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  • Опубликовано: 1 июл 2022
  • As the advance force for 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, the Pathfinders are an elite part of the UK Armed Forces. They are highly trained soldiers, able to infiltrate behind enemy lines, identify Drop Zones (DZ) for follow on Parachute Troops and relay vital information back to Headquarters.
    The Pathfinders, made up of volunteers from many different backgrounds, but primarily from the Parachute Regiment, work in small, heavily armed, teams.
    2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment and soldiers from across 16 Air Assault Brigade, including Guns from 7 Para Royal Horse Artillery, joined NATO Allies, on Exercise Swift Response into NATO’s newest member North Macedonia.
    As part of our exclusive access to a series of Military Exercises in Europe, BFBS Creative join the Pathfinders as they covertly lead the way, Parachuting in North Macedonia using High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) Parachute Techniques. They secure the DZ allowing the main force to land, before reforming as a lethal strike force, able to carry out raids on High Value Targets.
    The illegal occupation of Ukraine by Russian forces has highlighted the very real threat along NATOs Eastern border. The principles of NATOs collective defence remain that an "attack on one is an attack on all". It is more important than ever to test the response, demonstrate capability and deter unwanted aggression. None do that faster, more aggressively or as far from home, as the UK 's 16 Air Assault Brigade.
    #wearenato #para #pathfinder #nato
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Комментарии • 935

  • @marshalzhukov4782
    @marshalzhukov4782 Год назад +275

    "We're Airborne, we're supposed to be surrounded"

  • @maximusfriend3924
    @maximusfriend3924 Год назад +16

    So glad we have great allies 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

  • @CoffeeFiend1
    @CoffeeFiend1 Год назад +25

    The Pathfinders are probably the most "technically they're not special forces but practically for all intents and purposes they are" units we have in the UK.

    • @satanicmicrochipv5656
      @satanicmicrochipv5656 Год назад

      That's the same in the U.S., along with Sappers.

    • @JammyDodger45
      @JammyDodger45 Год назад +3

      Stop waffling.

    • @neildavid10
      @neildavid10 Год назад +7

      @@JammyDodger45 it’s a fact tho. Every mission set they have is special operations but they aren’t categorized as special operations forces.

    • @dallasyap3064
      @dallasyap3064 Год назад +1

      @@satanicmicrochipv5656 I think the US Army has disbanded its designated Pathfinder units, only the Pathfinder School remains.

    • @satanicmicrochipv5656
      @satanicmicrochipv5656 Год назад

      @@dallasyap3064 that fugures.

  • @terrystokley2968
    @terrystokley2968 8 месяцев назад +8

    One of the worlds fighting Elite and as a county we are proud too have such soldiers.

  • @terrystokley2968
    @terrystokley2968 Год назад +23

    A British airborne soldier always fights outnumbered, either wins or suffets glorious defeat. The maroon machine ,death from above.

  • @harrybarlow541
    @harrybarlow541 Год назад +29

    Judging from the comments, this video rattled the Russian RUclips propaganda bots hard !

    • @neildavid10
      @neildavid10 Год назад +4

      They’re working overtime to counter Big Boris😂

    • @frankrenda2519
      @frankrenda2519 Год назад

      they can land in bosnia they will get tied to polls again

    • @aidanzamany7214
      @aidanzamany7214 Год назад

      Not a bot. Just don’t like NATO because of their hypocrisy.

    • @harrybarlow541
      @harrybarlow541 Год назад +2

      @@aidanzamany7214 okay bot

    • @fuckedlaptop364
      @fuckedlaptop364 Год назад

      ​@@aidanzamany7214 I would say double standards, but hating on NATO and supporting Russia for that reason is another double standard, we are all the same shit under different flags, you just have to pick a side

  • @jackass4917
    @jackass4917 Год назад +10

    Wow the videos BFBS made is getting better and better.

    • @Greek_Man
      @Greek_Man Год назад

      Great video, showcasing a niche specialized unit. But the UK is not ready or equipped for a large scale conventional war. As they emphasized in this video.

    • @MRMK24
      @MRMK24 Год назад +1

      @@Greek_Man Britain just isn't in a war yet. Put them in one, they build fast.

    • @autr3553
      @autr3553 Год назад +2

      @@Greek_Man the UK wouldn’t be fighting alone

  • @immaliveforever1474
    @immaliveforever1474 Год назад +7

    So much pride in our great British Allies🙏 much love from the USA 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧

  • @rali4850
    @rali4850 Год назад +11

    Feeling better with NATO in Balkans 💪😎Greetings from Bosnia 🇧🇦

  • @skipperclinton1087
    @skipperclinton1087 Год назад +7

    My uncle was a Pathfinder with C/1/507th PIR 82nd ABN. He Jumped into Normandy on 6/6/44 into the middle of a German troop concentration in the Carentine area. Never even got to set up the Eureka lights and only 6 of his stick survived.

    • @senator1295
      @senator1295 Год назад

      my bro was WP and 82nd (out at Col) my oldest; 82nd and SOAR. I hope they make your Uncle proud

    • @skipperclinton1087
      @skipperclinton1087 Год назад

      @@senator1295 I hope so too. My cousin (his son) told me his dad said the Germans were so close they were shooting at them with pistols.
      I watched a utube vid that interviewed a WWII Pathfinder from the 101st and he stated that first you had to volunteer and then go through another extensive mental Qual test before you were accepted and only about 20% made it through that initial phase and only about 10% finished the training.
      The history of his unit says after D day they were sent back to England for "retraining" in other words a lot of replacements. They were only sent back into the ETO during the Battle of the Bulge and didn't even participate in Market Garden. Obviously they got seriously mauled by the Germans on D day.
      BTW, my uncle died in 2001 from colon cancer.

  • @murphyrichard6485
    @murphyrichard6485 Год назад +8

    Get it done - glad we got y’all on outside - from the USA 🇺🇸

    • @Roland_Tr909_Swing
      @Roland_Tr909_Swing Год назад

      I remember when the USA threatened to sink the royal navy in the Mediterranean during the suez crisis ...you aren't anyones friends

  • @faolan1545
    @faolan1545 Год назад +9

    Love to see the path finders getting some recognition

  • @joncoady3253
    @joncoady3253 Год назад +3

    Banging.... got some very very effective troops there proud to have these lads in our side.

  • @56curious
    @56curious Год назад +9

    that intro was sick

  • @GEOsustainable
    @GEOsustainable Год назад +16

    Wonderful. I was an American Pathfinder. Good to see they still exist. I had to lay in a mud puddle for 5 days waiting for a Vietcong force to move on. This was in Laos. And I brought back 3 POW. When I wasn't low crawling around Vietnam I was front seat (gunner) in a Cobra. Pathfinder is the only one that can take out Ptin with a K-bar.

    • @ffredalot
      @ffredalot Год назад +8

      These are British pathfinders

    • @gurglejug627
      @gurglejug627 Год назад

      Nice to hear you were defending your home country by killing people in Laos. You must be very proud.

  • @smoothie1972
    @smoothie1972 Год назад +8

    Good to see more British army content on RUclips

  • @jackbeckett1188
    @jackbeckett1188 Год назад +3

    Quality video .

  • @soton5teve
    @soton5teve 11 месяцев назад +2

    That same music / tune at the start is on the BBC advert for "the capture" series 1 or 2

  • @oliversparks1459
    @oliversparks1459 Год назад +1

    Excellent.

  • @morganrace6324
    @morganrace6324 Год назад +9

    Very cinematic and informative! What camera(s) did you use to shoot this, please?

    • @MonkeyGus
      @MonkeyGus Год назад +2

      What didn't they use would be an easier list.

  • @Husker5454
    @Husker5454 Год назад +6

    These lot are absolutely lethal

  • @5taunch
    @5taunch Год назад +1

    Real gritty vid. Green on boys!

  • @jerzywlodarczyk1929
    @jerzywlodarczyk1929 Год назад +1

    Superb!

  • @brucebowyer4618
    @brucebowyer4618 7 месяцев назад +5

    Montgomery knew what he was doing... he wanted glory at anyone's expense!

  • @sebjones1566
    @sebjones1566 Год назад +6

    Know mention about 3 Para 😁. Anyway, good video.

  • @TacticalTrident7
    @TacticalTrident7 Год назад +1

    the kit looks fucking awesome. badass

  • @xpgek
    @xpgek Год назад +12

    as someone from flanders, seeing british soldiers in poppy fields makes me emotional...

  • @weeddegree
    @weeddegree Год назад +3

    Well done lads

  • @TB-zf7we
    @TB-zf7we Год назад +6

    Awesome video. I wonder how the Paras would have fared in the tasks that the Russian VDV were given at Hostomel Airport. I suspect a hell of a lot better to complete their assignments.

    • @Foreign0817
      @Foreign0817 Год назад +2

      Keep in mind other things are needed to support them, like air power. If defenses have been taken down, it will be much easier. Problem is Putin kept sending his VDV into the meat grinder until they got wiped out. Maybe they had fighting spirit, but they were betrayed by Putin, now we may never know...

    • @TB-zf7we
      @TB-zf7we Год назад +1

      @@Foreign0817 It has been noticeable to all that even elite Russian forces don't get enough training in the complex multi-spectrum warfare. i.e...they do not support each other to the gold standard that has been set by US/NATO operations.
      The VDV will never be up to western airborne troop standards due to the general lack of combined arms effectiveness, they can spell it but don't do it well.

    • @CoffeeFiend1
      @CoffeeFiend1 Год назад +4

      The problem Russia has is their logistics, signals and communication are fucking awful. They do have some very highly trained paras and SF capable in reconnaissance and direct action but they're combined arms strategy is very lacking.

    • @coenogo
      @coenogo Год назад

      Like what others have said, they'd probably fair a lot better, but that operation seemed to be doomed from the start, regardless of which unit actually performed it.

    • @studentaviator3756
      @studentaviator3756 Год назад

      The Russians are one of the few countries with airborne divisions.
      It has 45,000 vdv
      16 th air assult brigade
      Is 6200.
      So there is a different scale of capabilities.
      So if thr operation is brigade scale I'm sure 16th air assult brigade would do better

  • @soldiersdream
    @soldiersdream Год назад +2

    Nice

  • @jonasro5462
    @jonasro5462 Год назад +1

    We had Macedonian neighobours in Bielefeld. Ex Military. Sometimes we were frightened. But fortunately nothing bad happened.

    • @pampidoo
      @pampidoo Год назад

      This is called xenophobia.

  • @SPN16
    @SPN16 Год назад +2

    I'm 30 and served when I was 19 in 2012 for 2 years, left transfering to supplemental reserve.. expecting a call back when things get really going CHIMO

  • @benchang1022
    @benchang1022 Год назад +7

    US Army LRSD. Served in Bosnia. You guys looking sharp!

    • @dallasyap3064
      @dallasyap3064 Год назад

      Kind of sad the LRS units have been disbanded. I kinda liked them.

  • @JB-td9fz
    @JB-td9fz Год назад

    Class video

  • @mossychops
    @mossychops Год назад +1

    Any MOD Equipment with a Broad Arrow Head mark is no longer property of the Crown?

  • @terrystokley2968
    @terrystokley2968 9 месяцев назад +7

    Maroon machine, always fight out numbered, either win or suffer glorious defeat. Best airborne soldiets in the world.

  • @edlubitz2968
    @edlubitz2968 Год назад +2

    The weather is harsh ha ha ha.

  • @CharlesM84
    @CharlesM84 Год назад +1

    real potency

  • @guycalabrese4040
    @guycalabrese4040 Год назад +6

    Whenever I see some tough guy brit from any kind of badass unit, they always speak english with either a northern accent or scottish. Never heard a cockney SAS, para or marine... 😉

    • @FHIPrincePeter
      @FHIPrincePeter Год назад +1

      Good point. Cockney's are hard too : The ICF !

    • @redsorgum
      @redsorgum Год назад

      Liverpool 🙃🙃🙃

  • @patrioticvolunteer9190
    @patrioticvolunteer9190 Год назад +13

    Australian military needs to redevelop their Parachute battalion capability...bloody woke General ( who wore high heels) Morrison...disbanded it...wake the fuck up Australian generals..stop saying SF will do it...we need the capability even if it's not used they need to be there and stop relying on other armies!!

  • @MyScotty7
    @MyScotty7 Год назад +5

    The PARAS are like other countries special forces.The SAS and SBS are levels again!

    • @G4x5da
      @G4x5da Год назад

      What?

    • @herrickmaster77
      @herrickmaster77 Год назад +1

      Their hills phase is just a more condensed version of sf hills phase bet a lot of overseas sf would fail P Coy nevermind Pathfinder selection

    • @dallasyap3064
      @dallasyap3064 Год назад

      Paras are an ELITE light infantry unit. Some countries also use such designation, some use Commando or other terms.

    • @G4x5da
      @G4x5da Год назад

      @@herrickmaster77 para’s don’t have a hills phase. Look, the Para regiment is very though to get in to, but I think how much tougher other Country’s SF selections are. You can’t compare the French Commandos Marine, KSK, SAF recce, SFOD-D to PARA

    • @herrickmaster77
      @herrickmaster77 Год назад

      @@G4x5da path finders do pal i never mentioned para reg although pathfinders are made of of paras

  • @mickwful
    @mickwful Год назад +1

    What is the DZ flash in the depot colours, is that Brigade?

    • @arlokootz3545
      @arlokootz3545 Год назад +2

      The one the brigadier is wearing? It’s HQ 16 Bde DZ flash

    • @mickwful
      @mickwful Год назад +2

      @@arlokootz3545 Thank Arlo in my day of 16 para, brigade was red blue and green.

  • @cam0875
    @cam0875 Год назад +8

    This is the video the recruiters use to get you to sign

  • @garonx5251
    @garonx5251 Год назад +4

    I SWEAR I THOUGHT THIS WAS A NEW TACTICAL GAME DEMO

  • @markrunnalls7215
    @markrunnalls7215 11 месяцев назад +8

    Flipping great.. I heard a story of an ex path finder who was in a pub, some unfortunate indevidual upset him, ex pathfinder hit him once.. whack n that was that..
    Great to see a cracking Brit unit, rather than something yank all the time.. 🙄🙄.

  • @terrystokley2968
    @terrystokley2968 Год назад +4

    Everyman am emperor. The maroon machine.

  • @nipaporngartland7508
    @nipaporngartland7508 Год назад +2

    wow 😮😮😮😮

  • @lawrencepaul82nd
    @lawrencepaul82nd Год назад +5

    Airborne,All The Way

  • @mossychops
    @mossychops Год назад +2

    British Forces Pound = Universal Credit?

  • @yevgensimontsev650
    @yevgensimontsev650 Год назад

    Truth

  • @matthewdowney5449
    @matthewdowney5449 Год назад

    What version of herc has a refueling boom?

    • @harryh5620
      @harryh5620 Год назад +2

      KC-130 has drogues - but no boom.

    • @jimmymc10021
      @jimmymc10021 Год назад +1

      @@harryh5620 The one in the video has a refuelling boom on the front left side of the airframe.

    • @dallasyap3064
      @dallasyap3064 Год назад

      Probably MC-130 (for special operations), and maybe HC-130 (for long-range SAR/CSAR). Only heard about Herc getting additional features to receive fuel while airborne but not sure which variant.

  • @aroperator3998
    @aroperator3998 Год назад +10

    I wish I was born British, just for the opportunity to work hard and try for selection. (sigh)
    You have my respect.

    • @sundancetitan5675
      @sundancetitan5675 Год назад +3

      I mean if you come to the I’ll just wait 5 years apply for citizenship and you can join

  • @fragout9575
    @fragout9575 Год назад +3

    First In, Last Out!

    • @qpunk1
      @qpunk1 Год назад

      bodybag

    • @fragout9575
      @fragout9575 Год назад

      @@qpunk1 drink your White Claws and keep playing COD there keyboard warrior.
      It's the best your life will ever be...

    • @fragout9575
      @fragout9575 Год назад

      @@bishopofsahs great! Then you'll be selling what I'm already built or building!
      Carry On!

  • @andruemcgriddles4580
    @andruemcgriddles4580 Год назад +1

    🤙🏻

  • @Pembroke.
    @Pembroke. Год назад +2

    By the grace of God, stay safe and come home safe, there will be cold beers waiting for you

  • @baklava6138
    @baklava6138 Год назад +3

    Welcome to Bosnia boys !!

  • @whatuptommyboi5404
    @whatuptommyboi5404 Год назад +4

    They don’t want the smoke. NATO FTW 🙌

    • @shenglong9818
      @shenglong9818 Год назад +2

      Hah NATO can't even help Ukraine beat Russia.

    • @JohnSmith-ct4et
      @JohnSmith-ct4et Год назад +9

      @@shenglong9818 so why hasn’t Russia taken Ukraine yet? Its been more than 3 months. This is just getting sad now for the “great” Russia.

    • @bishopofsahs
      @bishopofsahs Год назад

      🚭

    • @qpunk1
      @qpunk1 Год назад

      @@JohnSmith-ct4et Russia is trying to save the people and not kill everyone like NATO does by bombing everything flat. Ukraine is not part of NATO but sure as hell looks like it with all the help its getting at this point just declare war, unless NATO dont want the smoke. Russia has been capturing and documenting dead NATO troops in ukraine and putting them on trial in LPD/DPR courts.

    • @5taunch
      @5taunch Год назад +1

      @@shenglong9818 yea Russia are so effective in Ukraine. Only been 4 months 😂😂😂😂

  • @dibdab699
    @dibdab699 Год назад

    Looks like somebody didn't like FCF getting all the headlines....

  • @jonathanpork-sausage617
    @jonathanpork-sausage617 Год назад +10

    This comments section is interesting.

    • @bishopofsahs
      @bishopofsahs Год назад

      💄on a 🐖

    • @5taunch
      @5taunch Год назад

      So many workers from _____. Keeping up appearances haha

  • @adamhall5298
    @adamhall5298 Год назад +6

    Bots are out. Bring out the popcorn, fellas.

    • @dmc2085
      @dmc2085 Год назад

      Anyone who is against NATO is a bot? What is this, a cult?

  • @flugruger25
    @flugruger25 Год назад +6

    until the invasion of Ukraine i spent little time thinking of those who protcet us from tyranny. that wont happen again. us europeans forgot that our way of life needs to be protected. our troops deserve the best gear and retirement benefits. they shouldn´t have to worry about the time after their active duty.

    • @Foreign0817
      @Foreign0817 Год назад +2

      This will change things. Hopefully we don't have to learn the hard way like in ww2, unprepared for war. But things will be different.

    • @freepalestine4192
      @freepalestine4192 Год назад

      Europeans only want to be protected from tyranny in Europe so they can enforce tyranny on their colonies around the world.

    • @jesuschrist1275
      @jesuschrist1275 Год назад

      You guys getting a hardon for war.. how pathetic.

  • @G4x5da
    @G4x5da Год назад +1

    UK soldiers always reach over the buttstock to hold the pistol grip of a AR platform rifle. Is it cause they’re initially trained on a bull-pup?

    • @themonolithian
      @themonolithian Год назад +1

      It does look weird now that you mention it

  • @millennialtrucker6435
    @millennialtrucker6435 Год назад +5

    The first 60 seconds of this video should have been the army’s new recruitment advert. Not the robot rubbish capita have just released.

    • @Michael-4
      @Michael-4 Год назад +1

      No. We need nerdy types who can fly drones, not some hairy arsed Para. We need soldiers who can embrace their gentler side and have empathy for the lived experience of the enemy who are about to bayonet them in the guts. 🌈💪

    • @c431inf
      @c431inf Год назад +1

      @@Michael-4 that was good 🤣

  • @archangel2405
    @archangel2405 Год назад +5

    #Pathfinders
    #Parachuteregiment
    #DavidBlakeley
    #SteveHeaney
    ✌🐉✌

    • @saiph8872
      @saiph8872 Год назад

      Every man and Emperor

  • @SNOWDONTRYFAN
    @SNOWDONTRYFAN Год назад +12

    when you compare watching that deployment onto the ground to the Russians in Ukraine when they tried to secure the key Antonov Airport.which ended up as a total disaster , sure they took the airport in the end , but it was totally useless to them as a major bridgehead , which showed their lack of training and above all joined up skills compared to the air assault forces of NATO

  • @dickyboyryw
    @dickyboyryw Год назад +1

    Good on All NATO Airborne. *So proud of my family, and, in a way, myself. Lol. But The Paras are Army Royalty. Xxxx

  • @Thebluesky0311
    @Thebluesky0311 Год назад +1

    are pathfinders a SOF unit?

    • @G4x5da
      @G4x5da Год назад +6

      They’re not part of UKSF or SOF brigade, so no. They are however, elite forces and have one of the most arduous selection courses outside UKSF

    • @neildavid10
      @neildavid10 Год назад +1

      They’re Special operations capable but aren’t under UKSF

    • @rudebkiller
      @rudebkiller Год назад +1

      Yes they are there role is
      Pathfinder
      Special reconnaissance
      Special operations

    • @G4x5da
      @G4x5da Год назад

      @@neildavid10 you must be American with your special operations capable?

    • @GEOsustainable
      @GEOsustainable Год назад

      What is SOF? Then I can tell you.We always used real words in my day. I was an American Pathfinder.

  • @patrickbamforth4235
    @patrickbamforth4235 Год назад +4

    why wasn't 3 para allowed to take part ?

    • @johnlake7530
      @johnlake7530 Год назад +10

      It’s all Martha’s fault

    • @gronk2002
      @gronk2002 Год назад +6

      Couple blokes had a bit of innocent fun with the local gash

    • @danielt3676
      @danielt3676 Год назад +6

      @@gronk2002 the whole battalion you mean😂

    • @JammyDodger45
      @JammyDodger45 Год назад

      It wasn't just mucky Martha it was the taxi incident in Macedonia (beat up the driver, robbed him, stole his car and crashed it) and a series of increasingly high profile fuck ups by the lads.
      The Battalion hierarchy was rotten (too many SNCO Cliques and behind closed doors deals).
      A series of senior postings is fixing things.

  • @aarond-hay9066
    @aarond-hay9066 Год назад +3

    Pathfinders≠Pathmakers

  • @mossychops
    @mossychops Год назад +2

    UK Army doing RNLI job. Operation Gladio?

    • @Flappatackle
      @Flappatackle Год назад

      "British" Army.
      And what do lifeboats have to do with it?

    • @mossychops
      @mossychops Год назад

      @@Flappatackle no law no country? #operationgladio

  • @mossychops
    @mossychops Год назад +2

    Uk army doing the job of the RNLI because of Operation Gladio?

    • @Kav.
      @Kav. Год назад

      How is Gladio relevant to the RNLI lmao?

  • @user-bj8jg2vu8z
    @user-bj8jg2vu8z Год назад +7

    🇬🇧💪

  • @TheYeti308
    @TheYeti308 Год назад +5

    I don't believe ivan wants to tangle with these chaps . !

    • @qpunk1
      @qpunk1 Год назад

      they wont survive in russia

    • @TheYeti308
      @TheYeti308 Год назад

      They said it was East Briton .

  • @888ssss
    @888ssss Год назад +2

    they could not find an affordable house, so how they find anything else ?

  • @liambeevor7983
    @liambeevor7983 Год назад +1

    3 Para ?😆

  • @user-ih9cf9ms3r
    @user-ih9cf9ms3r Год назад +6

    VDVs wet dream

    • @qpunk1
      @qpunk1 Год назад +2

      they do the same shit lol

    • @TB-zf7we
      @TB-zf7we Год назад +2

      @@qpunk1 Not as well, the VDV that is, as shown in Hostomel.

    • @tmanda323
      @tmanda323 Год назад

      @@TB-zf7we what happened in Hostomel?

    • @TB-zf7we
      @TB-zf7we Год назад +2

      @@tmanda323 1st day of Ukraine invasion VDV gets dropped by helicopter at airport which is outside Kyiv.
      VDV took the airport initially but were not able to hold after attack by QRF.
      No further supply/reinforcement reached their troops at the airport and main armoured relief thrust was too slow/late to help them.
      Hostomel was retaken later by main Russian force but then ultimately lost.

    • @obedsalashavoc995
      @obedsalashavoc995 Год назад +1

      @T B and the VDV unit was destroyed

  • @Thespiansewist
    @Thespiansewist Год назад +5

    Are their professional soldiers who believe NATO should push Russia out of Ukraine ?

    • @JammyDodger45
      @JammyDodger45 Год назад

      Yes.

    • @gawkthimm6030
      @gawkthimm6030 Год назад

      obviously yes but its not the military that sets policy and it would mostly likely end in nuclear war

    • @JammyDodger45
      @JammyDodger45 Год назад

      NATO would be in Moscow before Summer was done, and Putin would be shot by his own side long before a Nuclear option was on the cards.

    • @gawkthimm6030
      @gawkthimm6030 Год назад

      @@JammyDodger45 you dont think there are "dead-mens" switches that automatically launches nukes if the Kremlin falls? I think Russian leaders would rather let the world die than admit defeat

    • @JammyDodger45
      @JammyDodger45 Год назад +2

      @@gawkthimm6030 - well, firstly, there aren't Dead Man Switches on Russian Nukes, secondly those in power never want to relinquish it, so if the option is to Off Putin and stay at the top then that's what they'll do.
      Russia has a huge history of protecting the Motherland over Individuals.

  • @voto75
    @voto75 Год назад +12

    Guarantee Russia will never fight NATO.

    • @volairn70
      @volairn70 Год назад +3

      In their current state, I doubt they are even capable of doing so. Nuclear options aside, of course.

    • @Ram-1231
      @Ram-1231 Год назад

      Huh? You guys are smoking too much weed! NATO will never encounter Russia. Russia is not alone. NATO could barely beat Russia in every simulation ever created. However, enter Russia help from other countries and that equation reverse's drastically. Russia and China together are basically unstoppable.
      So guess what! Better start building your nuclear bomb shelter now.

    • @volairn70
      @volairn70 Год назад +1

      @@Ram-1231 We literally just said Russia is never going to fight NATO. What point are you trying to make? As to wargaming and simulations, two things. Wargames are designed to portray your enemy in their best possible light. The reason OPFOR at Fort Irwin basically went undefeated is exactly that reason. Simulations are designed to break the side conducting them if they are done well and for the right reasons. Those same simulations are why everyone predicted Ukraine to fall in 48-72 hours. The Russians have dramatically under performed, by literally everyone's expectations. Even their own. But you are right, NATO will not encounter Russia, except by proxy, which it is already doing
      .

    • @Ram-1231
      @Ram-1231 Год назад +2

      @@volairn70 No. NATO won't fight Russia. They will only do it through proxy wars. Russia will fight NATO. NATO isn't in a position of leverage. It's all about about leveraging. Russia is not in any way scared of NATO.

    • @volairn70
      @volairn70 Год назад

      @@Ram-1231 I don't think anyone argued that point. You came in saying "are you all smoking weed?" Then basically said the same things we were already saying. No one said Russia was scared of NATO. I mean, even Putin knows NATO is a defensive organization, in spite of the BS he uses to fuel scaremongering propaganda to drive his own agenda. That said, Russia absolutely lacks any real capability of launching an conventional offensive against NATO if it wanted to without the use of nuclear weapons. I don't think anyone on either side believes they will ever try that, but rhetoric is useful to both sides for their own agendas. Just rehashing the old Cold War vibes.

  • @Sleepingsilent22
    @Sleepingsilent22 Год назад +1

    What are you so afraid of we have our army right behind us

  • @dallasyap3064
    @dallasyap3064 Год назад +6

    I still don't understand why the US Army disbanded its pathfinder units

    • @rileybriggs4731
      @rileybriggs4731 Год назад +2

      Because they aren't that useful anymore. Airborne operations are completely irrelevant against a near peer force. Even a HALO jump wont avoid detection, so you'd essentially just be dropping them off with no support to be cut off, surrounded, and captured. That is if they don't get shot down before they can jump.

    • @oculent8979
      @oculent8979 Год назад +1

      @bab ep3 pathfinders and paratroopers have different uses. Pathfinders are a unit made to be dropped either behind enemy lines or into hostile territory, which as the above comment states is pretty much impossible against a peer or near-peer force due to modern air defence and radar capabilities.

    • @GEOsustainable
      @GEOsustainable Год назад +2

      I was a Pathfinder. It was rolled into Delta. Which is funny, because we already were Delta, which everyone knows, a 4th platoon is an odd bird already. Contrary to what the other guy said, we are still very effective in penetrating enemy lines. I can still fool infrared.

    • @GEOsustainable
      @GEOsustainable Год назад +1

      @@rileybriggs4731 Not really, that only happens in movies. If we do jump, it is far from enemy lines. We do a lot of walking, crawling, and pretty much be a total sneaky bastard, not much jumping. We got rolled into Delta though. It is pretty easy to fool infrared. I was a Pathfinder, brought 3 guys home from Laos. And I don't care who you are and how much gear you got, I WILL slap you on your ass before I end you....which explains why the UK still has them, NATO is one.

    • @aslysa2277
      @aslysa2277 Год назад +1

      @bab ep3 this is more so a traditional thing airborne units do I served in the 82nd as an 11b paratrooper we had a required 2 jumps every year and learned about airborne operations but 99% of the time we trained for land combat operations they told us airborne tactics will never be implemented against a near peer threat the airborne capability is useful against third world militaries or against enemies who do not have sophisticated anti aircraft systems as it’s uslesss we deployed by light armored vehicles most the time or by being dropped off by chinook miles away from “enemy AA” and walking there as light infantry

  • @HandleMyBallsYouTube
    @HandleMyBallsYouTube Год назад +25

    Lots of Rusbots over here, you guys should quit, they're probably not paying you enough.

    • @compassroses
      @compassroses Год назад

      They should quit because they only succeed in making Westerners despise belligerent Ruscists and other militant terrorist groups even more.

    • @daniels1263
      @daniels1263 Год назад

      Definitely paying you enough

  • @renatobrito3455
    @renatobrito3455 Год назад

    ❤️❤️❤️🇺🇦🇧🇷❤️❤️

  • @huntclanhunt9697
    @huntclanhunt9697 Год назад +6

    The US also has pathfinders. They're sent in ahead of paratroopers to mark the drop zones.

    • @christopherhazell420
      @christopherhazell420 Год назад +3

      Not anymore!
      The company's were inactivated & the course has ceased @ Ft. Benning.
      *Only the 101st still conducts classes, not sure their student metrics?

    • @Ben_2761
      @Ben_2761 Год назад

      Not as good as us

    • @sovkhan4359
      @sovkhan4359 Год назад

      @@Ben_2761 who do you think trains them 💀💀

    • @DirtyMikeandTheBoys69
      @DirtyMikeandTheBoys69 4 месяца назад

      The US Army still has Pathfinders, but they're not of the same caliber, nor treated the same as the UK's Pathfinders. In the US, it's just an academic course and certification. In the UK, it's an actual unit. Ours are just regular soldiers who took on a gentleman's course. These guys are a different breed entirely!

  • @gma2893
    @gma2893 Год назад +8

    Very impressive. Ukraine could use their help…

    • @carsonmedlin9444
      @carsonmedlin9444 Год назад +3

      ukraine is not in NATO

    • @madeinengland9488
      @madeinengland9488 Год назад

      @@carsonmedlin9444 not yet son.not yet!

    • @operator9858
      @operator9858 Год назад

      @@madeinengland9488 by the time that happens they will be a charity case, not a contibutor.

  • @robertdonnell8114
    @robertdonnell8114 Год назад +18

    All fun and games PARAs until the UK Gov finds out that you are Heterosexuals'.

    • @mosslife488
      @mosslife488 Год назад +5

      Paras heterosexuals? I don’t think you know the British parachute regiment

    • @jesuschrist1275
      @jesuschrist1275 Год назад +1

      ​@@mosslife488This comment needs say no more.

  • @chrissample3047
    @chrissample3047 Год назад +1

    Can you go to the store get a candy bar

  • @steveaustin1011
    @steveaustin1011 Год назад +2

    3 para block parties look decent like. ;)

  • @jimjefftube
    @jimjefftube Год назад +4

    I wish we could aid Ukraine more as I see all the civilians affected by Dwarf Putins Invasion of its peaceful neighbor. Well done soldiers and always be ready.

    • @elder_brewster
      @elder_brewster Год назад +7

      You can go fight, bud

    • @916Pashok
      @916Pashok Год назад +7

      go and volunteer yourself to the front line then

    • @british1139
      @british1139 8 месяцев назад +1

      Calling Ukraine "Peaceful" is a stretch.

    • @markpirie1986
      @markpirie1986 2 месяца назад +1

      Ukraine 🇺🇦 is a horrible place! Even before the invasion 2 year's ago, they're a former Eastern bloc Commie Nazi blooded sympathisers, Russia herself is just as bad. But places of the former Warsaw pact are cold minded, and know how to play the sympathiser cards, DON'T TRUST UKRAINE!! ASWELL AS RUSSIA EITHER. DO NOT TRUST UKRAINE 😏🫡

    • @MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists
      @MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists Месяц назад

      @@markpirie1986 Dude ! So brainwahed you are....silly

  • @blade4868
    @blade4868 Год назад +13

    I’m proud of my country but I don’t think we should get involved anymore unless we the British people are threatened or our land is, we should just take a back seat we’ve spilt to much blood for others, stop foreign aid and let’s start bulking up our defences

    • @halbhatia6651
      @halbhatia6651 Год назад +6

      im sure Boris Johnson will read this comment and do what John boy wants

    • @trtvitor1385
      @trtvitor1385 Год назад +12

      The war may seem far enough away right now for that policy to be fine. But it might end up on your doorstep, and having you wish you had banded together earlier.

    • @Jem_Apple
      @Jem_Apple Год назад +11

      Isolation is stupid. Simple as. You can very easily research the likely consequences yourself

    • @blade4868
      @blade4868 Год назад

      Still stand by my statement British troops shouldn’t be bleeding unless it’s for there people, we should never have gone Iraq and Afghan and we should definitely not be getting involved with America and russias dick swinging contest

    • @JB-td9fz
      @JB-td9fz Год назад +1

      Behave

  • @Bullster2663
    @Bullster2663 Год назад +2

    Could without the loud bass background thudding

  • @user-vj8bq1pe4e
    @user-vj8bq1pe4e Год назад +2

    As a result of the spelling of the APU "MARS" in Belgorod, a family of Ukrainian refugees from Kharkov was killed. Freaks.

    • @adamhall5298
      @adamhall5298 Год назад

      As a result of Russian shelling of Saltivka, people in Kharkiv die every day. Try again, orc.

  • @ILoveLamp-sj4bx
    @ILoveLamp-sj4bx Год назад +4

    See ya russki 👋

    • @qpunk1
      @qpunk1 Год назад +1

      this aint no 3rd world country you can bully around, you ain't halo dropping them into Russia, interception is almost certain.

    • @theledal
      @theledal Год назад

      @@qpunk1 you're right, a third world country would probably have a better organized military than Russia 👍🏻

    • @mursalgessi6524
      @mursalgessi6524 Год назад

      @@qpunk1 with s400😂😏

    • @cheefqueef6494
      @cheefqueef6494 Год назад +1

      @@qpunk1 cope

  • @thebr5294
    @thebr5294 Год назад +4

    Ukraine is like today's gladiator arena.

  • @bazilmatthews9299
    @bazilmatthews9299 Год назад +1

    Isn't that what the Marines do already. But hang on. Isn't that what the SA have been doing since world war 2

    • @dukeofduckingham5480
      @dukeofduckingham5480 Год назад +2

      Pathfinders deploy ahead of the main paratrooper formation to mark the landing zone or something I believe

    • @fredthered2778
      @fredthered2778 Год назад

      Sas/sbs/srs are special forces.
      Pathfinders (paras) mountain leaders (marines) are a step below

  • @user-zb3vy7zj3g
    @user-zb3vy7zj3g 2 месяца назад +3

    Access to files SF Harris? Oversight SF? Inteli be. Plan no. Nato DA SOUTH. HOW NOT ALLOWED LIES FROM... RESPONSE NOW. NOT YES AND BACK SO DOLLAR FORGET ME. VITALITY 😊😊❤😊❤❤😊😊❤

  • @Aaronsmith-cu8ii
    @Aaronsmith-cu8ii Год назад +3

    You can’t deter Russia in Macedonia

    • @Evan-hq5dt
      @Evan-hq5dt Год назад

      Right, we deter them in Washington.

  • @Thespiansewist
    @Thespiansewist Год назад +2

    Would there be majority agreement among professional soldiers that Putin would use Nuclear weapons in Ukraine
    if Russian army was to be pushed out

    • @angelopugliese6034
      @angelopugliese6034 Год назад +3

      He's just cowardly enough to do so.

    • @Husker5454
      @Husker5454 Год назад

      no doesnt follow their nuclear deployment doctrine atall . Its used as a last resort when the threat of the russian peoples way of life is threatened .

    • @robshirewood5060
      @robshirewood5060 Год назад

      No, professional soldiers, do not think Russia would invade NATO countries either, because they do not have the manpower or resources, to hold territory and control whole populations all the way to the French coast and beyond. The whole idea of NATO being threatened by Russia is bs, alternatively Russia being threatened by the US and NATO forces is a real factor in the debate. None of this chaos need have happened, and that is down to Biden from 2014 and his Devil's cartel in Washington

    • @robshirewood5060
      @robshirewood5060 Год назад +1

      @@angelopugliese6034 He is no coward, never underestimate, one for the first rules of soldiering, he has already stated Russia will not use military nuclear capability until Russia is attacked first by similar weapons, but if it does happen, they have "dead man's hand" system which ensures that if Russia ceases to exist it automatically fires on every nation, which means adios to everyone. Nobody can win.

    • @Husker5454
      @Husker5454 Год назад

      @@robshirewood5060 it just isnt bindens fault tho is it . putin chose to be the aggressor , russia has chosen to threatern neighbors , russia chose to invade crimea , they could of made so much money and had a booming economy if they actually decided to work with the west peacfully like everyone else but no . if nato and the west wanted to invade or crush russia then why in fuck would they make themselfs vaunrable to hydrocarbon cutoffs like germany , this isnt some eleborate ploy by washinton this is a mad dictator wanting the soviet union back so hes land grabbing and thinking he can get away with it .

  • @axelaxel7118
    @axelaxel7118 Год назад +1

    In Bosnia we will be Nato partisans haha

    • @operator9858
      @operator9858 Год назад

      You will do what you are told and like it.

    • @axelaxel7118
      @axelaxel7118 Год назад +1

      @@operator9858 something like that problem is we heard a lot of voices teling us what to do so we dont know who to listen anymore

    • @lopov5112
      @lopov5112 Год назад

      @@axelaxel7118 bosnia is about to split into 3 pieces anyway

    • @axelaxel7118
      @axelaxel7118 Год назад

      @@lopov5112 Lots of people woud die and noane is willing for that unfortunatly nothing will hapened

    • @lopov5112
      @lopov5112 Год назад

      @@axelaxel7118 half of the country is already autonomous. You think Serbs and Croats want to live with the Arabs and Turks that are moving in?

  • @Roland_Tr909_Swing
    @Roland_Tr909_Swing Год назад +4

    Got news for you ...boris gifted all of your best gear .

    • @danieloost6523
      @danieloost6523 Год назад +7

      Got news for you, that does not matter. What matters, is that nato can send Russia back to the stone age

    • @jd8226
      @jd8226 Год назад +4

      @@danieloost6523 NATO countries are too busy sending themselves back into the Stone Age 🤣

    • @Roland_Tr909_Swing
      @Roland_Tr909_Swing Год назад +1

      @@danieloost6523 well what are you waiting for? NATO is spineless

    • @danieloost6523
      @danieloost6523 Год назад +3

      @@jd8226 yeah sure. Are you really that blinded? The US alone could take on Russia, let alone + France, Uk, Germany, Spain, Italy ect ect

    • @danieloost6523
      @danieloost6523 Год назад

      @@Roland_Tr909_Swing what we are waiting for? We are not waiting? You see, the reason why nukes were invented really comes to play in this situation. Are you guys really that stupid? You were the one that brought “power” to the table. And if it comes to it, NATO will absolutely destroy Russia. But they won’t, because of nuclear threath

  • @buzzmeanytime
    @buzzmeanytime Год назад +4

    I hope this generation's Airborne isn't the same airborne from World War II? That Market Garden Fiasco should have never happened. Airborne was misused and misled. Montgomery didn't know what he was doing

    • @carbonarapadrino
      @carbonarapadrino Год назад +2

      Montgomery wasn't in on the plan to keep the war going a further nine months to allow German capital asset liquidation to foreign holdings. Bormann instructed leading Geman industrialists to do this. The Smith family are one of Britain's oldest banking houses. Eisenhower almost certainly knew, as many Wall St entities were also involved. The Bush family were particularly enthusiastic participants

    • @buzzmeanytime
      @buzzmeanytime Год назад

      @@carbonarapadrino All about money , greed and power!

    • @buzzmeanytime
      @buzzmeanytime Год назад +1

      @@carbonarapadrino Your saying that the entire reason why so many paratroopers were needlessly killed is because the powers that be ala, the family's previously mentioned in your statement, were trying to dissolve all German finances and have them transferred over into British Banking? Can you please elaborate on your statement. Thank you

    • @spitcatTV
      @spitcatTV Год назад +1

      Its impressive you can be so confidently wrong about something.