Nato's newest member Sweden packs a small but powerful military punch 

Doesn't hurt to have another group of Vikings in the pact!

I'm surprised Sweden's most diabolical WMD is not mentioned here: Surströmming.

Great addition to NATO 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍 May be a small armed forces but one that packs a powerful punch and technically superior in the cold weather climates…

A good force, except for depth, i.e. reserves. Hur som helst så är jag ytterst glad att ni nu kom med oss i Finland!

Welcome to Sweden ! Thank you for joining NATO. We are infinitely stronger now.

Sweden's Gotland submarines were so innovative, the US military leased one for three years so they could figure out why couldn't detect them.

You forgot to mention the homeguard numbering 24000. Not enough but its a quality force that is almost doubling your force estimates

Sweden is a great country. Thank You joining NATO from the US

They are not armed to the teeth; they are armed to the tissues And they have impressed me with the S-tank since my childhood!

The Gripens are blooming awesome.

In addition, there are 20,000 or so reasonably well equipped Home Guard soldiers, with at least 3 months basic, but many ex conscripts as well.

As a Swedish, i can just say thanks to all support, and your welcome too. Together we will br stronger! 💪

Hmm.. some rather outdated information here.. conscription volumes are increasing, expected to reach 8000/year in 2025. It is likely to continue to increase, at least up to somewhere between 12000-20000, possibly higher. A lot of reevaluating going on, due to Ruzzia's attack on Ukraine. The number of Archers in service is correct for now, but another 48 is already ordered in production. It will probably increase further. The fighter fleet is presently about 100 airframes, but is set to 120 according to decisions made before Ruzzias full-scale attack, so it will probably be increased aswell.. & then you have signals intelligence platforms, & AWAC type of platforms. Presently 2 GlobalEye's are in production, with an other 2 optional in that contract.. In general, the numbers given in this clip are a bit low, & as expansion was a fairly high priority already before Ruzzias attack, it is likely to increase more & faster..🧐

Sweden welcome Home that's where you belong , couldn't be happier, Sweden is a very developed powerful country, together we are unstoppable, love our northern neighbors 🇩🇪❤️🇸🇪

Not even Hitler could get Sweden to abandon its 200+ years long position of neutrality but Putin managed this feat. That's quite an achievement.

This is really starting to add up, into becoming really effective, so that we here in the Nordics can actually fight back and keep the line. Feeling this personally as a great relief as a Norwegian and and are really thankful to having Sweden and Finland on board.

Small or not, it's another helping hand to have with us during these dark times. The UK welcomes you to NATO.

Sweden, you are most welcome to the club. You're well trained and well equipped forces will be a valuable asset.

Sweden is a potent member of Nato. And very welcome!

Thank you, Sweden!! With huge appreciation and love from Lithuania❤

Sweden have ordered 48 more Archer system

Sweden big respect from UK.🇬🇧

I am still rocking my Lundhag military boots. They supply loads of outdoor gear for civilian/military market. Used by a chosen few in 1982.

For an such an alledged "small" place, Sweden's world famous armaments industries punch far above their weight!

These personele numbers don't mean much. If it ever came to it, Europe could/would enact conscription. You could bolster all the military numbers into the millions if you had to! Almost 500 million people live in Europe - putin knows this. Slava NATO!

Totally wrong, Sweden has a total of 55,000 soldiers plus those who have done their conscription 10-15 years back in the time that can be called up, so let's say in a fully functioning mobilization, Sweden could field a total of 65,000 thousand (just today) In 2028, the Swedish force is to total 100,000, which is still too small. Between the 1950s and 1970s, Sweden was able to mobilize 800,000. And in addition, Sweden has a force of 23,000 men in peacetime. Then it is calculated that they will be able to mobilize 70,000 in 2025 from today's 55,000 och

There are also 25.000 soldiers in the Home Guard. Ie Territorial Defence troops.

Most capable country to join Nato in years apart from Finland.

Sweden has around the same number of fighter jets as Britain has, despite being seven times smaller than Britain in terms of population. That's a rather disturbing thought as discussions rage about how underfunded and underequipped the British armed forces are.

Its awesome to see the Baltics united for the first time in hundreds of years. Amazing. Welcome to the team 🙌. P.S. Those Archer systems are INSANELY good.

Welcome sweden ! Man lol nato now should have one monster of a hockey team between Canada,Sweden , finnland , and the US

Viva Sweden!

The number in the armed forces is totally wrong. There are around 20k active soldiers and there are around 6-8k troops that does conscription each year since like 2016. About 50k in the homeguard which is the volenteer force, but ever since the war in Ukraine the recruitment office for the homeguard units have been overwhelmed with applicants and now there is basically a waiting list for years in some parts of the homeguard. Sweden had around 500 cv90 before donating 50 to Ukraine, Sweden had 48 Archers (and 48 more on order) before giving Ukraine 8.

Yay Sweden! Joining NATO is a very wise decision indeed! 🇺🇸👍

Let's not get into numbers only but the hearts of the Swedish are brave and they are well trained in harsh conditions. Germany failed in Russia mostly because of the cold. I bet they are in total a great addition for NATO, let the vikings in the north be our shield

Wow...200 years neutrality. That tells you how serious ww3 has become.

welcome sweden ❤❤❤

Welcome Sweeds

Välkommen Sverige. Bra att du har dig hos oss. Starkare tillsammans.

Putler is drawing new red lines.

Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland!

Sweden, Norway and Denmark brought vikings on NATO's side.

Welcome Sweden love you from 🇯🇴

Those corvettes also have stealth and gives off a very small radar echo, we've shared intelligence with NATO for decades, JAS Gripen has been NATO compatible for years as Link 16 was introduced a couple of years ago for NATO compatibility. So, joining NATO wasn't much of a surprise for us who have worked in the Armed forces.

Super Troupers?

Now Scandinavian Vikings are gathered again! 💪

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That’s not true. Its Army is being overhauled with conscription being reintroduced recently in 2018. The only thing going for them is their Navy and Airforce. So not the most advanced in the Europe-YET.

The forces are growing but slowly as a lot of basesvand training facilities where disbanded and it takes time. Just the last years several army units has been re-established as well as one more AF flottila as the air force is growing

I wonder if it would be possible to set up factories in other NATO countries and license build some of the Swedish military systems. Three main ones come to mind. - JAS 39 Gripen E - CV90 IFV, they've worked on variants with 120mm main guns that give the light vehicle the punch of a MBT. - Archer 155mm Mobile Gun System which according to the AFU is one of the best they have received in aid.

We've had 5k conscripts coming in every year, and that has been increased to 10k now. We have around 30k active men in the field and 40k reserves, so that's wrongful information.

Excellently researched, the first video like this that I have seen getting the important facts right. What could have been mentioned was swedish military industry. However, I got the inpression this vid was focused on current combat power specifically and in the near term this vid is pretty accurate. EDIT: Haha, so many russian bots in the comments, it is glorious!

NATO’s largest since the Cold War, involving a total of 90,000 troops from all 31 NATO member states and incoming member Sweden.

Welcome Sweden! Sweden brings some capable weapon systems to the NATO alliance. Now the northern flank is reinforced. The Gripen E variant has some advanced sensors and capabilities, thought to be equal or near equal to the F-35's advanced sensors too. Sweden's Gotland class subs are no joke. 1 of those managed to sink an American aircraft carrier (and I believe its escorting fleet of vessels too) without the latter knowing during a wargame exercise many years ago. The US Navy later asked to borrow the sub so that they can actually learn how they were sank and what their vulnerabilities are.

Sweden has an Army under big changes. A lot of new equipment coming in, and a lot of new soldiers. This years conscripts will be the biggest group in many years. We also have new subs on order, 2 in and 1 going obsolete. So we will soon have 5 subs. Also, we have 4 new corvettes on order. Some of the biggest ships in the Navy. What I'm saying is that Sweden is going from 1% of GDP to 2%, with indications that 2% will not be enough. So come back in 2 years and it might look bigger.

Feel so much better that Sweden is in NATO! Shoutout to Sweden from the U.S!

Thanks for the video and kind words!

What are Swedens strengths, you ask? 1. Its not dependent on the USA for weapons. Like Finland, its self sufficient. 2. It has a 400,000 reservist force that is fully equipped including wealons and can be mobilised at two weeks notice and they do regular training with the permanent force. 3. They hate Russians, and like Finland they are experts on arctic warfare. 4. Their young people take defence seriously and join up to fight, not qualify for free college. 5. They are politically neutral still and have no delusions about the danger from Russia. If you were a country at risk, and you wanted three countries to be beside you, they would be Sweden, Finland, Poland and Australia.

So many of these stats were so wrong with lower numbers than it actully is. For example it's more than 14k active personel, its 26k, and it's not 26 archers, it's 72 where some of them were donated to Ukraine. Its also more than 319 CV90, closer to 450.

Welcome to NATO, happy to have you with us. Please now make it your mission to make Canada live up to it's own NATO commitments.

you forget a but SAAB Globaleye :)

Si vis pacem para bellum.

Splendid news. Great addition with an accomplished military. It ties up the Baltics.

Your numbers are way off! There are many more troops in Sweden both full time, part time, reserv and (hemvärn) National Guard.

Definition of quality over quantity. A fantastic military that will make a fantastic ally. More than anything, I'm excited to see the Gripen brought to NATO. A very impressive aircraft that will be a huge bonus to Europe's already pretty damn awesome aerial-combat capabilities.

Would be awesome if they started referring to themselves as the "Carolingian Army" once again.

This could increase the risk of cardio vascular disease for Bloodimeer Phutin..

Correction it is around 24,000 active and 32,900 reservists and 7 corvettes not 14,850 active and 11,450 reservists and 5 corvettes do proper research. Otherwise good video.

You forgot to mention the Homegaurd

Velkommen etter, brødre! Det var på tide ;D

great

This is a huge gain for NATO!

Yes! We need to help a cooperate with Sweden to become more powerful.

The selection-rate for conscripts is spiking right now. Last year 5,5k was selected for conscripts, this year it is close to 7k. Percentage-wise its going up as well.

Gripen ("the griffin") is pronounced like "Greepen", not "Grippen". The Swedish word "grip" rhymes with "keep" or "deep" rather than "grip" or "dip".

Well that what we got right now... 2-3% of bnp will make a huge difference!

There is also the home guard of some 20,000, know-how and capacity to grow. During the peak of the cold war, they had 500,000 mobilizable troops and spent 5% of their GDP on the military, including an air force of over 1,000 Swedish-built jet fighters. This may not be what is needed in the 21st century of course.

I am confident the home guards could expand to 300 000 in matter of days.

Anybody else’s member pack a small but powerful punch?

Sweden should expand conscription. They have very small manpower. Conscription is also good to connect people from different groups and social glasses. In army everybody is equal. No matter what religion or color you are. In Finland almost every man serve in military.

It's about who get who first.

A bit like ourselves then.

Putin said it doesn't bother him that Finland and Sweden joined the NATO as he has no problem with them.

Can everybody just join NATO so we can finally have peace on earth.. The fact we have to have a NATO is truly sad 😔

Sweden will soon have 160 modern Gripen fighters.

For an alledged small place, Sweden's worldwide marketed armaments industries punch above their weight.

Please, the numbers are totally wrong, check fact before!!

A well trained army is not to be sniffed at Same with the Finnish They are no pushover just look at there history 👍

back in the day sweden could mobilize about 800k strong military in very quick time, there were weapon storages in forrest all over the country, fighter jets hidden in the forest all over the country from south to north, then open the forrest drive out fighterjets and away it goes on the highwayroads

Uhm, Sweden ditched neutrality and non-alignment when it joined the EU in 1995. The EU also has a joint military clause much like Article 5 on NATO.

conscription is actually 8000 as of 2024

Crazy

frankrijk en duitsland en andere landen hebben al veel gedaan voor vrede het is tijd om oekraïne te helpen

vlad the sad lad :(

Technology baby

Dont forget The white flash, Vita blixten and its wielders silent but deadly🥶👻

In the eghties, sweden had 850 000 personal to apply in case of war, then we were capable

Putin wanted less nato...he got more nato and alerted more nato nations to spend alot more on its military capability. Good job putin, you nightmare come true.😂

That's a fireworks crackers in front of Russia

is the russians military start the second front in the borders if sweden and finland?