NATO fires Archer howitzers on Putin's doorstep in largest-ever artillery exercise in Lapland
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- BRITISH troops were given special briefings on how to avoid blitzing reindeer with shells while firing in NATO’s largest-ever artillery exercise.
Officials revealed the military alliance would be forced to cough up thousands to furious farmers if gunners struck even one of the 200,000 beloved stags in Lapland, North Finland.
It came as the military alliance continued to test weapons including rocket launchers just 70 miles from the Nordic nation's border with Russia.
Nearly 10,000 shells and rockets have been launched across NATO’s three-week Dynamic Front drill, though it’s understood none have harmed any wild animals.
Lt. Col Ben Baldwinson, commanding officer of the 19th Regiment Royal Artillery, revealed British forces had been given special instructions to stop firing if elite observers spotted Rudolph, Blitzen and Dasher, or other wildlife in the target zone.
He said: “We’ve had a lot of range safety briefs at the suite with the Finnish.
“It’s important to understand when you’re operating in a new environment and a new country, what their safety precautions are.
“One of the particular elements for the observation posts is to identify if there are any reindeer in the impact area.
“And we do actually stop firing.
“It’s just common sense, to be safe when we’re driving and look out for the wildlife, particularly moose and reindeer.
“And I don’t want to annoy Father Christmas.”
Rules around firing in the vast Finnish wilderness changed after 47 reindeer were accidentally slaughtered by a dozen mortars in the early 1990s.
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The reindeer in Finland are all actually owned by someone. The owners practise traditional form of live stock management with them, where the reindeer roam free and are rounded up together once or twice a year. They all have earmarks with them to identify the owner. But it's not just the reindeer, they also account for moose like said, and swans, or really any wildlife they possibly can
And my theory is that the reindeer herders have some sort of price cartel. Frozen reindeer meat is 40 - 50 €/kg while deer meat shipped from literally the other side of the globe is below 20€.
*All the world is a stage!!!*
Thats a decent gun, Gotta admit
Very good movability way better advantage
@@damage_626 Shame only 14
Russia just ordered 100,000 Reindeer Costumes!
😂👍
🤣😂
QUALITY 😅😅😅😅🏴
where? temu or alibaba?
china is now working on it
At least they care about nature and wild life
Well,naturally.. We live in it. We don't keep Reindeer just for kick's, we Eat them..
Reindeer Jerky, Air dried, is worth it's weight in Gold..
Nah. It is about money. Those reindeer belong to someone ergo if the military shells them then the military has to pay for the damage. And reindeer meat costs up to 90€/kg!
It's not "Putins's doorstep", it's Finland.
And Finland shares border with Russia so yes it's Russias doorstep.
@@dennistofvesson6351lol Finland is Russias doorstep.
Well; still in Finland but love swedes as brothers (unless in ice hockey)
Im finnish borned in sweden. Hate the fact i couldnt become finnish citizen. My äiti is. It wasnt enough. This is really a bummer suomi.
@@UpRisingDown why not?
hahaha so true
@@UpRisingDown Du kan förmodligen mycket enkelt bli en finsk medborgare. Enklare än någon från typ England eller Polen. Och man kan ha dubbla medborgarskap.
@@UpRisingDown som svensk kan du bosätta dig i Finland utan några konstigheter och leva där som vilken finsk som helst. Behöver inte direkt vara medborgare för det. Syskonländer.
this is how to make a delusional tsar think twice about invading a country.
@@quemades You'll wake up from your dreams one day, Ivan. In the meantime go and see if you can find some butter in your 3rd world excuse of a country.
Putin knows that NATO doesn't play reindeer games!
think twice lol u clearly dont know how much of ukrain is now russia
@@quemades You are a comedian who isn't funny.
@@ComaWhite-77 i think he thinks that was ukraine in the video lmao
Please dont shoot Santa!
Why do you think he uses his red distinctive clothing? 😄
@@Finnman-s7q Heimo-serkkua tuo vänrikki ohojeista, että antaa ruiskun laulaa jokkaista punikin hiippalakkia kohen....
Theres a christmas song children use to sing in Finland.
Christmastree has been built, and Santa is already on fire, Santa yells in dispare please bring flowers to his grave
The reincarnation of the British longbow, the archer!
"NATO fires Archer howitzers on Putin's doorstep..." - Excuse me, but both Finland and Sweden has always been where they are and has always had military exercises where they have. How come it's just now become "Putin's doorstep"? I didn't know we where in "his sphere", but rather that he wants to be in our sphere.
Finland and Sweden both joined Nato quite recently so in the past it wasn't Nato firing howizers in Putins doorstep, it was just Finland. Thats the difference.
I didn't know that Finland used the Archer. I think that Finland is the artillary center of Europe; where artillary knowledge is the highest.
Finland doesnt have any archers. Yet
@@Pehtori who gonna pay for archers our country has been going downhill for decades we are broke. Small sad country getting absolutely hoe'd by EU.
Awesome, thank you! Keep up the great work! God Bless, keep the PEACE!
We should of kept the peace since the 90s, you know aftet the Berlin Wall fell when we insisted we wouldn't encroach one inch eastward towards Russia, but have done nothing but 🤦♂️
@@craig32r That's so old. No-one has made such promises apart from the Germans, who promised not the set up new military bases in the former GDR. And they've kept their word.
@@craig32r Your fascist dictator made that up and the whole world knows this.
Stop degrading yourself and the normal people in your country, fascist!
Peace is what should have been ENFORCED the second Russia’s little green men invaded Crimea, an omission I lie squarely at the feet of dismissive U.S. President Obama, who I voted for! Its only in retrospect did realize that my peacenik days ended in that moment. As Obama sat next to Putin at the Olympics at Sochi, chatting and smiling, I realized Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time” had consequences. Invasion, murder, rape, kidnapping, subjugation, and cruel and grisly war crimes lay ahead for Ukraine thanks to Obama’s acquiescence. Russky Mir. Bend the knee.
By all means, peace. All you have to do is sacrifice your freedom.
@@craig32rkremlin propaganda. You are yet another russian troll pretending to be from the west.
NO westerner would ever say “NATO should not encroach toward russia”. That is asinine. And using that as an excuse for invading Ukraine and killing so many of their civilians is weak. Nobody believes your crap, Ivan. NATO is TRULY on your doorstep now, thanks to Finland (as in the video here, which you obviously did not watch).
You know what is so funny? NATO is so much closer to St. Petersburg and moscow now thanks to Finland’s membership. Ukraine wasn’t a military threat to russia until AFTER putin invaded. Make no mistake, this invasion is 100% putin’s fault. The world knows it. And when he is brought to trial: dead or alive - it will be proven that he alone started this and is personally responsible for the deaths of over 700,000 russian people and will be the cause of the collapse of the russian federation. That collapse cannot happen soon enough - the world will be a much better place when it happens. 👍🏼
The description made me laugh, ngl XD
The concussion from being anywhere near that would probably make you a potato.
King of Battle!
"Never bring a knife to a gun fight" - this pretty sums this video. Oh yeah... greetings from Finland yay
Stop making raindeer jokes. It's our food....they taste good! 😍
While I'm sure it's quite effective it looks like a JCB off road dump truck with a big ass Gun bolted to the rear. Definitely durable!
Its Swedish so i guarantee you its a Volvo
Its a Volvo A30E ...
It is good to drive in the forest.
It’s based on a Volvo CE Articulated Hauler, the A30. We make those up to 60 tonne size (the A60E)
JCB make baby stuff by comparison.
The real reason why the Finnish Army is very careful not to kill or injure any reindeer is that if any are killed or injured the Army must pay a hefty sum in compensation for the owners of the reindeer. The reindeer owners have a habit of deliberately herding the reindeer into the firing range in order to try to bait a sweet compensation sum from the Army if/when reindeer are hit.
Been there, done that. Thank you so much for telling the "reindeer herd in artillery fire" story, it's a staple WTF Finnish Defense Forces military legend that passes on from generation to generation.
Tervetuloa Suomeen!
Kiitos...
Please don't kill Santa!.!
NATOs here now. Let's get ready to rumble.
Good move NATO.
Russia knows it cannot compete. They will keep fighting, but the second NATO enters the conflict, the russians have three days to make their peace with their maker.
You’re gonna sit on your little bum and do nothing 😂
There's a rumble in tue slavic jungle. Winter about to heat up lol
Well, I do t know why you so happy, as thousands of people can be killed. And like always Poland will be on the middle. So have a think twice before put stupid comments
Just don’t frighten Rudolph
Rudolph and the boys still haven't forgiven the Finns and it has been over 30 years 😔
Go NATO get your army together and protect the reindeer and their reindeer games. Here in the Land of the Less Free and the Home of the Less Brave, we will be attempting to halt our President-elect’s worst impulses to leave NATO, however, half of America vigorously supports NATO and knows how valuable it is to support Europe geopolitically, reindeer and all.🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸❤🔥
Democratic people of the world will support the American Democratic people. Stay strong!
😂😂😂😂
@@user22user22👈🏼🥴
Plenty of Trump supporters also support NATO. Don't be a drama queen.
@@seniorslaphead8336 Their mindset were not slumbered.
Rovajärvi. Been there twice myself during my military service. It is the only military practise ground in Europe big enough for long-range artillery drills. Back then, reindeer owners pushed their reindeer into it because if they got killed, the state bought the carcasses at a market price and they saved the butcher's fee. And we conscripts got to eat reindeer in the field kitchens for three days straight.
Sweden is known for its Howitzer technology, they are the best.
Can they stop a hypersonic missile
@@dozersdady Yes they can. Nato have nuclear bombs.
A new meaning to Hunting Raindeer!!.. 😂
Good don't kill the moose and reindeer.
Now that is an Arnold Palmer...
Dont shoot Rudolf!
“Day free” Didn’t you guys come up with the language?
also "christmas" 😂
Welcome to regional accents, since you clearly don't know about them
@@oscarj0231 allo guvna!!!
You can't speak properly in cold weather. Your spit becomes thick. It's like speaking while there is food in your mouth.
"Reindeer Games"...
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Gotta get me one of those...Damn Crows around here!
Probably the safest area in Europe for NATO practice given Russia's history with Finnish snow
That is one heck of a deer gun!
(Just kidding)
Did he just say " day free " ?
also christmas 😂
I woudnt call this the doorstep but frontyard (not even that)
70miles most definitely is doorstep
More likely hit the elf on Putin's shelf at that angle than any reindeer
If NATO wanted to show strength, they would be fighting with Ukraine, but cowardice seems to be more important to them!!!!
Fighting in ukraine for what ? 😂
These people belive war is fun . Imagine he said the spritual world of father christman . He realy belive in santa .😂😂😂😂
This good and all but all this equipment can be taken out cheaply with a $1k fpv drone. The country that can mass produced them the most or the sou try that can offer a counter to them will be the sou try that can have the advantage . Gone are the days of traditional warfare.
Haha,what snow ? 😂
Mooi spul
Nice! What is the 13B’s say? “In proximity we trust!”.
02:00 i remember christmas that year. Santa didnt visit anyone
Yule *
@puppude julebrus
It's nice they protect wildlife. The Howitzers are not new they've been around since 2016. Its high mobility makes it excellent for the war in Ukraine.
Title misleading
you can't beat a bit of venison
Thanks god now NATO is serious finally. Russia is gone now
They are eliminating themselves… their economy is circling the drain, and it is all because of putin’s horrible political decisions. He will go down in russian history as a huge mistake. Good.
You do realise Russia has nuclear weapons, right? A lot of them
And how many countries would be gone with them
@@MikeHunt-s9monly Russia would be stupid enough to use them.
@@perttutorvinen9180Не забывайте, Америка уже использовала ядерное оружие в Японии, а в Ираке с обедненным ураном.
А Россия сейчас противостоит коллективному западу вполне достойно!
thats a cools gun !
russia is big enough, putin doesn't need a doorstep
Desire and need are not synonyms...🤔
@@peketee2278Но и не антонимы...
🇫🇮🤝🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦🤝 🇩🇪
Wow so impressive NATO nation and its people are excited to go in war. Why howitzers😂😂 howitzer is no match on 100dollar drone
they not English no tea cups
👍
🙏🏻🙏🏽
Russia burning the Tower of Babel well there goes the neighborhood 🔥🙈
The UK and NATO need to stop wasting resources and deliver 110% to Ukraine!
Is it though?
The Sun number 1
Looks good . Hope we can do a better Defence from drones than Russia does
When you try to fight Russia this is not going to be about drones buddy😂
Are those drone proof?
Is anything drone proof?
One got hit and survived a Lancet drone in Ukraine. And that one is repaired. So yes
Nothing is drone proof. But with the Swedish baracuda camofalage cover (one of the worlds most advanced camoflages) which are issued as standard to All swedish Archer Howitzers it become Much harder to detect by both heat signature, noise, vissual and radar.
in addition to this Sweden develops some of the most advanced automatic self defence proximity grenades that with ease shoots down both missiles and drones that come too close. as well as syncronized detection systems, What one vehicle sees will automatically comunicated to all other machines in the vincinity, this allows for all machines to be on alert, and know exactly where from the threat comes from, even before they see the threat themselves.
So the Swedish equipment is more drone proof than any other equipment out there.
@ wow , that could be the game changer in this war then.
drone sayss brrr boom on artillery. stupid shi
1 700 dollar drone… GONE… 😮
Nothing wil happen go back to your hole
Russian missiles on Cuba pointed towards the United States
Or NATO missiles in Ukraine, pointed at Russia
I guess I don’t understand the difference in this EUROPEAN WAR.
Little orc your bot copy and paste comment have already got answered time and time again. The difference is that orcland (Russia) invaded ukraine and now ukraine are defending themselfs. And this is a Russian war as its Russia who started this. But dont worry Europe will end the war.🤣
What about Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Kosovo etc? I guess we're gonna ignore that right?@@Thedrunkenswede1337
@ErikAndersson-wn9jg you do know that Russia has been in every single one of those countries also right. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 But Yes you orcs forget that very often. 🤣🤦🤣
@ yawn. 🥱
@Paint-brigade1776 yea get that you dont have anything else to come whit. Kinda hard when your script failed and you contradicted yourself. What an embarrassment for you. Its hilarious for me tho. 🤣🤣🤦🤦
HA witzer
archer is Swedish made howitzer artillery system best in the world, it's like a sniper guerilla artillery
Swedish steel hit hard
AI!!!
Slava Ucraina🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
That's a dangerous Volvo
All going to plan but who’s planning 😊
Хороший вопрос!😂
Who would be instigating
@@googlellaeiolemitäänsalattavaaТот кому выгодно. Кто запас попкорн и наблюдает...
The Archer makes me proud to be swedish
Swedish kaputwagen?
@@ipsylon7297 i dont understand
So the big takeaway from this is no Xmas presents for NATO if they eff up on aiming these things. Thanks, Sun.
Im Qazaq🇰🇿🤝🇺🇦 Slova Ukraine🇺🇦
Dakanzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa🎃
Russia,Chechen,North Korean,💀☠️
У вас в психушке день " открытых дверей"?
Ф-ф-ф фристайло
Ф-ф-ф фристайлО
those conditions is spring/fall in Canada. :D Come here to learn to operate in deep snow and ultra cold.
It's still an early winter mate....
..also this war won't be fought in Canada, we're preparing for the real thing here, and everyone here knows this. This isn't about getting the band together for some good tunes and times, if you're not part of the forces actually designated for the battlefield, you should just shut it....😊
Winter season literally JUST started. Finnish winter is pretty damn similar to canadian winter.
?
Great... now, what you got to combat those pesky drones 😂
$500-$1000 drone this thing is toast
Too true
True if two things happens 1) there is drone when archer arrive to shooting place 2) it is fast enough to hit before its gone (spotter drone and kamikaze one) [3) electronic warfare not working]
Yes, cause they are stupid enough to put artillery in the first line and let drone operators get close.
rusia is dumb, that won't happen.
You mean like Ukraine does to russia several times a day? Hmmm… I wonder if north korea has howitzers…? 😂
And they just hit Santa Claus.
วันนี้เฮาก็ร้องขอ กำลังมาไทยครับ เอาซองปืนมาใส่ 155
B B gun...dragged by a truck
NATO preparing to steamroll Russland? Russland nukes all deactivated? How? What can Russland do to escape catastrophe?
Surrender.
Unconfirmed reports state Russia Launched One (1) ICBM into Ukraine (none Nuclear)..ATMIT.
@@Rocket_scientist_88Кому сдаваться???
Клоуну?
Снимите розовые очьки, мир держится на благоразумии России!
Не какие бункеры вас не спасут если у Путина лопнет терпение 😂!
BOT DETECTED LMAO
@@ААнжа Prepare to be surprised!
Берет - самый "удачный" зимний головной убор 😂
just a question if the citizens of Finland support our membership, are they ready to fight for the interest of the US?
That’s not how NATO works. Member nations protect each other but they don’t fight for an individual nation’s interests.
Fuck no😂 we aint about to invade no arab countries for sleepy joe n them
Mooie pakjes hebben ze aan,zijn dat echt soldaten ?dan is het zonde om zo dood te gaan in zo'n mooi pak.
These rudimentary weapons are obsolete, lancet has proved that. Lancet destroyed every single American howitzer M777 in Ukraine.
I thought those were in armories blown up in the Ukraine strikes....I saw videos, secondary explosions, fire, russians even took the videos and uploaded them to telegram. Are you guys almost out of lancets yet? Also, concerning the M777, isn't it true that Kursk was taken using only one M777? (*What's the Russian perspective?)
getting closer to ww3
its AI
They are still keeping up with calling it an excercise...
What else would they call it?
*Not a game changer.*
hello again propaganda conspiracy theorist man. good seeing you once again HAHAHA
@ihavenoidea4727 Wut Zelensky's Air Defence Doing 🤣
Nice they r trying to protect raindeer while slautering human beings, i wonder what Christ would say?
Christ never said what he really thought of the Roman invaders when he was hanging on 2 nails.
God does not come in peace this time. God does not do politics
There's a guidebook about it that's over 2000 years old, look there...
Varokaa ettei taas to mainilan laukaus
Noilla tykeillä ei edes yletä tuolta ryssien puolelle.
Why hide come on if u r willing to fight russia come face to face
nobody is hiding from russia 😂
@baconz4u622 yh tht why firing from border side, the heading of the video seems to say it
@@princeindoorandoutdoorplan3003 read it again, and then again, they are not even firing into russia
@@princeindoorandoutdoorplan3003 Are you ok? Do you understand what you are writing? I know English isn’t your first language but you could be a little clearer. Do you think NATO is firing INTO russia? Now why would NATO do that right now? This is just an exercise in Finland. It is on russia’s border to remind you russians that we can come in anytime we like and you can’t do anything about it. That’s all.
Get out of Ukraine within three days.
@@baconz4u622 yh not firing into russia but the headlines says its all wht they trying to say or mean, typical cheap sun western, European journslm at its peak
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Showing strength nothing left in Ukraine😂😂😂
guaranteed a bot. if i go check other comments its 100% russian propaganda on these types of videos.
I was right lmao
@ihavenoidea4727 Look the Russian propaganda in Dnipro 😂😂😂
NATO is a media paper tiger for the couch potato, a regular at a beer bar.
Every army try to look stronger than it is
Ye and your country is less than that.your country would be gone within a few days against nato xD
@@jimmiekarlsson4458 Ukraine is bankrupt, budget deficit in 2025 is projected at 19% of GDP. 19, Karl!
Ukraine is given 1.1 billion, the lion's share of which will go to pay off interest on previous loans. At the time of receiving the money, about 370 million went to interest.
The IMF is quietly conquering Ukraine. Soon they will own everything.
Your dictator hero putin was so scared of the paper tiger NATO he had to waste billions and lose a lot of equipment before he even fought them.
but rusia lives in the 70s, are uncivilized, totalitarian, and and re not the main character. This is the end of rusia therefore we are near of the end of totalitarian regimes world wide and finally we all can move forward to the future as a single humanity.
Say NO to leftism.
Say NO to underdevelopment.
Say NO to totalitarism.
Say NO to Rusia.