British Army war games at 'awe-inspiring' German urban battleground

The Royal Welsh have become the first British battlegroup to hone their skills at Europe's largest urban warfare training facility, Schnoeggersburg, in eastern Germany.

Supported by Challenger 2s from the Royal Tank Regiment, the troops from the armoured infantry regiment have been enhancing their skills in urban combat inside the facility which looks deceptively like an ordinary sleepy small town or village.

The infanteers' training mission was to liberate and defend Schnoeggersburg.

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[peterm.]

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...

[fledermaus]

Happy to see this cooperation. Greetings from Germany

[rkaussner]

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!

[lukedelport]

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

[panameraporsche]

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. :)

[jimmyhillschin]

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

[carlseddon]

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.

[Klausi-uqxq]

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!

[polymorphesquirrel]

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!

[paulgb]

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.

[erdbeerkeks]

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

[rogerrees]

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

[Kkkk-cvwi]

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

[stuartnewman]

This is really good for both countries. 👍👍👍

[michaelneuwirth]

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.

[TemplarKnight-iq]

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

[Vatnik_tschistilka]

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

[jububoobaroo]

The leopard is easy mode, try finding a wiesel.

[carlseddon]

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

[RalphBrooker-gniv]

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.