Watch troops from the United Kingdom, Estonia, Poland and Spain demonstrate artillery, armour and infantry capability on exercise Venerable Gauntlet as they, along with 10 other nations, prepare to take over NATO’s spearhead force, the VJTF, in 2017.
At the Sennelager training ground in Germany 3,000 troops from 14 NATO nations take part in exercise Venerable Gauntlet. The exercise brings together units from different nations that will form NATO’s VJTF, or Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, Land component from 2017. The VJTF is NATO’s spearhead force designed to react to a crisis situation at short notice.
Footage includes shots of artillery, infantry and armor demonstrations, as well as aerial shots of armored vehicles moving across the training ground.
SHOTLIST:
1. (00:00) INTERNAL SHOT – BRITISH SOLDIERS IN AS-90 ARMOURED VEHICLES LOAD 155 SELF-PROPELLED GUNS ON EXERCISE
2. (00:06) VARIOUS WIDE SHOTS – 155 SELF-PROPELLED GUNS FIRING
3. (00:17) VARIOUS SHOTS – SPANISH SOLDIERS FIRE 105 TOWED LIGHT GUN
4. (00:29) VARIOUS SHOTS – SPANISH INFANTRY SOLDIERS MOVE THROUGH VILLAGE IN TRAINING AREA
5. (00:41) VARIOUS SHOTS – SPANISH SOLDIERS STORM VILLAGE IN TRAINING AREA DURING EXERCISE
6. (00:57) VARIOUS AERIAL SHOTS – SPANISH SOLDIERS STORM BUILDING AND SHOTS OF TRAINING VILLAGE
7. (01:13) VARIOUS SHOTS – BRITISH, ESTONIAN AND POLISH ARMOURED VEHICLES MOVING ACROSS TRAINING AREA DURING EXERCISE
8. (01:41) VARIOUS AERIAL SHOTS – BRITISH, ESTONIAN AND POLISH ARMOURED VEHICLES MOVING ACROSS TRAINING AREA
9. (02:26) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) - LT COL MIKE CORNWELL, PRINCESS OF WALES’S ROYAL REGIMENT
“What we’re going through here is a scenario where we’ve had to restore the integrity of an international border, so we’ve launched an attack to clear an enemy pocket out. What we’re now doing, what you’re seeing behind you, is a guard force moving to sit on the border and ensure there are no further enemy incursions.”
10. (02:40) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – LT COL MIKE CORNWELL, PRINCESS OF WALES’S ROYAL REGIMENT
“Within the VJTF construct there is certainly the potential for us to have to restore international integrity and dispute over border areas is most likely and this is a very good means by which to bring international subunits together into one battlegroup and just run through some level of integration in a VJTF(L) coherent context if you like.”
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