British Army specialists join German troops on exercise
Specialist troops from the British Army have taken part in the German military's main annual air logistics exercise.
Personnel from the Royal Logistics Corps' 13 Air Assault Support Regiment travelled to Celle, Germany, to train with their German counterparts, the 8th Airborne Logistics Company.
The Colchester-based 13 Air Assault Support Regiment sustains the elite troops of the 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, while 8th Airborne Logistics Company supports the German 31st Paratrooper Regiment.
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Two of the best! 🇬🇧🇩🇪 so glad to have them as allies 🇺🇸
@Crom_smite_you
Жыл бұрын
Seriously? What a stupid uneducated comment. Look ladies and gentlemen an armchair general!
@sovkhan4359
Жыл бұрын
@@hornpiper421 then you know nothing about the British army 🤣🤣 probably your first time looking at the British military 💀💀
@richardgallagher4880
Жыл бұрын
@VIPICCB8 Germany has just taken Belfast and Kiev. What you talking bout Willis?
@richardgallagher4880
Жыл бұрын
@@sovkhan4359 He's right you know🤷♂️
@bjolie78
Жыл бұрын
doesn't convince me
Very capable nations. Proud to have these guys on my side 🇸🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧
@Escaltan
Жыл бұрын
woefully underfunded both
@BingoPaletot
Жыл бұрын
@@Escaltan Now that's gonna change for sure.
@ht-ve9fe
Жыл бұрын
@@BingoPaletotso they say
@thummalajaideep4371
Жыл бұрын
Why Germany is supporting British and British one of reason to destroy Germany
@JordanWallace-nb4id
Жыл бұрын
@@BingoPaletot HOW? with what funds? with what Army? its good saying this, but where is it??
The Brits are back 😁❤ Europe have to work together! That´s quite important now! Greetings from Germany ❤
Love to Deutschland from Britannia! 🇬🇧❤️🇩🇪💪⚔️ we are twins and brothers forever.
@BingoPaletot
Жыл бұрын
I'm about to sing Jerusalem out loud. Mate, we love you.
@PpunktP
Жыл бұрын
So schauts aus - greetings from Germany
@Pointi69
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. Greetings to our Britannian friends . Nice to have such friends 🤗
@bigN-422
Жыл бұрын
Love you back 🇩🇪❤🇬🇧
@berndbenninghoff9101
Жыл бұрын
Thanks back👍
As a German I am proud to have the British on our site. To work with them, collaborate with them, learn from them. What a strong and powerful partnership!
@tracyhardy1310
Жыл бұрын
Friends forever! 🏴❤️🇩🇪
WE LOVE OUR ALLIES FROM DEAR JAPAN 🇯🇵 💖💯💞🙏👏
@TomGB-81
Жыл бұрын
Love you too Japs. FYI that's only offensive to some Americans. Brits have never been offensive to the Japanese so... hey Japs! ;) eye... love ya, lads.
@tracyhardy1310
Жыл бұрын
Love u japan 🇯🇵❤️🏴
The UK and Germany should have never fought in the two World Wars. Both nations have more in common than more that separates. The blood of the saxons and of the scandinavians as well as evident celtic heritage is present in both cases. We all know now that the real enemy was elsewhere. Huge respect to both nations from your humble NATO partner - Bulgaria
@Pointi69
Жыл бұрын
We cannot change the past. History only shows things not working or outdated .Let s try to be better in future.
Totally agree, this should become a norm between our two countries. I’ve worked and lived in Germany and we do share so many similarities. Let’s build on all our commonalities and forge the future. 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧🇬🇧
@richardgallagher4880
Жыл бұрын
With the n zzis? Grow up.
@richardgallagher4880
Жыл бұрын
The future is the total destruction of Germany.
@MrPhoenixWT
Жыл бұрын
Agreed! We should join each other and share each others cultures and could also one day join together sharing our land with each other creating a formidable alliance.
@BladeRunnerC
Жыл бұрын
@@richardgallagher4880 Really?? Please explain your concern??
@RealMash
Жыл бұрын
@@richardgallagher4880 Bring it on and see how you fare? Waiting...
Ea makes me proud to work with such a team To be together and to work by our side Forever Connected 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇩🇪🇩🇪🇪🇺
Brilliant it’s always good to see & hear we are working with our German Brothers & sisters in these uncertain times. Hopefully we can depend on each other in a time of need.
@BingoPaletot
Жыл бұрын
We have nothing but respect for the British. I think Challenger is the better tank. Not knocking the Leo but Challies were never lost to enemy action. If it's not the machine though, it must be you. Or the built-in tea kettle.
@VinnyUnion
Жыл бұрын
""""jN tHesE uNcerTain. TiMesS"" Preppp... Preparation, blerghh. Four eventual timE of NeeD, mimimi. What a generic comment. Holy macroni
@RealMash
Жыл бұрын
@@BingoPaletot True! In cold Ukraine a hot Brew is a godsend. Although I would prefer a cup of coffee, but hot beverage is hot beverage at this temperatures ;-)
@cagliari5984
Жыл бұрын
@@VinnyUnion vinny with the most generic soy pfp out there 😂
British Soldiers with the German G36 this looks great. God bless our British Friends
It's nice to see these two great countries working well together despite the Brexit and all. Long live the UK and Germany. Despite all the difficulties, I think we are good friends. Greetings from Germany.
@jimmyhillschin9987
Жыл бұрын
Brexit was a departure from the European Union, not from NATO and not from European solidarity. Given the hostility from Germany and France in particular, it's remarkable that Britain has maintained its commitment as it has - maybe naively.
@Tosse901
Жыл бұрын
@@jimmyhillschin9987 of course from European solidarity though. That`s basically what Brexit was about. And what hostility from germany exactly?
@TomGB-81
Жыл бұрын
@@Tosse901 When Angela Merkel's German government tried to force any EU country to pay a financial fine if they didn't accept a certain amount of refugees, pre 2016. If not for that one German EU-wide announcement then I'm 100% certain the UK Brexit vote would've lost. Afterall, leaving the EU was certainly not any indication of a withdrawal from NATO.
@Charles2k
Жыл бұрын
@@Tosse901 Germany, prime enemy of two world wars and responsible for opening the flood gates of mass migration across Europe. Go figure.
Great stuff guys, I work for a German Company and we have so many similarities (even dry humor believe it or not). It's just a shame we have distanced ourselves through Brexit and are now trying to forge closer ties again with Europe. Leaving the EU was a disaster.
@pentran100
Жыл бұрын
You`ll never Walk Aline. Brothers in Arms!❤🇬🇧
@vinycrimbo8692
Жыл бұрын
Andrew Collier. That's right. We could be in the EU army and NATO at the same time!!!!
@PpunktP
Жыл бұрын
We don't need contracts when things get serious - greetings from Germany
@marakujer7269
Жыл бұрын
i was quite disappointed about Brexit, even took a plane to London to take part in people s vote march in march 2019. Now i am more mild toward britain, especially after Charles III came here recently for a visit
@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage
Жыл бұрын
Perhaps coming generations have other opinions regarding separation.
Slovenia is with Germany and UK.... 🇸🇮🇩🇪🇬🇧
There are no two more capable and efficient fighting forces than the British and Germans. Its incredible to see them work together.
@vinycrimbo8692
Жыл бұрын
I would add the Russian army to that.
@B38462
Жыл бұрын
@@vinycrimbo8692 how? Have you seen the casualties rates? They are all conscripts given ww2 rifles and reportedly air rifles some times
@mikemurley8656
Жыл бұрын
The current Bundeswehr is a mere shadow of the robust and capable Bundeswehr of the 1980s. Germany went from 85 tank battalions to 11. Overall from near 500K troops to 175K. Poland has more Leopard 2 tanks than Germany - and a significant number of Germany's are inoperable or mothballed. The British Army is likewise a shadow. Of course, the Russian Army if not even close to the monster the Red Army was prior to the collapse of the USSR. The mobilization system, the category B and C divisions - all the infrastructure that was designed to produce echelon after echelon of fresh Red divisions to grind NATO down - was too expensive to maintain. Russia tried to professionalize and modernize a smaller army, but the corruption made sure than few kopecks of the rubles allocated made it.
@vinycrimbo8692
Жыл бұрын
Beat. Stop listening to main stream media. The Russian army is quite capable, and will emerge victorious in Ukraine.
@fergie123able
Жыл бұрын
@@vinycrimbo8692 LOL
after two horrific wars against each other, eventually fighting alongside our british brothers. Grüße aus dem Norden Deutschlands!
@hsdsaunders
Жыл бұрын
We were bound to be military allies once Germany got over their understandable reluctance to re-armour. Germanic brothers
@Andavel111
Жыл бұрын
Glad to have you Germans with us 😎
Isnt it wonderful how the relations between the two have improved so much since ww2? All the terrors of two wars, and now we are such close allies! I just love that.🇬🇧❤🇩🇪
Friends now, friends tomorrow, friends always.
British German cooperation is back - I hope for more. We are united in heart. ♥ 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
@ulikaplani1039
Жыл бұрын
But both Kolonie of the USA..!😁😁
@Pointi69
Жыл бұрын
It s ok we like USA. So no problem for us.
@ulikaplani1039
Жыл бұрын
@@Pointi69 🤣🤣🙈🙈Stockholmer Syndrom..! You like Usa..,we not..!
@TomGB-81
Жыл бұрын
@@ulikaplani1039 How are you as a German(?), a captive of the US? do you not have a democratically elected government? - compared to a mafia government like Russia?
@daleschattauer94
Жыл бұрын
@@ulikaplani1039 you haven‘t beeing in the Service. I was proud to serve with british,US,french and dutch armys together. And we all had a damned good understanding like brothers in arms 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷🇳🇱🇩🇪I‘m a german american and I served in the bundeswehr von 1968 to 1980.With our nato partners pretty close. You are living in the past.
Es ist schön die Briten auf unserer Seite zu haben. War 1984 im Lufttransportgeschwader 61. Greetings from Namibia to England and Germany
Very nice. Greetings from Germany.
I love Germany are Saxon Brothers forever? 🏴 🇩🇪 WW1 and 2 never should of happened
@ndie8075
Жыл бұрын
Yes we are one tribe....greetings from Westfalia home of old germanic saxons..
@joshuagreenslade3445
Жыл бұрын
@@ndie8075 🏴 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 💪
@m3ntal_c0re
11 ай бұрын
its almost 100 years people back then really had sticks up their butts 😅 people nowadays have a lot different problems less disciplined maybe but certainly not as stiff and hateful.
Putin brings together what belongs together. This guy really thought that we European brothers don't stick together when he messes up. Now he's going to learn the hard way. I am proud of our cooperation in Europe. We all stand together! Warm greetings from Germany to our loved European family!!
@TomGB-81
Жыл бұрын
As a 40y/o Brexiteer, since Pootin invaded Ukraine... I 100% agree with you, it makes me wish we could re-join the EU now just to show absolute unity against a mafia/dictator. I used to have respect for him but, not anymore.
This is good,we need to do alot more with our German brothers!
@sp7873
Жыл бұрын
and vice versa :) greetings from Munich!
@burky91
Жыл бұрын
Cheers Lad .. Greetings from West-Germany
@smoker9275
Жыл бұрын
and with our Russian brothers ❤
@Marlon26036
Жыл бұрын
@@smoker9275 no…
@xI-V4UL7_80Y-Ix
Жыл бұрын
@@smoker9275 🤣
Brothers in Arms!
This is nice. It should have always been like that, but it's never too late! Greetings from Spain.
“Surprised on how closely they did the same drills”, well it’s easy most lessons on infantry drills were from the WW2 German play book and just evolved. A mate who was ex RE was interested in the WW2 assault pioneer , when comparing drills and field manuals from the Germans he was finding it was the same drills and procedures as the stuff he had learnt in his phase two training and when he asked about it he was told “where do you think we learned about it, we took what was successful tactics and made it our own.”
Great work brothers in arms 👏.
I have lived in GB for 12 years. Awesome time. I really miss you lot. 🇩🇪❤🇬🇧
Love the british on our side 🤟
@hartmutwrith3134
Жыл бұрын
not the first time. Look at Waterloo. Before that the seven year war against France.
@TomGB-81
Жыл бұрын
@@hartmutwrith3134 and yet now we all fight on the same side, ultimately for democracy.
@tracyhardy1310
Жыл бұрын
@@TomGB-81 same with Germany!
it was the biggest mistake that GB and G fought against each other. My beloved mother GB my father G
@nomad1980
Жыл бұрын
The whole war was BS. Blood spilled senselessly by European brothers and sisters.
@TomGB-81
Жыл бұрын
If Churchill could see what the UK looks like now, then absolute utter certainty he would've been begging and licking Htlers toes at the start of WW2. All these Indian/Pakistani/black people who disliked Churchill for his racist views of them... yet if not for him they would now be extinct.
I remember being on attachment to 16RSIGS in Rheindahlen in the 1990s. Good to see the continuing cooperation between UKLF and Germany.
I will never forget the good times in the 80s. Minden, Herford and Bielefeld!!! 🎉
@ndie8075
Жыл бұрын
Very welcome brother
@marakujer7269
Жыл бұрын
Bielefeld hier👋
@SOCIAL_MEDIA_CREEPS
Жыл бұрын
@@marakujer7269 Guten Morgen 🤗 Viele Grüße aus Minden!
@marakujer7269
Жыл бұрын
@@SOCIAL_MEDIA_CREEPS Danke, Grüße zurück
@sparrenburger2804
Жыл бұрын
Bielefeld - here! 👋 Grüße aus Bi! 🤙 Greetings from Bielefeld ❗ 🇪🇺🇺🇲🇬🇧🇺🇦
Our army 🇬🇧 still the best in the world , And with our allies🇩🇪 were unstoppable
@ulikaplani1039
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the best in the World? You and Germany are the Sklavs of the Usa..! Dont know this Fakt?😁😁🙈🙈
Good to see.❤️🙏🇺🇸
Two GREAT Nations! I am very proud of this Guy's ❤Well done 💪👌
Übt mal ruhig mit den Briten, das sind die professionellsten Soldaten der Welt. Ich hatte Ende der 80er mal mit denen zu tun. Die waren echt gut.
🇩🇪 ❤🇬🇧
Those Weasel mini tanks are mental! I guess there’s nothing better than superior firepower and speed!
@dieterdodel835
Жыл бұрын
They are not tanks as they were mentioned in the clip. They are "weapon carriers".
Celle was a huge UK Army base until recently!
@peterwait641
Жыл бұрын
Cameron's folly pulling out of Germany !
Allways enjoy when we‘re working together with our brothers from the RAF Regt.
Based on my experience, most of the Germans speak passable English, with a few speaking near perfect English. The British on the other hand, might have two officers who studied German in university attached to the exercise.
@MusicalMemeology
Жыл бұрын
Most of Europe uses English to speak to each other though so it’s normal.
@fluffyusa
Жыл бұрын
@@MusicalMemeology not just Europe but the whole world speaks understands English.
@TomGB-81
Жыл бұрын
English is surely far easier to learn than German though? I'm English, I mean just look at the Welsh words... honestly, I'd far rather learn German any day of the week omg.. Thanks Germany for losing WW2.
Better with Britain! Never without it! Best wishes and greetings to our allies from Germany.😊
European armies may fall short, but when we're united we become formidable 🇬🇧🇩🇪
@ryanschrimpf8163
Жыл бұрын
European armies never fall short, my friend.
@brad5426
Жыл бұрын
@@ryanschrimpf8163 Sadly in numbers we have. Training-wise we're still some of the best.
@richardgallagher4880
Жыл бұрын
@@brad5426 When united we become n ssi Germany.
@onepiecetheory3686
Жыл бұрын
for once we are united under one banner we wont be stopped the only thing in our way is the big red button
@davebrown9707
Жыл бұрын
Thats the point china and america are as big as Europe
great team!!
Both Proffesional
British military meets German military = world class army. Definitely the best in Europe 🇬🇧🇩🇪 I think the British army will be training will a lot of other countries in NATO too, these type of training exercises are very important for NATO member States so the armed forces of each member are familar with each others different equipment, weapons, operational and logistical tactics. If we ever have to face a common enemy like Russia or China, we will be prepared and ready to deploy together. The wireless scale linked to computers for weighing heavy equipment and inventory being transported is pretty neat. it shows how German engineering leads the world, I bet the British military will be keen to buy some of that tech. Both armies working together provide a formidable fighting force with combined tactical and logistical capability.
As a guy from Dortmund with a season ticket, I am used to Brits who come over as football tourists =D. Most of them are awesome!
Saxons meeting Anglosaxons.....😊 real allies very similar.....
I love the Germans and how they bend metal, their top tier 👌 Yes, they are patriotic but with heavy hearts. I still respect German people and German engineering. Two of the elites combined, no doubt. It's great to see.
@Pointi69
Жыл бұрын
We try as good as we can . Still alot to learn though.🤗
imo GBDE the best combination 💪💪 | Brothers forever
Respect Fallschirmjager 🤩👌🏼
Good video. Thank you.
1:31 - How is this not already used in the UK? It has been used in F1 for years now...
Europe has potential to become a military powerhouse. But we need to stand together, work together, implement combined forces. And defend each other like we are one. And Europe is our border. Only then Europe can rise. Love to UK from Germany.
Brexit can not seperat brothers in arms and ancestry
Great stuff 👏 👍
These joint exercises are helpful to improve considerably together. Discovering similarities, seeing differents can only improve on both sides. All hope is we will not have to fight together, n' even more so never fight each other again.
It's a beautiful thing
British and German have more in common, both armies have been deliberately badly underfunded for years by their incompetent governments and are now having to tighten their belts pretty hard while confronting a growing threat from the east.
Considering that we both use the Eurofighter /Typhoon, it only makes sense to train together in terms of air force...
Great Job 👍.
Maybe if we ask nicely, we can borrow a few Wiesels and use them as scout vehicles rather than continually flogging a dead horse which they are with Ajax.
@colincocks1335
Жыл бұрын
And er so what
Mad to think Tomas cruise legit hung on to the side door of that atlas while it took off 😅😅😅😅
God bless all Soldiers ...❤❤
Anglo Saxons
Very nice 🇬🇧🇩🇪👍 you are very welcome brits!
Less than 80 years ago mortal enemies and now allies.
Europe must reinforce military cooperation at the Highest Level.Not only for the obvious reason of russia.Also because if Trump wins in 2024 he will pullout America from Nato and we will must be ready to defende ourselves all alone.
@SOCIAL_MEDIA_CREEPS
Жыл бұрын
👍
@duchovicius5520
Жыл бұрын
Germany will never stand against Russia again. They already proved it. Those fuckers made gas pipe business behind Europe's back. Can't be trusted.
@Pointi69
Жыл бұрын
Absolutly
@TomGB-81
Жыл бұрын
Trump wouldn't pull out of NATO. If ever Europe falls then the US falls, its a blatant obvious fact. The US could never afford to lose the UK if it ever wants to hold guaranteed political power in Europe.
@Exodon2020
Жыл бұрын
@@TomGB-81 You are assuming Trump would make rational decisions but his first term should have proven quite the opposite. He coddled every authoritarian ruler under the sun, belittled and besmirched his allies and strategic partners at every opportunity. He was caught on Camera saying he trusted Putin's word more than his own intel provided by people sworn to him and his country. It's actually confirmed now that Trump was supposed to pull the US from NATO by the end of 2021. This way, Europe would have been helpless and exposed to Russian Aggression just at the onset of the War in Ukraine. Russian strategists projected they would have been able to take Ukraine, Moldova, the Baltics and Poland in one swift blow, possibly collapsing the EU and whatever remained of NATO. Thing about NATO is, the US built this alliance around its own armed forces. With US Command structures removed, the Rest of the Alliance would have a harder time to Coordinate. Of course, the armed forces of Europe have quite a lot of interoperability - but these capablities are also tied into NATO.
Does anyone else think that the lads are too closely packed when they disembark the chopper? One well placed or lucky mortar or grenade and the squad is gone?
@peterwait641
Жыл бұрын
Slow to exit and too bunched up for all round defence.
@garagenigel
Жыл бұрын
It's dry training inside a hangar and for the video! I don't know what else you expect!
@peterwait641
Жыл бұрын
@@garagenigel bruises, beasting followed by redoing the drill till they get it right !
@craigray6090
Жыл бұрын
Nigel. I believe they were showing how they operate when they disembark the chopper. (I have seen this manoeuvre shown before, they intentionally touch legs for some reason cannot remember why). And while I appreciate it may be for the cameras. It would still have been an accurate attempt at an example. Having said that, my point is they are too close together to avoide a seriously bad start to any operation should they come under fire, before they have even got going. And what about the other side of the landing site? How do they know there aren’t enemy troops there?
@peterwait641
Жыл бұрын
@@craigray6090 Looks like they were ambling out a van after a shopping trip, all round should cover 360 arc , guess touching legs would be required if the landing kicks up loads of dust removing visibility so you don't shoot you own troops.
Wireless Weighing Scales, good until there's no signal.
@runi5413
Жыл бұрын
They have LCD displays on them, so in the absence of a wifi network they can still use them the old-fashioned way
@paullangton-rogers2390
Жыл бұрын
@@runi5413 The German's aren't dumb they have thought of everything 👍 German engineering is world class.
Ooof imagine the banter :D
Didnt even know we have a Runway in Celle...
The Luftwaffe 👍
nice 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇩🇪♥️
I am very glad to see and hear that here. Carry on! That is the right way.....even if you drive on the left side. ;-)
Hang on we don’t have wireless scales - that’s pretty traditional stuff now
In Forces News We Trust
1:23 - 1:25 the soldiers in the back don't look like the british, lejyoner ?
2:04 Nice pronunciation of H&K
Cool
Willkommen Guys!
were on an exercise with the bundeswehr in january. nice guys. it was basically us hunting them. in a game of cat and mouse. some of them were bitchy about us being in cars and hunting them around.
Is this related to King Charles III. recent visit in Germany?
@jimmysavile69
Жыл бұрын
They are seperate
@douglastodd1947
Жыл бұрын
it's to cement the FInal agreement tieing UK Army into EU ARMY.
Mini me vehicles. Lol. Love the weighing scales. Good idea
@scratchy996
Жыл бұрын
Those mini vehicles are a great asset for the paratroopers, they are so small, they can drive through dense forests, surprise an enemy force , hit them hard, then retreat without a chance to be followed.
@BingoPaletot
Жыл бұрын
Just goes to show that we do have a sense of humour after all 😉 Cheers from Germany!
FREE SCOTLAND, FREE BAVARIA!!!
Aliance school
Great news finally
Dangerous combo!
A brilliant a pr video, and soldiers who are flapping about in the wind with a pistol 👌🏻🤘🏻 brilliant work 🤦🏻♂️
Good old Seedorf
Capt or no Capt my old RSM (god) would have ripped him a new one re berry badge :)
@garagenigel
Жыл бұрын
In the good old days was it?
@Mk1Male
Жыл бұрын
Things have moved on mate. Uniforms at parade, yes, but regimental berets should be worn with pride however you wear them.
@patshiels5429
Жыл бұрын
@@Mk1Male you think mine wasn’t do you ?
@patshiels5429
Жыл бұрын
@@garagenigel yep the good old days built on tradition and sacrifice are those the days you talking about?
@Mk1Male
Жыл бұрын
@@patshiels5429 So because they wear them like they do, they aren't wearing them with pride? Does wearing a beret to reg spec make you a better or prouder soldier? No, it doesn't. So leave off with how your draconian RSM would have ripped him a new one.
Glück ab!
I'm a civilian. Most folk there looked like T.A. soldiers, asking each other, "Am I doing this right?" Don't jump down my throat with their immediate defence, watch again. As usual, thanks for the upload.
Getting ready for whats to come!!!!
@JordanWallace-nb4id
Жыл бұрын
to be smashed by the King of the East
Yeah, I think it's kind of wild 80 years ago, WW2 fighting each other and millions killed on both sides of these 2 countries. Today friends like nothing ever happened. Just hard to comprehend and wrap your head around.
BRITISH🥳💯
he British are a bit strange, but I like them anyway, especially their humor Details ansehen
@dieterdodel835
Жыл бұрын
I love Monty Python and Benny Hill.
Bravo 🇪🇺
It's such a nice change to watch videos like this one where nothing is "controversial". There's no conflict of opinions or protesting. The NATO alliance is unassailable and has only grown in size. Compare that to the Warsaw Pact which was dissolved 32 yrs ago.