Higher calibre manpower back then too. No mummies boys, strict discipline and tough NCO's. Standards have fallen across the board in the last 40 years.
Yea, funny how they don't show anyone stagging on at 3 in the morning on a wet December in Sennelager or wandering round on site guard at Verthefukareve Stadt.
The new videos have only a couple of troops in battle excersizes then they blend it in with a couple of tanks !! Theres no mass showing display of troops in the recent videos !!!
Great stuff. I joined up in the late 80's. Still using 58 pattern webbing and large packs with our sleeping bag in a bloody bin bag strapped to the outside. The kit was utter shit. Myself and loads of other squaddies spent a lot of our own money to buy good kit. We would then get told we have to use as issued kit by idiots who had no idea how to be efficient in the field. It's great to see the troops getting all the right kit now.
Oh yes those were the days, took you two days to put your kit together, and that was in your room, when you had to bug out in the dark, and rain that was character building stuff, I would have liked to meet Frank? the lying Bastard who lied to me on the Army requirement video, in the requirement Office Chester 1989???? 🙄 🤔 😂, now 52 years old still looking fro Frank "Game On" payback will be a Bitch 😂
They didn't mention the abundance of poontang in Germany, the bratties and the schnellimbiss, and the cheap naffi double measures and pints which turned us all into borderline alchoholics . Happy days.
@@numberstation No. The M60A1 was better in armor, fcs and mobility. With new ammo the 105 mm gun was the equal to the Chieftain 120 mm gun. Also the T62 could destroy the frontal armor of the Chieftain at 1600 meters in every place with ap ammo. All soviet HEAT but the early rpg-7 could destroy the frontal armor of the Chieftain.
@@markcorrigan3930 no no no no. Mobility yes down to the stupid multi-fuel power pack, but certainly not gun nor armour. Chieftain with a better power pack (Shir 1) was a superb tank. The British got Shir 2 courtesy of Iran and we called it Challenger.
Only the FV432 (which James Martin annoyingly called a tank) remains in service with the British army. As for the Ferret, they were put out to grass long ago, going out of production two years after the Troubles started. Being used for scouting duties, they probably had the same number as reverse gears as forward so, having sneaked up on the enemy (and maybe taken a pot shot at a few) you could get the fuck out of there!
I remember watching this video in the 70s when in the recruiting office. Joined the infantry but due to cuts we had very limited live amo to train properly.
That's the problem. When we had the tactical nukes, the opposition did not. Their response would have been incrementally greater, and so goes the ball game.
I like the modern stuff that can with body heat dry out over night, not like the old 1972 combats that would take three weeks in the drying room and still smelt of damp after that,
In 12 years I had both the SLR and SA80 with iron sights (who every thought fitting iron sights to an SA80 was smoking something) All I ever fired at (together with 100,000s of others) was Figure 11 and 12 targets. 7.62 or 5.56 the only difference was the size of the hole if you hit the target.
Definitely not, when I was in the forces people used to say this, most of us replied that if we had to go into combat we wanted people who had volunteered covering our backs not some poor sod that didn’t want to be there.
Made in B.O.A.R Fuck Yeahh 3.15 gives me hard on that's when we had an army I joined up in 1988 it was all good character building stuff as they used to say hahaha what you standing there for get down army careers
I don"t know if it was ever used to destroy an enemy armoured vehicle but i have heard that the MILAN was used a lot during the Falklands campaign to smash Argentine bunkers and proved pretty useful in that role.
there's something not quite right about this film. At the start, it has SKC no C1357 but at the end it has army department no c1601 so what the fuck gives here?
***** The reason I asked was that the media kept comparing it to Vietnam.In Vietnam we used plenty of firepower backed up by over 500,000 U.S. troops and we dropped bombs on Laos,Cambodia,North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
Michael Lantz perhaps it was compared to Vietnam because it dragged on for so long, longest major campaign in the history of the British army. And there were a lot of casualties on both sides.
+Michael Lantz Have you tried a war against terror? We were =targeted day and night by people who looked like everyone else. We could not 'see' our enemy. We were sent in in 69 to assist the police and to protect the catholics who in turn turned against us, their protectors. The rest, as they say, is history, and YES I was THERE
The infantry, are now carried in fast Armoured Personnel Carriers" and the words and letters FV432 do not go in the same sentence excluding yours truly, who got pinged doing 138 kph in a FV432 . Do you accept my punishment corporal !! Only if I can phone the Guinness book of records first sir...
Did you?? Supose the russains could have attacked. We were still training like we were going to fight the russains in the american army all the way up to 911..Go figure...
"A British soldier can be deployed anywhere from India, Asia, Canada ..." ... but not to Luton, as that is far too dangerous..
The Kazi of Loo-tahn is stirring up too much shit there!
Still better than the current army recruitment videos
This one actually has British people in it.
Higher calibre manpower back then too. No mummies boys, strict discipline and tough NCO's. Standards have fallen across the board in the last 40 years.
Yea, funny how they don't show anyone stagging on at 3 in the morning on a wet December in Sennelager or wandering round on site guard at Verthefukareve Stadt.
This recruitment video video is much better than the ones we have now!....And that mini nuke!...hahaha I love it
Yes that got my attention
The new videos have only a couple of troops in battle excersizes then they blend it in with a couple of tanks !! Theres no mass showing display of troops in the recent videos !!!
I remember watching this in the recruiting office in Dundee 1977. Yeah, and I signed up, no regrets there. I would do it again.
Epic
@@Enygma293 lol Engyma it's you
81 for me Mate,me too do it all again." AIRBORNE"
@@ronaldfitzsimmons9902
Fud
Good old Carl Gustav and the 66 LAW Not forgetting the SLR.
Very unsafe smg 😂😂😂😂
Great stuff. I joined up in the late 80's. Still using 58 pattern webbing and large packs with our sleeping bag in a bloody bin bag strapped to the outside. The kit was utter shit. Myself and loads of other squaddies spent a lot of our own money to buy good kit. We would then get told we have to use as issued kit by idiots who had no idea how to be efficient in the field. It's great to see the troops getting all the right kit now.
Oh yes those were the days, took you two days to put your kit together, and that was in your room, when you had to bug out in the dark, and rain that was character building stuff, I would have liked to meet Frank? the lying Bastard who lied to me on the Army requirement video, in the requirement Office Chester 1989???? 🙄 🤔 😂, now 52 years old still looking fro Frank "Game On" payback will be a Bitch 😂
@@marklloyd4087 I remember Frank. Windsurfing in Cyprus :) We joined up the same year mate. All the best.
We were still using 37 pattern webbing in 70s i payed £20 for a set of 58pattern
Yes, the troops. Both of them!
Yes the kit was pony, the barracks were shoddy and the vehicles broke down - welcome to BAOR.
They didn't mention the abundance of poontang in Germany, the bratties and the schnellimbiss, and the cheap naffi double measures and pints which turned us all into borderline alchoholics .
Happy days.
The advance of technology after WW2 is amazing .
pissed wet threw on Salisbury plain early into saturday morning on exercise knowing your mates back home are on the razz
Lol exactly.
Ahh Salisbury plain ...
I joined as they phased out the putties and the camo crap hat.
The Chieftain was concieved years ahead of it's time? Like the Terminator? I never knew British military history was so interesting!
guernseypc Agreed. Maybe only the T64 was anywhere near it.
@@numberstation No. The M60A1 was better in armor, fcs and mobility. With new ammo the 105 mm gun was the equal to the Chieftain 120 mm gun. Also the T62 could destroy the frontal armor of the Chieftain at 1600 meters in every place with ap ammo. All soviet HEAT but the early rpg-7 could destroy the frontal armor of the Chieftain.
@@markcorrigan3930 no no no no. Mobility yes down to the stupid multi-fuel power pack, but certainly not gun nor armour. Chieftain with a better power pack (Shir 1) was a superb tank. The British got Shir 2 courtesy of Iran and we called it Challenger.
@@gunner678 Chiftan best tank in the world so long as it broke down in the best fire position!!!
Only the FV432 (which James Martin annoyingly called a tank) remains in service with the British army. As for the Ferret, they were put out to grass long ago, going out of production two years after the Troubles started. Being used for scouting duties, they probably had the same number as reverse gears as forward so, having sneaked up on the enemy (and maybe taken a pot shot at a few) you could get the fuck out of there!
Bloody hell that makes me feel old! Good luck with your new career.
Interesting video, we really had firepower in the 70's
I remember watching this video in the 70s when in the recruiting office.
Joined the infantry but due to cuts we had very limited live amo to train properly.
It's all fun and games until that first wave of Soviet tactical nukes land.
That's the problem. When we had the tactical nukes, the opposition did not. Their response would have been incrementally greater, and so goes the ball game.
Odd to see the FV432 which is still in service in 2023, but then again when I joined, Centurion was a rank not a tank.
Why the hell US and UK uniforms looked better in the 70-80s?
i mean i’d prefer today’s ballistic vests thanks 😂
I like the modern stuff that can with body heat dry out over night, not like the old 1972 combats that would take three weeks in the drying room and still smelt of damp after that,
@@maxbodymass6288 and the hessian kfs dun forget that like wearing a sandbag
@@bloggs692413 Friction burns under the armpits!!!
The tin hats that made one resemble a tortoise were never cool.
Should have won the Nobel Prize for Fiction.
3: 25 Fuck me, that nuke just turned the wood into a desert...
I remember this well! Joined in 1980
a lot of men heard they could ride a chopper, and they were not disappointed after joining.
Good days!
reminds me why i didn't join the army when I was a kid.
blimey did i do all that in germany in the 1970s???
2:06 the charlie G is a"missile launcher" LOL
Where do i sign Sir!!
3:16 that's probably why Amesbury is full of rats birds 😂😂
SLR 7.62 what a beast better than the shite they've got know
The only problem is that it's so bloody long, the SA80s are much shorter.
In 12 years I had both the SLR and SA80 with iron sights (who every thought fitting iron sights to an SA80 was smoking something) All I ever fired at (together with 100,000s of others) was Figure 11 and 12 targets. 7.62 or 5.56 the only difference was the size of the hole if you hit the target.
@@rows10 thatsvtrue.
brings back memories ubique
the soldiers using the milan at around 2.45 look like germans ?
Correct - probably because the producers didn't have any stock footage of British troops firing Milan so used this footage instead.
Peace, due to superior firepower.
Very nice video
1.18 ZB298 ground surveillance used by Gunner op's - absolute pain
We need to bring back national service.
Agreed.
yes i totally agree, Do you have children, grandchildren? first in queue
Nation grid
If you put guns in the hands of the British public you'll get a civil war. You cant have national service without a nation...
Definitely not, when I was in the forces people used to say this, most of us replied that if we had to go into combat we wanted people who had volunteered covering our backs not some poor sod that didn’t want to be there.
Made in B.O.A.R Fuck Yeahh 3.15 gives me hard on that's when we had an army I joined up in 1988 it was all good character building stuff as they used to say hahaha what you standing there for get down army careers
spta?
British army was still useing Milan up to 2006 it was a good anti tank weapon then they got changed for the javelin thats even better.
Now there's star streak.
Boy showing them in Germany but truth Ireland and Canada training area. Now i know why we were doing British sector of North west Germany.
What no homosexuals!
Many of these systems look good, but perhaps some have not been employed. Was a MILAN ever used to destroy an AFV? Was a Lance missile ever launched?
I don"t know if it was ever used to destroy an enemy armoured vehicle but i have heard that the MILAN was used a lot during the Falklands campaign to smash Argentine bunkers and proved pretty useful in that role.
Interesting .
there's something not quite right about this film. At the start, it has SKC no C1357 but at the end it has army department no c1601 so what the fuck gives here?
Did British Troops engage in any combat duty in the 1970's?
***** Was the British War in Northern Ireland a full scale where you have to use naval shelling and air power to drop bombs on IRA's positions.
***** The reason I asked was that the media kept comparing it to Vietnam.In Vietnam we used plenty of firepower backed up by over 500,000 U.S. troops and we dropped bombs on Laos,Cambodia,North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
Michael Lantz perhaps it was compared to Vietnam because it dragged on for so long, longest major campaign in the history of the British army. And there were a lot of casualties on both sides.
+Michael Lantz Have you tried a war against terror? We were =targeted day and night by people who looked like everyone else. We could not 'see' our enemy. We were sent in in 69 to assist the police and to protect the catholics who in turn turned against us, their protectors. The rest, as they say, is history, and YES I was THERE
+Mike Kemble Respect to you, takes bollocks to do something like that.
1:54 WOMBAT
3:58 get in there.
50 missile ski team training suspended to make this video.
And I believed it.......
"The infantry, are now carried infast Armoured Personel Carriers"
Should you be a mechanised infantry unit
The infantry, are now carried in fast Armoured Personnel Carriers"
and the words and letters FV432 do not go in the same sentence excluding yours truly, who got pinged doing 138 kph in a FV432 . Do you accept my punishment corporal !! Only if I can phone the Guinness book of records first sir...
Did you?? Supose the russains could have attacked. We were still training like we were going to fight the russains in the american army all the way up to 911..Go figure...
How could we possibly loose??
"When men of quality, good men come forward ..." ...we refer them to the German Army recruiters.
well you learn from your mistakes XD
Fuck I thought it was a north korean propaganda video