Swiss Armed Forces 1980s

Footage of Swiss infantry from the mid 1980s with commentary by Gwynne Dyer.
From "A Long Way from Home".

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  • @Powerqubed
    @Powerqubed3 жыл бұрын

    As a swiss soldier I fucking love the term "heavily armed neutrality" XD Thanks for the vid

  • @caffeinatedbuffalosauce883

    @caffeinatedbuffalosauce883

    3 жыл бұрын

    Aren’t the swiss people heavily armed too??

  • @Powerqubed

    @Powerqubed

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@caffeinatedbuffalosauce883 yes 😂

  • @vg_grover4828
    @vg_grover48283 жыл бұрын

    That’s one lucky cow. She better thank her lucky stars that the rocket malfunctioned 😩

  • @Panzerfan93

    @Panzerfan93

    2 жыл бұрын

    that was a training rocket

  • @alexanders.170

    @alexanders.170

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nein. They got the cow with the second one. A fuckin nazi-commie that cow was.

  • @vg_grover4828

    @vg_grover4828

    8 ай бұрын

    And it flew over your head

  • @Wittwerror
    @Wittwerror2 жыл бұрын

    Actually in ww2 we lost exactly 100 people, by american bombing.

  • @schizoidboy

    @schizoidboy

    2 жыл бұрын

    There was an article in Military History Quarterly about that bombing, the target was right on the border with Switzerland and near a Swiss town. I believe it was said the Germans kept their lights on to confuse the bombers. I also believe there was a court-martial over the bombing, but I don't think that matter was pressed. Incidentally there were times when Germans flew over Switzerland and were shot down by the Swiss as well and there were attempts by the Germans to disable the Swiss Air Forces, but the Swiss caught the agents. The weird thing about neutrality is in a shooting war where a nation is close to the fighting that same nation might as well be at war, not in that it needs to fight, but needs to be on its guard and have their military active. Fortunately for Switzerland both sides in WWII preferred to keep them neutral especially where the Red Cross was concerned and other diplomatic needs. Sorry for the length of the comment.

  • @Vickzq
    @Vickzq7 жыл бұрын

    That's not completely accurate. _Officially_ swiss citizens mustn't fight for any foreign force in case of conflict... but it happened nevertheless. And some swiss also died in foreign wars - _just not officially_. Baumgartner was a swiss joining german Luftwaffe in ww2 ... likewise the famous Von Werra who actually was swiss, too. Both aces, both died during war. RAF pilot Jan Zumbach is usually attributed to polish squadrons in England. He had polish parents, he spoke polish... but he himself grew up in Switzerland.

  • @spamuraigranatabru1149

    @spamuraigranatabru1149

    4 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget the UN walked up to Switzerland who was still pissed off after League of nations failed, and told them to join.

  • @ProFettMoHaMett

    @ProFettMoHaMett

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fake News.

  • @Procket12
    @Procket122 жыл бұрын

    1:37 Swiss Soldier stops petting a Brown Swiss cow and the cow decides that she wasn't finished being petted.

  • @Procket12
    @Procket122 жыл бұрын

    1:36. "Soldiering can wait. Right now, we pet the cow."

  • @Vasher-The-Destroyer
    @Vasher-The-Destroyer6 ай бұрын

    Question for swiss soldiers? what's it like, it seems really interesting.

  • @rafaleetleclerc9445
    @rafaleetleclerc94452 жыл бұрын

    War Aesthetic brought me here !

  • @maximilianoberton
    @maximilianoberton7 жыл бұрын

    lol rocket fail

  • @schwarz404

    @schwarz404

    6 жыл бұрын

    It a training one.

  • @ichbinensnober3975

    @ichbinensnober3975

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its a dummy rocket

  • @spamuraigranatabru1149

    @spamuraigranatabru1149

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's a neutral rocket. :D

  • @maximilianoberton

    @maximilianoberton

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@spamuraigranatabru1149 a swiss rocket jajaja

  • @spamuraigranatabru1149

    @spamuraigranatabru1149

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@maximilianoberton M9 you commented so long ago i thought i'd have to wait for Switzerland to invade the rest of Europe for you to remember it!