There is a funny quote from a Finnish soldier that was interviewed in 2022 by the Sun. "Once you go to Helsinki & you go to buy a pack of cigarettes from R-kioski or a grocery store. The person selling those cigarettes to you, he knows how to shoot with bazooka." I love my Finnish neighbors 😂
As a Finnish reserve soldier, I'm so effing jello for the people who got to join this exercise. This is exactly the stuff I wanted to do when I started my military
well then go on... now we want to know what you did on the day to day and what your training stuff was like with just the swenskis... also... did your training ever involved eesti chaps?.....story time with the finn.... were waiting
Part of the reason why i ended up re-enlisting two years after i completed my conscription service. Got tired of sitting on my ass, waiting for meaningful stuff to happen. So i went out to look for 'em. It's actually quite funny to think ive been to overseas as a reservist, granted as an active duty one. I always imagined those kinds of trips would happen only if you went for the right branch to do your military service in.
I was in the Swedish 19th infantry regiment in Boden, i would have been sooooo excited beeing appart of this and more. Was part of the Swedish lock in the north. Norrbottensbrigaden. 🇸🇪
A friend was there with the German Gebirgsjäger (Mountain Infantry) and he was pretty happy afterwards and had so much great stories to tell about our old and new allies from Nato.
7:35 Ski towing like this can be surprisingly difficult with those military skis and all the gear on. Especially on hills. But it was really fun training.
When I was a kid, we had US Marines camping _just_ off the school grounds during a NATO winter exercise. They were _not_ prepared for a raid of a dozen or so kids, snowballs in hand. A few years later, when serving myself, I recognized they weren't too prepared during summer exersices in Norway either... :/
Currently there is ongoing Arrow24 training with UK. Seen daily Apaches flying over my house. Some good photos has been taken... Those Apaches are stationed on Tampere Pirkkala airport and they fly straight over this area where I live when they go to harash some Finnish tank crews on Niinisalo training area.
I remember being there 2016 as a Finnish reserve soldier (back then it was called cold response), alot of sleepless nights, standing around in snow for hours and hours and alot of skiing. Sadly it ended 1 to 2 days before schedule bcs of incident. Alot of good memories. Remember worst part being that we got to shower once at the end of the camp and not getting sleep for 2 to 3 days straight.
Forgotten Weapons channel has videos of the Finnish RK62 and RK95. RK62 he even disassembles to show the inner workings. RK is short for Rynnäkkökivääri finnish for Assault Rifle and 62 is the year it started to be mass produced so its literally just Assault Rifle 62.
Finns have a big militarily exercise in the north every year. I was there in the winter, doing guard duty. I spent my days looking at the scenery, reindeer and northern lights. I volunteered for extra guard shifts because I wanted to be there and take in the scenery. It's my fondest memory from my time as a conscript. The kit looks much nicer than we had back then. Then again, the special units get the best kit. My first gun was anchient, probably older than me.
The exercise N*rdic Response used to be called Cold Response, an even cooler (or at least colder) name. It is run every second year. Renamed Nordic Response as Finland and Sweden have joined NATO since 2022 (Sweden joined during the exercise).
In Norway we're using the Heckler & Koch HK416 as the primary assault rifle. We have a few different versions of it with a shorter barrel etc. We also operate the HK417 sniper rifle. The MP7 SMG. As well as the Minimi, both 5.56 and the 7,62 MK3. All of these have been introduced since 2014 give or take (quite recent tbh), so I don't believe we'll switch for something different anytime soon.
My eye catches to the romantic look of landscapes on the videos. Must be same people making them as the ones making some holiday trip advertisements. As a 44y fin, I can tell you that at first, during the winter time, there most likely isn't light. It's dark during the daytime also for the big % of Scandinavia. So forget those awesome looking gears, cause you don't see them 😅 At second, it is so cold, you can't imagine it from the video. There was few seconds of the reality where wet snow is flying to your face in the wind. Ad the darknes and wet clothes to that moment and it begins to look real.
It's a bit bragging since Norway already has fully switched to F35 . The exercise lasted through March and April 2022 and was led by the Norwegian Armed Forces' operational headquarters (FOH). The first allied troops arrived in Norway in the autumn and winter of 2021-22 to train and prepare for the exercise. The military activity mainly took place in south-east Norway, central Norway and parts of northern Norway.
@@kessu27 In the video there are soldiers from different NATO countries as well as the US Marines, to which I referred in my comment, if that's what you were asking for. And yes, we just use skis, combat boots and rubber boots. 😁
@@zqoz0000 Walking with snowshoes isn't very difficult if you know how to walk at all... 😁 They just make you very slow and an easy target. It would be better to train skiing instead.
Those winter trainings looks cool in a video but they arent much fun if you are outside all the time with temperaturs around -20°C, wet socks, wet gloves wet everything 😅
I remember when I was just a youngling first year in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we had a joint exercise with the US marines similar to this. We got into the ice water, and while we had done it several times before so we're used to it, their primal responses triggered immediately, showing why that is such an important exercise to do. You need to know how to stay in control of your body even though you're in freezing cold water. Also, this exercise didn't "introduce the F-35 to the region" as the narrator suggests. Norway was the second country outside the US to acquire the F-35.
Combat Camera has some damn amazing production value on those clips. Also the Finnish gun is likely a variant of RK-95 (short for RynnäkköKivääri 95, "Assault Rifle 95"), a further development from RK-62 which was pretty much a copy of the milled receiver AK-47, but with better machining quality and minor changes to the sights and such... and also the ugliest damn plastic and sheet metal stock on any military firearm ever.
The rifle is some of the RK series... e.g. Valmet/SAKO RK62 or later editions like RK92/RK95 (or M92/M95 the commercial version) th-cam.com/video/DiPNPQwOpUQ/w-d-xo.html FDF (and SAF) is acquiring now a new rifle system SAKO M23 (AR & DMR). Unfortunately not much videos about the M23 around yet, only articles. The SNRs are upgraded at the same time too and SAKO TRG M10 has been selected as the weapon of choice. It's been around for longer time and in addition to FDF & SAF is used by Canadian Armed Forces, Dutch Elite Tactical Police Unit DSI, Estonian Defence League, Polish Armed Forces, Slovenian Tactical Police Unit, South-Korean Naval Special Forces and NYPD Emergency Service Unit (ESU) th-cam.com/video/955P9CFSmIs/w-d-xo.html
My unit was the first to be allowed to be in Cold Response (other name for it) for the shortest time being in the army (about 3 months). Depending on the area it is in, the temperatur will hit below -30 C
Finland uses an AK-47 variant that's domestically designed, Israel used this variant as a basis to create the Galil. Sweden uses an FN FNC variant (the FNC didn't sell much)
Currently Sweden has the AK5C and Finland the RK62 (92, 95 TP), but as of 2025 both countries will have the AK24 which is a collaboration gun between the countries and in 2026 it will have fully replace all rolls and calibers within the armed forces.
I did Artic/Mtn warfare in Sierra Neavada in Feb 1985! Above 9,000' we had the white gear, mickey mouse boots, skiis, snow shoes, built snow caves ect! It was Great! Of course no one was shooting back so alot of fun! We even put white duct tape on M-16 to barrels.
I am almost your age. I must comment that from the European point of view the development in Russian has been deeply disappointing after the potentially more positive development after USSR. Of course it hasn't been the only disappointment, but obviously the most directly relevant one. Having to building more military power to protect from invasions from imperialistic nationalistic countries is difficult to see in a very positive light. Having to do what needs to be done is more miserable than positive.
@@just42tube Not really... Putin talks big and pretends that he can put up a fight as an invader of Europe, he can't... Ukraine has managed to survive so far with limited Western support. Putin knows that if he invades a NATO country entitled than more than just some symbolic Ukraine support he will not only lose face, he will pay with his own life.
@@petrusinvictus3603 Who are the friends you had in mind? Are you talking about bilateral agreements with UK and others or the NATO alliance? And why are you especially giving thanks to USA ?
There will probably be more videos, because there is still a military exercise going on. They have now switched from Nordic Response to Immediate Response and will continue until sometime in May. You can apply as a ykes soldier.
Im a former Marine special forces out of Haakonsvern and under/during my service we trained with MP5 and MP7 and Glock 17 and 19 was our sidearm, but when I came to Bosnia we all had Heckler & Koch AG3. Now all of the Norwegian forces have changed to H&K 416 and 417. I have never used one, but I have heard that these are such great weapons to use and they are great in artic conditions.
Really weirdly worded, VMFA-542 just recently finished transitioning to F-35B's. They are not even first American F-35's appearing in Nordic. Obviously Norway has operated F-35s for years by now and previously UK, Netherlands, Italy has send theirs for exercises in Norway. Basically they are last one(so far).
Could there be two more different videos? Yes, both are hype videos, but the first one is all about America, and its strength and capabilties. The second one - footage also in the dark (which really was missing in the marine one) and not just focusing on your troops. Also, I simply have to love the last scene with all the four showing their solidarity.
Norway was a founding member of Nato.(1949) And we got our first Royal Norwegian Air Force F-35 -A. on our ground 2017. Fonding member of that program to. Im just jelus of all the hype on sweden and finnland :-) dont forgett we been the defenders of the free word in the high north forewer. Ok. In close partnership whit USA 🤣he he he
@@pacmon5285 Don't call Finland a new kid: we have fought three wars during the Second World War. And we didn't get help for the Winter War. When our food and weapons ran out, Germany came to help us in the Continuation War, but the whole rest of the world still dared to declare, that they were at war with Finland. Only the USA did not declare war on Finland.
Foreign support in the Winter War consisted of materiel, men and moral support to the Finnish struggle against the Soviet Union in the Winter War. World opinion at large supported the Finnish cause. The Second World War had not yet begun in earnest and was known to the public as the Phoney War; at that time, the Winter War saw the only real fighting in Europe besides the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, and thus held major world interest. The Soviet aggression was generally deemed unjustified. Various foreign organizations sent material aid, such as medical supplies. Finnish immigrants in the United States and Canada returned home, and many volunteers (one of them future actor Christopher Lee) traveled to Finland to join Finland's forces: 8,700 Swedes, 1,010 Danes (including Christian Frederik von Schalburg, a captain in the Danish Royal Life Guards and later commander of the Free Corps Denmark, a volunteer unit created by Nazi Germany in Denmark during World War II), about 1,000 Estonians, 850 Ukrainians,[1][better source needed] 725 Norwegians, 372 Ingrians, 366 Hungarians,[2] 346 Finnish expatriates, 4 Latvians, 2 Lithuanians and 190 volunteers of other nationalities made it to Finland before the war was over. Wikipedia
You think it is a joke to go and swim in cold water. Listen even my two daughters do it from free will. We brake the ice and swim there. It is state of mind and Sisu. You could do it if you wanted it and was not that soft. *Edit my daughters are at age of 4 and 7 :D
Regarding the weapons Sweden and Finland have, Sweden and Finland have decided to place a joint order for new weapons and then from the Finnish weapon manufacturer SAKO, and tests are currently underway in Sweden of the new self-defense weapon (automatic carbine 24) Caliber 5.56x45 with "11 .5" barrel and if it works out, these will be introduced in 2025. Today, the AK 5C and AK 5D are used, which have replaced the earlier AK 5A and AK 5B
HEY YO Heres a video of american dude explaining about the finnish service rifle the "mercedes of AK's" th-cam.com/video/0ZfaLz3vBVM/w-d-xo.html its going to be replaced with new rifle by SAKO (the same company that made the previous) soon
Someone probably commented about the weapon already but: yes, it is an AK variant with the first introduction in 1962. So, the original type name is "RK-62" as in "RynnäkköKivääri-62", "assault rifle model 62". Since then several upgrades has been made. Some test series in caliber 5.56 was made as well as in some .308. "Civil" /semi-auto versions of the weapon has been available (at least until the version M92), but the latest (to my knowledge) M95 wasn't available for reservists anymore. The M95 (again to my knowledge) is already pretty modern AK if you like - side bar using Weaver that can mount the usual things such as scope, holo, red dot and probably a thermal sight too. The weapon is machined from a single piece of high quality steel instead of pressing it from some piece of whatever iron. The "downside" of the rifle has been considered the fact that it typically can't "eat" iron cased shells. Also unlike (typically?) other AKs, the weapon doesn't usually tolerate the changing of the lock & bolt action. Dunno if this is true, and if it is, I can't figure out why not.
I would like to add that the rifle in the video when the question was asked is specifically RK62M1 which is a modernized version of the regular RK62, it has a telescopic stock and a rail installed for mounting optics
Sweden and Finland are actually getting the same new rifles Sako M23. I know Sweden has ordered the M23 in 5,56x and 7,62x as rifle variants and also another 7,62 to be used as a sharpshooter weapon. I guess it's just a 7,62 variant with a bigger scope and bipod. Along with the TRG M10 sniper rifle.
The Finnish RK 62 and RK 95 are AK variants but the most important thing is that in the Finnish rifles the front sights are actually front because the gun is so well made the sights don't move when attached to the top in front. Sorry my English gun terms are lacking. 😆
the gun is called RK-95. there are lot of videos about it in TH-cam, also check Wikipedia. RK stads for "Rynnäkkökivääri" which means Assault Rifle in Finnish "Rynnäkkö" meaning Assault and "Kivääri" meaning Rifle...
I live in the US so part of my first aid gear is now including vented chest seals smh. Over the past two years I have been slowly assembling kits for the car and the house because we are expecting a 9.5+ earthquake. The kits have to be fairly comprehensive because you just never know what will hit first. Elastic bandages with gauze sponge packets tucked into the roll up for lacs to appendages and so much more. Iodine and saline bottles, super glue and suture kits for glass houses with that to die for view or just a trip to the mall.
The rifle is RK-95, an ak variant, successor for a rk-62, personally i think its a good standard rifle. uses a 7.62 ammo and is a really, REALLY, reliable
"Thrive" isnt the word id use at -20c. It's much like a desert I believe, but different. I don't have any experience in deserts, but I do arctic. The cold leech your bones of energy is the most succinct way I can describe it. If your caloric intake isn't doubled I'd be surprised. No I didnt count back then (I'm old), but we ate at least four times a day +snacks. But then again so does all soldiers. ;) What also stuck with me is the constant changing of clothes. You work you get sweaty, and as the old Eskimo saying goes "you sweat, you die". I remember one grueling march we had in cold weather. When we had a break everyone just plopped down on their asses. The Lt, seeing and most likely anticipated this, because as I suspect they had just educated us on the importance of changing your clothes when stopping to rest, then made us march till we were so tired we wouldn't even care if we froze to death, just to lecture and whip us into changing our clothes. I learned to alternate between two shirts, one for work and one for rest, as well as a wet shirt freeze quick, then you can whack of the ice. Also, stripping down to a bare chest twice every hour in -20c never gets comfortable. But when you get that dry shirt on and that thick sweater that's part of the kit you feel amazing. At least until its time to move again and you have to switch to a wet half frozen shirt. Thriving? No! Interesting, and you feel alive? Yes!
If you want to check out the gun u mentioned on the video its a finnish made AK-based assault rifle called "RK-95" The one u stopped the video on is some type of modernized version of the RK-95 but u can look up the gun on youtube or just search the web to find it. RK stand for "Rynnäkkö Kivääri" and it literally means "Assault Rifle" you should check it out.
Finland uses RK62s and RK95s RK's have many variants but Finland mostly uses modern variants RK62 M2 and RK62 M1 these days and of course the RK95TP (TP means foldable stock) I used the RK62 M2 with a foregrip and a Aimpoint T2 in my service and it was such a nice gun
Regarding the rifle, it is an AK variant, the RynnäkköKivääri62 (literally AssaultRifle62). But it's a really early one and pretty much the best of the bunch. The Finns tightened the design somewhat, the result needing a bit more maintenance but yielding greater accuracy and better overall durability. The Israeli Galil was based on the RK62. I'm not sure but I think the latest official model is still the RK95. When I served (2009-10), most rifles in my company were RK76's, with some variability between grips. Some had the so called "cheese grater" (a hole-y cylinder), some a somewhat more modern looking one, both plastic. All had the classic tube stock with your firearm maintenance kit stored inside. I saw some with folding tube stocks, but not many. It's a good gun at it's core, but it has its drawbacks. First of all, any optics installed on the top of it are going to be very unstable thanks to some core AK design principles - or flaws, depending on how you look at it. The Finns tightened the design enough for it to work consistently with aperture rear sights and tritium night sights, but it shakes too much for modern optics. Secondly, it's main cartridge isn't - to my limited knowledge - that commonly used among NATO allies (going historically alone against the soviets they thought they'd be getting a lot more ammunition from the soviets than the west). I believe the FDF and Försmakten are in the process of introducing a new service rifle to serve both forces, simplifying both future co-operability and modernization.
I wonder why no one is talking about the fact that these boys aren't alone I've talked about these things with older hunters and they all agree that if it comes to that we will hunt more than just wabbits...
Imagine a ghost recon type shooter where you enter a conflict on different fronts depending what NATO member you join. These guys would look so sick in that snow gear, those tanks too were lit.
Every night in fox hole, icy and cold water, until you can feel nothing under your waist, temp between -5 to +5. 11:30 to 06:00 every night, just cause someone fell a sleep and did not wake up a next one. AND YOU DO NOT LEAVE YOUR POST CAUSE OF THAT. Still piss me off. Oh, now days,"wasn't amused."
I give you little story. I was in place called Upinniemi, thats naval base in Finland. Our battalion was this huge man, way over 100kg fat dude. In every time he fall behind. So rest of us need to carry him around. Here is the fun part. He wommit, passed out and still try to keep up with rest of us. He was not fit for that and we carried him around. Yes some ppls start to mock him and perhaps you may called bullied. So who was the stronger man? Bullied or those who bullied him? Those who stand with bullied man or with bullies? Ask that to yourself that. And yes i got gold on my shoulders in Finnish navy / defense forces.
as a former soldier in swe. i dont really know what to fight for any more, politicians dont care about us, the people anymore, mass immigration, vage-dumping, taxed to hell, two tier legal-system etc etc
It's SO WEIRD that they are leaving out counties when naming who are in Nordic Response... Like was Denmark mentioned a single time? They literally say the countries as if it's "just made up of" those countries - in fact - 13 NATO countries are part of Nordic Response. It's seriously crazy - and makes you wonder why it's done that way! Mention ALL the countries - or just say "NATO"! Anything else is weird AF!
I would love to see you deal with a little bit of that wet cold. Suddenly it isn't all that nice. Just sayin' as a Finn in my forties from up north. (imagine in that British empty headed accent from reality series on the tele). :D
US Marines any time, any place? Actually Finnish troops consisting of mainly conscription personnel defeated US Marines trying to reach beachhead at the shores of Norway. Regarding F-35 no comments whatsoever. Other than I used to be proud of Finnish Airforce, which by the way is older than RAF. Thank God SwAf F21 base is only some 100 miles away from Rovaniemi 🇫🇮🇸🇪💪
They’re also training with the danish troops in naval warfare. There was a recent naval training exercise led by the British and danish forces. Plus most Nordic countries are also training Ukrainian forces. I’ve seen some fly over here and know that they are training out in the countryside as well.
Winter combat is awesome. There are no insects camouflage is easy as you only need one colour and traveling on ski's is like a superpower if the snow is a bit hard. Ski combat is the best and you can ride on ski's after a vehicle and be so far back you don't hear the engine and can just enjoy nature in silence, it's like being on a very fast "T" ski lift. I did 10 months conscription in Boden in northern Sweden.
I would love to se a world whithout conflicts and wars but I'm afraid I won't se that. As an Americans you should think, that the Nordic countrys lay between USA and Russia, just imagine if Russia get Alaska back (as they wanted) and the Nordic countrys fell 🤔 ?? You will have the gigantic Russia on both sides of USA...........
I did my Swedish military service in the 80s up in there in the north of the country. One part of me thinks this is way cool to watch and the other part of me kind of whispers “yeah, but it was also fracking cold and horrible to live trough”. When temperatures drop to minus thirty Celsius and below (I experienced that), things just break or don't work the way they did when it was warmer. Batteries can't hold charge, it's impossible. Rubber and plastics turn into wood, diesel turns into syrup. It hurts breathing, always be in motion. It was also astonishingly beautiful at times. Guard duty at night under a starlit sky (no moon) with the northern lights crackling above. I'll never forget that. I swore to my family, when I got back, that I would never ever complain about warm weather again. And I've kept that promise forty years later. I froze enough to last a lifetime. Mad respect for these men. [edit] this was probably filmed when the temperature was no lower than minus ten Celsius. They are not wearing gloves, there is hardly any condensation from the breathing and the film cameras work. Cheers 🍺
something you should check out is the Air Force Pararescue jumpers (PJs) you might not have heard of them but even the SEALs have the highest respect for them they are combat medics with SEAL like training
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There is a funny quote from a Finnish soldier that was interviewed in 2022 by the Sun. "Once you go to Helsinki & you go to buy a pack of cigarettes from R-kioski or a grocery store. The person selling those cigarettes to you, he knows how to shoot with bazooka." I love my Finnish neighbors 😂
As a Finnish reserve soldier, I'm so effing jello for the people who got to join this exercise. This is exactly the stuff I wanted to do when I started my military
well then go on... now we want to know what you did on the day to day and what your training stuff was like with just the swenskis... also... did your training ever involved eesti chaps?.....story time with the finn.... were waiting
Part of the reason why i ended up re-enlisting two years after i completed my conscription service. Got tired of sitting on my ass, waiting for meaningful stuff to happen. So i went out to look for 'em. It's actually quite funny to think ive been to overseas as a reservist, granted as an active duty one. I always imagined those kinds of trips would happen only if you went for the right branch to do your military service in.
ilman sun tyyppisiä ihmisä meil ei olis sotia
@@Rasmanni eikä vapautta. Kiitos sun tyylisten trollien joka maassa on armeija, oma tai toisten
As a Swedish non-conscript, so am I.
I was in the Swedish 19th infantry regiment in Boden, i would have been sooooo excited beeing appart of this and more. Was part of the Swedish lock in the north. Norrbottensbrigaden. 🇸🇪
A friend was there with the German Gebirgsjäger (Mountain Infantry) and he was pretty happy afterwards and had so much great stories to tell about our old and new allies from Nato.
7:35 Ski towing like this can be surprisingly difficult with those military skis and all the gear on. Especially on hills. But it was really fun training.
When I was a kid, we had US Marines camping _just_ off the school grounds during a NATO winter exercise. They were _not_ prepared for a raid of a dozen or so kids, snowballs in hand.
A few years later, when serving myself, I recognized they weren't too prepared during summer exersices in Norway either... :/
Currently there is ongoing Arrow24 training with UK. Seen daily Apaches flying over my house. Some good photos has been taken... Those Apaches are stationed on Tampere Pirkkala airport and they fly straight over this area where I live when they go to harash some Finnish tank crews on Niinisalo training area.
I remember being there 2016 as a Finnish reserve soldier (back then it was called cold response), alot of sleepless nights, standing around in snow for hours and hours and alot of skiing. Sadly it ended 1 to 2 days before schedule bcs of incident. Alot of good memories. Remember worst part being that we got to shower once at the end of the camp and not getting sleep for 2 to 3 days straight.
Forgotten Weapons channel has videos of the Finnish RK62 and RK95. RK62 he even disassembles to show the inner workings. RK is short for Rynnäkkökivääri finnish for Assault Rifle and 62 is the year it started to be mass produced so its literally just Assault Rifle 62.
Yeah the names we give to things is something else😂
@@McDuggetsAll US weapons just start with Model (some random number)
Finns have a big militarily exercise in the north every year. I was there in the winter, doing guard duty. I spent my days looking at the scenery, reindeer and northern lights.
I volunteered for extra guard shifts because I wanted to be there and take in the scenery. It's my fondest memory from my time as a conscript.
The kit looks much nicer than we had back then. Then again, the special units get the best kit. My first gun was anchient, probably older than me.
That is how it is in intti ain't it? Your stuff is the oldest the military can find
The exercise N*rdic Response used to be called Cold Response, an even cooler (or at least colder) name. It is run every second year. Renamed Nordic Response as Finland and Sweden have joined NATO since 2022 (Sweden joined during the exercise).
Finland and Sweden are getting new rifles this year! (Norway?) And new helmets.. :) The Brand is Sako.. And the brand of the helmets is Galvion..
In Norway we're using the Heckler & Koch HK416 as the primary assault rifle. We have a few different versions of it with a shorter barrel etc. We also operate the HK417 sniper rifle. The MP7 SMG. As well as the Minimi, both 5.56 and the 7,62 MK3. All of these have been introduced since 2014 give or take (quite recent tbh), so I don't believe we'll switch for something different anytime soon.
Let us see. Sako longrange...
My eye catches to the romantic look of landscapes on the videos. Must be same people making them as the ones making some holiday trip advertisements.
As a 44y fin, I can tell you that at first, during the winter time, there most likely isn't light. It's dark during the daytime also for the big % of Scandinavia. So forget those awesome looking gears, cause you don't see them 😅
At second, it is so cold, you can't imagine it from the video. There was few seconds of the reality where wet snow is flying to your face in the wind. Ad the darknes and wet clothes to that moment and it begins to look real.
It's a bit bragging since Norway already has fully switched to F35 . The exercise lasted through March and April 2022 and was led by the Norwegian Armed Forces' operational headquarters (FOH). The first allied troops arrived in Norway in the autumn and winter of 2021-22 to train and prepare for the exercise. The military activity mainly took place in south-east Norway, central Norway and parts of northern Norway.
As a Finnish reserve soldier I just don't understand why they use snowshoes when walking on a trail on packed snow... 😅
There were other than finns also? Just learning. We use just skees?
@@kessu27 In the video there are soldiers from different NATO countries as well as the US Marines, to which I referred in my comment, if that's what you were asking for. And yes, we just use skis, combat boots and rubber boots. 😁
just how the get used to them
@@zqoz0000 Walking with snowshoes isn't very difficult if you know how to walk at all... 😁 They just make you very slow and an easy target. It would be better to train skiing instead.
@@hmmm9806 well its different when there is 1meter now and uphill , u cant use skies for that :D
Those winter trainings looks cool in a video but they arent much fun if you are outside all the time with temperaturs around -20°C, wet socks, wet gloves wet everything 😅
I agree, it´s really not plesant at all.
I remember when I was just a youngling first year in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we had a joint exercise with the US marines similar to this. We got into the ice water, and while we had done it several times before so we're used to it, their primal responses triggered immediately, showing why that is such an important exercise to do. You need to know how to stay in control of your body even though you're in freezing cold water.
Also, this exercise didn't "introduce the F-35 to the region" as the narrator suggests. Norway was the second country outside the US to acquire the F-35.
Do you Ex British soldier know, that almost every male in Finland got military training?
Greetings from one of the cities of Nordic Response 😊
Sweden/Finland/Norway/Denmark. We are the Scandinavian Brotherhood. Anyone will regret doing anything against us. 🤘
Nordic*
Tulta munille,perkele 😂🤘
"anyone"
Combat Camera has some damn amazing production value on those clips.
Also the Finnish gun is likely a variant of RK-95 (short for RynnäkköKivääri 95, "Assault Rifle 95"), a further development from RK-62 which was pretty much a copy of the milled receiver AK-47, but with better machining quality and minor changes to the sights and such... and also the ugliest damn plastic and sheet metal stock on any military firearm ever.
The rifle is some of the RK series... e.g. Valmet/SAKO RK62 or later editions like RK92/RK95 (or M92/M95 the commercial version)
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FDF (and SAF) is acquiring now a new rifle system SAKO M23 (AR & DMR). Unfortunately not much videos about the M23 around yet, only articles.
The SNRs are upgraded at the same time too and SAKO TRG M10 has been selected as the weapon of choice. It's been around for longer time and in addition to FDF & SAF is used by Canadian Armed Forces, Dutch Elite Tactical Police Unit DSI, Estonian Defence League, Polish Armed Forces, Slovenian Tactical Police Unit, South-Korean Naval Special Forces and NYPD Emergency Service Unit (ESU) th-cam.com/video/955P9CFSmIs/w-d-xo.html
My unit was the first to be allowed to be in Cold Response (other name for it) for the shortest time being in the army (about 3 months). Depending on the area it is in, the temperatur will hit below -30 C
In Finland it is 6-12+ months.
The army tends to use the term “Fi”. The hypothetical enemy. Could be anything. But… (points east)
The yellow army could come from any direction, but somehow the firing locations always headed East.
So close to half a mil mate! Been watching you since like 100k subs… Congrats Original!!
Finland uses an AK-47 variant that's domestically designed, Israel used this variant as a basis to create the Galil.
Sweden uses an FN FNC variant (the FNC didn't sell much)
Reliable in all conditions, jamming rate close to zero; a bit heavy but like a friend that never lets you down.
@@Finland-SkiTeam39-40 7.62x39 is outdated though.
Looks like an AK 12. Same church different pew lol.
@@TheRagratusnope do not group us with them
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Currently Sweden has the AK5C and Finland the RK62 (92, 95 TP), but as of 2025 both countries will have the AK24 which is a collaboration gun between the countries and in 2026 it will have fully replace all rolls and calibers within the armed forces.
I did Artic/Mtn warfare in Sierra Neavada in Feb 1985! Above 9,000' we had the white gear, mickey mouse boots, skiis, snow shoes, built snow caves ect! It was Great! Of course no one was shooting back so alot of fun! We even put white duct tape on M-16 to barrels.
That ride with Nasu in skiis, was very fun in the army, years ago.
I was there, greetings from Sweden 🍻
I am 70 years old and I never expected to see this happen and it is great that this is happening
I am almost your age. I must comment that from the European point of view the development in Russian has been deeply disappointing after the potentially more positive development after USSR. Of course it hasn't been the only disappointment, but obviously the most directly relevant one.
Having to building more military power to protect from invasions from imperialistic nationalistic countries is difficult to see in a very positive light. Having to do what needs to be done is more miserable than positive.
@@just42tube Not really... Putin talks big and pretends that he can put up a fight as an invader of Europe, he can't... Ukraine has managed to survive so far with limited Western support. Putin knows that if he invades a NATO country entitled than more than just some symbolic Ukraine support he will not only lose face, he will pay with his own life.
Thank the USA we had a window to REALLY join our Friends! Take that Putin!
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Who are the friends you had in mind?
Are you talking about bilateral agreements with UK and others or the NATO alliance? And why are you especially giving thanks to USA ?
Like The Musquteers: 1 for all, all for 1!?
Congrats on the half mill!
There will probably be more videos, because there is still a military exercise going on. They have now switched from Nordic Response to Immediate Response and will continue until sometime in May.
You can apply as a ykes soldier.
Count me in on the party! I just subbed 🥳
Im a former Marine special forces out of Haakonsvern and under/during my service we trained with MP5 and MP7 and Glock 17 and 19 was our sidearm, but when I came to Bosnia we all had Heckler & Koch AG3. Now all of the Norwegian forces have changed to H&K 416 and 417. I have never used one, but I have heard that these are such great weapons to use and they are great in artic conditions.
I am veteran. From Bosia. Hello for you too!
"The VMFA-542 historically introduces the F-35 into the region"
RoNAF: Am I a joke to you?
Really weirdly worded, VMFA-542 just recently finished transitioning to F-35B's. They are not even first American F-35's appearing in Nordic. Obviously Norway has operated F-35s for years by now and previously UK, Netherlands, Italy has send theirs for exercises in Norway. Basically they are last one(so far).
Could there be two more different videos? Yes, both are hype videos, but the first one is all about America, and its strength and capabilties. The second one - footage also in the dark (which really was missing in the marine one) and not just focusing on your troops. Also, I simply have to love the last scene with all the four showing their solidarity.
Norway was a founding member of Nato.(1949) And we got our first Royal Norwegian Air Force F-35 -A. on our ground 2017. Fonding member of that program to. Im just jelus of all the hype on sweden and finnland :-) dont forgett we been the defenders of the free word in the high north forewer. Ok. In close partnership whit USA 🤣he he he
Don't worry. We don't forget our existing partners. They're just the new kids, and as such, are getting more attention. 😁
@@pacmon5285 Don't call Finland a new kid: we have fought three wars during the Second World War. And we didn't get help for the Winter War. When our food and weapons ran out, Germany came to help us in the Continuation War, but the whole rest of the world still dared to declare, that they were at war with Finland. Only the USA did not declare war on Finland.
Foreign support in the Winter War consisted of materiel, men and moral support to the Finnish struggle against the Soviet Union in the Winter War. World opinion at large supported the Finnish cause. The Second World War had not yet begun in earnest and was known to the public as the Phoney War; at that time, the Winter War saw the only real fighting in Europe besides the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, and thus held major world interest. The Soviet aggression was generally deemed unjustified. Various foreign organizations sent material aid, such as medical supplies. Finnish immigrants in the United States and Canada returned home, and many volunteers (one of them future actor Christopher Lee) traveled to Finland to join Finland's forces: 8,700 Swedes, 1,010 Danes (including Christian Frederik von Schalburg, a captain in the Danish Royal Life Guards and later commander of the Free Corps Denmark, a volunteer unit created by Nazi Germany in Denmark during World War II), about 1,000 Estonians, 850 Ukrainians,[1][better source needed] 725 Norwegians, 372 Ingrians, 366 Hungarians,[2] 346 Finnish expatriates, 4 Latvians, 2 Lithuanians and 190 volunteers of other nationalities made it to Finland before the war was over. Wikipedia
-There you go, well done, lads😎 -Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮
That "ilmahälytys, suojeluhälytys" gives me PTSD from the defense forces at 9:42
oh yeah, btw, numbers say that 76% finnish can actualy skee
You think it is a joke to go and swim in cold water. Listen even my two daughters do it from free will. We brake the ice and swim there. It is state of mind and Sisu. You could do it if you wanted it and was not that soft. *Edit my daughters are at age of 4 and 7 :D
Regarding the weapons Sweden and Finland have, Sweden and Finland have decided to place a joint order for new weapons and then from the Finnish weapon manufacturer SAKO, and tests are currently underway in Sweden of the new self-defense weapon (automatic carbine 24) Caliber 5.56x45 with "11 .5" barrel and if it works out, these will be introduced in 2025.
Today, the AK 5C and AK 5D are used, which have replaced the earlier AK 5A and AK 5B
5,56mm AK24 in Sweden!
@@petter5721 I wrote it so read
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Heres a video of american dude explaining about the finnish service rifle the "mercedes of AK's"
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its going to be replaced with new rifle by SAKO (the same company that made the previous) soon
Someone probably commented about the weapon already but: yes, it is an AK variant with the first introduction in 1962. So, the original type name is "RK-62" as in "RynnäkköKivääri-62", "assault rifle model 62".
Since then several upgrades has been made. Some test series in caliber 5.56 was made as well as in some .308. "Civil" /semi-auto versions of the weapon has been available (at least until the version M92), but the latest (to my knowledge) M95 wasn't available for reservists anymore. The M95 (again to my knowledge) is already pretty modern AK if you like - side bar using Weaver that can mount the usual things such as scope, holo, red dot and probably a thermal sight too. The weapon is machined from a single piece of high quality steel instead of pressing it from some piece of whatever iron.
The "downside" of the rifle has been considered the fact that it typically can't "eat" iron cased shells. Also unlike (typically?) other AKs, the weapon doesn't usually tolerate the changing of the lock & bolt action. Dunno if this is true, and if it is, I can't figure out why not.
I would like to add that the rifle in the video when the question was asked is specifically RK62M1 which is a modernized version of the regular RK62, it has a telescopic stock and a rail installed for mounting optics
Sweden and Finland are actually getting the same new rifles Sako M23. I know Sweden has ordered the M23 in 5,56x and 7,62x as rifle variants and also another 7,62 to be used as a sharpshooter weapon. I guess it's just a 7,62 variant with a bigger scope and bipod. Along with the TRG M10 sniper rifle.
The Finnish RK 62 and RK 95 are AK variants but the most important thing is that in the Finnish rifles the front sights are actually front because the gun is so well made the sights don't move when attached to the top in front. Sorry my English gun terms are lacking. 😆
the gun is called RK-95. there are lot of videos about it in TH-cam, also check Wikipedia. RK stads for "Rynnäkkökivääri" which means Assault Rifle in Finnish "Rynnäkkö" meaning Assault and "Kivääri" meaning Rifle...
I live in the US so part of my first aid gear is now including vented chest seals smh. Over the past two years I have been slowly assembling kits for the car and the house because we are expecting a 9.5+ earthquake. The kits have to be fairly comprehensive because you just never know what will hit first. Elastic bandages with gauze sponge packets tucked into the roll up for lacs to appendages and so much more. Iodine and saline bottles, super glue and suture kits for glass houses with that to die for view or just a trip to the mall.
USMC Semper Fi! That video w music had a GoT feel? Like the Watch going North of The Wall!
It did!!!
The rifle is RK-95, an ak variant, successor for a rk-62, personally i think its a good standard rifle. uses a 7.62 ammo and is a really, REALLY, reliable
We actualy show em what we do, on a normal day.. they loved us
Welcome to Norway :)
"Thrive" isnt the word id use at -20c.
It's much like a desert I believe, but different. I don't have any experience in deserts, but I do arctic.
The cold leech your bones of energy is the most succinct way I can describe it. If your caloric intake isn't doubled I'd be surprised. No I didnt count back then (I'm old), but we ate at least four times a day +snacks. But then again so does all soldiers. ;)
What also stuck with me is the constant changing of clothes.
You work you get sweaty, and as the old Eskimo saying goes "you sweat, you die".
I remember one grueling march we had in cold weather. When we had a break everyone just plopped down on their asses. The Lt, seeing and most likely anticipated this, because as I suspect they had just educated us on the importance of changing your clothes when stopping to rest, then made us march till we were so tired we wouldn't even care if we froze to death, just to lecture and whip us into changing our clothes.
I learned to alternate between two shirts, one for work and one for rest, as well as a wet shirt freeze quick, then you can whack of the ice. Also, stripping down to a bare chest twice every hour in -20c never gets comfortable. But when you get that dry shirt on and that thick sweater that's part of the kit you feel amazing. At least until its time to move again and you have to switch to a wet half frozen shirt.
Thriving? No! Interesting, and you feel alive? Yes!
If you want to check out the gun u mentioned on the video its a finnish made AK-based assault rifle called "RK-95" The one u stopped the video on is some type of modernized version of the RK-95 but u can look up the gun on youtube or just search the web to find it. RK stand for "Rynnäkkö Kivääri" and it literally means "Assault Rifle" you should check it out.
Finland uses RK62s and RK95s
RK's have many variants but Finland mostly uses modern variants RK62 M2 and RK62 M1 these days and of course the RK95TP (TP means foldable stock)
I used the RK62 M2 with a foregrip and a Aimpoint T2 in my service and it was such a nice gun
Regarding the rifle, it is an AK variant, the RynnäkköKivääri62 (literally AssaultRifle62). But it's a really early one and pretty much the best of the bunch. The Finns tightened the design somewhat, the result needing a bit more maintenance but yielding greater accuracy and better overall durability. The Israeli Galil was based on the RK62. I'm not sure but I think the latest official model is still the RK95. When I served (2009-10), most rifles in my company were RK76's, with some variability between grips. Some had the so called "cheese grater" (a hole-y cylinder), some a somewhat more modern looking one, both plastic. All had the classic tube stock with your firearm maintenance kit stored inside. I saw some with folding tube stocks, but not many.
It's a good gun at it's core, but it has its drawbacks. First of all, any optics installed on the top of it are going to be very unstable thanks to some core AK design principles - or flaws, depending on how you look at it. The Finns tightened the design enough for it to work consistently with aperture rear sights and tritium night sights, but it shakes too much for modern optics. Secondly, it's main cartridge isn't - to my limited knowledge - that commonly used among NATO allies (going historically alone against the soviets they thought they'd be getting a lot more ammunition from the soviets than the west). I believe the FDF and Försmakten are in the process of introducing a new service rifle to serve both forces, simplifying both future co-operability and modernization.
I wonder why no one is talking about the fact that these boys aren't alone I've talked about these things
with older hunters and they all agree that if it comes to that we will hunt more than just wabbits...
Imagine a ghost recon type shooter where you enter a conflict on different fronts depending what NATO member you join. These guys would look so sick in that snow gear, those tanks too were lit.
Forgotten weapons has good videos on several iterations of the Finnish service rifle if you are keen to learning more about it.
Every night in fox hole, icy and cold water, until you can feel nothing under your waist, temp between -5 to +5.
11:30 to 06:00 every night, just cause someone fell a sleep and did not wake up a next one. AND YOU DO NOT LEAVE YOUR POST CAUSE OF THAT. Still piss me off. Oh, now days,"wasn't amused."
The main rifle Finns use is Sako RK95 and RK62
I give you little story. I was in place called Upinniemi, thats naval base in Finland. Our battalion was this huge man, way over 100kg fat dude. In every time he fall behind. So rest of us need to carry him around. Here is the fun part. He wommit, passed out and still try to keep up with rest of us. He was not fit for that and we carried him around. Yes some ppls start to mock him and perhaps you may called bullied.
So who was the stronger man? Bullied or those who bullied him? Those who stand with bullied man or with bullies?
Ask that to yourself that. And yes i got gold on my shoulders in Finnish navy / defense forces.
as a former soldier in swe. i dont really know what to fight for any more, politicians dont care about us, the people anymore, mass immigration, vage-dumping, taxed to hell,
two tier legal-system etc etc
Hell yeah. I would love to join them
we.. love.. snow ^^
It's SO WEIRD that they are leaving out counties when naming who are in Nordic Response... Like was Denmark mentioned a single time? They literally say the countries as if it's "just made up of" those countries - in fact - 13 NATO countries are part of Nordic Response. It's seriously crazy - and makes you wonder why it's done that way! Mention ALL the countries - or just say "NATO"! Anything else is weird AF!
I think it’s an RK 95 but they’re changing the assault rifles.
3:01 Well, just re-enlist, mate! :D
I would love to see you deal with a little bit of that wet cold. Suddenly it isn't all that nice. Just sayin' as a Finn in my forties from up north. (imagine in that British empty headed accent from reality series on the tele). :D
Not gonna lie going thru this felt so long and it felt like straight ass but fun
The USA used to have the arctic mountain division in Alaska. My dad was one. Not much different than what I’m seeing in the first part of the video
I once met Royal Marines growing up
Why Royal marine not use Norway Svalbard islands ?? 79,61 N 23,23 E ?
The next name of an exercise in the nordics should be "Northern Wall". And the northern wall will never give way to Russia. We stand tall.
No, you suck all.
US Marines any time, any place? Actually Finnish troops consisting of mainly conscription personnel defeated US Marines trying to reach beachhead at the shores of Norway.
Regarding F-35 no comments whatsoever. Other than I used to be proud of Finnish Airforce, which by the way is older than RAF. Thank God SwAf F21 base is only some 100 miles away from Rovaniemi 🇫🇮🇸🇪💪
They’re also training with the danish troops in naval warfare. There was a recent naval training exercise led by the British and danish forces. Plus most Nordic countries are also training Ukrainian forces. I’ve seen some fly over here and know that they are training out in the countryside as well.
And the last "Fight" what they had USA lost against Finnish :D
O that cold water works like painkiller... only better... Do it often during winter... feel no evil after that... and gives good sleep afterwards...
It effects the vagus nerve. 👍
Forgotten Weapons has a few videos on the Finnish Valmet rifle.
Yes it was
Look into the rk 62 m3 the newest version of the rifle
Winter combat is awesome. There are no insects camouflage is easy as you only need one colour and traveling on ski's is like a superpower if the snow is a bit hard.
Ski combat is the best and you can ride on ski's after a vehicle and be so far back you don't hear the engine and can just enjoy nature in silence, it's like being on a very fast "T" ski lift.
I did 10 months conscription in Boden in northern Sweden.
Whats with the game of thrones music :D
I would love to se a world whithout conflicts and wars
but I'm afraid I won't se that. As an Americans you should think, that the Nordic countrys lay between USA and Russia, just imagine if Russia get Alaska back (as they wanted) and the Nordic countrys fell 🤔 ?? You will have the gigantic Russia on both sides of USA...........
the rifle is ak-47 with milled receiver, instead of stamped receiver, with improved sights. metal and polymer plastic instead of wood
It´s not. It`s RK 95
Cold water yeas is our climate you must handle it
I wish I was there
Til Valhall
The most important thing for me personally was that Sweden became a full member of NATO during that exercise .
Wrong link in desc
aaand sako or valmet dig it up
i really low our hype vid just says get om it
Great Northern Lights in Swedish video
I did my Swedish military service in the 80s up in there in the north of the country. One part of me thinks this is way cool to watch and the other part of me kind of whispers “yeah, but it was also fracking cold and horrible to live trough”. When temperatures drop to minus thirty Celsius and below (I experienced that), things just break or don't work the way they did when it was warmer. Batteries can't hold charge, it's impossible. Rubber and plastics turn into wood, diesel turns into syrup. It hurts breathing, always be in motion.
It was also astonishingly beautiful at times. Guard duty at night under a starlit sky (no moon) with the northern lights crackling above. I'll never forget that.
I swore to my family, when I got back, that I would never ever complain about warm weather again. And I've kept that promise forty years later. I froze enough to last a lifetime. Mad respect for these men.
[edit] this was probably filmed when the temperature was no lower than minus ten Celsius. They are not wearing gloves, there is hardly any condensation from the breathing and the film cameras work.
Cheers 🍺
Rk62 and there is varoius models
RK 7.62 IS basiclly samea than AK but better matdralz
There is no use of wow, cool or hell jeah in military practices... U would run away if something really happens.
US doesnt have clue how to fight in cold and snow
something you should check out is the Air Force Pararescue jumpers (PJs) you might not have heard of them but even the SEALs have the highest respect for them they are combat medics with SEAL like training
you have to look Taistelukenttä 2020 video..befor we join nato.. :)