UK Challenger 2 tanks on the move in Europe

As conflict continues in Ukraine, the Army is boosting its presence in Eastern Europe this summer.

Thousands of British troops are conducting military exercises in the region including the King’s Royal Hussars Battlegroup in Poland.

Getting tanks, equipment and heavy armour to them is a Theatre Enabling Group which has based its headquarters at Sennelager in Germany.

Rob Olver explains.

[Jefff]

I'm a USAF vet and I was stationed for three years in the UK back in the 90s. You guys rock!

[MichaelFinkelman]

40 years ago when I was in the US Army stationed in what was West Germany, I had the honor to work with British forces . They are true professionals and this video illustrates their level of proficiency in their mission. Great work guys………

[thebestofj.fraley]

Thank you Britts. That is one thing your brothers across the pond can count on is our go to backup! Thanks for stepping up and God Bless you all. 🙏

[sstyrna]

Great Military Force, well trained and polished, respect from Canada and Poland

[KangoV]

Being able to print parts in the field is new one on me. That saves a huge amount of time !!!

[donaldmacmillan]

Senelager brings back happy memories being on exercise driving a chieftain tank those were the day with beer in the empty ammo bins

[beccabbea]

When tanks are on the move, boy do you know they are on the move. I was living in Sennalager 1975-1979 when there was a mass movement of tanks one night. It wasn’t the noise that woke me it was the vibration of the tanks through the ground and we didn’t live near the station yard where the tanks were being loaded. They were the Chieftain tanks 56 tons of tank, multiplied by many. A Challenger2 tank holds the record for the longest ever recorded kill shot. And the Challenger crew are very well trained indeed.

[skookapalooza]

The British have a disproportionately powerful military for its size; experts at doing more with less. They generally have our backs whatever conflict we get into. Great allies.

[DoubleTroubles]

British military are top notch! and phenomenal Allies. Up the Brits. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[Island_Times]

I may or may not of made the moulds for the solid tyres and the links for the Challenger in the '90's 😉

[TheParronators]

Great to see British involvement but Jesus Christ we need a bigger miliary budget

[jennar]

a well oiled western military machine, it has an actual logistics backbone, NATO nations maintain high standards and actual functional equipment and can carry out feats of logistics that boggle the mind, first i would think of would be the US' ability to deploy massive forces and equipment anywhere in the world with huge air transport capabilities.

[noktrum]

Absolutely love this! Welcome to Poland Brits! 2 days in our sweet homeland and you will fully understand why most of us are in UK XD Joking aside - good to have your support on our soil, have a nice shootout with polish armour brigades of Leopard's 2 and T-72 tanks (whatever is left of the latter... recently we seemed to misplaced few hundred of those;-))

[frankthompson]

Brilliant tanks efficient crews back up troops infantry division.
Sennelager west Germany.
I remember the chieftain tanks also brilliant tanks.
Well trained soldiers.
With reme and logistics.
This is a force to recon with.

[eaaeeeea]

Having served in a logistics battalion and dabbled with 3D printing in civilian life, making spare parts that way seems like an extremely agile way of supporting military equipment! I didn't know it but my country's Defence Forces (Finland) does it as well! I really love it when people adopt such clever ways to solve complex problems, especially when defending one's homeland.

[kimwilliams]

I'm proud to be from the UK we have excellent tanks and equipment proud of our military glory to ulkraine xxxx

[target]

For me one of the best tanks Danke England für alles Thank you England for everything

[gaptaxi]

After WW2 most of the Tank Transporter drivers were actually displaced Poles who couldn´t return to Poland as the Communists would have arrested them, they were still driving them in the 1970´s, we called them Mojo´s for some reason.
Pretty Ironic that these are moving now to take British tanks to Poland, something many Mojo´s had only ever dreamed of.

[SteveJones-omks]

No cheap Chinese tyres on display!. This is how you do logistics right!

[brooklynnchick]

The British military branches are among the best trained, highly disciplined, honorable forces on the planet. Thank you all for your service, although I am American I am keenly aware that with out the British military, life for my family and myself would be significantly less abundant.