I'd be honored if you'd subscribe. It'll make it easier for me to keep making these videos. Tusen takk to my Norwegian comrades. Which country would you like to see next?

@larsrons7937

Ай бұрын

Denmark, to complete the list of the Nordic countries (Sweden is already on your list; Iceland has no military). After that Austrailia could be interesting.

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

@@larsrons7937 stay tuned, adding Denmark to the list.

@larsrons7937

Ай бұрын

@@MilitaryRated I'll stay tuned and be looking forward to it. - And you have a new subscriber. 😊

You look good 👍 Norway. I´m happy and proud to be not only your neighbour but also part of your family. Många hjärtliga hälsningar från sötebror ❤ Ps. Now, together as we all Nordic countries are in NATO, we have a mighty defence force 🦾

@andersbjrnsen7203

Ай бұрын

We should be able to kick some serious ass now, and get better at buying each others defense products.

Fun fact: Same day this video was published, the Norwegian government announced that they will increase the number of soldiers by 50 percent. And this year Norway pass the 2 pst goal.

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

That's good for Norway. I think in general most people turn into better humans from a year in the home guard or military, and a lot of today's youth could use it. The 2% I'm more skeptical of, as far as I gather the 2% will be achieved by moving numbers in a spreadsheet under "defence", like border control, aid to Ukraine, expansion of Kongsberg\Nammo etc. I'm sure the free press in Norway will have a good look at the actual numbers, as I understand the finance minister isn't very popular and known for his creative way of saying things.

@Vitruvianus

Ай бұрын

Sadly true, he is more like a clawn, laughing about everything@@MilitaryRated

@thenorseman2804

Ай бұрын

@@MilitaryRated 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you are right about the finance minister, total incompetent. But he is a farmer, nothing bad about farmers but they are not famous for finances! You surprise me with your knowledge of Norwegian internal affairs.

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

Had the 'pleasure' of listening to him at a debate once, now my English is far from perfect - but his sounded like a gnome, and the constant little girl giggling when asked hard questions about defence spend. Awful!

@thenorseman2804

Ай бұрын

@@MilitaryRated 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 You made my day! Where are you from? Du er vel ikke norsk!

South korea(divided nation) birth rate is 0.6, but military defense duty is still mandatory only for men (even men with poor health).

Today Norway announced that the army will increase the number of Brigades from 1 to 3, establish a missile artilelry batallion, increase the number of contract persoenel by 4500 (Specialists, NCO's, officer etc) increase the number of conscipts by another 4500, the armed forces reserve by 13500 and the home guard by 4500. The Navy will recieve 5 frigates and 1 aditional submarine to the 4 allready ordered + 28 smaller vessels for inner coastal deffense. And the number of AA missile batteries in the air force will be doubled (NASAMS) and long range AA capabilities will also be added (Patriot or similar): all in all it is an increase in defense budget of 60 billion US$ and Norway will fulfill the NATO obligation of spending aqt least 2% of the GDP on defense in 2024, ancreased to 3% by 2036.

Proud to be a Norwegian citizen at last.

Fun fact (sort of). I was in the Norwegian Navy when the Skjold class was introduced. Even Donald Rumsfeld drooled over them. They are still in service, and you really have to seem to believe them.

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

I think the Skjold class is still the second fastest Navy ship in the world, and it was the fastest up until 2023. It's an amazing ship.

@UltimaSRi

Ай бұрын

How fast is the fastes? -asking for a friend.. @@MilitaryRated

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

The Skjold can do 55 knots which was the record until last year. It's now the WP 18 interceptor which holds the record, coming in at 65 knots.

@UltimaSRi

Ай бұрын

@@MilitaryRated ive sailed the P960 Skjold way faster than 55 knots ;) she did 60kn with codag... after refitting her with 4GT and a sleeker hull?!?

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

That’s awesome!

Utmost Respect From Pakistan too Norway

is this seperate from the SF ? ( Special Forces ala MJK, FSK, and such )

Norway certainly has a LOT of vehicles!

@feonor26

Ай бұрын

There's a lot of distances to cover too, specially in the north. A 2 hour drive is considered as "just around the corner" up in Finnmark.

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

Nothing quite like that feeling of freezing your butt off in a Sisu during Cold Response 'just going to the next village' and then arriving 5 hours later...

@SebHaarfagre

Ай бұрын

@@MilitaryRated lol

6:28 you forgot there is extremly alot of reserves, am one of them :) and ther are several other forces too in norway and you had wrong image of mercedes GWagen hehe and at end you forgotten that norway but sweden too loves the winter ;D

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

Cool, are you part of the home guard or reserves? I’ve listed both in the video 😊

@StigDesign

Ай бұрын

@@MilitaryRated am reserve :)

The Norwegian military is getting a massive boost in funding btw. It will hit and surpass the 2% goal soon. Supposedly also getting a huge increase in recruits, the campaigns and adds have already started.

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I've seen. It's great news. Getting young people into the armed forces will be good for their further life as well. And it generates work in Norway.

@GreakFTW

Ай бұрын

@@MilitaryRated Fun fact. They didn't take me in 6 years ago.. I am extremely unsure if I am feeling lucky or unlucky tho. And I was in really good physical condition and was a member of the Norwegian Arms association (DFS).

Luckly Norways defence spendatures are increasing massivly with extra incomming buyers of equipment, but will it be enough? Not so sure.

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

As far as I gather Norway expects to be over 2% gdp spent on their armed forces by the end of 2024. Though the few people I know in the Norwegian army attribute this to moving costs around on a spreadsheet (i.e Ukraine aid) rather than actually increasing the spend. There are positive signs though, so hopefully by the end of the year with the delivery of the rest of the K9's & K10's, F-35's, the subs on order and tanks by 2025 it'll be a totally different story. 2% GDP is also a much higher figure than pretty much everyone around Norway, in example 2% of Norway's GDP is the same as 2% of Sweden's GDP, even if Sweden has double the population.

@oblivionnokk3531

Ай бұрын

@@MilitaryRated Yes, there is talks and people seem eager to increase and I think reaching 2% is not the hard part. But we should instead look to Poland and maybe hit the 3% AT LEAST so we can have a better function navy, as landforces are specialized and extremly good, airforce about the same, and now in unity with the rest of the scandinavian airforces, cyber defense is one of the best in the world, but we lack a good navy, specially for having the worlds second longest coastline, but only 4 frigates and 6 corvettes which both are turning old very fast, and before we had cannon defences to basically any big town and fjord, now? Unless they are hiding such, I do not think we have good air protection or ship protection to our fjords which in history have been the only way a country sucessfully have invaded Norway. And we need to fix that before our big neighbour gets any ideas.

@oblivionnokk3531

Ай бұрын

@@MilitaryRated Just now the Norwegian govement said that the 2% will be reached this year and by 2036 We will reach 3%

It has now been decided that Norway will within this year reach 2% per (GDP)

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

That'll be good. It's not like Norway can't afford it :)

@KjetilBalstad

Ай бұрын

​@@MilitaryRated Well, it's also worth mentioning that % of GDP is a little misleading as a metric. We have a huge GDP, and a small population, and resent increases has put us further away from the goal. In terms of actual military spending per capita we actually were 2nd in NATO and 7th in the world a couple of years ago. Spending per active service member in Norway is almost double of the US. So, there is a limit to how much we can possibly spend, while effectively managing the military without just bloating it.

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

Agreed. I said something similar in the analysis. I think that in reality Norway should focus on improving the roads and rail leading North and invest in automated maritime defenses akin to what Taiwan has. There are ways to invest in the military which also helps the civilian society. Spending money on Norwegian kit and infrastructure should be on top of the list.

Norway has 4 NASAMS batteries. (Not 1) I think a lot of this information is outdated. And some of it classified it seems. There is for example a large emphasis on Navy and coastal defense and smaller teams and up-to-date manpads (or semi-manpads, crews of 2-3) has an important role as such Think Stugna-P just more modern and also with anti-ship missiles

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I've heard rumours about these neptune batteries, I just haven't found them anywhere in any credible sources, but it doesn't mean that they're not there, Norway likely doesn't want to show it's anti ship capacity to the fullest as potential enemies will want to use their fleet to invade. The NASAMS numbers must include some I and II, but I'm sure they'll all be mark III soon when the new defence allocation hits. Thanks for your comment. :)

@torrust

Ай бұрын

@@MilitaryRated Norway is the main operator of NASAMS, we had NASAMS 3 operational in 2020 and had NASAMS radar upgrade in 2022, so safe to say all batteries in Norway are 2 or 3. In 2024 Q1, two major NASAMS contract was signed by Norway, one delivery for Ukraine, the other was 1.4 billion NOK contract for delivery to Norway, which will improve existing air defense capability. We ramping up NASAMS production capabilities, Spain and Norway have placed orders, I think chances are high other operators will do the same.

Im from Norway 🇧🇻❤🫡

Good thing this is 2024, and not 2018, or we'd have to bring up the fact they lost an AEGIS frigate to....a rock. Oops!

@feonor26

Ай бұрын

No it collided with a huge tanker.

@MM22966

Ай бұрын

@@feonor26 No, that was the US Navy! You guys can't steal our shtick!

@feonor26

Ай бұрын

@@MM22966 Haha well ours too did it then. The guys on duty must have been drunk or something.

@MM22966

Ай бұрын

@@feonor26 What's really funny is when you realize large tankers/merchant ships have taken more 1st-line warships out than any other cause since WW2. (I think. Sea-skimmers are up there too)

@KjetilBalstad

Ай бұрын

Well, the frigate was damaged in the colission, and they saved it by running it up against the rocks. We lost it because morons who didn't know what they were doing refused to accept assistance from private companies who knew what they were doing and did everything wrong securing it, causing it to slide back into the sea sinking.

Norway capability is weak because of small numbers. The defence sector is fragmented and the Norwegian To- tal Defence Concept has not been adapted to the current security environment. We have also have immigrants who are not trained to fight for the country. Norwegian military can't survive alone.

@MilitaryRated

Ай бұрын

Luckily Norway is just a piece of the large alliance that is NATO. The Norwegian strategy has always been to delay until allies arrive. Luckily these days the allies are closer than ever with Sweden and Finland's very capable armies closer than the UK, Denmark, Holland etc.

@andersbjrnsen7203

Ай бұрын

Total defence should make a return now thanks to Putin. Well, a lot of my mates of Pakistani, Vietnamese etc heritage served, and were no less motivated than my pure viking mates.

@torrust

Ай бұрын

Most immigrants in Norway are from Poland, we had many from Ukraine lately, if they become Norwegian citizen, I am dead sure they will be just as motivated for military service as you. The lesson from WW2 is that we can't stay neutral and we are surrounded by major powers, so we need to be in a deference alliance, as such, we will pull and do our share in NATO and that is the most powerful military alliance the world have ever seen.

Piorun anti aircraft.