NATO troops from seven Allies recently trained in Estonia during exercise BOLD PANZER, testing their skills at combined arms warfare.

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Around 1,000 NATO troops took part in exercise BOLD PANZER in Estonia, combining infantry and armoured manoeuvres to test their readiness to rapidly respond to a crisis. Units from Canada, Estonia, France, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom participated in the large-scale exercise, designed to strengthen NATO’s ability to respond to any incursion into Estonian territory.

NATO’s forces in Estonia have been under the command of the United Kingdom since 2017 – with the British Army’s Royal Tank Regiment taking the lead in September 2025 – providing troops with experience operating alongside other NATO Allies and in Estonia’s challenging forests and boggy terrain. Armoured units from Poland, assigned to the NATO multinational brigade in Latvia, travelled north for the exercise.

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This NATO Multimedia B-roll footage, captured at Tapa on 22 October, includes French infantry assaulting an objective, Polish Leopard tanks, British Army Challenger 2 tanks and armoured engineering vehicles plus soundbites from Canadian Army Captain Miles Smith, an officer assigned to the NATO multinational brigade in Latvia participating in exercise BOLD PANZER.

Shot list:-

00:00 ~ British Army engineering vehicle clears an obstacle on a road

01:01 ~ French Army infantry hold a position in a wood block

01:13 ~ A French Army soldier begins an assault on a position

01:20 ~ French Army infantry soldiers assault a position

01:30 ~ French Army infantry assault a position

01:41 ~ Polish Army Leopard tank moves towards an objective

01:51 ~ British Army Warrior fighting vehicles scan the treelines as they move towards an objective

02:17 ~ British Army Challenger 2 tanks engage a simulated enemy

02:28 ~ Challenger 2 tanks camouflaged in a tree line

02:52 ~ British Army tank drivers check the tree lines from their Challenger 2 tank

02:57 ~ Challenger 2 tanks move towards an objective

03:21 ~ Convoy of challenger 2 tanks move towards an objective

03:46 ~ A drone hovers above a British Army Stormer air defence vehicle

03:54 ~ A British Army Stormer air defence detachment commander enters his vehicle

04:00 ~ British Army Stormer air defence vehicle crew prepare to move towards an objective

04:29 ~ A British Army Stormer air defence vehicle moves towards an objective

04:39 ~ Armoured vehicles support an infantry assault

04:53 ~ Armoured vehicles support an infantry assault

05:19 ~ A British Army Warrior fighting vehicle undergoes repairs in the field

05:37 ~ A British Army armoured medical vehicle

05:49 ~ British Army combat medics practise administering medicine

06:18 ~ Soundbite, Royal Canadian Army Captain Miles Smith, NATO Multinational Brigade Latvia

06:40 ~ Soundbite, Captain Miles Smith

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