Combat Camera Finland; Better than Hollywood

They said "sain", translates to "copy", verifies the message was clear and understood

They were saying "sain." Directly translated to "I got," but in FDF context means I hear your order, have no questions and am complying." Kinda like a sailor saying "eye eye"

As a Brit, so happy too see Finland in NATO.....have total trust in the quality of their armed forces

2:10 "Sain" = Order received, litearally "I got it". 4:17 APILAS weights 9 kg (20 lb) 5:44 7.62 Tkiv 85 which is literally a Mosin-Nagant turned into a sniper rifle. So yes, quite old, made by an army depot. 7:00 Beanie under the helmet, you gotta have something warm during the winter...

The beard guys are reservists. Since the refresher excercises are like week or two max, they can't force people to shave/cut their hair for that.

reservists doesnt need to trim their beards but conscripts has to

It starts to feel "cool", once it is -35 in Celsius 🤣

yea that beanie is a game changer in those weathers. that helmet is Freeeeezing :D

How do you feel seeing your own boys in FDF videos? Personally I think its cool to see allies training with us more nowdays

The large white ship in the beginning is (or at least represented and I think quite possibly really was) a liquefied natural gas tanker. With Putin's gas extortion a couple of years back, one of the very rare LNG tankers was docked to Finland as a security of supply matter. And a significant exercise with special forces, police and border guard was conducted about how it would go down if saboteurs tried something at the harbour. And it was made very public as an information op. The colourful F-18 at the end was US Marines.

5:40 Old workhorse 85 (TKIV 85) 7,62x53R

My brother in arms... you cant fight in the freezing north without a beanie under your helmet...

Fun fact those ancient looking rifles can have bolts dating back to 1890s.

At @4:14 its a APILAS (Armor-Piercing Infantry Light Arm System) is a portable one-shot 112 mm recoilless anti-tank weapon) and it weighs between 9-10 kg

You will be cool without beanie for sure. At -30C your brain will stay cool, frozen even. Don't know how badass you would be in battle though.

Quite a lot of NATO planes from various countries and Swedish ones too were displayed together with FAF Hornets. The FDF Combat Camera makes very cool videos of the training of Finnish Defence Forces and its allies and hey, these guys are conscripts serving in various units!

We finns often go practicality first and "cool" comes somewhere after that. It has always felt strange for me that Muricans always put "coolness" before practicality :D For example if a rifle is cool but shitty to use, it's a shitty rifle ;)

FDF just made a Hollywood movie

3:08 that's LNG terminal ship (Exemplar), Finland leased it for 10 years.

The high speed police is the finnish police readiness unit ”Karhu” or ”Bear” units. Really high speed anti terrorism and all around when shit hits the fan professionals.

That ancient looking sniper rifle is TKIV 85, manuafactured by Valmet.

As someone already mentioned, at 5:44 the sniper rifle is 7.62 TKIV 85. I had that rifle during my service in 2008. Very reliable but also very heavy! I got the change to try the upgraded one, I believe it was Sako TRG-42 with .338 and oh boy that felt amazing and light compared to the -85 one.

🇫🇮Lovely as usual 🇫🇮 SISU in NATO = gamechanger…

When it actually gets cold, you don't care about cool. You want to look warm.

I always get chills and I'm always touched when I look at these PV videos. I am proud of our 🇫🇮 forces, which are NATO's top 10👊 Thank you for your good videos, and you are right..Finland is a beautiful country...

In Finland, we have -20-30c of frost in winter. A beanie is then necessary

You're right. A beanie under the helmet doesn't look cool. But it does feel good. Welcome to the north to try if you want to look cool or feel warm. 😊

We Finnish Warriors salute you!

They say "sain", which basically means "roger that". Literally it means "I got it".

What people do not understand is that I am at home in the arctic woods and in the dark. I did find my tent from the guard position in pitch black. Dense forest and a hefty distance. A winter forest brings me a sense of calmness.

Respect to you all you Marines

Combat camera always hype!

Do you know excited I am to see another combat camera crew!!!! I loved the combat aspect of it, but the photos and year end films were always so much fun to make!

As a part of the video i can say our combat camera guys are really good at taking videos and editing. I was shooting the cannon and running inside the nh at one moment and it was nice experience in freezing winds 23

5:30 they aren't allowed to have beards. but these are most likely reserve men doing refresher training, so their rules are a bit more lenient because the refreshers are so short. you don't have to shave or cut your hair for refreshers, only for conscription, if you're doing it for a job, or when a real situation happens.

Tkiv 85 is accurate and durable. That was the first scoped rifle I ever fired in my life. Our sharpshooters gave us field day going through them at the range and then we had a little competition. 300m range, pouring rain and the wind was something mad. My groupin of five was at the upper right corner around 8-9 with the largest gap between shots at 6cm. It sort of renewed my trust in my shooting skills.... Even got my RK zeroed more accurate after that. Loved the Mosin so much it's one of my favorite moose hunting rifles even today....

It's "sain", direct translation is "i got" but translates copy that

Thanks for the great video! From CC04 man 🤝🏻

Look cool? Who cares! Guy doesn't want his ears falling off in -20

Hi thanks for covering so many foreign militaries, as a GWOT VET I think its very important on a professional level for soldiers to know more about each other whether as allies to work together or potential enemies. In my opinion the next stage of evolution is for every single soldier to be a scholar in the Green Beret model, Embedded Training Teams and OMLT Teams were just the beginning. Can you do 2 big favours for me please. 1. Put the videos and the sources into playlists for each country or region of countries for concise and comprehensive research. 2. Can you please do a video or series on how your own channel has affected your own units interest in learning more.

Theres probably going to be some good footage of NR24. We are 1 week off the start of the exercise

I got the message ! Sain!

Please do come to an excercise in the arctic, and see the virtue of having a beanie under your helmet? Seriously speaking, staying warm and dry is a game of it's own. Doing 8 hrs of attacking maneuvers in -20C is like being in the runway of a haute couture show.

You should look the Puolustusvoimat combat camera showreel 2018

At 4:23 he is calling for a coordinated simultaneous attack from all artillery units (can include a mix of mortars, artillery and/or rockets). The idea is tho hit the target grid from multiple locations all at the same time so there will be no warning of incoming rounds. I've personally seen a simultaneous coordinated attack from several artillery batteries and the whole area of land just explodes. Finns train a lot joint co-operation between different units.

Ah annual dose of Finland firepower p#rn.

Awesome reaction video, thank you! I think we are still setting stuff up with Nato (and it's gonna take time) but I bet there will definitely be similar action reels with joint operations in the future!

That ancient rifle was the sniper rifle M85, modified from WWII era service rifles M39's commonly known as "Pystykorva", a Finnish variant of Mosin-Nagant. It's still a decently good rifle for medium range sniping.

My roommate from our recruit period is one of the CC guys in this, 02 if Im right but I haven't seen him in a while so not totally sure. Definitely sounds like him and does look too.

Finally!

The Finns are good soldiers. I served with some Finns in Ukraine... really good comrades.

You literally got CCs on the video enabled. Subtitles seem to go to top-left corner. APILAS launchers weight around 9kg, and NLAWs are 12kg. Training weapons are often even lighter. Beards are only allowed for refreshment training reservists, which those thugs clearly are. Old RK62s and all. The "old" looking rifle's the Sako TK85, quite literally a pimped up Mosin Nagant. Damn accurate and comfy to shoot though, good DMR for the average troops. You will appreciate a beanie or balaclava under your helmet when it's way below zero outside.

Sain: is roger that.

In the reserve we have 870K people, which 280K of us are more or less ready to fight if needed to.(According the Wiki) Handling a rifle safely, every man have done that basic training.

Tulta!!

You can bet the combat camera staff follows your channel and will listen to feedback.

I know some replied to you already, but "Sain" closest translation for US military is "Roger" it's just affirmation of hearing the order.

When its - 20c youll be wearinga beanie too 😂

Sain! You could think of it like Roger!

Tkiv 85 is a variant from mosin nagant. Like legendary Simo Häyhä shot M28-30 use mosin nagant bolt. Why change a sniper weapon if its reliable and 7,62x53R is quite good ammo. Also pkm uses same caliber. I think some says now 6,5 creedmoor is better. Sure it is but how many machine guns like pkm use that ammo? 😅 Now you need 1 ammo type to assault rifle and 1 for machine gun or sniper rifle.

CC cant film or couldnt film nato things so much but now that were part, i bet more nato joint exercise footage is coming in future. Would have got copyright flagged for taking better shots/scenes than nato did. 😂

Do you know what we called snow M05? It was called cow suit, when i was in the military😁

Everything in FSF is fucking heavy! 😆 Practice anti-tank mine boxes were 40 kilograms each. I was pretty strong at that age and lifted two boxes at a time onto a truck bed. Or I had to carry a pallet full of Suomi KP/-31's with another dude. No problem. Fortunately I was a telegrapher so normally I had to only carry a tiny morse key...

Beards are only allowed after you have done your actual conscription, during consription no beard or long hair, but it might change in the future. They might allow well kept beard and moustache.

Norway is hosting the upcoming "Nordic Response 24" Could be some nice footage coming from that.

Sniper rifle is old TAK-85

SISU movie ? Its bad ass :D

Sain, so its i,ill got it

sain; got it\ received

You should react to Freezing Winds 2023. Some of the clips from it is in this vid

At this point. they should just do a full lenght movie XD

💯🤘

Finland is offering training ground and airspace to other NATO countries, so assumable there will be footage from those excercises. Also, Finnish military will be taking more part to excercises outside Finland, so that's interesting too. Here are the first Finnish Jägers training in Lockstedt, Germany, in 1916: "Jääkärit väreissä, Lockstedt 1916". An anniversary event: "Finnentag 2015 in Hohenlockstedt". About their time there and how the geopolitical situation at the time effected that campaign: "The Finnish Jägers In World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR On The Road". A (Finnish only) video about how camera has been used as part of the Finnish military training, as a combat camera and for other information purposes during past 90 years (8 years ago): "Kuvaustoiminta Puolustusvoimissa 90 vuotta - Katsaus koulutuselokuvan vuosikymmeniin". Close combat training in 1957: "Lähitaistelu (Close Combat) - Finnish Defense Force, Finnish Army 1957". The Big Picture episode from ca. 1959: "Phantom Fighters (Green Berets) in Color with Larry Thorne (Lauri Törni)", Some bearded reservists in training in 1999: "yrjö Jukola Sissi juttuja.". Paratrooper Jägers survival training in difficult conditions in early 2010s: "Laskuvarjojääkärit osa 2".

Gimme little Fin Flam Bang! The Nato flag suggests this is their welcome to Finland video!

Finnish soldiers are some of the best in the world 🌎, fact

I entered the giveaway. I hope I win!

If you put finnish army in the title, itd likely net a bunch of views

React the GRUMEC ESPECIAL FORCES

Suomi mainittu! Torilla tavataan!

The first scenes, the high speed shit, it was a joint training hit on a major harbour LNG terminal "captured" by an unconvential enemy force, conducted by the Finnish Police Special Intervention Unit Karhu (aka Bear group), Utti Special Jaegers & Border Guard 1st or 5th Special Intervention Unit (probably 1st unit due to terminal location). We had a lot of US army (and UK conventional army + Paras & RM Commados I hear) here in 2023 & 2024 winters getting arctic training. Some poor dudes got here just as we got near record-breaking freezing temps for a couple weeks. I know a bunch of US Army SF worked with the Utti guys to learn arctic stuff in addition to the usual joint SOF training.

Brooo, look new video from 3rd brigade plssssssss,

Finnish commander: "Do you see that grid square with Russians?" Artillery officer: "Yes" Commander: "I don't want to see it anymore." Officer: "The Russians? Okay I'll call the mortar company." Commander: "No, the square." Officer: "understood. I'll call the artillery batalions." Commander: "Actually make it the grid. I don't want to see the grid anymore." Officer: " Okay, I'll call Washington then."

Oh man looking at the US troops skiing at the end, I'd say anyone woolled up that thick would be miserable while skiing in full gear.....😮 ..I remember stripping down to my longjohns and t-shirt under the thin snow camo while pushing it.....

Have you seen the new NATO nordic response videos yet?

About the bierd... he was either reservist or a member of rapid deployment force. Conscripts and professional soldiers should have a clean face.

And Finnish are only 5,6 million ppls. Where like 40% can do that. But quality... is subr. Cos now we are in NATO, we can relax a bit.

30% of the videos people were nato members (non fdf) and your only complain was not enough membership training was showed🤣🤣🤣 (dont get me wrong not hater love ur content❤❤

The Nato flag gave it away..This is their 'welcome to Finland ' video.

Thanks to the Finnish Peapole, we can now fly the NATO flag in possible future conflicts.

Only reservists can have beards atm, but reforming of service regulations might allow tidy beards and moustache on conscripts in the future.

Have you seen/reacted to Puolustusvoimat videos on the renewed doctrine from 11 years ago. Basics: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aMmidNtp0M_Gmac.htmlsi=nQpTFtGBCZj6qa_5 Combat video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNWZo9lozry0XZc.htmlsi=m9oQAnVlhKybg7HV

React the 104 RMO Algerian military special forces

Active service personnel and conscripts can't have full beards. Only reserves personnel can.

I think they dress up a bit nowadays for the NATO buddies from other countries :). Too bad i'm already in back up reserve so pretty slim chance to be in refresher training with NATO :|

There will probably be new films from the now large NATO exercise Nordic Response 24, where over 20,000 soldiers from 14 NATO countries share. It was ordered on February 6th and will last until March. You are a US Marine, are you going to Sweden for winter training? For the United States, the US Marines send hitups to Lapland to teach them how to ski, how to fight in a winter environment, how to dress properly against the cold, build snow bivouacs. In a few years, American soldiers will be trained up among the Kiruna mountains at the top of Sweden.

u know we can shoot better with old riffle than new one :XD gimme iron sigth and i shoot better than any of here on gomments :D

Training sniper rifle

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See footage like this everyday when Russia downloads videos online of them dominating the battlefield