UK and Estonia join forces on NATO's eastern border

The Royal Tank Regiment has been training with their Estonian counterparts, testing their capabilities to work in sub-zero temperatures.
The British Army's Challenger 2 tank, the Estonian Land Forces' CV90s and hundreds of troops have been on Exercise Winter Camp in the snow-covered forest of Lasna, Estonia, on NATO's eastern border.
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[@carlislebailey8902]

Great job guys , Estonia is very much Western country as Sweden or Finland and the Russians better to keep their hands off Estonia this time !! 🇪🇪🇬🇧❤️💙

[@fistedbiscuits7639]

Putin is not that stupid. As sad as it is to see the situation in Ukraine was entirely expected. Any invasion of the 3 Baltic NATO states would lead to mutually assured destruction and world war 3 without a doubt. No one including Putin want this. He is flexing his tiny muscles to take WHAT HE CAN. which unfortunately for the world is Ukraine.

[@paulgregory4102]

Well said got to stop China and russia

[@samuel10125]

It cool to see because it's rare we see our Challenger 2s working in this type of environment good to see she can handle the terrain looking forward to her finally getting an upgrade.

[@thecurlew7403]

Usa is poking russia in the eye britain is a wee dog when the big dog gets whacked will run back to muslim london.

[@tamkin007]

@The Curlew everything you wrote was factually wrong. Thanks for the laugh.

[@thecurlew7403]

@@tamkin007 End time prophsey days different in 1 hour will she be destroyed and babylon in jeremiah 50 51 is USA britain dosent count and it will be nuclear so dont laugh yet.

[@tamkin007]

@@thecurlew7403 brilliant!

[@thecurlew7403]

@@tamkin007 I keep my eyes on middle east esp israel european conflict was always controlled by the banking elite like covid dont believe everything you hear western govenments are losing their minds look whos in no 10 and whitehouse the all star muppet show bidens losing his mind boris well no words really .

[@R-Nine]

Shout out to all these uk lads here in Estonia, big ol heart to ya all. :D

[@diagorosmelos3187]

Worked with some Estonians in London. Good lads. Very funny and down to earth just like us. UK and Estonia in a battle against the Soviets. We will definitely win!

[@tomlee3412]

🇬🇧 we stand with Estonia 🇪🇪 and Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@BOSHDUB]

@Burning Union Jacks 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BOSHDUB]

🤡👍

[@rammingspeed5217]

We are surrounding Russia but acting as if Russia is the "bad guy" when they put troops on their border?

[@pedropistolero9230]

Mexican and Russian brothers 👬♥️

[@rammingspeed5217]

@@pedropistolero9230 i say Mexico should allow Russians to arm their army snd put troops on the Mexican/US border

[@empire-classfirenationbatt2691]

The Challenger 2 will always be a classic to me and I can't wait to see Challenger 3 rolling out!

[@davidbell8320]

Is that all 140 of them

[@tomlee3412]

@@davidbell8320 🇬🇧 first batch

[@jimjefftube]

Love the UK and our Baltic Brothers that know the value of Freedom! USA

[@chilesauce7248]

That Challenger II has the best self stick I have ever seen. 😉

[@davidhouseman4328]

I'm a bit jealous of the CV90s.

[@CadetTommy2145]

@some guy we have warriors, boxers and are trying to get Ajax to work, I wish the MoD would just cut their losses with Ajax and buy the CV90s, they’re made by BAE anyways

[@mrjamescdean]

CV90 are brillient bits of kit

[@julmdamaslefttoe3559]

@some guy I respect the bradley for what it is, but even then they are begging to be replaced, the boxer and warriors have equal problems, CV-90s iron out a lot of the issues its competitors as well as providing 2020 tech and akin as they are much newer, plus as @Lieutenant Upsilon, 4th Company said. Ajax needs to be scrapped.

[@samcam8284]

Does you boyfriend know you are out. 😂

[@scottyj8112]

@@CadetTommy2145 Exactly, we should learn from our mistakes and go buy CV90's, its everything we need. Commonality across the platform only changing for the different uses( AA, 40mm with ATGM, standard 40mm, 120mm anti tank, mortar etc.)

[@reubenjackson7829]

Oh the challenger looks brilliant

[@frankmueller6522]

Go forward, America, Great-Britain and Estonia! Long live the Nato! Long live freedom! Down with all dictatorships and terrorists all around the world! Best wishes from Germany!

[@matthewyoung9828]

@Burning Union Jacks like you fled veitnam

[@matthewyoung9828]

@Burning Union Jacks we dident flee we went to burn DC which we did but you fled veitnam also our vice admiral has nothing to do with the FBI so I do not know what your talking about.

[@CrowBag]

@Burning Union Jacks Cringe

[@henryvagincourt4502]

@Burning Union Jacks + Go and play some other place theirs a good fellow.

[@sieales]

@Burning Union Jacks what the hell have you been smoking??

[@Jabberstax]

God bless the Great British armed forces.

[@DenverDiscovery]

@Burning Union Jacks You show your ignorance with every post.

[@stuartcotterill9475]

@@DenverDiscovery guarantee hes a sour yank that calls himself irish because AnCeStOrS

[@Stratigoz]

Yeah of all people God definitely bless GB armed forces lmao.

[@officialJoebiden]

@Burning Union Jacks why you hating on a country you Russian?

[@DenverDiscovery]

@Burning Union Jacks Thanks for making my point.

[@vrsmartin2981]

That sound.... Loved my time and absolutely loved the chally. There was nothing like hearing a squadron of them role up on you. Good luck lads

[@zakvince7425]

All of our challenger 2s need to be upgraded, and if we don't have the budget right now to upgrade them all we have to keep the other ones in service until then. They are still a very capable tank without these upgrades.

[@olanrewajuihenacho178]

Tend to agree. Dropping from 250 to 150 units seems premature. Other nations field more than one generation of the same platform instead of putting the older versions on Exchange & Mart.

[@1IbramGaunt]

Unfortunately I think you underestimate just quite how tight-fisted and narrow-minded the MOD can be on these things 😑

[@olanrewajuihenacho178]

@@1IbramGaunt’…as a duck’s arse?

[@kevinwoolass5946]

We all need to stay together in these trying times, hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.

[@user-zh9kc7tw4n]

would be nice to see some British CV90s as well look like they work well with our tanks...

[@ragnor56]

Well done Lads ! 👍👌👏

[@thom0243]

i wish the british army would get CV90s to replace the warrior. it’s nice seeing the challenger and CV90 together

[@CadetTommy2145]

Yeah, I still don’t know why they chose Ajax over CV90

[@thom0243]

@@CadetTommy2145 it’s weird because they’re replacing the warrior with boxers “in the infantry fighting vehicle role” but boxers aren’t IFVs they’re APCs. and ajax isn’t an IFV either it’s a ARV so i have no idea how any of it is going to work, especially with all the troubles ajax has

[@davidhouseman4328]

@@CadetTommy2145 basically because BAE didn't put there best offer in the competition so the MoD went with more British construction.

[@davidhouseman4328]

@@thom0243 the idea is a mixed Ajax/Boxer group will cover the fire support and troop transport if from two different vehicles. If that works in practice is different question.

[@thom0243]

@@davidhouseman4328 that doesn’t sound great. like they won’t be able to operate unless they’re together? that seems a bit stupid

[@kazuhassideprofileswifey2179]

Challenger tanks are so Nice to look at

[@mattcochran754]

U.S.A and Uk 🇬🇧 are finally back together

[@user-jx3qz7in7j]

Awesome to watch this.....love to Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤

[@phooogle]

Great work.

[@oldmanp2209]

Estonia has some of the best small arms the Rahe R20. LMT piston Def a top teir weapon

[@challyho2u244]

That engine sound of the challenger 2 wow

[@simonbird1973]

@Burning Union Jacks It was a tactical withdrawal to return another day & whoop ass, which I believe we did!!!

[@challyho2u244]

@Burning Union Jacks ah bless want a cookie attention seeker mum and dad not play with you as child snowflake did you not get into the mighty UK on your banana boat 😂 brits born fighters where you from snowflake?

[@alm4264]

@@challyho2u244 he's probably Irish and can't forgive us still

[@Crissy_the_wonder]

An example of why tanks are still needed and the government's cuts in tanks (as with cuts in many areas) is totally irresponsible

[@JG-mp5nb]

Perhaps we in the USA could “loan” you several thousand Abrams’s tanks currently in storage near us? They run ‘em up drive ‘em a short distance, then park them til the next periodic maintenance check

[@davidhouseman4328]

The only thing this suggest is tanks are good for propaganda. There's no fighting so it says nothing about if they are useful in war or not.

[@JG-mp5nb]

@@davidhouseman4328 They have a important role to play, but that role is only important in league with anti-tank, drone, and IT warfare. Used as the Iraqi’s did they’re history, but combined with a contemporary all arms approach they will be useful.

[@dannycostello]

You forget the UK has never had a large standing army, it gets ramped up in war time but our main priority is and always will be the RN and now RAF.

[@JG-mp5nb]

@@dannycostello Of course! But just as we once “loaned” destroyers as the UK faced down aggression in WW2, we will not forget the UK as a stalwart!

[@richierich4810]

I like that camo they got hanging down their tanks, we should get that for ours.

[@netiturtle]

Much appreciated deterrence

[@peterwait641]

Good advert for the CV90 !

[@Andyb2379]

My great grandfathers old regiment 😎

[@matthewyoung9828]

@Burning Union Jacks like how you fled vietnam

[@HHh-ug4oe]

@Burning Union Jacks and then returned and help liberate Europe 🇬🇧

[@vitaliyvyntu4566]

Hello from Ukraine

[@frankrenda2519]

hello from russia you will soon be with us just like in the past

[@themillitantpigeon2149]

hello

[@pollyanne234]

Hello from the UK.

[@arkl1ght258]

Served with Colonel Eero when he was a major on herrick. Good soldier. Disliked soviets.

[@frommars9043]

Spain stands with our Estonian friends and with Ucraine. No one will ever destroy our western values.

[@1chish]

We should be getting 100 of our Challenger IIs out of store, check them over and ship them over to Ukraine for their army to get a top flight MBT. The UK will not be fighting in Ukraine so we need to give them everything they might need. It might just make Putin rethink this madness he is proposing.

[@asmaar566]

Giving away half our tank force is pretty close to sending troops

[@1chish]

@@asmaar566 OK we 'lend' them the MBTs but British troops are not going to be fighting Putin its the Ukrainians that will though. Thats the point.

[@henryvagincourt4502]

1chish+ Not the best idea, If the Russian's capture a few, tons of classified kit lost.

[@1IbramGaunt]

@@1chish can't unfortunately, aside from the ones you're seeing here that're actually still in frontline British Army service, the rest are in mothballs and not ready for combat, have been sold to Oman, are being used for training OR are presumably being used as part of the agonisingly slow project to produce the new Challenger 3, which frankly really needs a fire lit under it. A LOT can happen in 6 years guys, we're on the verge of war with Russia here, possibly China too, we need those tanks ready to go NOW not after the damn war's already over. The Chally should've already had a modernisation upgrade like that decades ago anyway

[@1IbramGaunt]

@@henryvagincourt4502 meh I doubt they'd learn much new to be honest, if we sold any it'd be JUST barebones Challenger 2's without any of the fancy TES upgrades, if such a sale did happen I hope they'll take out the Dorchester armour first though, that part might actually tell the Russians something

[@zakvince7425]

Does anyone know how many challenger 2s we have in storage? I think he have 227 operational currently if I'm not mistaken, but only 148 are getting upgraded.

[@olanrewajuihenacho178]

@Goat 🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏿👏🏿👍🏿

[@olanrewajuihenacho178]

There all already on Facebook Marketplace ☹️

[@olanrewajuihenacho178]

KRH being transferred over to the new ‘flagship’ Ajax platform leaving only 1RTR and QRH with MBTs.

[@briansearle4138]

Could flog a few 👍🇬🇧

[@olanrewajuihenacho178]

@@briansearle4138 Stop giving the MOD ideas! Do you want your next Uber to roll up at your front door and tap it with the muzzle of a 120mm smoothbore? Make a mess of your lawn too!

[@rorybrown7632]

CORRECTION- at 1:22 the journalist says: "...working with both Armored divisions and ground troops". Oh, Armored Divisions, AND ground troops? So, what are armored divisions then if they aren't ground troops, air troops, I guess?

[@HillBilly-Anonymous]

Great job indeed.

[@Sarah-xn5gr]

We are all in this together & sadly this is yet another fine example of how our freedoms most definitely do NOT come free. How we also sadly often take our freedoms for granted too

[@dashikashi4734]

Freedom to do what? Escalate wars with foreign countries? Ukraine and Russia have the same corrupt oligarchies in power and neither care about us or freedom.

[@davidhouseman4328]

@@dashikashi4734 thus is Estonia.

[@dashikashi4734]

@@davidhouseman4328 It is Estonia, but this build up is training to escalate tensions in Ukraine.

[@davidhouseman4328]

@@dashikashi4734 we do this kind of stuff all the time.

[@tamkin007]

@Dashi Kashi it's both side and been going on for decades. The idea it's all NATO's fault doesn't add up when Russian ships and subs are in Scotlands territorial water, cyber attacks and ex KGB agent's are killed on British streets infecting bystanders. Georgia, crimea and chechnya never took a vote on being annexed.

[@meme4one]

I bet the MOD wishes they'd gone for the cv 90 too! Ajax has been a shambles and no MoD social media channels are talking about it anyone. The embarrassment!

[@gregs7562]

Thing is the Ajax was tk replace the Scimitar & Sultan family of vehicles. The Warrior was to be upgraded rather than replaced. They should have binned that upgrade & gone CV90 at that stage. Fingers crossed they'll see sense & buy if when they replace Bulldog . To my mind it was all back to front. Boxer to replace Bulldog, CV90 for Warrior. Hopeful they'll also add turreted versions of Boxer like Oz & Lithuania use.

[@KoitTamme]

1940 Never again

[@ThatCarGuy]

Great news, keep putting the pressure on Russia. If only Ukraine had any kind of NATO fighter/bomber so we could send them some AIM120s and JDAMs.

[@dashikashi4734]

Yeah, lets protect the oligarchs and nazi militias at the cost of our economy and people.

[@politicallyincorrect7236]

Yeah keep putting pressure on them and then keep asking why there building up on there own land 🤦🏼

[@jordanleigh8119]

What pressure. Look at the state of the troops we and the us are sending. Half women and other half skinny boys. Wheres the men and warriors

[@ThatCarGuy]

Seems the R word brigade is out in full force today, lucky for the block button.

[@matthewyoung9828]

@Burning Union Jacks like you fled vietnam

[@whya2ndaccount]

1:30 Did he actually say "Eastern Front"?

[@olanrewajuihenacho178]

He also said ‘armoured divisions and ground troops’ referring to several IFV-reinforced tank squadrons. Surely they can afford an actual subject matter expert to present this stuff🤷🏾‍♂️

[@istheyear-ry1el]

my man put GoPro on tank

[@romeo9017]

No Ajax tanks?

[@1IbramGaunt]

That would be difficult given they're not tanks in the first place?

[@MMG008]

To all the cost cutting bean counters at the MoD….Tanks are still very much relevant.

[@magnum8264]

SAY NO TO Putin

[@olanrewajuihenacho178]

To the presenter, please learn what an ‘armoured division’ means.

[@BigBellyEd]

Entire NATO or EU should simply standardize on the same equipment, tanks, IFV. Yes, Diversity is resilience but it would make everything so much simpler.

[@tankart3645]

Really hard thing to do, everything doesn't fit everyone's need. For Estonia and the Nordic countries the CV90 works best as it was designed for that climate, but at the same time, it wasn't taken to the operations in Gao, Mali by Estonians as it isn't fast enough. Same time Estonia has unnamed tanks, the Type-x, that it isn't really keen on selling, so for the rest of the NATO to have that one good product, they would have to spend a lot of money. So standardizing small stuff like ammo, and equipment would be good, the ammo basically is already standardized, with only few exceptions in few countries.

[@BigBellyEd]

@@tankart3645 Standardization can come at very high costs. Like the F-35 for example. And if you look at Volkswagen, Seat and Škoda, they are individual cars for sure but share a lot of parts under the hood. So that’s probably the decisive standard.

[@tankart3645]

@@BigBellyEd That's kind of my point, what I just said.

[@gaptaxi]

As everybody is getting ready after Russia invaded Ukraine and the snow is now melting I would suggest removing all the trackpads from the vehicles, trackpads were only fitted in the 1970´s to protect German roads from the Chieftain tank tracks. You can see lots of pictures of Chieftains on exercise stuck sometimes up to the glacis plates as they literally used to dig themselves into the soft mud roads, was it the trackpads causing this? Either nobody in the Army had a camera in their Centurion days but I can´t remember seeing a bogged in Centurion, and they had no tracks! Easier to do it now than in the field later?

[@romeo9017]

No sight of the Cooks working their tukkas off once again….

[@DannyBoii_4786]

Is that toilet paper on the tank

[@armandocastellanos1music167]

Just looking at the beginning of this video you can see the hunger of the television networks for there to be a war and thus be able to transmit this war live and in full color to the whole world. [Just look at the camera installed at the top of the tank's cannon.]

[@nissafors]

Bad winter-camouflage on the Challengers. The estonians seem much better adapted to the white environments...

[@CadetTommy2145]

There’s no real point trying to hide a 70-ton behemoth when thermal imagers exist, the CV90s benefit far more from camouflage

[@pentegarn1]

Our heroes!!! Forever NATO...........

[@robertschweppie5256]

GET OUT YOUR SNIPERS .....

[@johnwalsh7256]

NATO Forever!

[@RzGarage]

NATO - No Action Talks Only

[@swczn4994]

:( why we fear Russia ? Even Sadam had bigger army and he got f**cked hard.

[@Beeevash]

Why uk has tanks and Estonia don't ?

[@andreimusk8873]

No money

[@tankart3645]

Well the Estonian nature really isn't fit for tanks, there are only few spots where the Brits can in reality take their tanks in Estonia, and there are even less spots in the summer. MBT's weigh a lot, compared to IFV and unmanned tanks. So Estonia is rather going for a combo of CV90's and Type-x'es, because they are cheaper to maintain, and to buy in. They are also easier to transport, and they are faster. Main battel tanks have many problems, and when one Anti-tank missile that costs the fraction of the price of the tank and crew, can take out an tank in few seconds, then why even bother. It's just smarter to stack up on AT weaponry.

[@pcojedi]

Estonia has 1 regular INF brigade and 1 reserve INF brigade. Without a system like the Israelis history will repeat itself with all the baltic states

[@willscarff6060]

They do have the 20,000 Estonian defence league in reserve as well. And since conscription has been in effect most of the country could effectively bear arms. Not bad for a country with the same population as Merseyside. In fact if we operated on the same scale the British military would be 3 times bigger. I think they're doing an excellent job for their size.

[@tankart3645]

@@willscarff6060 The Estonian mobilization register is actually 230 000 people, most of them with military training, either in reserves, with the Defense League, or active. (plus a bunch outside military life, people who have gone trough the training and not stayed in reserves or in the Kl, or/and people who have not received training but are still in the mobilization register)

[@willscarff6060]

@@tankart3645 That's what I was pointing out, that their reserves were far bigger than 1 brigade.

[@autismfarmer1504]

Russia is taking Lithuania

[@BorossAngkor]

Talking about aggression.. Who were the aggressors invading and destroyed the Middle East countries?

[@jaysartori9032]

GOD bless NATO and peace

[@george-cosminmocanu4298]

No one will gonna stand against Russia.......not even U.S wanna fight with them. Just one man confronted that just one.

[@moowykx250]

Would love to see a couple of those UK tanks go up in smoke

[@waynewayoaveyard9397]

its bs that we sell our top tech to others, even if they are nato

[@olanrewajuihenacho178]

What?

[@waynewayoaveyard9397]

@@olanrewajuihenacho178 it is bs that the uk has sold the challenger II tanks to estonia as the guy said at 2:10 even if those who they are selling to are from nato

[@olanrewajuihenacho178]

@@waynewayoaveyard9397 He’s made a quite a few ‘errors’ hasn’t he ?🤔🤣🤣

[@RJ-1337]

@@waynewayoaveyard9397 the guy was talking about cv-90’s, you absolute muppet

[@waynewayoaveyard9397]

@@RJ-1337 you say that but the CV90 ifv isnt the best ifv in the world at all

[@struanmcgrath1619]

Nuked.

[@IK-so2bm]

Who liberated Aushwitz?

[@azigayazigay3455]

nato prefer atack ukraine and not moscow

[@renard8137]

NATO hasn't even got a stick to beat its own horse and how can you negotiate when your head is half way in the tiger's mouth.

[@IK-so2bm]

I hope you are not suggesting that the Baltic countries and Poland would have been better off under Nazi Germany. Ukraine welcomed the Nazis as liberators and then formed the death Squads who killed hundreds of thousands of Jews throughout Ukraine, Estonia Latvia and Romania.

[@louisavondart9178]

The Einsatzgruppen were run by the German SS.... in case you forgot. The Baltic states and Poland were occupied by the Soviet Union for 47 years and they did not enjoy it. Never again !

[@michroz]

Contrary to most comments below, I am not that particularly happy about these war games in Estonia. 1) Seem pretty insufficent and hence useless if it comes to the real thing. 2) Pretty costly for local taxpayers and we are not yet that wealthy at all to pay for all this. 3) Pretty dangerous, because it makes our small Estonia a real target and our Estonian boys (and civilians) potential victims (instead of, say, to declare a complete military neutrality and put everybody to a proper constructive business). 4) Pretty limiting if you go to the woods in quite a many areas (which used to be possible quite recently). Now resembles the Soviet time is back with those closed military areas and frequent manuveres. Estonia is too small for war games. To be honest, there are more useful goals available for Estonia in the 21st century than deliberately teasing the Russian bear, which happens to be our neighbour... Best to everybody!

[@chairpersonofthecharlotteh5646]

Neutrality worked great for Ukraine didn't it :/

[@aysinkov]

So two military insignificant countries decided to look tough behind USA’s back again (like always) ….lol y’all are hilarious!

[@stevenprosser9665]

Funny that , it’s an obligation as a member of nato. American war again and dragging everyone else into it ( like always).

[@IK-so2bm]

Potential aggression? from whom? Russia lost 28 million of her citizens fighting the Nazis. The Red Army liberated the Baltic republics and Poland at huge cost.

[@s4ss]

Baltic states: 1918 - 1939 Independent states 1940 - 1941 Occupied by the Soviet Union 1941 - 1944 Occupied by the Nazi Germany 1944 - 1991 Occupied by the Soviet Union ( again ) Thanks for the liberation ! and thanks for the free train ride, Siberia is such a lovely place this time of year !

[@colinelliott5629]

Stalin made a pact with Hitler, and then invaded Poland shortly after Hitler. Poles didn't think themselves liberated by the Red Army. I recognise the suffering and bravery of Russians during the war, but let's not pretend that they are in any danger now.

[@TheBigNoize.]

this is joke .....big big joke :D

[@andreasveide]

Wdym?

[@Jimmythefish577]

No wonder Putin is assembling his forces on his border with Ukraine, what would NATO say if Russia started moving forces into the Republic of Ireland at that governments request? Anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis? It’s ok for NATO to expand its influence east, but it’s not ok for Russia to push back?

[@fredblogs]

They can have Ireland.

[@TheBigNoize.]

is this joke or something :D??????

[@vincegedeon6583]

JOE BIDEN IS SMART AMAZING AND POWERFUL THE GREATEST PRESIDENT 😭THIS NATION HAS EVER SEEN AND WILL EVER SEE FOR 8 YEARS 🇺🇸😍💪🤘🪖🔥WE WILL BE THERE FOR OUR UKRAINIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS ❤️