NATO forces : dumping tea to the ground British forces : switch to live ammunition

@alanandconnielast

8 ай бұрын

No French to help you now ;P

@MutheiM_Marz

8 ай бұрын

@@alanandconnielast British Army : Drive over a Baguette. French Army : Resurrect Napoleon "It's time for the Eighth Coalition War"

@suckyourdeadnan4805

8 ай бұрын

@@MutheiM_Marzjust too prolly lose again britain always win in the end 💀

@paulmcphillips7540

8 ай бұрын

Jokes aside, how do they know who wins the firefight? Especially when heavier weapons like artillery is used. Is it essentially a big game of lazer tag?

@qhawker98

8 ай бұрын

​@@paulmcphillips7540basically yes. It's Lazer tag with blanks. Each weapon system has a Laser pointer that only emits when firing. Both vehicles and personnel a sensor type thing that that will detect when hit. For vehicles that are hit or taken out the battle the begin flashing ( basically that vehicle is destroyed and will no longer operate unless brought back into the battle to simulate reinforcements ). For personnel they will have sensors covering the helmet and torso over their gear. And if hit the system tell them where and how bad to simulate a casualty ( you could be a casualty but still fight or badly wounded and taken out of the fight until medic have sorted you or pulled you from the battle ) if you are hit really bad the system will just take you out the fight entirely saying your dead. I did 8 years with the British army and managed to use this kit. Believe it's called TES ( tactical engagement simulation) it's quite good to get a real feel for a semi real life battle but very complicated to set up and use. Plus quite heavy on top of everything else you wear. So if you got killed in the war games you just sat down and chilled while watching your mates getting hammered 🤣

For those consoling the Brits for "losing" or crowing about the NATO win: the exercise was a great success as the object was to have the multinational NATO force work together and succeed in defending against a well trained and coherent single nation attack. If the outnumbered British had won then NATO would have a real problem to address. Most commenters have completely missed the point.

@foxxy46213

6 ай бұрын

Definitely it would be pretty odd for a small but we'll trained force to beat a whole nato taskforce. But they definitely made them work for it

Respect to the British soldiers I was lucky to have worked alongside them in my military career. They are some of the most incredible soldiers and Im sure we can all agree we are thankful they are on our side rather than against us, Love from the USA.

@tommyatkins2527

8 ай бұрын

back at you ex british army reservist i have known some national guardsmen of us army

@alastairwallace6153

8 ай бұрын

We are lucky to have each other, please vote against putins friend in the usa though 😉❤ rhymes with rump.

@raven-wf9so

8 ай бұрын

✌️🇬🇧🇺🇸💯

@BraLin99

8 ай бұрын

Man I love you

@kidneystones8449

8 ай бұрын

Ww2 made us friends to the bitter end.

The love for the brits in these comments is really uplifting 🥺🇬🇧

@corvanphoenix

8 ай бұрын

What did you expect? You guys have been batting for Ukraine since day 1. That buys you a lot of street cred in NATO these days.

@dwsg1990

8 ай бұрын

@@corvanphoenix media would rather have us think we are a bunch of scum and no use, as much as I know mainstream media is dumb entertainment these days when it's all you hear it's starts to grind a bit. So thank you for this ✌️👍

@caiwilloughby868

8 ай бұрын

Yh usually all I hear about us is that we are worthless country now that is unreliable, so it is nice to hear people actually be nice to us

@SamFBM

8 ай бұрын

@@dwsg1990 we am dont forget it lol

@bobdillan9400

8 ай бұрын

Don’t call us brits call us British it’s an insult

We all don’t need to be told the Brits have incredible army, they’ve proven that for centuries, love from USA 🇺🇸

@Alfie-ei3sg

8 ай бұрын

Love from Windsor🇬🇧❤

@dumptrump2294

8 ай бұрын

Thank You USA. ❤Love from accross the pond to America,... ( excepting the Trumpturds )

@omlette0

8 ай бұрын

Proud to have served along side the USAF in the UK in my youth. Brothers and Sisters in Arms. God bless America 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸

@tommyatkins2527

8 ай бұрын

trans atlantic cousins

@drewwilliams6888

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the praise, but what lets down the British Army, are useless, cost cutting British politicians.

Respect to our British Brothers in Arms🇬🇧 from Polish Army🇵🇱 corporal in Reserve. NATO # Stronger Together!🤝🏻💪🏻😎

@adzaladd2387

8 ай бұрын

Allies through thick and thin. We’re with you Poland 👏

@UltimatelyEverything

7 ай бұрын

We have your back no matter what

God bless our british comrades and cousins...🇬🇧🇩🇪

@MrPhoenixWT

8 ай бұрын

Danke! 🇬🇧❤️🇩🇪 love to deustchland, we are forever powerful.

@Dave-hu5hr

8 ай бұрын

Always liked Germany. Must be a Saxon thing.. 🇩🇪🇬🇧

@Sneppydeppy

8 ай бұрын

Love Germany 🇩🇪🇬🇧

@ndie8075

8 ай бұрын

@@Dave-hu5hr Yes we are the same tribe.....🤗

@RonSill1986

8 ай бұрын

​@Dave-hu5hr it definitely is!

As a Latvian, im soo happy to see Nato train here, make it feel a lot saver and knowing that we are protected and the alliance stays true to there moto

The Brits were heavily outnumbered, a sigh of relief they lost….if they were able to beat a combined NATO battle group that was superior in numbers…..we would be in bad shape….taking nothing away from the Brits….everyone knows how good they are.

@jkhsdjkhfjkhh3

8 ай бұрын

I thought the British weren't really a tier 1 force anymore?

@Jordon168

8 ай бұрын

@@jkhsdjkhfjkhh3 That what a us general said. What the us general was implying is that the uks military capabilities and readiness is not among the top tier powers in the world. You can’t argue with what he said because he’s right uk aren’t fit to fight a war nor are they ready to fight a war with Russia. There has been a decline in the uks military capabilities or readiness to the point where it no longer ranks among the top tier military forces globally.

@dumptrump2294

8 ай бұрын

​@@jkhsdjkhfjkhh3 well, you thought wrong.

@Surv1ve_Thrive

8 ай бұрын

We need to be ready to stick it out long term potentially.

@flavio7180

8 ай бұрын

​@@jkhsdjkhfjkhh3They suck when compared to the US, but so do pretty much all countries. They are still among the best trained and most powerful NATO members after the US, along with France. Italy also has a good navy and a decent military, but it's not enough. Turkey and Poland seem to be increasing their own military funding, so we'll see how strong they will become (especially since Turkey has some decent amount of experience as well due to their wars against the Kurds and their invasions of Syria, which they did without NATO).

The strength of the British military is their tactics and innovation. During WW2 the British invented the radar, which was invaluable in detecting German bombers locations. I hope even with all the idiotic cuts by the UK government, that they continue this tradition of fighting smarter, not necessarily harder.

@davequin7051

8 ай бұрын

No whit people left so no it won't

@wardygrub

8 ай бұрын

Cool! My Grandad worked on the radars in the seas around Gibraltar. Keeping their eyes on “Jerry” as he used to say!

@waylingtons

8 ай бұрын

@@davequin7051brain dead sap.

@davequin7051

8 ай бұрын

@@JamesCasey-mv9qp what have any of them races invented? It was majority British people stop being silly

@joshvines1765

8 ай бұрын

@@JamesCasey-mv9qp of course it includes them you twit, are they or not at the time in the British empire. What you just said is like saying Rome didnt do it alone what about the legions from north Africa or the Samnites earlier than that.

Very impressive....the British Army whilst outnumbered excecelled, well done.... Roger... Pembrokeshire UK

@WhyteBritish13

8 ай бұрын

They aren’t even fighting the war yet, they will get murked if they fought Russia and obviously need help from America and the rest of Europe.

as a brit, I'm proud of the response of the British armed forces, And I'm happy that we know that NATO can reliably work against attackers. Russia has no chance

@Scarlettvoid

8 ай бұрын

Does it make it right that ukraine was used as a pawn for nato to inch closer towards russian boarders?

@generalzucc462

8 ай бұрын

imagine supporting NATO

@slashingbison2503

8 ай бұрын

Also what use is an army against a nuke.. this is why we haven't had a major conflict!

@NeoECCHI

8 ай бұрын

@@Scarlettvoid yep spreading society one nation at a time

@user-kh8cc4bx7y

8 ай бұрын

Im just unhappy on our goverment as were so much weaker than what we could be if our goverment actually put some more effort to defend our island at the very least

I bet the Poms didn't go down easy! Good on them for having a solid crack at it. Good on NATO for putting the work in!

i'm from the Uk but living in estonia for a study placement - Narva specifically, first other brits i saw aside from uni friends were soldiers. They're everywhere 😁. The Estonian soldiers also patrol the city streets, it was something to get used to

To be a realistic exercise, how many vodkas get issued to each British soldier?

@Jack-lk7wk

8 ай бұрын

Not to mention equipment failures

@biddyboy1570

8 ай бұрын

The objective was stealing toilets. This time they failed but team Redski will be back....

@KCBRYAN_1525

8 ай бұрын

Well it was unfair because they were wearing socks 🧦 and most should of gone straight to jail for calling it a war.totally unrealistic I thought 😂

@brendanharvey3583

8 ай бұрын

​@@Jack-lk7wknah

@dozi3r

8 ай бұрын

​@@KCBRYAN_1525SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION

Rule Britannia....🇩🇪🇬🇧👍

Britain before excercise : Blue dialog Britain During excercise : RED Dialog

Keep these videos coming. It's great to see how our armed forces are being used and tax money is being spent. Alot of people think they don't really do much in peacetime. This couldn't be further from the truth as this video shows. Always training, trying out new tactics, getting stuck into exercises like this to gain the edge. As much as I wanted the British to win this exercise, its not really the point. It just shows Nato is capable of taking down a strong adversary. So quite reassuring actually.

"The royal lancer's motto is 'Death or Glory' and I'm afraid up against the tank, they went with death, with a bit of glory thrown in." That sounded cool af ngl. Fantastic work from all involved, and looking brilliant that NATO is so on-point in today's world.

I think many countries including my own seem to forget the UK is home to the best SF in the world, whom a large majority of countries base their SF training off. My dad is a seal and talks often about how the Brits don’t mess about, and how when the seals would be on operation, they would rarely, but sometimes see the SAS guys. They never dressed like superhero’s, weren’t all kitted out like the US. Just their basic gear and a gun, in trousers and T-shirt with a scarf on their face. They were scary for all the wrong reasons. You’d only have to look at them to know you were in good hands.

God bless our NATO allies 🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺🇺🇲🇨🇦 A mind unfettered in deliberation

@jkhsdjkhfjkhh3

8 ай бұрын

tf does 🇪🇺🇺🇲🇨🇦 mean?

@Krieguerre

8 ай бұрын

@@jkhsdjkhfjkhh3 EU, US and Canada, nations and groups of nations that were participating in this exercise alongside the UK. It's not like it's a secret code, it's the nations' flags.

@WilliamEvans-bs5sj

14 күн бұрын

🇬🇧🇨🇦🇪🇪🇺🇦😀🇯🇴🇰🇼🇳🇿🇦🇺

As a brit we always play the role of bad guys well 🇬🇧😆

@spectre8_fulcrum

8 ай бұрын

when you realise the main bad guys in star wars are british:

@wft15

8 ай бұрын

@@spectre8_fulcrumare they 😂

@spectre8_fulcrum

8 ай бұрын

vader was welsh, tarkin and dooku were born in london, and palpatine is scottish.@@wft15

@CloneCaptainHowzer

8 ай бұрын

​@@spectre8_fulcrumTrying to get Vader with a strong Welsh accent out of my head now.. thanks for that 😂

@spectre8_fulcrum

8 ай бұрын

@@CloneCaptainHowzer my bad, the actor David Prowse is English, from Bristol

Canada: What we bring is mass and size..and good manners eh? Slovakia: Vat ve bring ist damuch better loooking soldeerz Poland: ....sausages UK: mad badges

The only thing the British military is lacking is numbers. They're still some of the fiercest warriors in the world.

@johnnybravo9096

8 ай бұрын

Our small number is actually part of our great success. Essentially the British army selection process can be extremely picky. They basically can only pick the cream of the crop. The officers currently serving usually have real war experiences. So you have pretty competent officers, highly motivated professional well trained soldiers with usually fairly decent kit and innovative technology.

@aaronking2369

7 ай бұрын

It's always lacked numbers it's a tiny island

@marcusr3795

Ай бұрын

@@aaronking2369 that’s true but in population we have about 65 million people, quite big for its geographic size. The UK is an island so Naval power is more the focus for defence, we don’t have to worry about tanks rolling over our borders in an invasion of the homeland. The UK is probably one the hardest places in the world to have an amphibious assault, the Germans tried it even after after they captured basically all of the European continent however there fall was therefore inevitable. It’s impossible for any adversary of the UK to capture or invade today nevertheless the MOD wants the UK army to increase from roughly 78k troops to 120k plus reserves.

I could watch these kind of simulations forever, its incredible the insight allies can have. And I find these varied scenarios extremely interesting.

Definitely the charge of the light brigade 👍 Great to see NATO forces working together so well .

@tommyatkins2527

8 ай бұрын

ah very clever took me some time especually ash they are lancers

This makes me wanna join up after I get my degree 👍

@tommyatkins2527

8 ай бұрын

go for it good experience

@peaceformula5830

8 ай бұрын

Don't do it. You will fight and die for the Globalist Banking Cabal. Just keep fit and train weapons and tactics with friends in a neighbourhood militia. Read books, pray to God and help others. Cheers.

@frankparker245

8 ай бұрын

@davidmacnutt9184 That’s what I’m doing!

@joshb7415

8 ай бұрын

You could have got your degree for free if you joined earlier oh well

@davidmacnutt9184

8 ай бұрын

@@joshb7415 I'm dual British-French citizen and university here in France is free so it's all good 😎

Great video, good job Forces News!

Love the updates after leaving!

Smallest but never underestimate the British

@RonSill1986

8 ай бұрын

Nope. Not when their most famous and greatest victories came from the British being outnumbered usually 3 to 1

@svensantesson2020

8 ай бұрын

​@@RonSill1986For example?

@lonewarrior6633

8 ай бұрын

@@svensantesson2020Iraq, Afghanistan. Just research British Army outnumbered and you’ll find plenty of videos and articles online

@UltimatelyEverything

7 ай бұрын

@@svensantesson2020 Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Nazi Germany, Russia the list goes on and we came out with a victory we've lost battles but never lost a war.

@svensantesson2020

7 ай бұрын

@@UltimatelyEverything The british won against Nazi Germany? 🤡

Mission failed, well get ‘em next time

@tommy-mi8tu

8 ай бұрын

I just fell in love ❤

@svensantesson2020

8 ай бұрын

Friendly Hunter Killing Drone deployed

4:03 they really putting uk against chad himself

Any updates after this exercise?

How do you and your "enemy" in these exercises know if your bullet or shell hit them?

@tomcluny8423

8 ай бұрын

they use a really advanced version of laser tag gear, called MILES

I bet we've had a war at some point with most of the countries haha

@devilsolution9781

8 ай бұрын

Not modern warfare. Different beast. Bring back the musket

Us Brits lack in numbers but we more than make up for it in efficiency

I wonder what would happen if they also drop a few Parras in from behind some Gurkas from the south and Royal Marines in from the north.

@pingu1986

8 ай бұрын

Just like the falklands

@lachlanchester8142

8 ай бұрын

Mass parachute drops are pretty useless now

@regarded9702

8 ай бұрын

​@@lachlanchester8142 I would argue the threat of the drop still provides some use. If an enemy knows that allowing any amount of overflight of their positions risks paratroopers shooting their men in the backs then they face a tough decision: bring their air defence assets closer to the front, or accept the paras will drop and have rear guard units to hopefully deal with it. The first option puts their valuable air defence assets closer to the front, which of course increases their likelihood of being attacked. The second will require troops which could otherwise be helping somewhere else, there is also no gurantee that they will stop all the paras. So either way just having the ability to do a paratrooper drop hinders your enemy.

@Surv1ve_Thrive

8 ай бұрын

'hyper vandalism' as was stated at the time in the 80s. No joke.

Excellent

So did they park all their vehicles and abandon them a few miles from the start line?

codname: "burn much money... and more tanks"

How do these Excersice work? How does anyone know they are hit or destroyed? Obviously no live ammunition but how does it work.

@dadhj

8 ай бұрын

Kinda like laser tag but way way more advanced

Best troops in the world. Just a shame our government doesn’t show them the respect they deserve

@Nitidus

7 ай бұрын

Democracy is a matter of negotiation and the government isn't the scapegoat for everything. To be clear, I really dislike your government. But that doesn't change the fact that any government is a reflection of its people, or rather of the current state of society. Sometimes more, mostly less, but fundamentally, it still is. If there was broad support for the armed forces across all social classes then it would be reflected in the government. Then again, if you live in a society with very little support in the armed forces, you cannot just say about dozens of millions of people, "They're all wrong." There's a reason for everything and I know this applies to my country's military, but probably to a lot of others as well, there tends to be a lack of self-reflection and self-criticism in the military. They often have a hard time keeping up with societal progress. An army in a democracy must represent the people, though. Aside from the fact that you otherwise quickly run out of young talent, it also instills trust issues between the general population and the armed forces. And that's a huge problem for an army that exists to defend the constitution and liberal democracy - or, in your case, constitutional monarchy, I guess. Lol. You can't change society, and as a democrat you shouldn't want to in the first place. But you can change how the military is perceived and accepted by the people, even if it means breaking with traditions or similar. What you absolutely must not do, though, is deflect any blame onto "the government" or, even worse, onto your own population - instead of reflecting on it and taking responsibility like every role model should. Edit: "As a democrat, you shouldn't want to change society", in this case means that you shouldn't try to retroactively, forcefully change a consensus resulting from a societal process of opinion formation. You are of course free to participate in said process and try to convince people, but if the results don't match what you believe yourself, you can't say, "I'm right and everyone else is wrong." Instead, you would need to accept that the problem lies somewhere else.

@DarrenJamiesonJamieson

5 ай бұрын

Do you really think that Nato can defeat God?

I let the British Army in 2006 and I'll admit I do miss these type of exercises. Best 9yrs of my live. 2.00.... His tash.... lol 3.10... Dannys like chuckle, type squaddie humour. 4.55... Oh hell yes Well in Boys

how does the shooting work in these drills? are they blanks with electrionic hit markers or something? or just normal blanks??

@thecreat0r

8 ай бұрын

@tomcluny8423 said in an above comment that they use a really advanced version of laser tag gear, called MILES

4:05 absolute gigachad

Yo how do u actually perform a safe offensive training? Bc u obviously can't destroy the enemy coordinates lol, is it just a proximity thing of getting to them & then they need to fall back etc. or how does it work?

@loco4loco

8 ай бұрын

They might use blanks or fire to disable or fire just short of the target

The fact that Britain did that much damage without heave vehicles unlike Nato shows they prob could’ve got it if they had tanks or APC’s like Nato

The scenery is beautiful. We do we always play the baddies.. Is it the accent or the moustaches? This is like Hollywood. I guess it was always going to be Britain or Germany.

So with light arms fire they used blanks, and you'd know you're being shot at at that range..., how do they simulate incoming artillery fire?

@thebun2901

7 ай бұрын

Blank artillery shells and laser measurements.

@George-dx2sd

4 ай бұрын

They have an Umpire with a pocket full of Thnderflashes which he throws whilst , malleting people on the head !

Dear hive. As a civvie I can’t work out how they train properly with blanks. How does one know if they’ve hit or been hit??

@CR-uj2is

8 ай бұрын

Think laser tag

@wardygrub

8 ай бұрын

@@CR-uj2is Ah ok cool. Howabout bombs tho?

Don’t drones have LIDAR to find the enemy under foliage etc?

Playing NATO's enemy must've been fun for them. I mean, we were normally never allowed to drink alcohol on excersizes, now they must to emulate our enemy, lucky bastards. 😉

@juhotuho10

8 ай бұрын

Each field ration includes a bottle of vodka

Noticeable absence of drones

Am I the only one who thought that lance jack at the end did not sound like a lance jack😂, I was expecting him to be an Lt or Cptn

Hmm. I must have missed the bit about the drones! 😟

"OK guys, we'll be the bad guys" "Why do you get to be the bad guys?" "Hollywood has been casting us as the bad guys for decades..."

@shadowsinvortex7990

8 ай бұрын

The bad guys get to look Uber cool in a private submarine with a pedigree cat, smoking hot super babes and glass of champagne whilst making sharp remarks

Zuzana is such a beautiful gun!

LOVE OUR BOYS 🇬🇧

Is this like laser tag with blanks? Howd you know youve been hit?

How do they know who's been hit and who's won a fire fight? I presume they are using blanks

Close on the fire positions!

UK have learn a lot about ukraine war so far and change to new strategy and tactics is important first

@aaronking2369

7 ай бұрын

Lol the the brits were literally training Ukrainians give me a break

What about silver arrow??

❤👍

Are they not using camouflage by intention? (intel)

strange question but how do wargames actually work like how do u destroy a vehicle or engage infantry and push then back if its all used with blanks

@CR-uj2is

8 ай бұрын

Essentially, lasers

@Kakarot64.

8 ай бұрын

It's basically military scale laser tag

Training another generation of Sons and daughters to die in an unwinable war

There is everything in the dream

4:13 bro looks like the chad

Still needs more funding

Give em both barrels boys❤😂

Pip Pip!!

Well done lances

Hopefully, this isn't the military version of Brexit!

That spanish guy literally looks like Gigachad.

Why didn’t I use their anti-tank weapons systems?

drawing on the map with pen, good drills there

Danny needs to work on his camouflage and concealment.. He's shiny as a coin. it could save his life.

We have a small numbers for peace and protection that are expanded during war so we have the ability to increase our numbers during a war.

4:04 gigachad??

@LeonardTavast

8 ай бұрын

He's very similar to the conquistador gigachad meme.

@maximiliensonnic3356

8 ай бұрын

I had the exact same reaction

Can't win them all, learning is more important anyhow

@gootusfootus3229

8 ай бұрын

Very good effort from the boys tho

@davebrown9707

8 ай бұрын

Not about winning the British lads were op for they were effectively testing the bigger NATO's force

Why poke the bear 🤔 the last play date didn't end well..

I’ll never forget the time 1 squad of sas beat almost 100 American soldiers a few years ago

Send in a actual infantry Regiment and the outcome would be very different.

Dont forget 🇨🇦 is🇬🇧

👍❤👍❤👍

Where are the drones ?

@nobodyherepal3292

8 ай бұрын

In the skies?

@regarded9702

8 ай бұрын

Still being experimented with and not yet part of standard units it seems

@Statueshop297

8 ай бұрын

Not everything is shown and not everything needs drones.

Ah, but do the brits know how to dance the polka? Russia does, and very well!

In it together

Robin Sage

Those of us who know history know that men like Putin only respect one thing, strength. You cannot give an inch to people like him. The world always needs a villain 🤷‍♂️

Sooo where they using live rounds? Blanks? Airsoft? What?

4:04 GigaChad

This is so good playing war games on russia's door step just to rub it in lmao

@mrsniff3676

8 ай бұрын

Yeah lol NATO just having fun and games at the moment

I hope they are eating egg banjos everyday and don’t have to stag on. That’s what playing enemy is about 😅

Nice to see the army have their bush hats pulled down the same way as we use in our school ccf

Damn Yanks insisting we play the role of the villain.

@Kakarot64.

8 ай бұрын

They need a competent villain to practice against what other options do they have?

For added realism the British troops where given free vodka.

🇬🇧 💪🏾

I'm sure there was information missing from this. Why would the attacking force be smaller than the NATO defending forces and have no armour

@MaybeImWaved

8 ай бұрын

Guerilla type warfare

@ninjoo4838

8 ай бұрын

They didnt want to embarras nato

@kiedisboughen5318

8 ай бұрын

Emulating Russian soldiers. Some Russian soldiers are using airsoft armour

@ryanhulme3303

8 ай бұрын

You cannot go up against the British military without first asking them politely to agree to hamper their chances.