UK and Nato allies tested in FREEZING conditions on winter exercise
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- Опубліковано 15 лют 2023
- British troops have been taking part in Nato's biggest winter exercise in Estonia, as part of a multinational training group made up of 1,300 personnel and 120 armoured vehicles.
The annual drills of Exercise Winter Camp are the first since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and the alliance believes these demonstrations of military capability and cohesion are key to preventing a Russian attack elsewhere.
The UK has two squadrons of Challenger 2 tanks deployed to Estonia as part of a British-led Nato battlegroup stationed in the country.
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I've experienced cold weather training exercises twice in the army. South Korea and New Zealand. 17 below zero, absolutely miserable.
17 below jee. I couldn't imagine trying to get a wink of sleep.
@@adam9041 It was so cold we had to March throughout the night to stay a little warm, in New Zealand.
@@davidbraxton5110 - Desert Road area by any chance ?
@@garrywynne1218 No,we were wilderness. Snow,open terrain and trees. I suffered cold weather injury left ankle that still troubles me if I run.
@@davidbraxton5110 - either way it’s cold at -17 on either training ground . Hope you get better.
United We Stand
I like Estonia's attitude towards putin. Estonia is in percentage the biggest aid provider to Ukraine.
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Can I get a like to acknowledge and commend the cameraman for that last helicopter shot though. That was excellent 👏👏👏
Very skilled soldiers, all of them 🤝🏼
1:59 yikes, might just be the camera angle but that looked a little too close for comfort. Frozen ground can be dead slippery in certain parts and if you stumble that tank isn't going to be able to stop in time.
I’m glad this is giving the forces some purpose. They need that to help focus on what kit they need etc.
the forces need to get serious and enlist some bodies
The more militär vids i see the more Estonia looks awesome. And other European brothers. 🇸🇪🇪🇪
You're missing your Northern Ireland playground now. 9'c in North Belfast at the minute. The good old days.
Didn't realise northern Ireland got that cold many respects from 🇬🇧
Nice that they had a mild Winter for this exercise! Im about 40km South of Tallinn, a couple of Chinooks have done low passes. Trouble is low altitude doesn't really help when their very distinctive rotor noise can be heard at least 2 mins before they arrive!
I was in an exam in London and 7 went flying down the Thames. Very distracting.
Impressive. Please keep up the excellent training.
And to all who see this comment, please support raising your country’s Defense Budget.
Our Canadian army does this all the time. Even our reservists train in -20°C or worse on their weekends.
Badass! I bet the Alaska National Guard do the same thing!
Godt gået Mads ! : )
Leopard tank in mossy winter camo looks badass!
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Keep up the great work guys
Those machine guns ain't running to smoothly.. He's having to pull bolt back every 3 shots lol
Firing blanks makes most weapons have more malfunctions than usual.
If Estonia is NATO's front door, does that make Greece & Turkey the back door?
Probably Canada many respects from 🇬🇧
Freezing in winter, wet and mossie/ gnat ridden in summer. Perfect training ground, with the possible exception of steep terrain😃
Better start getting them factories on a war footing
As in yesterday!! 👍
Better seek peace ✌️
good luck to Ukraine
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An important element of the 400,000 promised European troops.
Great 👍
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@@danwarsaw1009 How's your offensive going?
@@danwarsaw1009 Traidores como vostede deben ser deportados a Rusia por traizón contra os EUA.
@@danwarsaw1009 Falo galego.
@@heinedenmark Dan Warsaw is a US Kremlin sellout
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Had NATO done a similar action to this when Putin made his initial move in 2014, which he wouldn’t have expected, NATO and the West wouldn’t be having the threat of Russia today.
nato couldnt fight russia for 2 weeks they don't have the ammo as we are finding out in ukraine
NATO has done a lot since 2014. The sole reason Russia were unable to take Ukraine in 2 weeks like they thought.
@@hippopotamus86 Joe, I am not a Z supporter by a long shot but the facts are facts.
Russia remains in Ukraine and continues to attack Ukrainian cites is proof enough that NATO has not done enough. Article 5 aside, it is NATO’s collective mandate and responsibililty to ensure security on the continent period otherwise what is the purpose of the alliance if it cant even act against a imminent threat. The metric is simple if Ukraine is allowed to fail then Europe returns to the cold war.
Acting proactively by placing tangible pre cursors in Ukraine in response to the Russian invastion of 2014 would have prevented Putins abitions from realisation let alone continuation. Instead Puntin now is refocusing, rearranging and reposistioning his forces in and out of Ukraine without consequence, 80% of Russians still support the War, Putin propaganda system is very active and effective within Russia, Western sanctions have failed to effect Russian industry and members of the Russian elite it was designed to target and large scale mobilisation continues unabated.
NATO by all accounts is still playing catchup with ammunition shortages and its stubborn reluctance to realease any tangible military assests against an enemy who’s primary combat doctrine is the use of man power which Russia has plenty of. Russia historically wont even blink even after loosing several hundred thousand men and they are a long way from that number.
Ukraine is loosing men also at a high rate along with ammo shortages and equipment losses that are becoming increasingly difficult to replace, Ukraine has finite resources.
NATO’s reluctance to act from day one has based on Nuclear blackmail has embolned Putin to take the initaiative and continues to do so. Because NATO has fallen for this blackmail and has not responded accordingly Putin will not relinquish this initiative and any act by NATO from here on in will be viewed by the Kremlin as punitive, too little and too late and consequenly this disaster will continue unless NATO step up as Putin understands only the language of power.
Hindsight is all well and good, but we are, where we are.
@@frankrenda2519 Clueless. The US has mountains of munitions, as do the combined forces of NATO. Makes me laugh when people make such dumb comments. Where do you get two weeks from? A Unicorn's arse?
Bit of aggressive camping. ;)
French logistics must be a nightmare, getting wine and cheese to the troops without it freezing.🧀🥂🍾
Wait until you experience Canadian below zero weather. 😂
I'm carrying a hot water bottles then thanks 🇨🇦 Many respects from 🇬🇧😂
this was nice estonian winter weahter,these are not werry much there next to baltic sea
Looks super, smashing and lovely. NATO has not got the resources to fight a war. UK needs to start building a properly equipped and trained military and that means spending money! These pretty soldiers are nothing more than the modern equivalent of the BEF. EU countries in NATO need to ramp up preparedness now. No political bull, real results now!
Think you are mistaken. British troops are some of the best in the world. Just the army has been plagued with cuts and reductions to full size as it should.
Army should lay out a plan for everyday individuals what they could do to help.
Impressive and its good for the British Army to be exercising with Allies. However, it is not sustainable if a war breaks out. 2 squadrons of tanks is a small force. The Army can deploy at most 2 brigades, maybe 1, and will run out of ammunition in 1 day in an intense war.
Wait, you think this is the entire force that would stop the war? It's training. Wow.
Nice helmet cover mate.
Try to imagine how it would have been to fight in winters past without all of the modern high tech gear including clothing and self heating rations...Extreme of heat, wet, or cold still play havoc with modern weapons and equipment. I doubt that any amount of training can prepare any force to fight in the most extreme conditions against both the elements and an equally well equipped and well motivated foe indefinitely.
It's bonkers that all these countries have to train so hard together and invest so much, all because of some angry midget in the Kremlin and his mafia associates.
Great to see them all stepping up though.
you now what funny the angry midget is smarter than any leader from the west
Cringe that the news is their, just let them train.
I hope the mainland Europeans understand we left the European Union and not Europe itself. Hence the supply of military goods and training to our allies.
I don't think so - we did it with a lot of nastiness and insults.
After that the volunteers for Ukraine will considerably reduce.
Exercise frozen nuts 😂
Defend the Baltic front door!
in all fairness and given the size of each of the baltic states, russia could occupy their state within a month and NATO could recapture it within a week. 😂
Dutch and danish English is better than British English
You're not even wrong and I'm British.
Was that an MG42?!
Not exactly
@@jeanclaudejunior oh yeah. Did some research and just discovered the MG3. Badass
Have you checked yours own front door?
Diver is the front door of England and it’s broken
Its like when russia biggest training with belarus few days before ukraine unvasion. This is sign of ww3 isnt ?
Except this is training, which has always been the case. Russia just flat out lied like they always do.
European army? Probably not a bad idea.
There is oil in the North Pole. NATO is just bussiness
Britain only has 70,000 soldiers we can't afford to send over any of them. We can't even defend our own country.
Quality, not quantity. Get it?!
@0:01 give me a go of that!
1300 troops hahaha come on but OK just for training
one cynic was overheard saying that the American contingent should assist the producer's of " Rust "...
Such training has become as urgent as possible. The brutal war waging by fascist russia against Ukraine is making it necessary for the military forces present in Europe.
RUSIA THE BEST SUPER POWER👍👍
america the best of propaganda 🤧
🧢 you live in fantasy land if your believe that
@@josiahwashington2530 kontol
Haha😂 Russia cant a country let alone 90% of the world Russia grow up
Top job all round 🗡🦾🛡👍🏾🇪🇺……freedom is someone is prepared to protect it for others to sleep soundly at night and for others to have fun living at these peoples expense!!!