Both hands extended to sides is FDF signal for 'Squad, line formation'...When I was in, the machine gunner and his assistant ran to the left side of the squad leader, and rest of the guys to the right.
*You should definitely jump on this! Northern Forest 24* was an intense 24-hour military exercise in the harsh conditions of the north. Packed with action, survival, and more coool shit! Adrenaline-pumping moments of tactical maneuvers to the behind-the-scenes struggles of maintaining morale and focus. You don't want to miss this video cuz its also filmed by Combat Camera.
I took part in this exercise before it was known as Arrow and then later as a reservist. I think that it still is the largest and most important exercise for all armored and mechanized units in Finland. For us it lasted about two weeks. First we spent time training and maneuvering with our own unit and after that there was a week long simulated war scenario where we were on alert all the time. You could tell that there was a lot of competition between the unit commanders! After that some units stayed there for live fire exercises too because the terrain allows very long range targets for tanks and artillery. I agree that the video makes is kinda hard to tell what's going on most of the time. Well, most of the time as grunts we didn't know what the hell was going on either!
It was fun to follow this exercise, even I'm not anywhere near training areas. Those Apaches just happened to fly almost every time over my house when they left or arrived to Tampere Pirkkala airport. Flying low and fast, those were fun to take photos. Nice looking beasts. 4:55 those were British Apaches as far as I remember.
@@KalleKilponen I guess that those damn things sees you and sends hot greetings way before you hear it well enough to pinpoint it's position. But truth is that those aren't quiet in any measurement.
There is a lot hand signal that requires both hands in FDF. A lot of the hand signals are so you don't need to see what someone is doing with their hand, but how arms are positioned in relation to each other, movement of arms or how you hold gun. Can't really use fingers to give signals when half the year people have winter gloves on. In forest the distances and stuff like trees might block small signals.
Niinisalo is most used because its military training area size is one of the biggest in Finland and rivals many other European training areas also in size and most notably in lenght for artillery training, which Finland is very well known already. Being second only to Finland's and whole Europe's largest military training area of Rovajärvi.
CAC loving the videos and wide variety of information you provide with REAL honest feedback. Congratulations on the promotion to WO. Peace out from the land down under
2:17 that "fast rope" is on an armoured vehicle w foliage for better disruptive camo. Rope may be a climbing aide; wet, cold, and loose plants on steel hulls.. Could be a tow rope, but only for a light vehicle..
I was serving during this exercise this year but didn't participate personally due to my assignment. From what I heard from others it was "relatively piece of cake" but they didn't get to see any allied forces other than a few sightings of the Apaches flying over.
Check out the vintage stuff from the 70´s. It´s about a light mortar platoon, which was an organic part of every jaeger or infantry company. No english subs unfortunately, but maybe it´s entertaining though. It describes how the mortal platoon supports the assault of the point platoon of the company. "KV KRH kärjessä HD 1971 (AI Remastered) (Uusi Versio 2023)"
If you want to add some videos on your list of videos to react, the Mighty Finland channel started a reportage series just few days ago of the Arctic Response 24 exercise, which was part of the larger NATO Steadfast Defender 24 exercise. There's also a series of that Steadfast Defender 24 exercise available, which shows how things unfold. The Nordic Response 24 is introduced in the 3rd episode in that series. Marines are introduced to skis. The Mighty Finland series links to the 4th episode of that series. Also, there are probably more series or videos at least available relating to the Steadfast Defender 24 exercise from different regions, considering the scale of that exercise and number of exercises included in it, in case you want to take an even wider look at it: "Episode 1 - Steadfast Defender 24: The Voyage Begins" and "Nordic Response 24 - osa 1: Miltä NATO-sotaharjoitus Suomen Lapissa näyttää? (ENG SUB)".
one of the main reasons you will see a lot of NATO large scale exercises going on in Finland in the future is they have by far the largest Military Training Area in Europe in Rovajärvi, one of the largest in the world in fact. 1,100 sq. km to play around with.
It’s called the Finno-Urgic language group. It consists of Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and a bunch of Russian languages (mostly in Siberia), east and west of the Uralic mountains where the Finns migrated from when they came to where they live now.
The language sounds so different because we speak an Indo-European language (English) and Uralic which Finnish comes from is not part of the same group. So English technically has more in common with various European, Iranian, Indian, etc... than the other language groups around the world. Language is how most historians now lump groups of people together instead of genetics since the world was a melting pot and people have been mixing together for ages.
Funny that u said that about Latin. Finnish is like one of the only languages that is still literally pronounced as Latin :P Might not be THE only one but I dunno any other.
Arrow 2024 was in the end of April and start of may so snow can be found. It's not that uncommon to actually have full blown takatalvi (a second winter) in may
Finnish is a Fenno-Uralic language, originally in its proto-Finnic form (something like 5000 years ago) from the west side of the Ural mountain range. The people flowed through early Europe, and the language picked up western influences. There's only Estonian which is a close language relative, and the languages are not mutually intelligible.
You should consider checking out new video from " International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine " . The name of the video is " The Bloodiest Battle of the Chosen Company Pt.1 " . Video is a bit longer but it is on English, it has a video of operations, and soldiers explaining the mission. Thank you and stay safe.
great video mate would love to see you react to the bloodiest battle of chosen company there's two parts about a international legionary unit in ukraine love from the uk
A fuckton is accurate lol. One thing I see lacking and this is not only here but general exercise planning Ive heard from guys and that is learning from Ukraine. Plotting an A1 size map on open ground when your adversary has proven the use of surveillance drones 120km from their lines is just reckless. That big ass white and bright map can be seen much farther away than you can hear the drone from. Just something to consider I guess.
Funny that you said that finnish language saunds like Asian language. I lived in Japan for 6 months and sometimes if someone was talking further away from me I sometimes tought they were speaking finnish as I didn't hear the wrods but just the intonation. Greetings from Finland!
My japanese teacher used to say that what makes japanese easy to learn for finns is that the pronounciation and intonations are very similar (if we don't count some of the dialects).
Finnish comes from a language group that originates in Asia. The Finno-Urgic language group. It consists of a bunch of languages from east and west of the Uralic mountains, in modern day Russia, where the Finns once migrated from. It consists of several Russian languages, mostly in Siberia and of Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian.
@Jonsson474 For those wondering Hungarian? That's because they migrated from modern day northern Russia to their present country. That's why two countries speak similar languages even though they are not close to other similar speaking peoples that tend to be neigbhors.
@@unreal4010 Welcome to the Internet! Just write "Kursk" in the search bar (RU-vid or Google, doesn't matter) and click the first search result. Should clarify it right up!
@@unreal4010 Hmm, have you followed the war in Ukraine? Russia is supposed to be the second mightiest in the world, and still it has huge problems with a neighbouring country, i.e. almost no logistical issues. Thus, the Russian army is a bit of a joke, as it clearly isn't as strong as has been thought.
@@CombatArmsChannel I know this would never happen and would have bad consequences, But what would happen if Finland invaded northern Russia. Take back the land Russia took in 1939. Then call Russia hypocrites for saying Ukraine was always part of Russia when they respond. It’s a good time seeing as they are run down fighting the war.
Niiice, although I'm an aircraft guy I like seeing armor moving en masse 👍 I'd like to recommend a vid for you to check out. It's a bit longer at 6min 44sec but I think you might like it as it's a joint light infantry exercise between the Gurkhas and the NZ army held in both dense bush and urban settings: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hx8F0__JPpk.html
Seriously, the ukies are bringing us food, water and blankets and the army is bombing the distribution area? What's going on? I thought Putin cared for us? Why is he trying to kill us, his own people? I think I'm going to ask the ukies to protect me from now on.
It's a 2 minute clip of an exercise that lasted for weeks. Just because you didn't see a particular type of equipment, doesn't mean it wasn't there. Finland certainly fields multiple types of drones, as I'm sure do the other nations involved.
