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Inside NATO trench warfare training as troops practise defending Estonia on Putin’s doorstep
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- Published on Mar 28, 2023 veröffentlicht
- NATO troops have taken part in terrifying World War I-style trench drills as they stand braced for war with tyrant Putin.
The chilling war games took place just 80 miles from the Russian border in -12C temperatures using the world's most lethal tanks and high-tech weapons.
The Sun joined NATO forces in freezing temperatures on the Estonian military’s annual Winter Camp military exercise.
In this video watch as an Estonian infantry platoon defends their trenches from an assault by the French Mountain Infantry.
Watch the full documentary about the NATO presence in Estonia on Friday evening here on The Sun’s Clip-Share channel.
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Finland is with you Estonian brothers!
Winter War hours
Big congrats to Finland from Ukraine. You did the right choice brothers!
And Estonia is with you Finnish brothers!
Romania is with you as well!
STROGHER TOGETHER!
When you have one neighbor who considers you an enemy and a threat, perhaps that neighbor is wrong about you. But when most of your neighbors believe you are their enemy, it's most likely that they are right about you.
I mean look at Georgia, even if NATO doesn't have any desires for them to join, Russia invaded them anyway, so their neighbors are stuck at becoming aligned with Russia, aligned with NATO, or just be neutral and hope that Russia doesn't see you as a potential target.
@Mythical RP exactly. i forget who said it but it reminds me of a quote regarding eastern Europe (i'm probably botching it) "if you ask for russia, they will come. if you ask for nato, they will come. if you ask for no one, russia will come"
@heck That's actually funny
Great to see our mountain units ready to fight with Estonia and the UK. 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇪🇪
Great to see all the team work from so many nations. A big thanks from America!
Thankfully we got into NATO and can do our part in securing the Baltic region. Greetings to Estonia from Finland! 🇫🇮🇪🇪
Greetings from your German allies 🇩🇪🤝🏻🇫🇮
Welcome to NATO!
🇨🇦🇪🇪🇩🇪
Much Love to our Arctic brothers 🇨🇦🇫🇮
@SiberiusStuff We'll be there brothers! From Canada 🇨🇦🇫🇮
Greetings and welcome from Texas!
God bless You guys, greetings from Poland!
We all are with you, Estonia - NATO is with you - the force is with you.
Love our NATO! ❤❤
Profile pic checks out
@Platypus nato is good
two of the best mg's side by side together its like art
The more training the better prepared.
The advancements in artillery, targeting systems, drones, and aerial threats have forced modern soldiers to fight front trenches.
What’s old is new.
I like the message it sends- “stay the hell out of our country, orcs!”
очень страшно не убивайте 😁🤣
@Frankie Calsone Кожного чека сокира :)
🤣
Bigger military diplomacy is always the rule. Also nice mg42 Estonia
A 50 cal and an MG. Beautiful.
Precisely what you need to fight off Russian human wave tactics... 😅
As an exMil Nato shocktrooper sergeant. These guys are lightly armed compared to squads I commanded...
Unidad en la defensa de la libertad ❤OTAN/NATO
always ready and on point with our other brothers,greetings from holland!
Estonia big respect..love from UK.🇬🇧
Love from Canada love UK Love Games Workshop and warhammer 40k lol
@savagex466 hell yeah!
Estonia's military has great taste in small arms
The most valuable thing to come out of this war was getting a peak as to what 21st century conventional warfare looks like. However it seems that the technology of modern warfare has brought back early 20th century trench warfare.
War never changes.
What would make an end to that is drones with machine guns
The more things change the more they stay the same ✌️
Both sides are fighting mainly with old Soviet cold war and WW2 leftover weaponry, more modern/more precise weapons, vehicles and artillery are mostly used for extremely specific tasks.
All the donated equipment that Ukraine has received isn't truly enough to change the overall warfare dynamics that we're seeing, and the Russians lost their more modern equipment and better trained troops in failed operatives like that of Hostomel. That isn't truly "modern warfare" is a cold war Katyusha hell but with drones (mostly crappy drones with grenades), communication jamming and some rare random long range missiles or himar strikes.
So we are back to fighting trench warfare. What is old is new again.
It's the new technology that brought us back to trench warfare, remember than in world war 1, new military weapons and somewhat outdated doctrines led to a stalemate between the allies and central powers (mainly Germany) on the western front. The same is happening to our modern armies with their newer technology, their doctrines though capable and good, isn't enough to integrate said new weapons.
It never went away. They dug trenches all over Russia, Ukrain, and France, Belgium, and Germany in WWII.
Seeing modern CQB tactics implemented in trench setting is surprisingly .... uncanny. I hope the day never came that they must do this scenario with live rounds and real enemy combatants
The Estonian army is top notch🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪 👍👍
Огромная эстонская армия состоящая из 5 человек😂
Особенно крутая эстонская разведка🇪🇪🐌😂
Viva Estonia 🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪 👍👍
@Александр 777 you mean the Russian army in the mean time😂
@Александр 777 Глядя на ситуацию в Украине, мне кажется, что этих 5 человек может быть достаточно, чтобы проникнуть в Питер.
Trench warfare in 22nd century amazing
We’re in the 21st century
Gotta love the mg-42 or whatever variant that one is.
Mg42 was so far ahead of its time.
Its mg3, common mg in Estonian army
@lauriL90 MG3 is a slightly modified MG42
@lauriL90 ok. Just in general they still use variants of the mg…
@Neurofied Yamato there’s always that one person😂
@lauriL90 “There is little to be said of the MG-3's design or development, as it is essentially just an improved MG-42 re-chambered for 7.62x51 mm NATO round.”
😂 so it’s the same gun lol gtfoh
That tache on the mortar team mfc should be enough of a deterrent 😂
Amazing the more time that passes the more our tactics regress, the defender clearly has the advantage in modern warfare.
havent that always been the case. the defender always have had the advantage
@Frederik Mangor I guess for a short while in the beginning of WW2 Germans had an advantage attacking because nobody was prepared for their fast motorized attacks
@Frederik Mangor Yep defenders always have a advantage but you don't win wars by defending
@Neurofied Yamato thats a Lie, you Can win wars by defending and depleting the enemy army
@Neurofied Yamato uhm, Afghanistan?
tech moving ahead in lightning speed..
while humanity's flaws still the way it was.
Although I'm not estonian, I studied 3 years of university there so it has a special place in my heart. Best of luck and may the russians never even try to invade estonia
I can't believe it's ww3 season already!
I still have my war-on-terror decorations up!
Sadly i feel like Ukraine cant hold out forever, so its very smart of Estonia to be ready just incase 🫡
And I agree they should be preparing. However, don’t think that Ukraine is giving up. Many of my friends are fighting right now. And we have many combat experienced and hardened troops. We have got a lot of Soviet and Western equipment, it takes time to drive out the enemy
Ukraine is the sacrifice, notice how nato soldiers and vets aren't volunteering to fight, there could Easily be 100,000 professional soldiers in ukraine and drive the russian back last year.
@Wawa Weewa Rn the Ukrainian foreign legion isn’t taking any more foreign volunteers unless they have combat experience. That eliminates the vast majority of NATO soldiers.
@Evan Pinter tell me Total number of veterans....
It's quite telling that russia considers and calls all NATO members "aggressive" and yet you see all these countries next to russia either building defensive fences or trenches.
Says far more about russia than those other nations.
Yes. Russia building defensive bases in mexico amd cuba... oh... wait...
@superdupermax colonizing africa as we speak though
@superdupermax lol not the same seethe and cope ivan
Slava Ukraini
From Heaven💕
So ur a angel from heaven??
@Bo Hashem No, I think he's God.
@Bo Hashem I am God
Hand Salute to all of you wonderful countries!
0:01 MG42/MG3…..as if WWII were only yesterday!
Does anyone know what kind of ammunition they use in such training scenarios? I highly doubt that theyre using proper ammo here, right? Are "enemys" marked as hit in some way?
How do soldiers know in these exercises if they've been "killed" ? like those guys in the trench make sense but from long range does no one "die"
Officers who aren't taking part of the scenario usually stand around the battlefield near squads and they come up to you and tell you that you've been shot.
@Henki "- This but a scratch!"
- All right, we'll call it a draw." ;)
NATO strong
Yeah, but Finish marine invasion to Estonia on ferry's this summer (or any for that matter) is unavoidable. God save the SuperAlco!
Ready just waiting for the orders 🫡
I find a bit funny how the Estonian minister of defence's name is "Pevkur", since "pelkuri" means coward in finnish and with a certain speech disorder a person might say "Pevkuri".
No offence though, just thought it was a bit funny.
I love the Haribo packet, Europe summarized, truly.
Was that a poncho with jungle knots? 😍
Its always nice to train. Nut seriously doubt Russia could beat Ukrain and still wish to continue further west.
Yep especially a country has a neighbour who is as unstable as a psychopath.
What do they fire at each other when they are fighting against their partners ?
They are lucky, snow. The desert is the worst. In the cold the bleed is less and it more sanitary.
The cold is also absolutely miserable....
Let’s do a proper training with 500000 guerrilla war trained finnish warriors, who’s ready to take on the soup kitchen? 😂
Outstanding that the French Mountain Infantry are using HK 416s.
Asking the british army on how to fight a war is like asking a priest for marriage guidance 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ask Argentina about that ,how the Task Force, in 1982 just 40 yrs ago, with 2 carriers went 8000 miles from the UK and retook the Falklands from right under the Argentines nose. better yet ask the captain of the Belgrano ,the only ship sunk by torpedo since WW2 ,and it was by a Brit captain , the Royal Navy with their Perisher training with maybe the best submarine captains in the world.. one shot one kill, nd if you miss that one shot in training, youre out. HMS Conquerors captain didnt miss
Yeah, and asking North Korea for weapons is like asking a begger for spare change.
Maybe you didn't see the British demolish the Americans in the exercise on their own turf? Three days in the Americans called for a restart, British obliged and beat them again in two days. Most successful Empire in history, stay irrelevant.
The British army always looks completely in control of the situation, always an answer to every scenario, best army in the world
Agreed 🇬🇧 ❤
Good ol’ British stoicism 🇺🇸🇬🇧❤️
Estonia should erect barriers on borders like Poland is doing now. Stops heavy vehicles and tanks.
love the haribos 😎 best snack in the field
There's a movie called 1944 about Estonia conscipts being pited againt each because of germany and the Red Army . Good and sad movie
😂 I see why putin had to rush nuke to place in Belarus.
If NATO were to step into the Russian war...
Belarus and Russia will have to nuke themselves 😅
Stand strong Ukrainian people
Stand strong NATO and allies around the world.
Obviously Estonian military is small! But they have been building up for it! And any attact from the east would be bloody and painfull for them.They can take over fast but holding that land would be a nightmare for shure🇪🇪Estonians would probably take very few prisoners am shure! Any mooron on my land with a gun has no right to survive!
Practise is important everyone should practise i practise every day.
North America stands with you, I know my Canadian and US brothers will gladly be at your aid. We are done with Russia, we are done with propaganda, and we are done with our friends in Europe living in FEAR. Putin will see his last days soon, and then we can all have a drink together, hopefully for the last time in a long while. We all deserve peace.
Give Up Russia! It's all over. GO HOME!!😂
Trench warfare is a widely misunderstood way of dealing with enemy troops. The best way to do trench warfare is to not do trench warfare.
Trench warfare is a necessity now. Highly advanced guided munitions have made using trenches a requirement for survival in protracted engagements.
Finlands top tier troops will impress the world with excellence in NATO, you will witness a master at work.
Russia… Russia and Germany. A thorn in the side of its neighbours since the dawn of time.
Yes finally you said something true: "On Putin doorstep" and that's the reason why it's vital for him to defend his country from the aggressors!
The Agressor is Russia!
@Alan Bennett 😄😄🤦🤦
@Alan Bennett really?🤓
Was that a mg42 if so that’s bad ass don’t wanna be in front of that only God can help you then
Sure a WW2 weapon in a modern day scenario. That's not an MG42 is an MG3
It's an MG3, basically an MG42 in 7.62 NATO.
@Spee Langs we still have ww2 era weapons in a modern scenario. The M2. Machine gun is a machine gun
@Spaghetti Cat I'm pretty sure of it. But MG42's also as the MP44's were highly demanded between collectionists from all around the world and now many of them are in museums and private hands. One original MP44 in good shape retails about 30.000 dollars.
Lol, as if 20k troops will do anything against an army group with overwhelming fire power. It would be safe to assume that when the Russians ACTUALLY go to war and go total war style when it comes to their doctrine, it would be a miracle for the baltics to last even a week.
First off EDF and EDL wartime formations amount to about 40k soldiers with aprox. same amount of personnel with military training left as additional reserve. Secondly Estonias geography doesn't allow for effective deployments of large units in battle formations because of the Baltic sea, lake peipus along with rivers and hilly terrain favouring defenders greatly. Just look at the battles of Narva and Tannenberg line in 1944. The soviets advanced less than 100km in 8 months while suffering aprox 500k casualties in north-east Estonia while having massive numerical superiority. Ofcourse warfare has changed but battle locations haven't. Besides Russias logistic capabilities reach only 70 km from their border when invading so unless the orcs want to waste tremendous amounts of resources on amphibious landings and/or airborne assaults just to capture the baltics then a week is a laughable prediction, in the same class as "Kyiv in 3 days".
@Henri Konsap so why does US high command state that Russia can take the baltics in 24 hours?
Россия обладает оружием способным уничтожить любую страну, включая США.... 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺👊💪⚡🔥💥
But fear to do that😂
And the nato also does have
Mutually assured destruction
If it takes 31+ nations to supply One nation 24 times bigger than estonia and yet still come across Supplying issues within a year then i find it hard to believe they will survive within a month
Agree. All European nations should up their military spending to 6% and restock, reequip, rearm and purchase new military systems from European solutions (ie. Not the f35 and certainly not relying on the usa).
2:47 is this a MG 42?
it's an mg3 which is basically the mg42's little brother with a slower fire rate
*MG3, it's basically an MG42 in 7.62 NATO with a slightly slower firerate
@Pratt you can switch the bolt to a lighter one to fire faster
what's the name of the helmet at 1:13
Slava To Ukraine 🇺🇦
From Chechnya❤
Слава России🇷🇺 из США❤😂
@Александр 777 Slava Ukraini. Slava Azov. Slava Bandera. Slava Slava Slava.
@Александр 777 I don't think you're a Tankie, more of a Botski. Anyway.. Blyaaatt Rossiya
Estonian lines were broken that is concerning.
That's the set narrative of these exercises. No matter the actual outcome of simulated conflicts, for training purposes the enemy will always advance after.
whats the music in the background?
i see some French soldier too by they camo and the hk
Ukraine forses are very strang
"...estonia mayday give up to paris 1946 peacecountryfriendship russia by carl enckel's finish ministergroup
Canada, reporting in!
Putim está a enterrar o seu exército na Ucrânia 😪😪
Bro they are using German MG42's........ God bless the invaders, those things fire quick
train counter trench warfare not how to die in a trench lol
Did my boy have an MG 42
MG3. It's a modern version basically, with an optics rail, polymer replacing wood and using 7.62x51mm NATO.
Artur Rehi surely must be doing a video on this mess.
Bruh they got HK416s thats based
learning from ukraine, I see
Yea my dayz buddy she left Estonian cuz she has two kids and her bf in army rn
Are they ready for drones
That's what the trenches are for.
No offense but I don't think you're going to get that many people surviving going into a trench. Cuz you ain't stacking up
Russia can't win this war, EU needs to do more
It's a game. War is a game.
The EU is currently sending Ukraine money , weapons and a massive ONE MILLION 155mm artillery shells. That twice as many shells as Russia started the war with.
Fighting way far behind the frontline...... Tough talk
-12c lmao
**Practice**
So these guys are in trenches with what protecting them from drone attacks?
The miracles of the "good" side obviously!
Some AA systems at the back of the trenches for a cheap solution. If you want the expensive one, then a jammer that blocks the drone's connection to the operator. And if you really go to the top expensive one - a laser disruptor that aims at the drone's laser transmission device (if the drone is some high-tech Starlink style device that uses lasers to communicate with a satellite in space and then the satellite sends the signal via laser to the drone operator). So far Russia hasn't deployed Starlink style connection drones, so the first two options are enough.
they be strong ask
Practise lol. *Practice
Hopefully ww3 never happens and everyone calm down
fix bayonets in a trench fight and bunker yeah lad that's why the men choose clubs and knifes and trench maces in ww1 cause with a rifle and bayonet in a trench you had to much limited movement think that lad needs to go back to training
Haribos are delicious lol
Glasses everywhere
@the sun tell me how do soldiers stop icmbs? in the sky? answer: you cant lmao everyone will launch their nukes and destroy humanity ! WHAT DO YOU THINK A CORNER RATE WOULD DO? IF THEY LOSE THIS WAR HM? HAVE YOU PEOPLE THINK OF THE CONSEQUENCES?
prac·tice
whats with all the rubble in front of the M2 how is it supposed to shoot anything?