British troops learn how to hide from kamikaze drone threat

[Music] stretched out across a Sandy corner of Northern Poland just some of NATO’s Firepower American Polish and British brigades practicing how they’d move thousands of troops and equipment at speed to NATO’s Eastern flank we are trading essentially for a peer-to-peer threat now and that’s not necessarily something that’s happen happening over to to the east uh past Europe but um but for any enemy um wherever that might appear how we trading differently see a lot more armor now that’s not something we ever trained with well required to train with for Afghanistan we didn’t have that capability over there and the way that we need to be training in terms of how we are seen on the battlefield and how we maneuver around the battlefield is obviously completely different immediate response is part of a much larger europe-wide exercise called steadfast Defender 990,000 Personnel from all 32 NATO member states are involved on this exercise in Poland the British army has deployed 12th armored Brigade combat team camped out on the draftco pomorski training area around what looks like an old Soviet scud missile are two of the brigade’s battle groups one from the first Battalion the Royal Welsh and another from first Battalion the mercian regiment and attached to each of them is a squadron of Challenger 2 tanks less than four decades ago this was actually a Warsaw pack training area there would have been Russian tanks and soldiers here where there are now British Warrior armored vehicles Ukraine is just 450 Mi to the east of here which is why under understandably Poland feels very vulnerable and why the ability to get NATO troops here quickly and in large numbers is so important how has Ukraine impacted the way that you are training uh so Ukraine’s impacted Us in the same way that all conflicts impact us we take lessons from those and we look at how that would affect any modern ble space and we Implement procedures techniques and tactics to to work within that um in terms of fpv drones you know that’s something that’s capability that’s been around quite a long time now It’s relatively news to the British army uh but importantly our counter uh to that that threat has been ongoing and the work’s been ongoing for quite some time now and I know that the US Army um also quite developed in that area as well as the Royal Welsh and mercian 12 Brigade is also in command of a US Army squadron from the 10th Cavalry Regiment and their Bradley Fighting Vehicles the British army has sent 2 and a half th000 troops and 800 Vehicles here to Poland and for these mechanized Infantry units it’s a chance to practice large scale maneuver alongside the Army’s Challenger 2 tanks first it’s a great experience and it shows them the type of force that we have when we come together as a battle group and as a brigade as we are at the minute that if we were call forward into any type of conflict I think it fills them with that confidence that we’ll be going on mass well trained well armed and well prepared the war in Ukraine has seen the return of trench warfare to Europe in a corner of the the forest one Royal Welsh have built their own trench system here they’re practicing concealment hiding themselves and their armor from the threat of kamakazi drones and learning the tactics Russian troops might use against them and they like to Salt trenches simultaneously in a way that we don’t do so much as part of what mobilized you know the Army’s been told we have to get back to a conventional War fighting stance and and that is absolutely shaping everything we’re doing all the training we’re doing all the exercises we’re doing um ensuring that we’re fighting against a peer threat and enemy that has capabilities like air has capabilities like drones has capabilities like artillery and all those things have a massive impact on the way you train you can’t have you know big Logistics hubs people all centralized together you constantly have to be spread out you constantly have to be dug in and you constantly if you’re not doing those you have to be moving as NATO marks its 75th Anniversary European security seems more fragile than at any time since the end of the Cold War this exercise a chance for the alliance to display both deterrence and Firepower and send a signal to the Kremlin of NATO’s solidarity and strength Simon Newton forces news Poland thanks for watching for more from forces news like And subscribe to our Channel

Stretched out across a sandy corner of northern Poland, 2,500 British troops are taking part in one of several huge Nato manoeuvres.

Exercise Immediate Response is designed to test their ability to quickly reinforce the alliance’s eastern flank and deter Russia.

With Ukraine just 450 miles to the east, 1 Royal Welsh has built a trench system to practise concealment, hiding from the threat of kamikaze drones.

More: https://www.forces.net/operations/exercises/british-troops-train-defend-natos-eastern-flank-and-avoid-kamikaze-drones

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40 comments

  1. It looks like ukraine war has shown the use of drones have completely changed the modern warfare. Tanks and APCs will be irrelevant in the future.

  3. NATO's solidarity and strength will all fall apart come an imminent conflict with their Russian counterparts, let us play by ear on all this propaganda videos which will not alter the course of the war being won in Ukraine, by the Russians! TIME will tell.

  8. Thanks for spending our tax paid pounds to involve our Armed forces in a conflict that has absolutely nothing to do with the defence of the UK . It just enriches the people who control our politicians .

  10. and where does the British military have experience in combating drones? That he can teach and pass on experience? Where is he in the last 20 years of war that he knows how it goes?

  12. All USA, Germany, British, and France troops with all advanced equipment fighting Russia in Ukraine, and Russian troops advanced.
    I think Russian troops will arrive Germany soon.

  15. Hide from them? The Ukraine war has taught us from the drone vids, you can't hide from them! Tanks needs anti-drone technology, and the technology is there…

  17. Does it still make sense for the US to maintain NATO if it takes its national interests into account?

    Countries in Western Europe like Germany pursue a mercantilist economic model.

    To do this, they are dependent on cheap energy from Russia and large export markets like China.

    The USA is currently "protecting" Germany with thousands of soldiers, a nuclear shield and hundreds of military bases.

    The resulting political influence that the USA has on Germany has not been able to prevent economic relations with China from becoming even more intense in recent weeks.

    In my opinion, Chancellor Scholz's trip to China in April was a clear sign that Germany is not prepared to cut its economic ties with China.

    And given this reality, the USA will sooner or later give up its military involvement in Europe.

  20. Front line first, and options for Change, spring to mind, the days of a tank rush are long gone and drones are having a big impact and they'll be even deadlier in the future, that said the introduction of lasers and other anti drone tech will help. Take all the equipment and tech away and you're left with the grunts, and Russia's pathetic attempt at taking a much smaller country has shown the value of a well trained and disciplined fighting force, e.g. how many ships has Russia lost to Drones and yet how many missiles etc have the Houthi's fired at RN ships ?. I believe a high ranking Russian official once said the UK has the best light infantry on the planet !. It's a pity the muppets in Whitehall and downing street aren't of the same caliber as those in the British Forces.

  21. Somehow the fact that the exercise is happening on the old Russian base tells me that it is not Nato protecting from expanding Russia, but the other way around

  23. Somehow Britain has the worst mbt in the world and instead of admitting that, they are trying to double down on them

  25. >not a single fpv drone operator in the brigade
    >no cages on tanks like in russian or israel army
    >no jammer on tank or other transport
    I can imagine what the russian army would do with these clowns

  26. Oh here we go more targets. Nato needs to keep its nose out else our troops will suffer badly on the ground adjacent to Russia. Ukraine is a stupid conflict proxy war caused by the West. Shame on them all and the UK for stopping negotiations. Well the Ukrainians are learning the hard way it seems.

  28. 2500 troops with outdated, cumbersome armor, few drones, and little experience, against seasoned troops with massive firepower. They might as well not even bother.

  33. its not a peer to peer threat, Russian military has actual modern combat training, is 20 years ahead of NATO in tech, massively out produce the west by several orders of magnitude and possess weaponry so far beyond western abilities such as Hypersonic, microwave and Laser based kit that there is no defence or Parallel. NATO isn't going to fight peer to peer, warfare it will fight asymmetric warfare.

  40. These tanks have very impressive smoke scene abilities! The smoke screen is activated by a Russian drone hitting the tank. The tank first performs a firework display, then generates thick smoke for a few hours. Tank and crew are unavailable for service after this point.

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