewurm plot Twist The army is better than the sanatorium, there at least they let you kill people and you don't get tied up because of it

    • @KentoKei
      @KentoKei 4 роки тому +2

      And the sad, yet humorist part of this comment is that if there is going to be a WWIII, then I'm going to be likely fighting in it

    • @aggebah98
      @aggebah98 4 роки тому

      @@KentoKei it's a faith no generation should endure, yet what is life if not sacrefice for future generations...

  • @tomservo5347
    @tomservo5347 2 роки тому +17

    When my German mom took my sisters and I to West Germany in '84 to see family my little 6 year old mind didn't grasp that we were only a half day's drive to the Iron Curtain.

  • @somnambulist7705
    @somnambulist7705 4 роки тому +87

    I was based in Germany during Lionheart, some of it fell on our rest days. On those days we spent as much time as possible trying to get killed (therefore sit out a few hours),by rushing to events and going gung ho. Unfortunately we did really well with that approach and caught people. On my work days I was guarding nukes and live armed. Once we had to dissuade the paras from attacking us when they got lost and launched CS gas at us. A simple tannoy warning from the machine gun towers about their imminent demise from a live armed site was enough to see them turn and run. I dread to think what might have happened if they had not, you'd all have read about it by now.
    I just miss compo sausages.

    • @toukairin354
      @toukairin354 4 роки тому +10

      how do you simulate force on force exercise at Lionheart? or it's more like "adhering to scenario" about which side are "killed" when certain units are in certain proximity?

    • @somnambulist7705
      @somnambulist7705 4 роки тому +15

      @@toukairin354 We had units attack the armoury etc using smoke grenades for example. Yeah the observers would decide if you died, and we went out of our way to try to get sidelined for hours as 'exercise dead'
      As I never left Bruggen (which in itself was huge) I don't know how the rest of the exercise went outside.

  • @cadinnelson5168
    @cadinnelson5168 5 років тому +2128

    I just want a good Cold War fps

    • @lukasnovotny4095
      @lukasnovotny4095 5 років тому +264

      The original Operation Flashpoint!

    • @Otto_Schablowski
      @Otto_Schablowski 5 років тому +50

      Lukas Novotny good old times.

    • @ayyblyat9450
      @ayyblyat9450 4 роки тому +301

      '83 is a game that's being developed by the same team that made rising storm. It's described as a "cold war gone hot". Im hype for it

    • @CK-yv6nw
      @CK-yv6nw 4 роки тому +52

      Maybe the next Battlefield. Hopefully it's less shit

    • @zolafuckass8606
      @zolafuckass8606 4 роки тому +18

      @@ayyblyat9450 Dude, that sounds fucking awesome.

  • @zongaaa6673
    @zongaaa6673 4 роки тому +50

    *teacher:* come on the exercise isn't that hard
    *the exercise:*

    • @Neddyfram
      @Neddyfram 3 роки тому +6

      the exercise is based?

    • @Lucas_WAZZAA
      @Lucas_WAZZAA Рік тому +3

      If this is the exercise, i'd happily participate in it

    • @yuigahama3189
      @yuigahama3189 Рік тому +1

      Girls: i hate outdoor PE activities
      Boys:

  • @billlombard9911
    @billlombard9911 3 роки тому +180

    All these maneuvers were criticized at the time but in actuality added to the ending of the Cold War. They ramped up the Soviets expenditures on military budget which denied them spending on their civilians which led to the eventual break up of the Soviet union and the break up of the Iron Curtain.

    • @Yes_Fantasy_419
      @Yes_Fantasy_419 Рік тому +21

      Don't forget that the Soviet Afghan War was bankrupting the Soviet Union as well.

    • @camisfr
      @camisfr Рік тому +12

      @@Yes_Fantasy_419 Both of you are right : denying civilian spending for military one leading to the bankrupt of the Soviet Union (went up to 20%+ of the Soviet BIP). Soviet-Afghan war, "Star Wars" fake project, high-intensity trainings in DBR (West-Germany), also with many other factors as the lack of investment in technology during Brezhnev's era (also him who started the Soviet-Afghan war).

    • @bliecoug1029
      @bliecoug1029 9 місяців тому +2

      Also Chernobyl broke the Soviet Uniom even harder

    • @acceptablecasualty5319
      @acceptablecasualty5319 6 місяців тому +2

      ​@@bliecoug1029The Economic impact of Chernobyl was negligible

    • @LaggerWhy
      @LaggerWhy 5 місяців тому

      @@acceptablecasualty5319 No, but it hugely undermined the eastern bloc in another way: Because the soviet government was ruling all of its satellites with harsh measures and fear, a catastrophe like Chernobyl undermined the trust of the public in the ability of the systems to actually take care of things. A tyrant who's flailing around like the soviets did with chernobyl seems like little more than a petulant child to those who he seeks to rule over.

  • @edgy_dabs9167
    @edgy_dabs9167 Рік тому +8

    Military Video footage of this time is a absolute vibe, and with major samm editing style and music choice, Peak vibe

  • @2WheeledPatinaThomasC
    @2WheeledPatinaThomasC 3 роки тому +33

    My friend who is in his 50s now was in the TA, he was telling me about the training they were doing in the Denmark border (I believe), it could have been one of the biggest training operations during that time in the 80s, they had a visit from the commander and were told to dig in and they were given live ammunition as a suspected attack from Russia was on its way according to the intelligence. My friend said to me “it was great fun but when we were told ‘this is it’ suddenly no one was having fun, the ditch was cold and wet, everyone wanted to go home” - lol

    • @florinivan6907
      @florinivan6907 3 роки тому +3

      Its possible it was all a ruse. Often times to test the reliability of your troops you tell them its maybe the real deal. Of course you take precautions to avoid accidents. But otherwise you tell them that. Even the commander wouldn't know. Only the higher ups. This is one reason monitoring the HQs is so vital if real orders were given assuming you have the right equipment you would figure it out immediately.

  • @rudrakshsinghkatal5609
    @rudrakshsinghkatal5609 2 роки тому +144

    The amount of firepower that NATO has today is nothing compared to what it had in the 80s

    • @williamsherman1942
      @williamsherman1942 2 роки тому +37

      We Americans haven’t changed much lol

    • @rudrakshsinghkatal5609
      @rudrakshsinghkatal5609 2 роки тому +1

      @@williamsherman1942 USA is an exception .

    • @scanida5070
      @scanida5070 2 роки тому +22

      Well seems like things are changing. We Germans want to arm up and the French and Dutch already have plans too.
      Can‘t wait to see NATO tanks roll through on trains again ^^

    • @williamsherman1942
      @williamsherman1942 2 роки тому +24

      @@scanida5070 Well that has happened even with Europe’s military decline, the thing we’re missing is big trainings which will help coordination between NATO states and probably improve our forces as a whole. It’s a shame that we haven’t had a big exercise like this in a while, it would most definitely solve the question of NATO’s existence and competence.

    • @os1941
      @os1941 2 роки тому

      @@scanida5070 Germany doesn’t have the population to support a army bigger than what it is currently

  • @FGH9G
    @FGH9G 3 роки тому +9

    This video is so 80's, my smartphone turned into a Walkman, and I grew a mullet in an instant!

  • @brushdustshake3557
    @brushdustshake3557 4 роки тому +16

    I was there for Exercise Spearpoint (Crusader ‘80), the biggest exercise held in Western Europe since WW2 - HQ 20 Armd Bde (formerly Task Force Hotel), 4th Armd Division. Spent a week on Soltau, & 2 weeks in the Hildesheim area. Drank a few yellow handbags!

  • @davidcaush5036
    @davidcaush5036 3 роки тому +12

    I remember that exercise as if it was yesterday, it was incredible to see how much millitary hardware on display. Bring back the SLR any day.

  • @AlexanderBogdanow
    @AlexanderBogdanow 5 років тому +70

    Hey two of ma Uncles took part in this maneuver... One from West Germany (Pnazergrnadier, Heer, Bundeswehr) and the other one from Britain (Ulster) (Engineers, British Army)... :3 Ya vidya's are fucking awesome btw

    • @bugler75
      @bugler75 4 роки тому +3

      The Royal Engineers from Ulster that you talk about were 74 Regiment were a reserve unit (Territorial Army) stationed in my home town. They were bridge builders and for a time airfield repair. I knew a few of them and went to a few events at the camp. They were disbanded but reformed very soon after but as a smaller unit. A great bunch of lads. I joined the regular Army instead.

  • @iRasmus4
    @iRasmus4 2 роки тому +10

    What nostalgia! So nice to see the Leopard-1 again!! The Leopard-2 is superior in every important aspect but it can never come close to producing the amazing sound of the Leopard-1.
    Great footage and awesome video ! Thanks for sharing!!

  • @Chainsaw_18.
    @Chainsaw_18. 4 роки тому +82

    Trading Marlboro Smokes to the German troops for Good German beer in Groafawehr training area, Now that was the Good old Days 1984

    • @slaughterofthesoul7069
      @slaughterofthesoul7069 3 роки тому +2

      I think you mean Grafenwöer
      It's really near to my hometown
      Cheers buddy

  • @lukasnovotny4095
    @lukasnovotny4095 5 років тому +664

    Can't imagine farmers being too happy with all those tanks trampling the fields :D Probably reimbursed by NATO?

    • @MajorSamm
      @MajorSamm  5 років тому +419

      They got paid quite a bit, almost as much as they would have from a yearly harvest

    • @monkeydank7842
      @monkeydank7842 4 роки тому +54

      They received compensation from the German government. Further steps are/were due to the NATO-treaties.

    • @leejimmy8790
      @leejimmy8790 4 роки тому +159

      there were actual stories that farmers kindly asked the troops to trample their fields with the bulldog vehicle so they can be compensated more

    • @alexanderrose1556
      @alexanderrose1556 4 роки тому +186

      @@AlexanderBogdanow German goverment was never corrupt, even to this day, you wanna see corruption look to Russia and eastern europe, germany is ranked one of the lowest by international watch dogs.

    • @hanschouwman4536
      @hanschouwman4536 4 роки тому +3

      @@MajorSamm the British or American. The
      French or an other country. I'm curious.

  • @kodagnome
    @kodagnome 4 роки тому +47

    2:15 its weird seeing a a-10 not in the middle east

    • @yusufturner1971
      @yusufturner1971 4 роки тому +8

      Had a whole bunch of them based in Hessisch Oldendorf, loved watching them ripping things up! 😆

    • @MpSniperM1911
      @MpSniperM1911 4 роки тому +12

      they were designed and manufactured because of the european theater btw

  • @armoredlumberjack1999
    @armoredlumberjack1999 Рік тому +11

    There's just something REALLY cool about 80s military aesthetic and music like this but i can't really explain what it is.

  • @smokinhabanas
    @smokinhabanas 4 роки тому +118

    WOW talk about RETRO GOOD STUFF- A-10s buzzing low, Chieftain tanks rumbling, Germans with uzis, Brits with steel helmets, Rapier and Blowpipe missiles Good Old Fashion War Gaming!!! What made NATO REAL!!

    • @sam8742
      @sam8742 3 роки тому

      Not as real as it is now?

    • @smokinhabanas
      @smokinhabanas 3 роки тому +3

      @@sam8742 the alliance has expanded and changed back then the battlefield was Germany now the Baltic’s Poland and Ukraine. The concept was simple Soviet’s invade Western Germany stop the steamroller til reinforcements come or tactical nukes used. Now the script has changed- German units working very closely with Polish units- marines prior focus Norway now the Baltic’s. Ukraine scenario have not look at it much except spec ops personnel training the Ukrainians western mercenaries or Ed volunteers fighting on the front since 2014 til now. My statement reflected the time period where America truly believed the Warsaw Pact was coming pretty clear cut. Now after Iraq Afghanistan and hybrid warfare in Ukraine it’s more complicated- different era different perspective hopefully not heading to WWIII.

    • @sam8742
      @sam8742 3 роки тому +2

      @@smokinhabanas
      I doubt ww3 would happen, at best just some island hopping around taiwan and japan, russia might invade urkraine, most likely a proxy war there in that case

    • @norman6595
      @norman6595 3 роки тому

      Nothing cool about those steel helmets - God I hated mine!

    • @mrchocolatebean8878
      @mrchocolatebean8878 2 роки тому

      @@sam8742 damn russia really did invade ukraine

  • @Jin-Ro
    @Jin-Ro 2 роки тому +121

    The forces in Operation Lionheart 1984 would kick seven shades out of Russia 2022

    • @normalwood7965
      @normalwood7965 8 місяців тому +3

      swarm of lancets in question:

    • @Kurvvaraketa
      @Kurvvaraketa 3 місяці тому

      Russian dead hand Technology:imma end this Man whole career😊😊

  • @mangore623
    @mangore623 5 місяців тому +3

    I never thought that I’d be looking back on the Cold War with real reverence and nostalgia. I was in the Canadian army in 1984. Really a fantastic time, but I do remember being on live fire exercises thinking, “Uh, yeah, I sure as shit hope that I never have to do this for real.”

  • @russylzalewski954
    @russylzalewski954 5 років тому +10

    thank you for using this song, and this video, it's so great.

    • @wiryantirta
      @wiryantirta 4 роки тому

      period appropriate music man

  • @daveanderson3805
    @daveanderson3805 4 роки тому +7

    I was stationed in Germany back in the 80s so yes this is an example of the good old days

  • @pavelkrenek8422
    @pavelkrenek8422 4 роки тому +101

    Good job. You could also do videos from Warsaw pact military exercises. We had these on our territory (Czech Republic, those times it was Czechoslovakia). They were called Štít 84, Štít 82 and Družba 86 a 89. There is a lot of material on youtube about them.

    • @EdwinWolf8
      @EdwinWolf8 3 роки тому +8

      Thanks for the info. Im gonna share those videos with my dad, he was a young man at that time and really enjoys this topics.

  • @jandidi4813
    @jandidi4813 10 місяців тому +5

    Teacher: alright class, we're going on a trip to West Germany.
    Girls: why omg it's so boring...
    Boys:

  • @ireviewshtuff
    @ireviewshtuff 3 роки тому +23

    Give Red Storm Rising a read, it's mainly set in the sea and air but the West Germany sections are from a tank commander and it's fucking boss.

  • @bigguy1164
    @bigguy1164 2 роки тому +33

    Their Dads and Granddads were killing each other only 40 years prior, now here they are training together as brothers.

    • @arthurwellesley1stdukeofwe890
      @arthurwellesley1stdukeofwe890 2 роки тому +4

      Their ancestors would be proud. 😃

    • @max.h332.
      @max.h332. Рік тому +1

      ⁠ My grandfather was proud (former sergeant in the Wehrmacht).
      My older brother participated in Lionheart '84 as a German soldier.
      Unfortunately, it was not until 1989 that I took part in the "Offenes Visier" exercise.

    • @SashaAvendale
      @SashaAvendale 6 місяців тому

      This is politic.

  • @mrichar9
    @mrichar9 4 роки тому +17

    Great War Aesthetic
    *saved to playlist *

  • @notrightmeow3357
    @notrightmeow3357 4 роки тому +28

    I remember playing war games in Germany. Fun times.

  • @exmkfandi82s.42
    @exmkfandi82s.42 4 роки тому +1

    Moje sehe grad die Leo 1 mit Btl Wappen Pz Btl 14 aus Hildesheim..... War 1982/83 1/14 Trsp Grp. Was für eine tolle Zeit. Danke für das einstellen. Back to the 80'........

  • @DocterRictofenn
    @DocterRictofenn 3 роки тому +64

    The American and British army with the west German Bundeswher ready to repel a soviet and Warsaw pact attack against the west
    Goddamn the 80s were freaking cool

    • @trddmlm3162
      @trddmlm3162 2 роки тому +1

      你们的下一个敌人是我们,我们远比苏联强大!

    • @Tatarin-m5s
      @Tatarin-m5s 2 роки тому +3

      Друзья не будьте наивными!! Советский Союз и Варшавский договор не собирался не на кого нападать в отличие от НАТО

    • @williamsherman1942
      @williamsherman1942 Рік тому +8

      @@Tatarin-m5sTell that to the wall you placed in Berlin bud, atleast we didn’t have to build a wall to keep our people in

    • @pingu255
      @pingu255 Рік тому +6

      ​@@Tatarin-m5s both the USA and the USSR were provocative. Remember back in the late 1980s the Americans were actually getting worried that the West Germans were seeing the USA as a moral equivalent to the USSR, sort of true really, both empires trying to expand their influence.

  • @herschelschueler
    @herschelschueler 4 роки тому +8

    This is surreal seeing all this military equipment on these streets and fields like I got them right here. This operation took place in the state I live in.

  • @sandino27
    @sandino27 5 років тому +189

    Tell my mama I joined the US Army because of MajorSamm

    • @johnwhite7700
      @johnwhite7700 4 роки тому +12

      This is mostly UK's army

    • @Airman1121
      @Airman1121 4 роки тому +13

      Doesn't matter bro. The battle spirit is universal.

    • @rhodie.
      @rhodie. 4 роки тому +3

      No better reason for joining

  • @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns
    @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns 3 роки тому +28

    It's completely nuts how they were training for basically a repeat of World War 2, just with upgraded tech. It's like troops in 1957 training for war like they were fighting at The Somme.

  • @sam2920
    @sam2920 5 років тому +6

    I'm glad you're active again

  • @michaelpresley1337
    @michaelpresley1337 3 роки тому +2

    I feel nostalgic for this time when I wasn't even alive then... Great video man.

  • @dreacul
    @dreacul 11 місяців тому +5

    3:06 from the begginings of the war motion pictures, starting with WW1 theres always that one soldier looking back at camera, smiling. Thats every one of us. :D

  • @flatmoon6359
    @flatmoon6359 2 роки тому +2

    Was on an forward op on Sibbese (sorry about spelling) Gap,to see row's of Tanks coming round a hillside was awe inspiring.Saw more tanks that afternoon than whole British Army got now.

  • @boboman67
    @boboman67 5 років тому +772

    The golden era, when europe had armies, now its more like theater.

    • @MajorSamm
      @MajorSamm  5 років тому +385

      Imagine not relying on America to defend your country and actually supporting your troops with equipment and additional training.

    • @boboman67
      @boboman67 5 років тому +122

      MajorSamm yeah. the nato countrys agreed to pay 2 % of their GDP (Gross domestic product ) but slowly almost all countrys decreased this amount, some down to 1 % , i do understand Trump , Usa pays 12-13 % , its not fair.
      Recently France had a hard time even to find 4000 men and euipment for the Mali , Denmark my hone country has one working canon etc etc , crampy

    • @rommel17pl
      @rommel17pl 5 років тому +51

      @@boboman67 Russia is not risking a war with NATO. They are in really deep shit, Ukraine, Syria - this is a different small theatre.
      EU population is around 515 million. Will be less when the UK will bail out, hopefully soon!

    • @rommel17pl
      @rommel17pl 5 років тому +8

      @@boboman67Christiansen and times when Denmark had any chance to defend themselves... that was XIX century I think?

    • @boboman67
      @boboman67 5 років тому +30

      rommel17pl
      Denmark contribute to nato operations everywhere , bosnia , Irak and especially afghanistan , according to number of citizens we have more loss of soldiers than Usa and we have been in the worst areas of Afghanistan (Hellman) we have nothing to be ashammed of, but we need to live up to our promises and god thanks excactly today the primeminister stated in the press, that we will go from 1,5 to 2 % of BNP when it comes to budget for the army.

  • @thomaskittsii1008
    @thomaskittsii1008 3 роки тому +2

    Arrived in West Germany 14 Dec. 84. Assigned to 2nd Battalion 2nd Brigade 6th Infantry Regiment attached to the 1st Armored Division. ETS 16 Dec.86....11 Bravo Forever !!!

  • @slyde3575
    @slyde3575 5 років тому +37

    I love your content man

    • @MajorSamm
      @MajorSamm  5 років тому +6

      Thanks man, I try my best

  • @toukairin354
    @toukairin354 3 роки тому +3

    Majorsamm you're at fault to make me include this song in my playlist during motorbike commute, all the while thinking I was a tank commander driving thru western european expanse...

  • @Iolis
    @Iolis 4 роки тому +430

    Lioneart was perhaps the most difficult yet enjoyable exercises I ever took part in during which we were able to practice all phases of war. There has been nothing like it ever since, nor is there ever likely to be anything like it again. The size of the British Army deployed on LIONHEART back in '84 dwarfs the pale shadow that now exists. We won the cold war because apart from anything else, the Soviet economy collapsed under the weight of trying to match NATO. Now, the situation is reversed. We simply cannot afford to update our Armour, all of which is likely to be mothballed while the Russians have recovered, become more professional under Putin, possessed of probably the best tank ever produced and arguably now more dangerous and aggresssive than they were back in '84.

    • @johnmadden3188
      @johnmadden3188 4 роки тому +53

      NATO armies are certainly undersized compared to what they were but I'd say that technologically the west is ahead in every way that matters most (Naval, Air)
      I'm only a random though so I don't pretend I know anything much

    • @gloriousbritannia1667
      @gloriousbritannia1667 4 роки тому +30

      I mean, the British economy is double that of the Russian economy, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
      To my knowledge, it's not about not being able to afford it, it is the government being cheap.
      We've also spent twenty years fighting insurgencies and, the military apparently is now shifting it's focus back to conventional warfare, so hopefully it will be better funded now.

    • @ucirak
      @ucirak 4 роки тому +17

      @Iolis You have not won any Cold War. The USSR was destroyed politically, through the sold-out Gorbachev, you did not defeat anyone, you did not win anything, and that the Russians are more aggressive? That's probably why fascist NATO is expanding around the world and moving to the Russian border, but it's good that you have respect from the Russians. You would never have a chance to win a real war against the Russians, you would lose like Hitler and Napoleon.

    • @ucirak
      @ucirak 4 роки тому +2

      @@johnmadden3188 the west is at the front possibly in stupidity.

    • @Iolis
      @Iolis 4 роки тому +43

      @@ucirak The newly independent States applied to join NATO simply to avail themselves of collective protection against the reimposition of a Communist totalitarian system imposed upon them against their will and to which they no longer wish to return. Hitler and Napolian were stupid enough to invade Russia which is why they were defeated. NATO was formed to resist the type of incursion and takeover of independent Eastern Nations by the USSR which recent incursions in the Crimea have done nothing to assuage. When Russia ceases to be a Mafia state whose only claim to democratic legitimacy is the extent to which it is capable of murdering its political challengers it remains a one-party dictatorship in which the lives of its citizens are determined by the whims of a single man who will never voluntarily surrender absolute power. Until then, Russia remains a direct threat to Western democracy.

  • @henrik3291
    @henrik3291 3 роки тому +12

    0:56 Didn't know that Aaron Eckhart served in the british army

  • @scanida5070
    @scanida5070 3 роки тому +7

    1:34
    That train driver must‘ve shat his trousers! xD
    Das gibt eine Anzeige! ;)

  • @juliusnepos6013
    @juliusnepos6013 3 роки тому +4

    Loved the music, it was one of the forgotten hit eurodance songs of 80s

  • @solus48
    @solus48 4 роки тому +110

    0:23 Abrams in green is the most aesthetic tank

  • @easyredbeard9799
    @easyredbeard9799 Рік тому +7

    I had family living in Germany about this time, all part of BAOR. It was and is their opinion that Lionheart showed the Soviets that they couldn't win a land war in Europe. Also, apparently obvious Soviet agents in Trabants, Mercs and BMWs would drive round following British wives to try and work out what was going on. This happened so much there was a competition for wives to report said cars and receive 4 marks per correct ID xD

  • @scanida5070
    @scanida5070 2 роки тому +8

    Looks like they’ll be up and running around our fields soon again ;D

  • @HerrFlockens
    @HerrFlockens Рік тому +1

    Something about a Leo with camo netting rolling through a field up to a hull down position makes me very happy, and I was not even around to see it.

  • @awacslongcaster7394
    @awacslongcaster7394 4 роки тому +50

    Ah yes when the brits could show real strength, even though those Abrams tanks are sexy in that green camo.

    • @hoilst
      @hoilst 4 роки тому +9

      Chieftain > Abrams.

    • @METan-fw2cg
      @METan-fw2cg 3 роки тому +9

      @@hoilst never in a million years LOL. You can’t compare a 60s tank to an 80s era tank.

    • @m1a1abramstank49
      @m1a1abramstank49 3 роки тому +2

      @@METan-fw2cg I feel like that was more a comparison of looks than anything, which is opinionated

    • @dogsnads5634
      @dogsnads5634 2 роки тому

      Chally 1's were also there. And Lionheart was the first time MICV-80 made an appearance...which then became called Warrior.

  • @k.s.333
    @k.s.333 3 роки тому +4

    Grew up in the 80s and for whatever reason never heard of Kano. Strangely perfect music for a video of Bundeswehr engaged in military exercises...

    • @k.s.333
      @k.s.333 3 роки тому +2

      Okay, Brits. Makes sense with the helmets...

    • @anonanon2614
      @anonanon2614 3 роки тому +1

      @@k.s.333 Its Bundeswehr, Brits and Americans

    • @wolfi9933
      @wolfi9933 Рік тому +1

      @@anonanon2614 And dutch. You see guys with Uzis and FALs there too.

  • @ironduck7484
    @ironduck7484 3 роки тому +3

    I wanna be a German farmer here at 1984 watching Lionheart and listening to this song ,If I got an another life.

  • @Kojak0
    @Kojak0 4 роки тому +11

    Nice footage - the 80's was my era even though I was just a kid, so I love seeing stuff from back then.
    That said, military exercises from back then are also a remainder that a very cold war could become very fucking hot. And forget nukes only flying - a war back then would have included EVERYTHING - nukes, conventional weapons, biological weapons, chemical weapons, the whole damn lot. And Europe, the Soviet Union and a pretty good chunk of both the middle-east and the US would have turned into barren wastelands.

  • @liva236muzika
    @liva236muzika 3 роки тому +4

    1:33 that looks safe. The train driver was thrilled I bet.

  • @railmaster84
    @railmaster84 5 років тому +338

    Body armour wasn’t a thing back then

    • @wiryantirta
      @wiryantirta 4 роки тому +192

      who needs em when mustaches give +20% concealment and deflection bonus

    • @yudhiadi6100
      @yudhiadi6100 4 роки тому +6

      @C D that is major advantage about it

    • @abandonedchannel281
      @abandonedchannel281 4 роки тому +12

      The average person could tell the difference between different soldiers then

    • @fdumbass
      @fdumbass 4 роки тому +5

      Soviets used it more than NATO

    • @ZackMarrs556NAT0
      @ZackMarrs556NAT0 4 роки тому +44

      @@fdumbass i don't k ow about that. Flack jackets saw heavy use in both Korea and Vietnam by US forces., in the 80's you'd be seeing lots of PASGT vests

  • @statementallity
    @statementallity 4 роки тому +8

    I spent 3 wks on a hill in Hameln with the REME, great days

    • @hakimcameldriver
      @hakimcameldriver 4 роки тому +3

      I was skulking around in the woods near Rinteln, essen

  • @lalhriatpuiahauchhum3286
    @lalhriatpuiahauchhum3286 5 місяців тому +1

    You deserve a place in Spotify

  • @nightingaleseraph
    @nightingaleseraph 4 роки тому +4

    I’ve always liked this song so seeing it paired with this video is just kino.

  • @rebeccahradsky-foster5345
    @rebeccahradsky-foster5345 Рік тому +1

    My dad was part of this , he was a reservist in the Territorial army royal artillery 202 battery.

  • @ramal5708
    @ramal5708 3 роки тому +12

    Girlfriend: Ah, haven't seen him for a while, he must be cheating out there
    Me and the boys: 2:44

  • @DedMan516
    @DedMan516 Рік тому +7

    Crazy to think all the large-scale wargames that NATO used to hold of this size, which they no longer do, yet we are more likely to have a flashpoint now in 2023 than during the entirety of the Cold War...

  • @alexcheremisin3596
    @alexcheremisin3596 4 роки тому +45

    This generations needs World In Conflict 2

  • @DR-JOHN-DEJAVU-1984
    @DR-JOHN-DEJAVU-1984 3 роки тому +2

    I thought this was just another synthwave, 80s neon, messaround, but when I heard Kano...
    I shed a tear.

  • @reubendobbs8011
    @reubendobbs8011 4 роки тому +15

    Anyone remember the slabs of beer with the naked girls on the cans lol, beer ration happy days.

  • @spanishball9449
    @spanishball9449 3 роки тому +7

    3:06 I swear to god i saw the face of that dude that turned around in a WW1 video.

    • @KoljaGamer
      @KoljaGamer 3 роки тому +3

      Exactly my first thought too.

  • @cuddlycuttlefish5674
    @cuddlycuttlefish5674 Рік тому +7

    This should have been the trailer for Wargame Red Dragon

  • @javiertalan8324
    @javiertalan8324 4 роки тому +2

    This video is too epic and too elegant, bro.

  • @AKKK1182
    @AKKK1182 3 роки тому +8

    2:35 my man has no care for his legs in the backblast zone

  • @karl-wilhelmwredemeyer6075
    @karl-wilhelmwredemeyer6075 4 роки тому +12

    Hey Major Samm, in 1987 was a maneuver in Lüneburger Heath. Lead by the Americans; Return of forces to Germany (Reforger). I know a man took part in it as a medic sergeant of the Bundeswehr. Could you make a footage of that too Major? Karl would like it. Thanks

    • @bdinaz
      @bdinaz 3 роки тому

      I was on reforger '87. Certain strike i think.....

  • @fenthedog
    @fenthedog 4 роки тому +10

    I was there, still have a tac map from the exorcise

  • @jakobpetrov1750
    @jakobpetrov1750 8 місяців тому

    Here we are at last with nothing left to say now'Cause everything that's gone will never beAnd I lost it all that one and lonely blue nightEverything was fineYes, I know I should have waited for you, babyWhere were you when I was needing you?And a hundred times I called but you were not thereYou were far from meAnother life, another loverWhere in the world do lonely dreams ever go?Another night, another blue dayIt is so long, long, long, longWhy not tell me that you cared so much to keep me'Cause you knew it was the only thing that matteredAnd now it's time for us to go togetherWithout games or liesWhere you sit and watch me smoke the lonely night awayThere must be something more that's left for somewhereSomething that will save this love foreverIt must never dieAnother life, another loverWhere in the world do lonely dreams ever go?Another night, another blue dayIt is so long, long, long, long (x 2)Yes, I know I should have waited longer for youWhere were you when I was needing you?And now it's time for us to go togetherWithout games or liesWhere you sit and watch me smoke the lonely night awayThere must be something more that's left for somewhereSomething that will save this love foreverIt must never dieAnother life, another loverWhere in the world do lonely dreams ever go?Another night, another blue dayIt is so long, long, long, long (x 2)

  • @Mishima505
    @Mishima505 2 роки тому +7

    1:34 firing across a live railway line just as train is coming….

    • @williamsherman1942
      @williamsherman1942 2 роки тому +6

      The train wasn’t efficient enough lmao

    • @irachowdhury4847
      @irachowdhury4847 2 роки тому

      @@williamsherman1942 No break even if it's a military exercise ongoing throughout the areas u gonna pass by.

    • @scanida5070
      @scanida5070 2 роки тому +3

      The motto of the German federal railway literally was: „Wir fahren immer!“ (We always run!) or „Alle reden vom Wetter - wir nicht.“ (Everybody talks about the weather - we do not.)

    • @irachowdhury4847
      @irachowdhury4847 2 роки тому

      @@scanida5070 and to what extent does it stands up.

  • @ralfschober9065
    @ralfschober9065 4 роки тому +1

    one of the best Videos i´ve ever seen...!

  • @JakeTheTankmaster
    @JakeTheTankmaster Рік тому +4

    S-tier music choice

  • @andywilliamg1929
    @andywilliamg1929 Рік тому +1

    LOVED THE BACKGROUND MUSIC, THE MUSIC OF THE TIMES😍

  • @rossmac3084
    @rossmac3084 2 роки тому +3

    I was there, I think it's me and my mates boarding the Chinook at the 45 second mark...