NATO German A400M Paratroopers Swift Response 2024 Airailimages

(From NATO) -- NATO paratroopers descended over Romania as part of exercise Swift Response 2024, the largest Allied airborne operation since the Second World War. At an airbase near Câmpia Turzii, Romania, German Armed Forces paratroopers from the Rapid Forces Division led troops from France, Romania, Spain and the United States in an airborne operation that involved between 1,200 and 1,500 soldiers. Fourteen transport aircraft carried them to the drop zone, making this one of NATO’s largest and most complex manoeuvres this year.
An annual US-led exercise, Swift Response helps Allies practise the complex art of multinational airborne operations, ensuring their readiness to respond in the event of a crisis. Swift Response 2024 is part of Steadfast Defender 2024, NATO’s largest collective defence drills in decades featuring around 90,000 troops from all 32 NATO member countries.
Footage includes shots of multinational paratroopers arriving in the drop zone, as well as interviews with German and Romanian officers. Watch for turboprop Airbus A400M Atlas transports from Germany, as well as C-17s.
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[@ChiefAUS]

This looked like some very good training for NATO forces cooperation. Thanks for showing this video.

[@airailimages]

You are always welcome!

[@echterbayer4880]

Well done! Gut gemacht Jungs!!

[@robstanton9215]

“Let the wookie win, droids don’t tear people’s arms off when they lose” 😂😂😂 paratroopers are some tough individuals. I think about those guys jumping at night out of C-47’s in WWII into enemy hot zones, Easy Company, absolutely tough as they come.

[@felixf.3392]

Why was the USA so successful during the Cold War?
It implemented the Marshall Plan to economically strengthen its partners in Europe.
The USA was the largest economy and opened its market to the products of its allies.
The USA offered its allies a security umbrella with nuclear deterrence through NATO.
As a result, America managed to push back the influence of the Soviet Union on Europe and ultimately won the Cold War.
The alliance between Western Europe and the USA is proving difficult today.
For example, Germany follows a mercantilist economic model and is therefore dependent on cheap energy and large growth markets.
Russia and China can provide both of these for Western Europe like no other country.
The USA, on the other hand, is becoming increasingly less important as an economic partner.
And since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is no serious military threat from Russia to Western Europe.
Nevertheless, tens of thousands of American soldiers are still stationed in hundreds of US military bases and US nuclear weapons are stationed on German soil.
If you look at the situation objectively from the US perspective, America is protecting Europe from the countries with which it has close trade relations.
Europe's core interest, however, is to further expand its economic relations with the USA's biggest competitors.
Don't be blinded by the politicians' rhetoric.
Feelings, shared history, values, culture and traditions play no role at all in whether alliances really work.
What matters is whether the interests coincide.
And it turns out that the interests of Europe and the USA can no longer be reconciled today and this partnership will soon end.