It’s a wooden tip on those blanks, the rifle has a screw on thing on the muzzle (sysäyksenvahvistin in finnish) that breaks it and helps bring the slide back.
That’s MG3 on the top of the Leopard 2 tank. That’s mofo has a amazing rate of fire. That (telakuorma-auto in finnsh) track truck if you translate it word for word really goes deep in the water. When I was in FDF we were in Lapland shooting TOW-missiles, that track truck was taking us to our positions and drove through a swamp, and did a deeeeep dive and I was sitting on the back car, the hatch was open coz I was providing security and Jesus I almost s*it my pants coz I wasn’t expecting that. The truck just went on, didn’t care about the water, the engines didn’t stop it just kept going. The engine airtake is high so that bastard just kept going. Good times! 🫡🇫🇮❤️🇺🇸
2:00 Yes those are blanks, wood bullets that are shattered by the blank firing adaptor. 6:30 Leopard 2 has a MG3 on them, so preeetty high rate of fire. 8:10 Rovajärvi training/shooting area is 1200 square kilometers, just above the arctic circle, close to the city of Rovaniemi, the "capital" of the Finnish Lapland. The biggest live fire range in Europe.
He knows as he is professional soldier. He just wants more comments that makes more money, common trick to ask simple questions :D Nothing wrong with that, YT is a game and tactics are OK.
@@IrwinGoodman22 He has admitted he is "just" recon/light infantry and doesn't know much about armour, airplanes etc. Not to mention the Finnish geography. Does recognize NH90 nowadays though!
@@IrwinGoodman22 You don't get more money with comments. View time is how you get recommended for more people. That's why we have there overly long 10-20 minutes videos for simple questions for example that could easily be explained in less than 3 minutes. Thankfully we have this nice feature that shows the most played timeline so usually I can just skip straight to that to see the answer or result or the point of the video.
I'm not sure you're correct about it being the largest, from what I've heard the live fire range Trängslet in Älvdalen Sweden is the largest one in Europe, not that it matters.
My friend has a cabin in Ivalo which is about 500km north of Oulu and he actually sent me a video clip of a bunch of rucksacked guys and gals who were walking next to his cabin and turned out they were Swedes. Apparently also very lost. They refused sauna and beer.
@@JoriLindroth Rip/kill a flower from the ground, look how "pretty" it is from close, then make some "dance moves" and look where you can make a picnic. And "welcome ALL" from SOUTH (/ASIA). What could go "wrong"?
Apparently, Finnish artillery shooting ranges have become very popular internationally, because not in many places you are able to carry out situational battlefield exercises and not just technical shooting drills thanks to the vast size of the area dedicated solely to that purpose. That is, several units can fire at the same/different targets with missiles or barreled artillery and the infantry can conduct their own drills with small arms and mortar fire at real time.
Apparently it's one of a kind in Europe, as there is no population in there. But when serving in artillery, I was told some continental Europe artilleries take some more risk and fire drill by shooting over villages or small towns... So no place for miscalculations there...
yep, as a nature lover my heart bleeds when i see all the videos turning our beautiful land into a moonlandscape and scaring the animals of the forest shitless can we not do those excercises on the russian side?
@@PaladinErik But there is plenty. Wolfs, foxes, hens of the forest, hares, reindeers, moose, forest mice, owls and so on... And they all come back in a couple of days after firing is over.
Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Nordic countries: Scandinavia + Finland and Iceland; incl Åland (autonomous from Finland), Greenland and Faroe Islands (autonomous from Denmark). Åland speaks Swedish, and Faroe Islands speaks a mix of Icelandic and Norwegian. Regarding languages and the Baltic states, Latvia and Lituania speaks an indo-european language as the scandinavians, and Estonia speaks finnish-ugric as Finland and Hungary.
Northern Forest 23 exercise was held at Rovajärvi training area, 8000 troops of which 1100 was from US, UK, Norway and Sweden. It depends on the particular area and weather but mosquitoes can be annoying and blackflys / gnats are a real nuisance.
The vehicle in the water that you were a little amazed by is the Swedish Hägglund machine. It makes its way basically everywhere (It has drive on the cart too) and it floats.
Actually, I believe that one is Sisu NA-series vehicle also called Nasu. It is similar to Hägglund BV 206, but not the same. Those Nasus is main tracked forest truck of Kainuu and Jäger brigades. Those were units doing exercises in Northern Forest 23. I also believe that BV 206 D6N (which would be other choise) don't have that type of gun mount on top of lead vehicle.
@@johanolsson8516 Well, I was talking about one seen at 2:50 since "vehicle in the water" (AMPHIBIOUS capability) was mentioned in original comment. What you are refering to is definitely BvS10 MkIIB which swedes dubbed as Bv410. It is just that going that route ignores WHOLE CONTEXT of original comment.
@@pikkuraami The one at 2:50 is definitely a BV 206, not a Nasu. You can easily tell them apart by the inset doors on the BV, as well as the air vent behind the rear door of the front module. The Nasus also have a thick (~15 cm or ~6 in) duct between the modules, that's another easy one. The Finnish BV 206s do indeed have a gun mount on top of the front module. I was trained to command one, primarily with a squad of jaegers, secondarily as a detached 12.7 mm NSV HMG team. I've shot a bunch of rounds out of the "tower" using a sub-caliber training device and mounted the actual gun there at least a few dozen times for training. Also almost froze my face off on multiple occasions, sitting up there during road marches.
Yes, the rounds with the green/turquoise tips are blanks. You attach a recoil enhancer muzzle device which is basically a metal cylindre that the wooden round crashes into. Results in a not very lethal spray of shredded wood and very lethal "clean burned wood out of your barrel" maintenance session. Fun fact: in Finnish they are called "Räkäpäitä" which means Snotheads a d in Swedish (the finnish kind of swedish) they are called "Blåpittar" which means blue-cocks.
Norway and Sweden have similar colour schemes in our camo, but the Norwegian is rounded, and the Swedish is more blocky/geometric (nicknamed "Splinter")- thus it was Norwegians you identified as Swedes in the beginning. Our Swedish pals popped up just after. Norway has chosen its new camo by the way. All the Nordic countries will rock the exact same uniform system (including arctic gear) - but of course in our individual national camo-patterns". Norway will use a similar colour scheme, but more broken up and with more "depth" (more multicam-like).
@@CombatArmsChanneland I wrote a really long comment about that, and where you could find the new Swedish uniform.....and it's gone! It took me forever to write it in English!! Arrggghhh!!!! 😅😂 Was it taken of UA-cam , because I included a web adress do you think? I have never done that before, so I am a bit unsure about the regulations on UA-cam? Anyway, I like your channel, that was on the first line of my very,very,very long letter......in English!! 😅😂
2:53 I honestly expected you to say "fudge", "fun", or "fummer". A precision f-strike if there ever was one. :) Man, I love this channel. Keep up the good work, sir.
My childhood home is a farm in Kemijärvi about 20 km east of the eastern border of the Rovajärvi training area and even there we sometimes could hear the low "booms" when the artillery was exercising. Always took me a bit by surprise. The F-18s out of Rovaniemi are also constantly flying over my home village in their patrols and exercises.
Back in late 90s in my time in the FDF I used to argue with a friend that it's worse to live in Northern Finnish forest (the Rovajärvi practise area) during wintertime. That was before I had experience of summertime and living in those same forests. My opinion changed quickly after the summertime experience. Those swarms of blackflys/gnats and mosquitos make it really unbearable for example to try and wash yourself or take a dump in the forest, they are everywhere and get into everything. It's horrible. Wintertime is a lot better, because there are no bugs and no sweat. I guess some folks (for example drivers and mechanics, who have to keep vehicles running in very cold weather, I've heard it's sometimes really difficult) disagree on this.
yeah i was there and i can tell you it was actually pretty cold especially in the nightime. it was pretty cool when we caught two 10th mountain guys when we were doing our recon mission😂 but yeah they were chill af really cool guys
That ammunition with colored bullets was blanks. Bullet is made out of wood and yellow thing on end of rifle barrel is device wich brakes that wooden bullet and creates enough pressure to rifle or machine gun to operate.
At the beginning the thing the guy is looking through is a direction finder compass. I am not sure if that is a right name for it in English, but I have no idea what is. You look through it to determine exact compass headings very accurately.
About ammo: Blue tips are wooden blanks that shatter to the yellow tip attached to the assault ridle. However tip of assault rifle needs to be attached properly because if not, blank can make it fly with dangerous speed injuring your target. White tips are hard ammo with phosphorus, yellow ammo tip is full metal jacket. In Finnish special forces we sometimes used different combinations, for close combact (house penetration for example) we filed every other round in clip as dumdum. bullets (as hollow points are forbidden for Finnish military, i believe by Wienna treaty long time ago). Outside hard ammo excercise at dark winter we used every 3rd round phosporous.
The nordic and the scandinavians are really good fighters In the battlefield Sweden Finland US and UK are all well professional soldiers And I like all their tactic gear All of the gear and all of their equipment and weapons in the weapons no way they fight I like how this way it'll show they're well-trained But I love the vehicles that the Swedish and the finlands have It's so amazing to me
1:30 Like some others already mentioned, yes, it is a type of precision compass, "käsisuuntakehä" in finnish. You use those when you need to get very accurate bearings, for directing artillery the low tech way for example. We still practice the older methods in case we run out of high tech and to better understand how everything works before moving to high tech where we just press a button and get the precise target coordinates. :P You can measure the bearing up to about 5-10 mils (also a note, our artillery still uses the warsaw pact mils, although, I think it depends on the system, and nato mils are slowly being phased in afaik)
Our family has a cabin pretty close to this training area and also the Lapland Air Command. I fell in love with aviation watching F-18s doing dogfight exercises over it. I took my nephew to see Top Gun Maverick and few days later we went to visit the cabin and the F-18 just happened to do really low flying during our visit. He was losing his 12-year old mind :D The place is close to a very large lake and they fly over that lake a lot for some reason. Air currents or something? Anyways, we could always tell when the artillery was practicing, because our poor border-collie would go sit and lean on my mom if we happened to be outside :D Luckily she wasn't bothered when she was indoors. We couldn't hear the artillery, but she sure did.
The 2:14 is a bang cartridge with a wooden bullet as a bullet, which shatters when it leaves the barrel. When shooting it, a yellow amplifier is attached to the end of the barrel. It crushes the bullet into small shards.
We trained on that kind of polymer ceramic training rounds for outdoor target practice here in Ireland now and again in the past as well. They were used in outdoor areas outside of the range, supposed to disintegrate on impact/safer than full metal on the whole. I forget what kind of exercise it was again, some kind of speed shooting, reaction time thing.
2nd Battalion 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team was at Northern Forest 23 according some pictures related to exercise! Internet is just a wonderful thing if you do little research :)
Depending on the summer weather, but sometimes, especially in Lapland, it can be really hot in the summer, and you should be prepared for that if you're not completely exhausted, I recommend a bug hat like that, they are really nasty little critters. ;)
That time of year you roll the dice with weather in northern Finland. It's from - 10 to +30°C and anything between there, snow, rain sunshine, slush... All rivers and streams are flooding and terrain is muddy, because of the frost that has just melted. In LIST we had warm and synny weather More than 20°C with occatiinal rain and chillier weather. NF was colder. Not tlo cold, but down to +6C at some nights.
I really wish i could go back in time so i could enlist again. I enlisted at 18 but found some trouble and completely effed up my opportunity at the service life.
those were wooden tips works fine on everything except mg3 man that or maybe it's the blank fire adaptor... jams after every other round and the clean up afterwards 😤 also funny how they flex driving on the "river" but then builds a bridge for way smaller crossing :D
Check out the Aurora 23 exercise in Sweden. 26.000 troops from Sweden, the US, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, Austria, Britain, Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Was nice to have our Ukrainian brothers and sisters here.
That thing the dude looks through in the beginning is a "suunnistuskehä" (suuntakehä?), and I have no idea how to translate it 😆 it's basically a compass that displays numbers as direction, 60-00 being dead-north, 15-00 would be East, 30-00 South, 45-00 West. So if you know your position, at least roughly the target's distance and the direction, you can direct fire on that location. So most likely the dude is an artillery spotter. Kind regards, a marine spotter
Yes I was a 240Bravo Gunner/Dismount, it was Operation Arrow 23, the Patch I got from that was a very nice patch. I felt honored to be one of the first to go to Finland and work side by side with the Finnish Army in their natural habitat. The first few days of being out there in the Operation was snowing which kind of puzzled me a bit. The operation was from April 30th to May 7th, and was very difficult. Despite it being a total opposite of NTC weather wise, it was all around a great way to show off the Finnish Armies capabilities in combat and as well as learning a few things from them. The Yeager Brigade was tough though Operation Lock was wild.
It's not up there where you thought it was. It's a little north from the city of Rovaniemi. It's still inside the arctic circle, so nothing like New York. At this time of year, the sun doesn't set, and in the winter, it doesn't rise for several months.
3:00 is probably flexing and not being able to go around xd usually during training the guys are not allowed to destroy trees so that could be the reason they turned NASU into a submarine
Those blue bulletw are dummy rounds. Blue part is wooden and brakes at end of barrel to that yellow thing called sysäri (sysäyksen vahvistin). Makes rk working like with live ammo
finnis blanks are made of soft wood. They disintigrate through the blank adapter are quite harmless within reason. Safety glases are necessary in CQC, etc etc.
When i was in army (80s) we dont used any safety classes. One guy shooting next to me and we both shoot as hell,,, 😆 -those wooden pieces flying to my face. I am lucy i have eyes.
I just got invitation to refreshers. In late November. Now please tell me again how it's nice not to be so hot :D I read the letter and the instant thought was, it's going to be fucking miserable with either snow and/or rain coming down the entire week.
it's really gonna be a slow movement through the forests in norway.. not for people but for tanks and other vehicles.. there's roads but then again those roads become deadly traps since it can be a point to get all vehicles converge into 1 line maby 2 at most. so they gotta make a choice to leave behind some stuff and go mostly with troops or take a risk and lose valuable machinery/electrical gadgets. ofc there are other ways around but it's gonna limit anyone who tries anything in norway for sure ( meaning movement is gonna be limited with machinery in large areas of norway)
Nordic countries. Scandinavia is Norway, Sweden and Denmark (Technically only Sweden and Norway as it is the peninnsula, but Denmark is included as they fit culturally and historically)
I couldn't point out what bothered nme about FDF videos about excercises after certain year and then I realized the they no longer interview participants like they used to. Not sure if it's some sort of OPSEC thing or if there's so much stuff that there's no moment or something.
That swedish tanker lady. And imagine if you are bleeding out in the back of TEKA and driver drive it to the swamps ans the bois had to get the chainsaw
Bad ass shirt, mate! I mean those colors are amazing. Yeah, we all love guns too and recognize them all, but darn, I'm loving it. I know it is propaganda, but truth is still, you really don't want to invade this land. It might be pretty much not much, but it's ours. (Only one neighbor needs to understand this and they do.)
I mean its okay 😄 But if anyone is wondering Scandinavia name comes from the Scandinavian mountain range and people there descent from Norse people. For example Norwegian, Swedish and Danish languages are all mutually intelligible. They have even talk shows where everyone speaks their respective national languages and so on. Finland was part of Swedish Kingdom for hundreds of years and it has obviously influenced a lot of things, but fundamentally we are still talking about two rather distinct groups of people. Norway, Sweden and Denmark are like brothers whereas Finland is more like a retarded cousin or at least an adopted child.
@@vaenii5056 actually it comes from skåne/scandia, the mountain range is named after it too. when talking Swedish with anyone from skåne is a bit hard :D
@@vaenii5056 "Finland is more like a retarded cousin or at least an adopted child" I'd say Finland is more like the cousin that got into taking psychedelics too much and is kinda just off, but he's still cool
It’s a wooden tip on those blanks, the rifle has a screw on thing on the muzzle (sysäyksenvahvistin in finnish) that breaks it and helps bring the slide back.
Yeah and after shooting those your gun just looks like a cave full of shite inside :D
@@polhokustaa4989 Thats why CRC gave us brake cleaning fluid :D
Blank Firing Adapter is the word you're looking for.
That’s MG3 on the top of the Leopard 2 tank. That’s mofo has a amazing rate of fire. That (telakuorma-auto in finnsh) track truck if you translate it word for word really goes deep in the water. When I was in FDF we were in Lapland shooting TOW-missiles, that track truck was taking us to our positions and drove through a swamp, and did a deeeeep dive and I was sitting on the back car, the hatch was open coz I was providing security and Jesus I almost s*it my pants coz I wasn’t expecting that. The truck just went on, didn’t care about the water, the engines didn’t stop it just kept going. The engine airtake is high so that bastard just kept going. Good times! 🫡🇫🇮❤️🇺🇸
2:00 Yes those are blanks, wood bullets that are shattered by the blank firing adaptor.
6:30 Leopard 2 has a MG3 on them, so preeetty high rate of fire.
8:10 Rovajärvi training/shooting area is 1200 square kilometers, just above the arctic circle, close to the city of Rovaniemi, the "capital" of the Finnish Lapland. The biggest live fire range in Europe.
He knows as he is professional soldier. He just wants more comments that makes more money, common trick to ask simple questions :D Nothing wrong with that, YT is a game and tactics are OK.
@@IrwinGoodman22 He has admitted he is "just" recon/light infantry and doesn't know much about armour, airplanes etc. Not to mention the Finnish geography. Does recognize NH90 nowadays though!
@@IrwinGoodman22 You don't get more money with comments. View time is how you get recommended for more people. That's why we have there overly long 10-20 minutes videos for simple questions for example that could easily be explained in less than 3 minutes. Thankfully we have this nice feature that shows the most played timeline so usually I can just skip straight to that to see the answer or result or the point of the video.
@@IrwinGoodman22 Of course you are right but he is a really cool dude and love to watch his reactions; specially when Finland mentioned ;-)
I'm not sure you're correct about it being the largest, from what I've heard the live fire range Trängslet in Älvdalen Sweden is the largest one in Europe, not that it matters.
My friend has a cabin in Ivalo which is about 500km north of Oulu and he actually sent me a video clip of a bunch of rucksacked guys and gals who were walking next to his cabin and turned out they were Swedes. Apparently also very lost. They refused sauna and beer.
Clearly swedes, then.
@@VonArmagedda lol
Refused sauna and beer?
WTF?!
Swedes, explain yourselves! Is insulting Finns your national pastime? And if so, why?
@@JoriLindroth Rip/kill a flower from the ground, look how "pretty" it is from close, then make some "dance moves" and look where you can make a picnic.
And "welcome ALL" from SOUTH (/ASIA).
What could go "wrong"?
I don't care what training it was, I'd be all in. You simply don't say no to sauna and a beer.
Apparently, Finnish artillery shooting ranges have become very popular internationally, because not in many places you are able to carry out situational battlefield exercises and not just technical shooting drills thanks to the vast size of the area dedicated solely to that purpose. That is, several units can fire at the same/different targets with missiles or barreled artillery and the infantry can conduct their own drills with small arms and mortar fire at real time.
Apparently it's one of a kind in Europe, as there is no population in there. But when serving in artillery, I was told some continental Europe artilleries take some more risk and fire drill by shooting over villages or small towns... So no place for miscalculations there...
Rovajärvi is much More than artillery shooring range
yep, as a nature lover my heart bleeds when i see all the videos turning our beautiful land into a moonlandscape and scaring the animals of the forest shitless
can we not do those excercises on the russian side?
@zoolkhan You would be lucky if you find any animals there in north except some domesticated reindeers.
@@PaladinErik But there is plenty. Wolfs, foxes, hens of the forest, hares, reindeers, moose, forest mice, owls and so on... And they all come back in a couple of days after firing is over.
Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Nordic countries: Scandinavia + Finland and Iceland; incl Åland (autonomous from Finland), Greenland and Faroe Islands (autonomous from Denmark). Åland speaks Swedish, and Faroe Islands speaks a mix of Icelandic and Norwegian.
Regarding languages and the Baltic states, Latvia and Lituania speaks an indo-european language as the scandinavians, and Estonia speaks finnish-ugric as Finland and Hungary.
Northern Forest 23 exercise was held at Rovajärvi training area, 8000 troops of which 1100 was from US, UK, Norway and Sweden. It depends on the particular area and weather but mosquitoes can be annoying and blackflys / gnats are a real nuisance.
Ah, Mosquitos or as we say Lapin Ilmavoimat very potent deterrent :)
Would be even better now that there's been a few days of rain. Nothing like some extra protein trying to suck at your potato during lunch.
Out of those 1100, Sweden sent 750 soldisets and officers.
@@Jonsson474 du kunde inte ens stava rätt
The optical thing is a hand bearing compass (aka. "bussoli") which is used to determine directions. Used by forward observers quite intensively.
That's actually really cool haha. Thanks!
Also used for directing (aiming?) mortars, if there's not enough time to do a more accurate directing procedure with more precise equipment
Don't forget the military engineers, those were one of the most important tools we used when laying mines!
It's blank and tip is softwood, it crushes on blankfiring adaptor.
Ohh yeah! I was told that before haha. Thanks
The vehicle in the water that you were a little amazed by is the Swedish Hägglund machine. It makes its way basically everywhere (It has drive on the cart too) and it floats.
Actually, I believe that one is Sisu NA-series vehicle also called Nasu. It is similar to Hägglund BV 206, but not the same.
Those Nasus is main tracked forest truck of Kainuu and Jäger brigades. Those were units doing exercises in Northern Forest 23. I also believe that BV 206 D6N (which would be other choise) don't have that type of gun mount on top of lead vehicle.
@@pikkuraami Naah he means the one at 05:01 , it's a BVS10 or BV410 as it's called in sweden
@@johanolsson8516 Well, I was talking about one seen at 2:50 since "vehicle in the water" (AMPHIBIOUS capability) was mentioned in original comment.
What you are refering to is definitely BvS10 MkIIB which swedes dubbed as Bv410. It is just that going that route ignores WHOLE CONTEXT of original comment.
@@pikkuraami The one at 2:50 is definitely a BV 206, not a Nasu. You can easily tell them apart by the inset doors on the BV, as well as the air vent behind the rear door of the front module. The Nasus also have a thick (~15 cm or ~6 in) duct between the modules, that's another easy one.
The Finnish BV 206s do indeed have a gun mount on top of the front module. I was trained to command one, primarily with a squad of jaegers, secondarily as a detached 12.7 mm NSV HMG team. I've shot a bunch of rounds out of the "tower" using a sub-caliber training device and mounted the actual gun there at least a few dozen times for training. Also almost froze my face off on multiple occasions, sitting up there during road marches.
The Nasu is heavily influenced by the the design of the Hägglunds vehicles so they look quite similar.
Yes, the rounds with the green/turquoise tips are blanks. You attach a recoil enhancer muzzle device which is basically a metal cylindre that the wooden round crashes into. Results in a not very lethal spray of shredded wood and very lethal "clean burned wood out of your barrel" maintenance session. Fun fact: in Finnish they are called "Räkäpäitä" which means Snotheads a d in Swedish (the finnish kind of swedish) they are called "Blåpittar" which means blue-cocks.
Seeing these joint trainings is one of the best things ever.
It was fun! I enjoyed the exercise
I was in the Northern Forest 23 exercise and can say from experience that it was amazing+super fun
Norway and Sweden have similar colour schemes in our camo, but the Norwegian is rounded, and the Swedish is more blocky/geometric (nicknamed "Splinter")- thus it was Norwegians you identified as Swedes in the beginning. Our Swedish pals popped up just after.
Norway has chosen its new camo by the way. All the Nordic countries will rock the exact same uniform system (including arctic gear) - but of course in our individual national camo-patterns". Norway will use a similar colour scheme, but more broken up and with more "depth" (more multicam-like).
Oops 😂 thanks!
The new uniform system looks pretty neat!
@@CombatArmsChanneland I wrote a really long comment about that, and where you could find the new Swedish uniform.....and it's gone!
It took me forever to write it in English!! Arrggghhh!!!!
😅😂
Was it taken of UA-cam , because I included a web adress do you think?
I have never done that before, so I am a bit unsure about the regulations on UA-cam?
Anyway, I like your channel, that was on the first line of my very,very,very long letter......in English!!
😅😂
We also call those shooting range silhouettes by "hippi"(hippie) or just "ryzzä" (a russian). It's strangely encouraging to hit the target LOL
2:53 I honestly expected you to say "fudge", "fun", or "fummer".
A precision f-strike if there ever was one. :) Man, I love this channel. Keep up the good work, sir.
My childhood home is a farm in Kemijärvi about 20 km east of the eastern border of the Rovajärvi training area and even there we sometimes could hear the low "booms" when the artillery was exercising. Always took me a bit by surprise. The F-18s out of Rovaniemi are also constantly flying over my home village in their patrols and exercises.
Back in late 90s in my time in the FDF I used to argue with a friend that it's worse to live in Northern Finnish forest (the Rovajärvi practise area) during wintertime. That was before I had experience of summertime and living in those same forests. My opinion changed quickly after the summertime experience. Those swarms of blackflys/gnats and mosquitos make it really unbearable for example to try and wash yourself or take a dump in the forest, they are everywhere and get into everything. It's horrible. Wintertime is a lot better, because there are no bugs and no sweat. I guess some folks (for example drivers and mechanics, who have to keep vehicles running in very cold weather, I've heard it's sometimes really difficult) disagree on this.
yeah i was there and i can tell you it was actually pretty cold especially in the nightime. it was pretty cool when we caught two 10th mountain guys when we were doing our recon mission😂 but yeah they were chill af really cool guys
That ammunition with colored bullets was blanks. Bullet is made out of wood and yellow thing on end of rifle barrel is device wich brakes that wooden bullet and creates enough pressure to rifle or machine gun to operate.
Those blue blank rounds are called "Räkäpää". Translates directly as slimeheads. Wooden bullets.
At the beginning the thing the guy is looking through is a direction finder compass. I am not sure if that is a right name for it in English, but I have no idea what is. You look through it to determine exact compass headings very accurately.
Weather-wise: now it's around 25-30 degrees Celsius in Southern Finland during the days (of course more in the sun).
About ammo: Blue tips are wooden blanks that shatter to the yellow tip attached to the assault ridle. However tip of assault rifle needs to be attached properly because if not, blank can make it fly with dangerous speed injuring your target. White tips are hard ammo with phosphorus, yellow ammo tip is full metal jacket. In Finnish special forces we sometimes used different combinations, for close combact (house penetration for example) we filed every other round in clip as dumdum. bullets (as hollow points are forbidden for Finnish military, i believe by Wienna treaty long time ago). Outside hard ammo excercise at dark winter we used every 3rd round phosporous.
The nordic and the scandinavians are really good fighters In the battlefield Sweden Finland US and UK are all well professional soldiers And I like all their tactic gear All of the gear and all of their equipment and weapons in the weapons no way they fight I like how this way it'll show they're well-trained But I love the vehicles that the Swedish and the finlands have It's so amazing to me
1st BDE, 2-22IN, Chaos Company, we got back 2 weeks ago, it was only my company in Finland from 10th MTN
1:15 that’s a sighting compass. We used them when I worked in land surveying.
And next the video "Reservin voima" (strength of the reserves) with english subtitles? 😉
1:30 Like some others already mentioned, yes, it is a type of precision compass, "käsisuuntakehä" in finnish. You use those when you need to get very accurate bearings, for directing artillery the low tech way for example. We still practice the older methods in case we run out of high tech and to better understand how everything works before moving to high tech where we just press a button and get the precise target coordinates. :P
You can measure the bearing up to about 5-10 mils (also a note, our artillery still uses the warsaw pact mils, although, I think it depends on the system, and nato mils are slowly being phased in afaik)
It motivate me a lot ❤
Our family has a cabin pretty close to this training area and also the Lapland Air Command. I fell in love with aviation watching F-18s doing dogfight exercises over it. I took my nephew to see Top Gun Maverick and few days later we went to visit the cabin and the F-18 just happened to do really low flying during our visit. He was losing his 12-year old mind :D The place is close to a very large lake and they fly over that lake a lot for some reason. Air currents or something? Anyways, we could always tell when the artillery was practicing, because our poor border-collie would go sit and lean on my mom if we happened to be outside :D Luckily she wasn't bothered when she was indoors. We couldn't hear the artillery, but she sure did.
The 2:14 is a bang cartridge with a wooden bullet as a bullet, which shatters when it leaves the barrel. When shooting it, a yellow amplifier is attached to the end of the barrel. It crushes the bullet into small shards.
It's good to see The Rifles there 👍👍
We trained on that kind of polymer ceramic training rounds for outdoor target practice here in Ireland now and again in the past as well. They were used in outdoor areas outside of the range, supposed to disintegrate on impact/safer than full metal on the whole. I forget what kind of exercise it was again, some kind of speed shooting, reaction time thing.
The first timg you paused is the fire observers compas its very accurat
Love your videos do you think you would ever do a video about the troubles in Northern Ireland ?
2nd Battalion 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team was at Northern Forest 23 according some pictures related to exercise! Internet is just a wonderful thing if you do little research :)
Depending on the summer weather, but sometimes, especially in Lapland, it can be really hot in the summer, and you should be prepared for that if you're not completely exhausted, I recommend a bug hat like that, they are really nasty little critters. ;)
2:05 I believe those are blanks with a hollow wooden "bullet". The blank firing adapter breaks it to harmless shreds.
The exercise was great, can confirm :)
Btw those green wood tipped blanks are made by Lapua, and seeing that magnificent brass sown in the woods by the thousands hurts my soul quite lot
those greenish blue tipped ammo are the wooden "blanks" aka training ammo that you shoot when you have that yellow muzzle thing on your rifle
That time of year you roll the dice with weather in northern Finland. It's from - 10 to +30°C and anything between there, snow, rain sunshine, slush... All rivers and streams are flooding and terrain is muddy, because of the frost that has just melted. In LIST we had warm and synny weather More than 20°C with occatiinal rain and chillier weather. NF was colder. Not tlo cold, but down to +6C at some nights.
I really wish i could go back in time so i could enlist again. I enlisted at 18 but found some trouble and completely effed up my opportunity at the service life.
those were wooden tips works fine on everything except mg3 man that or maybe it's the blank fire adaptor... jams after every other round and the clean up afterwards 😤
also funny how they flex driving on the "river" but then builds a bridge for way smaller crossing :D
Check out the Aurora 23 exercise in Sweden. 26.000 troops from Sweden, the US, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, Austria, Britain, Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Was nice to have our Ukrainian brothers and sisters here.
That's a GOOD combination of people/countries.
That thing the dude looks through in the beginning is a "suunnistuskehä" (suuntakehä?), and I have no idea how to translate it 😆 it's basically a compass that displays numbers as direction, 60-00 being dead-north, 15-00 would be East, 30-00 South, 45-00 West. So if you know your position, at least roughly the target's distance and the direction, you can direct fire on that location. So most likely the dude is an artillery spotter.
Kind regards, a marine spotter
Yes I was a 240Bravo Gunner/Dismount, it was Operation Arrow 23, the Patch I got from that was a very nice patch. I felt honored to be one of the first to go to Finland and work side by side with the Finnish Army in their natural habitat. The first few days of being out there in the Operation was snowing which kind of puzzled me a bit. The operation was from April 30th to May 7th, and was very difficult. Despite it being a total opposite of NTC weather wise, it was all around a great way to show off the Finnish Armies capabilities in combat and as well as learning a few things from them. The Yeager Brigade was tough though Operation Lock was wild.
Nice to have you here! Together strong!
(3:00) Behold! the power of the TEKA!
That's a cool shirt you've got there
It's not up there where you thought it was. It's a little north from the city of Rovaniemi. It's still inside the arctic circle, so nothing like New York. At this time of year, the sun doesn't set, and in the winter, it doesn't rise for several months.
It’s an MG3 on the Leo with the crazy rate of fire!
at 6:24 Machinegun on the leopard 2 tank is german made mg3. It has fire rate of 1000-1200 rpm
5:07 first recorded time anyone using the fork side
wooden tip in finland on blanks at least back in 85 when I was in
2:19 contains practice bullets and they are wooden and break into several parts and are not dangerous
3:00 is probably flexing and not being able to go around xd usually during training the guys are not allowed to destroy trees so that could be the reason they turned NASU into a submarine
tfw when no -30c. where you try not to die in cold. One can look a those, back in, with golden vision.
Those blue bulletw are dummy rounds. Blue part is wooden and brakes at end of barrel to that yellow thing called sysäri (sysäyksen vahvistin). Makes rk working like with live ammo
Not dummies, blanks with wooden bullets. Dummy on latari, ei paukkupatruuna.
finnis blanks are made of soft wood. They disintigrate through the blank adapter are quite harmless within reason. Safety glases are necessary in CQC, etc etc.
When i was in army (80s) we dont used any safety classes. One guy shooting next to me and we both shoot as hell,,, 😆 -those wooden pieces flying to my face. I am lucy i have eyes.
That blue tip isw wood based plank
I just got invitation to refreshers. In late November. Now please tell me again how it's nice not to be so hot :D I read the letter and the instant thought was, it's going to be fucking miserable with either snow and/or rain coming down the entire week.
@2:16 yep wooden tip blanks. After thise your gun is soo dirty.
it's really gonna be a slow movement through the forests in norway.. not for people but for tanks and other vehicles.. there's roads but then again those roads become deadly traps since it can be a point to get all vehicles converge into 1 line maby 2 at most. so they gotta make a choice to leave behind some stuff and go mostly with troops or take a risk and lose valuable machinery/electrical gadgets. ofc there are other ways around but it's gonna limit anyone who tries anything in norway for sure ( meaning movement is gonna be limited with machinery in large areas of norway)
It is 25°c in Finland right now and it's very annoying
Finland uses wooden tips in blanks, the blue is wood 😂
We are spoiled with Lapua ammunition, it's ridiculous how accurate you can get with an AK variant with great ammo.
that smg shirt is kinda dope :D
It sure is, I want one. I have similar t-shirt from Varusteleka, grayish and it has different weapon silhouettes.
This was awesome war excersise. I was there as an reservist, i saw some yankees also! Awesome.
Nice shirt, where can one buy those? Cause I want one.
if something includes finns -> nordics (or fennoscandia)
if something happenes without the finns -> its called "sadtimes" - or scandinavia
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Nordic countries. Scandinavia is Norway, Sweden and Denmark (Technically only Sweden and Norway as it is the peninnsula, but Denmark is included as they fit culturally and historically)
I couldn't point out what bothered nme about FDF videos about excercises after certain year and then I realized the they no longer interview participants like they used to.
Not sure if it's some sort of OPSEC thing or if there's so much stuff that there's no moment or something.
Do 104 RMO
6:23 yeah what is that MG? Nice rate of fire, but pretty nasty recoil.
MG-3, basically the same as MG-42. I think MG-3 entered production in the 50's and has been used from ~1960 to this day.
1:27 it's just a compass :)
Kind of. Artillery spotters get the bearings from it.
Nordic countries indeed 👍Scandinavia is the scandinavian peninsula that Finland is not specifically part of (apart of northern parts)
It was 1 BCT 3/71 that got to go
That swedish tanker lady. And imagine if you are bleeding out in the back of TEKA and driver drive it to the swamps ans the bois had to get the chainsaw
blue bullets are woden blank rounds
Do you find it odd they have same blue tape as these dude training?
Check out c company haka bro, closest youll get ww haka !
@3:40 : those are norwegians =)
Bjuiful💪🇫🇮🇫🇮
at 3.32. norwegian*****
I dont know if someone allready sayed but they are blanks wooden tip
Nordic includes Finland and Iceland, Scandinavian is just Sweden, Denmark and Norway
Blue tips are blanks.
yes those are blanks, wooden tip..
Bad ass shirt, mate! I mean those colors are amazing. Yeah, we all love guns too and recognize them all, but darn, I'm loving it.
I know it is propaganda, but truth is still, you really don't want to invade this land. It might be pretty much not much, but it's ours. (Only one neighbor needs to understand this and they do.)
Those are wooden point practice planks
Oh wow ... oh wow.. when usa citizen see daily baises.
at 3:33 i am offended you called Norwegian Soldiers swedish :|
it is wood
Doesn't know the difference between Nordic and Scandinavian.
The wave of Finns coming to correct him:
finns nordic, swedes, nordish and others are scandinavian prööt im dfrunk
@@MrBanaanipommi Pauer of Ralli-Englanti kompels thii.
I mean its okay 😄
But if anyone is wondering Scandinavia name comes from the Scandinavian mountain range and people there descent from Norse people. For example Norwegian, Swedish and Danish languages are all mutually intelligible. They have even talk shows where everyone speaks their respective national languages and so on.
Finland was part of Swedish Kingdom for hundreds of years and it has obviously influenced a lot of things, but fundamentally we are still talking about two rather distinct groups of people. Norway, Sweden and Denmark are like brothers whereas Finland is more like a retarded cousin or at least an adopted child.
@@vaenii5056 actually it comes from skåne/scandia, the mountain range is named after it too. when talking Swedish with anyone from skåne is a bit hard :D
@@vaenii5056 "Finland is more like a retarded cousin or at least an adopted child" I'd say Finland is more like the cousin that got into taking psychedelics too much and is kinda just off, but he's still cool
Why were denmark not part of this 😂..
Sorry, we don't understand you.. 😋
@@mhyotyni come on .. Danish are ready to show Oure gear
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Ждём видео с Украины. Интересна твоя реакция в них.
@@BANDlT мне не нужен твой воздух
@@BANDlT я написал про воздух, потому что мне не нужны советы, а значит твой комментарий, выражаясь твоими словами: "просто воздух".
@@mervorgames2135grow up
A few more coming up!
Female soldier at the 3:40 mark?
There's many
What rock did you hide under all these years?
I WILL get my hands on an airsoft AK5C!!! TOO damn cool
Jo
*Scandinavian
WDYM?