British Army's Apaches leave UK for largest Nato exercise since Cold War

A fleet of British Army and Royal Air Force helicopters, including the new upgraded Apache model, will be taking on an important role in the next step of Nato's largest exercise since the Cold War.
Nine new Apache AH-64E attack helicopters will be making their first appearance on exercise, along with four Army Wildcats and two RAF Chinooks in Finland and Estonia for Exercises Swift Response and Arrow respectively.
"It really is about trying to scale up, to show what we're capable of projecting and delivering into Eastern Europe as part of what we offer to defence," said 4 Regiment Army Air Corps Battlegroup Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Dave Lambert.
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[@mikkoveijalainen7430]

Welcome to Finland our British friends and allies.

[@syryder3236]

Thankyou for being so accommodating 🇬🇧

[@OhWendy]

We've heard you've got some good Rally courses, just coming to have a go on them if thats alright?

[@Jib230181]

Welcome Finland to the family.

[@RobinOfTheHoodGB]

@@OhWendy Did you finish? 😅

[@nickwatson2167]

Your poor boy . You dont understand that like Scotland you are now a sitting target ? I wonder how many nukes are pointing at us both right now

[@mjc8281]

I took part in Operation Lionheart which I believe was the largest Nato exercise during the Cold War, it was.... an interesting experience, I'm sure those that go on this one will remember it for a lifetime. My life kind of took me another way and indeed I left the UK for quite some time but I often used what I experienced during it while managing people.

[@samimattila9601]

When sky starts to play "fortunate son"

[@Seve82]

Tervetuloa! Finland welcomes you!

[@Damianised]

Explains the whole flight of them waking me up today haha

[@LeeTillbury]

Formidable machines. What a great unit.

[@robstafford8306]

From the UK. The Brits turn up, demonstrating support and cohesion……but I bet the Brits learn a lot whilst being embedded with the Swedes, Finnish and the other Eastern European Sovereign nations…..

[@robstafford8306]

Apologies but have read some negative comments about this deployment. While we are a small island nation we are really well connected across the globe. Our military training in another European, Sovereign Nation is a sign of commitment and solidarity. Do I agree, personally with all the politics, not necessarily. Am I willing to watch another country bullied/invaded….definitely not. Apologies but rant over.

[@DirtyMikeandTheBoys69]

​@robstafford8306 The problem is your fellow countrymen and media, not you. Your countrymen go out of their way to degrade, belittle, and diminish their allies and their achievements, quality, etc. This, in turn, breeds hate in response. Any negative comments you're seeing here is a direct result of that pig-headed attitude.

[@user-wu1dv6jk5s]

They learn even more from the Russians, but none of them are alive to tell the story

[@basedglennuk]

"Support & cohesion" 🤣❗️

[@user-wu1dv6jk5s]

@@robstafford8306 you might want to educate yourself!

[@richardlong3745]

God Bless them all.

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

Lol. Nah.

[@stoutalarm8374]

Amen

[@springer3783]

Good to see the army going back to being an army , not a counter terror force

[@stevee7467]

The world has changed since February 22.

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

​@@stevee7467what happened then?

[@mynameisschezuan]

@@RogerMellie-yk3gw Think he ment February 24 2022 The second start of the Ukraine war..

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

@@mynameisschezuan oh right. I don't think that was too big of a deal. But I get what they mean

[@user-wu1dv6jk5s]

@@RogerMellie-yk3gw Ukraine started the war in 2014, Russia will end it very soon

[@Jib230181]

Good luck to you all on your travels and training.

[@55nimrod55]

Impressive!!

[@simonbrogden9994]

Very proud of you guys ! NEVER forget that okay !?

[@ReallyFarFarAway]

👉 ... " E " ... 👈

[@tomeglinton9213]

saw this on ADS-B looked pretty crazy

[@AWMulholland99]

I once nearly got to ride in a helicopter but computer said no

[@richardcato379]

Awesome 😍

[@mikerobinson3899]

Good luck on your deployment

[@Turican76]

nato is a agressiv army ,wake up, kid

[@ronin3028]

the UKs only combat ready helicopters hahahahaha

[@Jayhaygarth]

Love my country’s army they are all hero’s

[@trob0914]

SWEET!

[@jezzer1969]

I hope they play Ride Of The Valkyrie, it would be wrong not too. 😂

[@BLUEY-il3dx]

Apache 😍🤤

[@jasonoreilly2795]

They should call in Prince Baldy. He's got plenty XP points and pumped enough talent points into Flight. His shiny badges and medals reflect this

[@mikey22355]

What? They do that for fun not to fight in the governments wars

[@jasonoreilly2795]

@@mikey22355 pls accept my profuse apologies.

[@debartellomartinez7214]

Good music for this video would be the theme to stripes

[@zogzoogler]

“still at the forefront of defence [despite 15 years of defence cuts and a Government that has mothballed half our capabilities]”

[@616CC]

Rarely see one military helicopter never mind 16 together

[@alanmcmillan6969]

Have a safe and intresting trtip!

[@buzzmeanytime]

Hey Finland!

[@phooogle]

I just wish we didn't cut the numbers, or really, wish we'd increased them. I know things may be changing but six years is a long time to add some spend for more depth of force.

[@EnglishScripter]

We know are thankfully.

[@RJM1011]

Yes the UK forces needs more but it has to be paid for and NO one wants to pay more taxes and the UK lost nearly a billion in taxes a year thanks to that dirty pedo in Dunblane sadly.

[@funkmachine9094]

didn't this already happen? nato had a huge exercise earlier this year or last year

[@mnufeld8448]

This started back in about late February , going in stages until at least May

[@marineforces3214]

they call it exercise when they get bored , they wanna get closer to the heat

[@UnearthCreations]

Must be nice to fly in American badassery.

[@patdbean]

2:27 D day was 1944 so 80 years on.

[@phooogle]

Open this in one tab. Open "Airwolf Original Soundtrack Theme Extended Version" in a second tab. Profit.

[@RJM1011]

Or Blue Thunder.

[@jimk140]

I'd say the taliban model is more effective on the battlefield.

[@mrbaywatch21]

Slava Ukraini from IL 🇺🇸

[@geodesy2009]

Well done you Steadfast defenders.

[@cantfindmykeys8104]

Wow that's alll the serviceable air frames we have...better not break them on exercise.....

[@AznMarshmallow]

🤣

[@sirgo0se97]

No one said that was all of them

[@flosh2walkthrough672]

Exciting new weapons systems? Spoken like a true sociopath

[@DRSHANKER]

you won't even know it's in the sky before it hits you

[@dominico3468]

Anything above Poland is northern Europe

[@fToo]

@1:05 "hastened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine". surely "driven" rather than "hastened" ?!

[@quecksilber457]

What people do not understand is, that not artillery alone wins a war. Air superiority is key. And heck does NATO shine on that front.

[@smithers4420]

Most people understand this

[@themarketm8382]

Shine against who? Unsophisticated Middle Easterners for the last 20-30 years?

[@quecksilber457]

@@smithers4420 Well if you listen to some commentators over the last couple of months, it seems they believe we would lose because we have less artillery. Wich is nonsense. The truth is, we (NATO) can make every opponents land look like a parking lot.

[@jfkj1695]

Exercise or Military operation

[@luciussander8217]

We're not at war, does it need to be spelled out for you?

[@jfkj1695]

@@luciussander8217 OK then. Syria , Iraq, Isis, Somalia

[@nobodyherepal3292]

@@jfkj1695yes, those are countries. Still doesn’t make Britain at war with anyone currently.

[@EnglishScripter]

@@jfkj1695 shows you have no clue, Syria, Iraq, "isis". Why do you think we went into those nations......

[@jfkj1695]

@@luciussander8217 Look at the latest news. Okay then!

[@josepott7396]

Is there an an app to translate their language into English?

[@TennesseeHomesteadUSA]

Yep -- Google Translate.

[@casey7057]

British army are renown for guarding Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace and also riot control duties in Belfast, N Ireland

[@1chish]

Sorry ... but your point was what exactly Casey?

[@md2320]

Impressive!!!! We seem to have lost a few aircraft, the runway should be full. Spend more on protecting the country and less on overseas aid.

[@costacoffee9961]

Ask it in person please

[@costacoffee9961]

Ignorance is failure

[@md2320]

@@costacoffee9961 you've failed then 🤣😂🤣😂👍

[@md2320]

@@costacoffee9961 I'll come round your house if you want 🤣😂🤣😂

[@costacoffee9961]

@@md2320 I've put a kettle on

[@zozita.]

💕🚁💕👍

[@PhamVans]

The Hot wars are brewing.

[@john07973]

💪🏻

[@logiczchance101]

they are so doomed still, sadly but surely...for the old ways have no future in the new emerging world and beyond

[@DardaniaLion]

Ukraine could make use of them.

[@Infowarrior08]

So when are you going to take Moscow???

[@Awesomes007]

🇺🇸 💪 🇬🇧

[@mphone312]

Isn't russia capturing Western military hardware in their droves?

[@thescottishanimeguy9946]

No lol

[@franklynhicken8007]

Exercise? 😂 Good Luck Soldiers. 🙏

[@kudoteeldihichaishinichi809]

from japan

[@DigitalArtisan77]

I’d take the lynx over the apache any day.

[@Pembroke.]

Have fun everyone and come back safe

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

And don't waste too much time and money

[@tim-williams]

Defenders? Stay in the UK then

[@grovsey3656]

The UK still has plenty of territory overseas......

[@tim-williams]

@@grovsey3656 not near Ukraine though

[@grovsey3656]

@@tim-williams so your pro russia? 🤣🤣

[@thescottishanimeguy9946]

​@@tim-williamsthey have allies near ukraine.

[@tim-williams]

@@thescottishanimeguy9946 still not defence though is it. If you ally with some kid in the playground and fight all their neighbours for them, that is called attacking not defending. It's a basic English language lesson.

[@aceachievement8382]

Here we go! Exercise they say? Nah sounds more like they want anttqck choppers over our eastern borders. They know something get no telling us 😂

[@Glory3823]

❤❤❤Gods will Be Done for it has to happen no Fear

[@EnglishScripter]

Well, I live right next to a airbase, and they now train in there helicopters through night and day, rather than 1 or the other, and they have doubled the aircraft in the sky at once. Somethings happening. For past 3 years its always been the same number in the air, past few days it doubled.

[@bugazi3037]

@@Glory3823Gods ? Pagans

[@ladgonemad]

Biggest army with no combat experience...

[@bobbates7343]

Time to increase the military big time. All people male and female under the age of 50 should have to start a two year full time military service followed by transfer to the reserves until age sixty . Those who entered the UK as so called refugees should be required to serve not less then fifteen years full time and they should not be made officers nor allowed to serve in any job that would give them access to the most secret and important military information .

[@phillipthomson]

I’m 54 ex army veteran.slipped disc,torn rotator cuff,torn knee ligaments Oh and hayfever 🤣🤣 Seriously I would be at the front of whatever queue there would be,just don’t tell my wife

[@thegoat11111]

I don't think that training the Jihadis who come amongst the economic migrants is a wise move.

[@bobbates7343]

@@thegoat11111 I agree that is why they would be given only jobs that are not in the least bit a matter of security. They would be given jobs such as cook or cleaner of the kitchen . Ditch diggers and so on .

[@thegoat11111]

@@bobbates7343 Cook? So they can poison everyone.

[@KungFuWizardOfJesus]

Thank god you're not in a position of power.

[@dalesmithies9051]

Please come home safe and sound.

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

From a training op? Lol

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

Maybe they could stop by Ukraine and help them out? If all of the NATO nations teamed up and actually got involved, they could crush the Russian invasion.

[@bobnewhart4183]

🤔 - What about all of these beards .. ? 🤔 This is NOT Special Forces in COMBAT .. !!!

[@xMoff]

womp womp

[@RJM1011]

The ban on beads was lifted sometime ago !

[@bobnewhart4183]

@@RJM1011 : ah -> leaky gasmasks ..

[@RJM1011]

@@bobnewhart4183 Not my problem !

[@Arakansup-9x]

RakHine

[@JonDow-ow2fc]

Russians we invaded ukr because we didn't want Nato on our boarder 🤔 but by invading ukr Nato is now on your boarder 😅

[@RJM1011]

Also more joining NATO ! Which is a GOOD thing as Canada is such a let down and the worst member of NATO.

[@RJM1011]

Very GOOD but still no news on the replacement for the Pumas ?? Is the UK government and MOD waiting for them to start falling from the sky ??????????

[@jayd8743]

Why out so much air time in.. Why not fly then out there, surely that's quicker and cheap in the short and long run?

[@michaeltate8017]

We only have one

[@Ebutuoymaii]

Firing rainbows 🌈

[@jacko8603]

Yeah lmao being over there in finland especially

[@Moon-ns6op]

Welcome to Sweden 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪, as always..

[@kory2578]

Z

[@Ian-xq4rt]

I think they've stopped off in Denmark for the night (and rest)

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

And a KFC

[@monkeyboy8424]

Putin will be shaking in his boots - from laughter.

[@mnufeld8448]

At least 90, 000 troops involved in total in Steadfast Defender , that being the overall exercise , and that 90,,000 approximately represents that immediately available of Nato's 300 000 strong Response Force , this all was spearheaded a month of so back by deployment of UK 7th Armored Bde the Desert Rats, among others , the Poles involved ,and at sea UK Carrier Strike Group centered on HMS Prince of Wales with Nato escorts ,under Nato command , that deployed supercarrier by itself more than russia has operable , Kutznesov not back til later this year or next yr or maybe never. And at same time then ,last month Norway Finland and Sweden , the latter 2 having joined Nato now , had almost 20 000 troops in an Arctic exercise in Lappland ,that being a couple or few hundred miles from Murmansk . and now at this point in Steadfast Defender , Poland and Lithuania with about 20, 000 troops exercising, training to defend the Suwalki Gap in NE Poland ,&the Brits in with this at same time

[@KungFuWizardOfJesus]

@@mnufeld8448 What will 300,000 soldiers do against a power like Russia? Russia couldn't beat Ukraine with 300,000 troops initially so what good would 300,000 NATO soldiers do if push comes to shove? It will all end in nuclear war probably.

[@AutismIsUnstoppable]

@@KungFuWizardOfJesus combined with other allied forces in the area 300000 troops would outnumber Russian forces in the area.

[@KungFuWizardOfJesus]

@@AutismIsUnstoppable Russia could just call up more soldiers?

[@AutismIsUnstoppable]

@@KungFuWizardOfJesus yes and so can nato. If push comes to shove NATO forces should have local superiority for a while and be able to bring more troops if needed.

[@rcgaming7736]

first

[@8888shooter]

Well everyone, that's it, we have no airforce left now!!!😫😫.....it's all gone on manoeuvres!!!!!..😅😂🤣🤣🤣

[@russ8544]

Pukin, take note, slitty eyes, take note

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

Take note of a country far smaller and weaker than themselves? Lol. Don't think they need to

[@lulutileguy]

bear in mind the recent event in Indonesia helos collided

[@luciussander8217]

Our pilots don't wear flip flops in the cockpit.

[@Amite-zg2ob]

I have this crazy theory - Cobra gun ships for Ukraine. Just saw 2 fly over } Boy they are fine looking.

[@jeffmattson2295]

Seems weird training next door to a real war, especially when they're losing

[@gnorweb7339]

Losing? Putin is losing 900 people per day apparently. Not a recipe for political success.

[@RJM1011]

NO one is wining over there !

[@bugazi3037]

@@RJM1011clearly Russia 🇷🇺 is winning 🎉

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

​@@bugazi3037pretty sure they won a couple years back. Who controls Donbas? It sure ain't Nato-allied Ukraine

[@nickwatson2167]

What a complete waste of money . I would take 5 drones to one apache .And at a fraction of the cost . Must buy from the yanks . This is old warcraft and would play no part in 2025 world war 3

[@cluckingbells]

"The AH-64E also allows its crew to take control of UAVs in its vicinity, and to view ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) information and full motion video feeds directly in its cockpits from both those UAVs and troops on the ground." RUSI "A Rebirth for the British Army’s Apache Fleet" 2016

[@nickwatson2167]

@@cluckingbells One drone would take it out and it would be a waste of money and crew . Pretty much like a tank your a sitting duck

[@AutismIsUnstoppable]

Well it's a good thing your not making decisions.

[@nickwatson2167]

@@AutismIsUnstoppable what sending men to an inevitable death ? I think the world needs me more than it needs one flew over the cuckoo nest

[@favesongslist]

Wonder how long this force will last if it goes into Russia, Are the UK really ready for all out conventional war with Russia if the exercise goes north?

[@bryannantrax110]

its getting serious boys hahahah

[@brook280]

lol nato is a joke

[@jacko8603]

the four front of Europe's defence with what barely anything! Lolololol start conscription again and then see.

[@kory2578]

Z🇷🇺

[@user-yp2sc1cy1n]

15 mostly ancient choppers at £33 million each...wow, Putin must be pis$ing himself!

[@LRRPFco52]

AH-64E is anything but ancient.

[@user-yp2sc1cy1n]

@@LRRPFco52 just a modification of 1976 concept...

[@thescottishanimeguy9946]

​@user-yp2sc1cy1n and? It's still upgraded, a lot of Russias newer kit like the t-90 and BMP 3 are based heavily off precious designs. That doesn't make those systems bad either.

[@nordog55]

Should be in the Channel defending the country from our uninvited guests.

[@AutismIsUnstoppable]

Wtf would an apache do to stop a small boat full of non combatants? Serious question.

[@gunshipzeroone3546]

Still lacks in air to air weapons.

[@luciussander8217]

Not their role. Obviously, you have no clue.

[@anglonig1]

It's an attack helicopter, not a typhoon.

[@nihilmiror6312]

🙄🥱😴

[@patrickpatrick9132]

Kidding? Weak

[@James28R]

you are yes

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

​@James28R comedy golf. Very One Show

[@user-hk4oh2ku8w]

Bible said: thou shalt not kill. thou shalt not steal. I am Christian.

[@Atlantis.Reborn]

And a Kremlin bot

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

​@@Atlantis.Rebornnah. That's you

[@AutismIsUnstoppable]

Your quoting a mistranslation. It's more correctly translated as "thou shalt not murder"

[@mark4371]

The old outdated Apache What a heap of garbage

[@NataliaReut]

WhereisAPACHEonUnitedKingdom?Where? Nowhere.Kingdomdonthaveapache,вголовесрачи.

[@matthewhale2464]

Brave pilots, putting their lives at risk for this country that will abandon them on the streets while it houses illegal immigrants, I really don’t know why they do it anymore.

[@kory2578]

Z

[@patrick-tg4sq]

Project nothing weak British army