Air Defender 23 - Schleswig & Hohn - NATO's biggest exercise. Part 1

Air Defender 23 - Schleswig & Hohn - NATO's biggest exercise. Part 1

Join good mate Steve and myself as we head over to Germany to photograph NATO's biggest exercise for years "AIR DEFENDER 23"

00:00 To the airport!
02:41 Schleswig arrival
03:31 seeing the A-10's
03:45 Finding the line up of jets on the pan
05:03 Monday morning
05:30 first wave launch
05:53 Tornado taxi
09:17 Special tail Tornado
13:16 Grippens launch
14:30 South Dakota F-16's
17:25 Special tail returns
18:34 A-10's return
20:58 F-16, Grippens returns
24:03 Hohn arrival
24:49 Hercules
25:15 A look at Hohn for photos
26:07 Finnish F-18's launch
27:01 JZ F-15's launch

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[whiskeyyankee]

Love your enthusiasm. It really tranfers through your videos

[marius]

Hey Mark, just saw your comment on the NDR's Air Defender video and decided to have a look at your channel. You're doing great work!

[Topgunphoto]

sweet video, was luckly to catch all the US based F-16's come through my local airport (KPSM) heading over.

[martinstokes]

Brilliantly done Mark, thanks for sharing. Loving the close ups of the F16s after burners, great sight n sound..

[Iceman-zqnh]

i just saw you in a video of air defender 23 on a german tv channel and just thought "hey it's the guy who showed me how to photograph football" 😃

[SMT]

Very nice footage and good video. Greeting from Stuttgart (GER)

[petementen]

Great that u feel the same i do every day. tornado is the best "fuel-to-noise-converter" ever

[JonasWaldmensch]

I LOVE your voice 💜 greetings from Germany

[Sirclassic]

I love the huge sign which says "photoban" and 15 people stand there and film hahahahah

[DarrenEdwardsAviation]

Very nice Mark, I bet you're already thinking about doing it again next year, if it's on that is.

[robertvanempel]

Yes, shame the RAF has now retired the Herky. The RAAF however is retiring 12 H models and replacing them with 20 J models.

[ANYONEkyc]

Nice pictures but one slight correction: The AG 51 "I" has a panther as its insignia. I guess because it's a reconnaissance squadron. Also we (living in Schleswig-Holstein and me having served there) commonly call it Jagel.

[NikCan]

Always a great video on different photographic areas.

[benmtb]

very good video, i myself was there and you ceptured the experience very well. great job!!

[Junakase]

Great video. I like the mix of commentary and video footage, and the editing is also well done.
I also couldn't help but to notice the sign at 20:10 which says that filming and taking pictures is not allowed. But it seems they knew better than to try and enforce those rules during that week :D

[Exodon]

As someone who lives near the base I must say I have come to miss the old C-160s of Hohn (63rd Transport). But the past two weeks were a decent compensation for that.

[spitefulwar]

4:16 - 4:55, this is what Putin's nightmares are made of.

[chriswynne]

Another great video, Mark looks like it was well worth the visit 👍

[muddyfeet]

The Nato should do those big exercises every 2 years in Germany.