As a German, used to negative media coverage of Bundeswehr, it is always nice to learn from foreign media about things that going well or like in this case are best of class...

Happy to see this cooperation. Greetings from Germany

I think it's brilliant the way Germany lets its NATO partners use their battle training areas. The German army is a very well trained and motivated army. It's great to see a partnership like this.

Excellent and fascinating reportage by Forces News... As a former U.S. Army officer who has trained with both the German and U.K. military, I continue to be very impressed with the quality of both nation's military forces. The U.K. and German militaries both have my utmost respect!

Thanks to the Germans for providing the training area and offering such a good opponent.

A place like this is great for the army for all units it helps them to gain a taste of what the real situation will be

It is good to hear that Great Britain is practising with us. 👍 Especially in these times, learning from each other is very important. Kind regards from Germany. :)

everytime i stayed in the German CTC aka GÜZ (Gefechtsübungszentrum) during Mission Preparing for ISAF, NRF, EUBG it was a blast.. the huge amount of place for training, OPFOR, Sensor based Simulation of casulties etc... Former OR-8, light infantry!

Great! I love the idea of allied forces training no only cooperation, but also against each other. I hope our soldiers get invited some time in the future, too!

I visited royal welsh fusiliers as a cadet in the summer of 1990 in Berlin. they took us to Fighting City Ruhleben in Berlin for a exercise. It was a great experience and a great time to be in Berlin as we saw some of the soviets leaving Berlin.

I'm actually stationed there in the German army and I'm gonna be going on a lot of excersises in the future, it's a ton of fun but also very demanding. Sadly I just missed our British allies by a few weeks, would've been really exciting to get to train and do excersises with y'all. Thanks for coming over and greetings from germany

Natural allies.....🇬🇧🇩🇪

Staggeringly real, it seems the best way to learn and acclimatise for the challenges of warfare..... Roger.... Pembrokeshire UK

My family lives like 10-15km from there and every time I visit them I can hear the tanks roaring, always amazed by that

You work for 40yrs to have $1M in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just $10K in a meme coin from just few months ago and now they are multimillionaires.

For more realistic training, half the town should be nothing but rubble and other debris. Most towns liberated in the Ukraine are already devastated piles of rubble.

This is really good for both countries. 👍👍👍

The leopard is easy mode, try finding a wiesel.

Brilliant Fib training area that. Well done to the Germans.

The permanent inclusion of Bundeswehr units as "opponents"(3:03) is simply the best form of "re-enactment" that one can imagine! The fact that the British soldiers can't help smiling when they respond to this makes me particularly happy.

00:59 Holy cow. That's quiet the area. Easily enough to house like 5k people

Remember Sennelager. That was fairly tough infantry training. There was an intact tower from the 1940s, maybe earlier, on the area which was called Hitler’s Tower as I recall. Sennylager was no-nonsense infantry training.

Great !!! Civilized nations must stick together ...!!!

Has to be one of the most important training

From the uk. Great to see that the British Military are being challenged, learning and growing in capability. Thank you the German military for providing such a special, diverse and challenging environment. Not a military person but like the similar places in the US they have a group of guys who know the terrain……train hard

“Gortex til endex “ that young tanky has been taught well😂

Now that BATUS is all but closed down, and all the kit moved back to the UK - this seems like a fantastic training area & a lot closer!

If its "a bit anxiety driving" it truely must be a good replica of a small German town

The collaborative effort between the Royal Welsh and German forces in honing their urban combat skills at Schnoeggersburg is impressive! It's heartening to witness nations come together to enhance their military capabilities and understanding. The training area's design seems effective, but adding more 'random' elements like fences, bushes, and cars could enhance realism and tactical complexity for the troops. The mutual learning and training for potential future challenges are essential for a safer world. 🌍💪 Keep training hard, fight easy! 🙌

Germany welcomes its ally... We stand together no matter what!

Wow thats so cool, great training for you people Also very different saves you doing the same thing when you know the area. N.Z. CHEERS

Would make an epic airsoft arena

This ,, Village" Looks even more better than any other british once xD

Looking good boys and girls. That capability is looking sharp

lol the way the royal welsh fusilier's beret is sitting on his head made me LOL. 02:12

crystal maze was sick

A side fact: ALTMARK includes MARK. A Mark or Marke was a border area in not-unified medieval Germany (which only came together against major external enemies). A Mark was a large area whose purpose was to serve as a buffer against attacks from the east. A Mark's task was to warn the Reich and slow down the opponent until the main empire forces rallied. Altmark simply means old Mark. And other well-known Marken are Mark Brandenburg (after which came the Slavs) or the Ostmark (East Mark), which is now just called Austria.

Pretty cool stuff Germany. Love from Poland

Look , the soldiers are having fun!

Knowing my luck I would wander in there by accident and set up a squat in one of the buildings. It looks so nice.

"The heighth. The depth!"

And the cooks overlooked once again!

"Schnoeggersburg" is the most german sounding name ever XD

Love the shot of the guy piloting the surveillance drone 6 ft in front of himself. Obviously it's to get it all in one shot but it just looks so silly.

This looks very cool but doesn't it seem like the town could be improved by more 'random' clutter? More things like fences, bushes, cars, all things that could provide extra cover for the troops to give paranoid glances at. Very good to see the forces training 'against' each other!

bro dropped a Crystal Maze reference! ahh the memories (":

He had me at the Crystal Maze reference 😂 💯

Interesting that the German soldier at 5:56 says that the British are more flexible and the Germans can learn from this. In WW2 it was the British approach that was more rigid and the Germans who emphasised flexibility and small-unit initiative.

and purely by coincidence it just so happens to be a perfect replica of moscow

You're welcome! 💂‍♂

Why spend money on building a special training area when they just could have used Ludwigshafen instead? Might actually improve the place too.

Bet all of those are of a better build quality than our new builds

i have been there :)

Imagine a airsoft event, that would be so fun !

Warriors....still...

I would have never thought that an american serviceman would praise a german site for its size. Its usually the other way around :D You are all very welcome here.

that "smuurrrgushbord" looks really cool!

Time for the UK’s Defence Training Estates to up their game. Copehill down and Cilieni village although good facilities are a now a bit outdated and lack scale. More investment needed to enhance these places and make them representative of current theatres.

Netherlands tried this type of exersise aswell. Did not end well...

00:35 for a Brit it looks like an average town. Imagine what an average British town looks like.

To make it more realistic, they are going to pound it with artillery, non stop for a month, then sow 10,000 land mines and have loitering munitions and reconnaissance drones buzzing around overhead whilst artillery open up the minute the troops enter the town.

Gosh how many scrapes and bruises I got in Hammelburg…

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I am sure that the TAT will have picked upthe need to train harder in the following areas, the need for which is screaming from the video: Commanders not commanding closed down; Tank killed by an anti-Armour team - because he had no dismounts out doing close protection; No use of air burst mortars to drive the enemy underground while transiting the facility; No anti drone drills, or equipment.

Glad we are working together and letting our friends use our training grounds. Anglo-Saxons back training in Saxon :D *Welsh soldiers may not be Anglo-Saxon but you get the joke

none more.professional than british army. respect fr uk germany and us. love from lebanon

Nice to see the cap badges showing the King's crown 👍

Imagine the amount of birds that will make home in those empty structures. An unintentional animal sancuary.

CBRN suits, honking

This just like back home in the Rhondda, Ton Pentre or Pandy. Home from home.

that quad needs some pid tuning or some new props haha

Makes Imber village look like child’s play lol

Great place for airsoft tournament

I'm Rasya i'm from indonesian 🇮🇩

Nato could learn a lot from Ukraine... Especially about drones and other tech they have up the sleeve!

I think the British should really have a regiment dedicated to purely Gorilla warfare, as that seems to be the most fighting we do in a war now.

literally my hero academia training area

Lessons from Ukraine: 1) Buildings don't last very long and most fighting happens amongs ruin and heaps of rubble. 2) Tanks explode when they get too close which means they function more like short range artillery. 3) Your doctrine needs to account for and utilize drones or you'll lose, badly.

Max was here

The UK had these resources but the tories cut the funding and closed them all other than Hythe...

These professionals accumulated a lot of experience,send them to deal with russian convicts now.

Training grounds

And how would those tactics work with the planned Boxer replacement for Warrior?

Bro of course our training facility is called schnöggersburg… It‘s like letting an American come up with the most cliche German city name he can imagine

Square miles?! That can't be right! It's in Germany so it must be km² I'm sure. ;-)

How times have changed. I was in the army when counter terrorism was our mission. Our Army trained to fight terrorism. When I went to training our simulated villages looked like something out of the middle easy. Our OPFOR were guys who wore traditional wear. None of this is prevalent in today's basic training. Training has slowly transitioned from a counter terrorism based mission, to coventional. The US does no see our future wars being fought from village to village, versus a bunch of guys in their traditional islamic garb.

Defenders of Schnöerkesbörg, rise!

Schnüggesburg? Cant be real

monster zero ultra so based.....

Do they train with mines everywhere, under heavy shelling and FPV kamikaze drones coming through the windows? Seems this would be the new normal

Light fpv drone comes from around 5km and boom. They are not ready for new era war. Unfortunately.

More meat for the meat grinder. Luckily i own Blackrock stocks :)

Maybe to simulate urban combat, some area to represent an after shelling city rubble would be nice. Not real destroyed buildings of course, those I suspect wouldn’t pass the German regulations.

This could be rl backrooms level ngl.

Just in case they want round 3 😂

I just lol at the officer Husband. Do you have a Wife in ranks too?

How come they are wearing DPM camo?

Interesting how many were wearing DPM and DDPM

i cant stop laughing when they say shnoeggersburg at the start its so damn funny

lol the built a real life ARMA III town. 😂😂😂