British soldiers in Army's largest Europe exercise for a decade
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- Опубликовано: 27 окт 2022
- British soldiers are taking part in the force's largest field exercise in 2022 - also the biggest in Europe for a decade.
Exercise Cerberus sees nearly 3,500 troops deployed to Germany, aimed at confirming the five British Army brigade headquarters that sit within the division are ready for operations.
It is a large command post exercise designed to assess the ability of the brigade headquarters in 3rd UK Division - the United Kingdom's fighting division - and ensure readiness.
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3,300, sheesh is that what counts as large nowadays? I remember Operation Lionheart back in the early 80's. Well over 130,000 British forces deployed for that one.
I was in that one, and Crusader.
SLR’s as well?
The water was wetter back then as well I suspect 😉
I deployed from the UK, straight out of training for that one. You’ve never so much kit. Flew back on a chartered BA 747 in 1st Class, that was fun 😀
It's genuinely pathetic. Not only the numbers, but it's essentially staged theatre. Each soldier and each vehicle knows where they need to be at any one time. Nothing is spontaneous or by surprise. In other words, it's as far from actual warfare as you could possibly get. It's all about hitting bureaucratic targets, and we'll pay for it one day.
Good to see the British Army’s uniquely uncomfortable foldable camping chair still preventing watchkeepers from falling asleep on stag.
You had a chair??!!?????
Yea 3000 of them if I was Russia id be scared stiff lol.
@will Derby No maybe after 2nd world war 1970s BAOR army was 55 000 were do you get 200 000 from .
@will Derby An X Spurt is that a new IFV .
@will Derby You Drink Yellow handbags dont know that drink were do you get 200 000 from because the regular army wasnt that big .
I am seeing a few tactical moustaches you can't fight a war in Europe without one
Mustached soldiers are 80% more effective.
Just wish we would increase our defence spending. Also stop sending pilots to train the Chinese
Nobody in the MOD is sending Ex RAF Pilots to train the Chinese. The Chinese are paying them amounts we couldnt comprehend.
Our defence spending is 5th in the world
@@jacobgx6502 Still it should be more.
@@x67th they are but the chinese are currently furious. the pilots passed on secrets to OUR ministry of defence.
I don't know for which part of your comment you get likes
Same kit we had in 1980s. Warrior, Landrover, cam nets, 432 and SA80s.
Absoultly nothings changed
@@johnribble better boots and webbing now though.
@@johnribble Theres a high chance of the SA80 being replaced now.
Not the same amount of discipline either. The army these days is a shadow of its former self having to rely too much on Commonwealth recruits Too many fine regiments disbanded. Where did it all go wrong!.
Be the Best my arse!
@@apollo8972 went wrong in late 80s mate , withdrawing from Germany ,defence cuts ,don’t even have itchy blankets now n bed blocks 😬😂
god the soldier at 0:47 looks like a young John Bercow, it's uncanny.
The first vehicle up is a 50 year old (at least) FV432. Great advert for the modern British Army. And we criticise the Russkis for still using Cold War kit
Think of them as the 50yr old cougar, may not be flashy, maybe a bit slow but can still give you a good time
It's Boxer with big Cummins engine, not old 432.
@@victornewman9904 that's what's supposed to be replacing them and the Warriors you mean
@@victornewman9904 Deffo not a Boxer. I guess you mean Bulldog. Still very much a 432, just re engined and tarted up. Chassis and body etc are still ancient.
They were old when I was in in the early 90s
@@armholeeio definitely a 10 pinter though 🤣🤣
Excellent video!
That 43 at the start sounded very different from my day.
Certa cito
Go lads
Probably because it didn’t have a coffin on top
Though it’s nice to see them still running, the last one I saw IRL was over 20 years ago :)
3DivHQ&SR
@@wyverncoch4430 when I left they were in the process of overhauling them.
Bulldog I think they called them.
Made the running gear more like the warrior.
Got rid of the crappy underpowered multi fuel engines
Can you do a video on why it's a good idea to carry an EDC, - more what to have in one, and where to get the contents in shops, including a bleed kit & it's contents. good idea for commuters I feel
It's still far too prepared, as all NATO exercises have been for decades now. The military is given too much planning time, and everything is too staged.
What should happen is the combined ministers of defence suddenly spring it on all their militaries that they need to mobilise in a certain location as soon as possible. Only that element of surprise will truly test not only the readiness of individual forces, but whether they can actually coordinate together.
Isn't that the point though? Make the Brigade plan and learn from the exercise.
The next exercise can test short notice adaptability.
@@RobBCactive And yet, I guarantee the next one will be exactly the same as every one that has gone before for years now - perfectly planned for the media and politicians to come and see.
@@stephengilmore2741 the next "exercise" could easily be a real rapid deployment, the troops who have to be "ready to fight tonight" manage to adjust.
You're presuming your test is necessary and you know better, despite many urgent deployments occurring fairly regularly over decades.
All the best lads hopefully you won't have to but if you do have to kick ass lads and lasses
However outdated the Warrior is. I still can't help but love it. With a well trained crew and dismounts, It's still an absolute beast imo.
Shout out to the 432s still chugging along. 😁
I would say I'm impressed but I was on Lionheart.
I was on Lionheart too and in B A O R during the cold war
@@LesliePotter216 I spent time in Münster, Minden and Osnatraz.
0:53 Major General James Martin & John Bercow (former speaker) look remarkably alike!
Thanks I was trying to think who he looked like 😅
John Bercow in the Army , hihi
That dude with the tash using a civi radio? Says alot
Yep, you think they would know what happens to Russians using commercial walkie talkies.
good to see the troops using the unmanned vehicle to help them.
Stay safe all our troops are always there up in front 🙏 🙌 👍
Clever name for the exercise.
Brilliant 👍👍👏
Viva la Britain🇬🇧 ❤️🔥
its good to do these exercises, especially working with multiple countries like that but maybe just change the venue to crimea.
How big were the british forces a decade ago....... Sorted that pvr rate yet top brass?
That same British Army that successive defence cuts have reduced to 72000, smaller than it was at the time of Waterloo. Don't forget as well our "far sighted???" government closed all our bases in Germany now all have to deploy from the UK at vast expense!
Its about a 20'000 fighting strength now days. The rest are ballast.
As the russians have amply shown us, it´s not about the size of the dog in a fight.
@@derf9465 More like 7000, teeth to remfs are about 1 in 10, in the US it's even higher!
@@Anashadk Agreed but even the best soldier cannot be in two places at once! The Ukraine are raising an Army of 1 million to defeat the Russians, think what would be needed against the Chinese!
@@johnallen7807 There are major differences, Putin is reliant on reelection, Xi not, many of the old ineffective weapons have been used up in Ukraine and it has suited the west to prolong the conflict in Ukraine, probably to get rid of the older weapons.
The new weapons are vastly superior in killing many people/vehicles at a time and would be used to stop an invasion before it really got underway.
I remember some of that stuff from the 80s 😱
Not Exactly Lionheart..... he he
Would you park your command vehicles in such close proximity in a hostile situation…I’m talking about the kit within barbed wire
And the 43’s are still going…
Can’t believe they still use the 432 😅
The armies like being forced to eat soup with a fork even know there’s a spoon on the table
We should never have moved form Europe in the first place!
Good lads
Brilliant and Handsome
Imagine what these guys could do with the Boxer ifvs, can't wait!
Probably crash em as they twice as fast as a 432
"From the UK to the continent of Europe". That's hilarious. The British just can't accept they're Europeans from the continent of Europe. They have to be so special and unique
yes hundreds of years invasion will show you that , why special ? we all have viking,celtic,roman,germatic ect,ect blood ,but are lucky we are a small island surrounded by water, then england came to be , then the british island came to be,,then a empire ruled the world,ect ect,, that bit of water between europe and the uk answers your question
@@jasoncornthwaite8387 you sure are funny. Thanks for proving my point for me. Anywyas, the land on either side if the English channel is Europe. When you see Calais from Dover, you're looking at Europe. When you see the cliffs of Dover from Calais, you're looking at Europe.
So the channel kept the UK special? The irish sea sure didn't keep the north eastern part of Ireland from being its own kind of special. Your argument is pointless. What's iceland, North America? By your logic it's a hell of a lot more "special" than the UK.
You are Europeans, just admit it. It's like a brother saying he's not related to his siblings. It's silly.
look ile keep it simple,, your not seeing my point , yes we are Europeans but did it different from the mainland ,,history tells you that,, william the conquer tells you that,, the kingdoms of said island tell you that,, a british empire tells you that,,,lol
iceland was viking,, north america not very special full of european french,,,lol
@@jasoncornthwaite8387 its not different. the French empire existed. It wasnt that different in terms of reach and influence. Its European just like the british empire.
Youre trying to split hairs. You're Europeans, your culture and your land. You can keep grasping at straws in order to differentiate yourselves from the reat of the European peoples but its futile. Every point you make in order to differentiate yourself can be applied to another European nation and made moot. British empire, french empire, UK is an island nation so is iceland. Etc.
Our army is too small
I think we are going back to the pre world war 1. Where the British Army was fired like a canon off the deck of a ship.
You are correct. We need to stand up and demand and vote for more. Can you imagine if we were in Ukrainians shoes right about now! The world has changed, we need to wake up and become more prepared.
Better to have a well trained military that is smaller in number than a poorly trained bigger one...look at Russia V Ukraine , one British soldier is worth ten Russian conscripts!!!.😎💕🇬🇧🇺🇦
The UK's army is more than big enough to defend the UK plus do its share of NATO defense.
@@Lost-In-Blank absolutely not. It can barely put a division in the field. That is pathetic.
All of the services have been cut back to the point where they are losing credibility due to small size. No depth: one significant engagement with casualties and poof goes the British Army. Lose three or four warships and poof goes the Royal Navy's ability to field a force. Couple of days of combat with significant losses and bye-bye Royal Air Force.
FV432s - still? RLY? Wow.
did he say send a lager in the end?
Many a lager has been sunk in Sennelager.
What's that yellow rifle attachment?
its a BFA, Blank Firing Attachment. Stops people getting hot metal in the face at close ranges when firing blank ammo
Not quite. It’s there to prevent gas escaping and allow the weapon to be fired on auto/semi-auto with blank rounds. Also, to make it front heavy and extra miserable to carry on exercise.
@@BravoNineThreeTwo Were BFAs transferable from the SLR rifle to the
SA 80 or was a new one designed?
@@LesliePotter216 No, we had a special one designed that was unnecessarily large and almost doubled the weight of the rifle. Thus, making patrolling, marksmanship and concealment on combat operations seem far easier by comparison. Genius.
Teaching operations they need to use in Europe, not really a deployment but these people will be leading a future deployment
allways teaching mate,,, gobshites with more tanks on social media now feel safe
Played this at 2x with Benny Hill music.
The British Army is far too small.
Then join up?
@@derf9465 That won’t make it bigger, it will just replace someone who retires.
The gun on the warrior is looking dated.
30mm rarden is still pretty capable. Will knock out any IFV easily. As theirs would ares. It's the opitcs that are more important, being to see them before they see you is huge. Luckily they still have quite upto date systems.
Which should do until its potential replacement comes in.
Made up nonsense.
The fact British RAF pilots are helping train the Chinese is appalling.
The East German / West German frontier is no longer the border that must be defended. NATO forces in Europe should be training in front line nations, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Norway, and once Finland joins NATO, Finland. That said, UK contributions to NATO should not be greater than France's or Germany's on a percentage of GDP basis. The UK gets no appreciation from the EU for contributing 50 to 80% more than its fair share.
You are getting confused between the EU and NATO.
NATO have many countries that are not in the EU (USA, Turkey, Canada and Norway to name a few), and the EU has several countries that are not members of NATO.
Pity our Country 🇬🇧 wasn't run like this .
Go get um lads 👍
This is not the largest training op for a decade.
You can see today in Ukraine how NATO has spent valuable time and energy running CPX exercises with their counterparts ! in the meanwhile the only thing missing from that CPX in Germany is Wolfgang The Bratty Man who could manoeuvre his famous fast food van better than the Tank drivers on Soltau training area !
Wow, I remember him and if I remember he knew where everyone was too 😁
@@charlesnash8441 Sure , we all thought he had inside intel on the various exercises , but it was mainly down to follow the newly churned up mud made by the units . he apparently bought a camp site in Germany which his daughter now runs !
He'd just send the food forward on one of those remote control banana splits vehicles with a card machine and it's own WiFi.
Didn't know that squidward was a narrator 😅
Did Wolfgang turn up
Well, he is King of the Panzers.
- The numbers are clearly not there anymore ..
What do you mean?
Waste of money , energy and fuel , very expensive way to have fun .
Not at all.
Oh, I love the humour of calling the exercise "Cerberus"! As the multi-headed guard dog from hell, it's an apt name for NATO troops.
Where are the Challenger tanks, Apaches gunships above them, and Typhoons flying above them!🤔
Get those helmets on behind that laptop. Noooooooooow.
Britain maybe small but ve quality soldier's in the world.
Good morning
Testing expensive pish equipment that will get used anyway
Recruiting number indicate not that many young men in the UK, USA, and Canada feel that their country is prepared to defend the interests of them and their culture against discrimination and persecution. They seem to feel the cultures and people our armed forces will be called upon to defend are *perhaps* as foreign as Russian culture and the Russian people. What bigot will claim it is worse to be taken over by Russia's Eurasian cultures than by any other culture? Are not all peoples and cultures equal?
I can't explain our world today. It all seems so contradictory. All sides seem so hypocritical, although some more than others.
Is this the new Eu army
Long live Boston dynamics
Thank you guys.
We count on you to keep our Freedom.
Great Britain may not have a large army but I bet they know their pro-nouns.
M113 APC get real
the population of the country is not represented in this video. Time to rebuild UK'S military.
Not exactly D DAY is it...and Thay will have to come up with a better way to deliver those "STINGERS" that drone buggy needs a proper cradle made so thay don't fall off!!!.🤔💕🇬🇧🇺🇦
It's for show! They aren't stingers and they won't fall off!
@@garagenigel OK!.🤔😂😂
Sending Mr Putin a message Rishi old son?.
Is the job of UK armed forces to both defend the UK and do its fair share of defending Europe? *Or is it to be the guy in the trailer park with the second largest gun collection, after the USA?* The military is necessary, a necessary drag on the economy, and while it should be funded adequately, it should not be funded excessively, it should not be given funds just to have more stuff than bigger and more prosperous countries like Germany, France, Norway, etc. Take the UK's over-contribution to NATO and put that money into courses on entrepreneurship, engineering, science, and skilled trades.
Huge force...is that a joke
Number 2 of the OTAN 👍🇬🇧
Britain should keep out of this.
You have to train for any scenario.
Genius of the MOD closing BFG and BAOR beforehand lol, great work lads. We now have an army standing at 80K reg and lets say 30K TA, out of which we have what, 40K frontline soldiers?. The NHS has 1.2 million full time employees, 60K illegal refugees have crossed the border in the last year and taken up refuge in British hotels and motels that the British people pay for and the MOD can't recruit or retain a fighting force of 100k of regs. Thank God the Russians have to get past Europe before they reach Blighty.
It was a last minute decision not to hand-back the Senne Training Area to the German government, although there are no longer regular troops based in Sennelager. Thank God, keeping the training area foothold in Germany has turned out to be a good strategic decision. However, the ridiculous reduction in troop numbers is madness.
Let's fight atomic war and die with all. 🥰🥰🥰🥰
While you are there might as well wade in to Moscow and take the Kremlin. Should not be too difficult at the moment. A few thousand well trained troops should do the trick
I'd rather fight for the Kremlin. At least they seem anti Globalist even though Putin attended Davos.
Go 🇬🇧 fight in Ukraine for 🇺🇦 💪
love the British army would destroy any rusky army any day love our boys out there
we need to strengthen our army against russia
They would have great difficulty deploying a division. The current British Army has more horses than main battle tanks.
How many tanks you have again? Yes keep dreaming 😴
I'm glad the Brita didn't get our of NATO... after the brexit debacle, u can't take anything for granted when you involve the right wing (anywhere)...
Dunkirk??? 😂🤣🤣😭😭
They should go over to Russia and start wrecking stuff.
be good if we fixed are own borders
Glory to NATO
for doing what though?????
We know the enemy is coming, better be ready for that. Thank you for defending the freedom in the world!
Otan dare not. Will become ash.🤗💖👍
Probably the worst lager in the world!
HURRAH FOR THE C.R.E.
Ukraine is running low on manpower, say your prayer Brits
A whale doesn't need to know how to walk on the ground rather than to swim better
Uk should be more focusing on their navy expect for USA and imperial Japan no one could suppress it
And of course Air force as it required in this century.
Ahwell all good in peace, however I've been following the Russian military genocide of Ukraine 🇺🇦 and modern weapons are very good but Ukraine's abilities to use drones and small munitions to destroy thousands of Russian military equipment, tanks, vehicles and around 70 thousand soldiers of allegedly the second strongest military. Well in my opinion the Ukrainian citizens, military and the greatest ever president of the free world, are the smartest country on earth 🌎 SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦 from 🇦🇺 Australia 🇺🇦 ♥️ 🇦🇺
RUSSIAN PRO
Nato is no joke
Isn't it cute how the Brits still pretend they have an army
as long as the world stays round folk of the british islands have never or never will pretend,, and cute is not a word i would describe them,,
@@jasoncornthwaite8387 British land army is small enough i reckon even australia could take it. Brits still have a navy....though they seem to have forgotten how to make a working carrier vehicle
@@Raikenbolai look , how small or powerful one is ,the modern armys of today is tech and intelligence ,, were do you think the british now stand in this ? and if our modern tech fails ,even carrier vehicles ,,do you really think we brits will entertain auzzys,,lol
@@jasoncornthwaite8387 well they certainly have the tech and know how to blow up a German gas pipeline. As for a modern European ground war......sorry champ.
@@Raikenbolai well its down to pure warrior rage and pride on the battlefields with a brew and an axe then,, modern fuckers hey,,,lol
China has a 4 million soldiers. Keep on training)))) what a joke
It's not China's troops that are the threat in Europe, only Russian, so it's incumbant for those nations to be ready to meet that threat, it's obvious & hardly a 'joke'.
china did well inOpium wars,, whats changed in a modern world,, 4 mill troops,,lol
Eastern Europe is Russia
''deploy forces on a huge scale'' you say. Even your propaganda isn't that good.
3000 troops is considered large scale nowadays.
@@orangeairsoft7292 Even with technology and air advantage, if it ever gets into a shooting war on a large scale with multiple countries, then itll be a different matter- the small mobile mindset has gotten them through but through sheer luck and fighting spirit ( think 3 para in afghan)
@@belesariius the small army model has worked mainly because the UK and the West have mostly fought their wars in the middle east where large scale confrontations are changed to snall scale guerilla warfare, where low troop numbers are better for policing, etc. But in conventional warfare, you absolutely need manpower even with tech. The US invading Iraq needed hundreds of thousands of troops in total. Part of the reason Russia failed to overrun Ukraine was because they tried invading a massive country with only 190K troops, because he didn't expect to actually meet any resistance.
@@orangeairsoft7292 yep thats my point - if it comes to a larger scale fight, the pitiful size of the uk army wont cut it
@@belesariius as always, they'll only change when they're forced to. Thankfully the Ukraine war has woken the world up to the prospect of a proper full scale war.
Let Russia Win . - They at least preserve their culture ; we need that attitude in europe
how about no
So ironic that your name is "Roma Invicta" - do you realise how vital immigration was to the expanse of the Roman Empire? Assimilating newly conquered territories rather than simply enslaving them was what made them endure for so long.
Always funny when someone tries to use history, but knows nothing about it.
Silly little fascist. I suppose we should have let Hitler win too?
well said.
Haha their culture right....
Yeah, "culture". I think we can guess what you mean by that.
Long before these materials got within 100 miles of Russia, the entire nuclear arsenal of Russia, some 4.5 thousand nuclear missiles would be launched and within 3 hours the entire Northern Hemisphere would be wasteland. But yeah, keep playing playing games who don't we? 😱😱
well said m8
Well, that sounds so desperate 😂
Knowing that Rusky's conventional armed forces including their own made weapons are inferior against NATO armed forces and weapons!
That is why, since 24 February 2022, the day of Pootin's brutal invasion to Ukraine, he threatens America and allies with nukes, almost every single month.
Let us pretend that United States of America, Republic of France, and United Kingdom do not have nukes 🤫
Then you would be nuked, also.
So what’s your point?
Putin is not black mailing anyone.
More than that.. our nuclear doctrine dictates that if there's a nuclear war, we fire everything we have at everyone we never liked.
Northern Hemisphere a wasteland? More like the whole freaking world or what's left of it because here in the US while most of us are dead our Nuclear Arsenal will be wiping out Most of Russia,and half of China and all of North Korea. Too bad none of us will be alive to see that😒
Where's the distinctive hemet the British Army had, gone ? Could always recognize them.
Don’t mean anything about the size Uk has some of the best forces and special forces 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇧
Is the job of UK armed forces to both defend the UK and do its fair share of defending Europe? Or is it to win prizes for best forces?
@@Lost-In-Blank it obviously helps if you have an above average fighting force though doesn't it! You can't go around the world waving Willie's without backing it up somehow! Look at the VDV!
Small force is great for a two day war. Absolutley useless when conflict drags on for years.
Rip
Tories best keep to the 3% increase