NATO troops from seven Allies recently trained in Estonia during exercise BOLD PANZER, testing their skills at combined arms warfare.
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Around 1,000 NATO troops took part in exercise BOLD PANZER in Estonia, combining infantry and armoured manoeuvres to test their readiness to rapidly respond to a crisis. Units from Canada, Estonia, France, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom participated in the large-scale exercise, designed to strengthen NATO’s ability to respond to any incursion into Estonian territory.
NATO’s forces in Estonia have been under the command of the United Kingdom since 2017 – with the British Army’s Royal Tank Regiment taking the lead in September 2025 – providing troops with experience operating alongside other NATO Allies and in Estonia’s challenging forests and boggy terrain. Armoured units from Poland, assigned to the NATO multinational brigade in Latvia, travelled north for the exercise.
This NATO Multimedia B-roll footage, captured at Tapa on 22 October, includes French infantry assaulting an objective, Polish Leopard tanks, British Army Challenger 2 tanks and armoured engineering vehicles plus soundbites from Canadian Army Captain Miles Smith, an officer assigned to the NATO multinational brigade in Latvia participating in exercise BOLD PANZER.
Shot list:-
- 00:00 ~ British Army engineering vehicle clears an obstacle on a road
- 01:01 ~ French Army infantry hold a position in a wood block
- 01:13 ~ A French Army soldier begins an assault on a position
- 01:20 ~ French Army infantry soldiers assault a position
- 01:30 ~ French Army infantry assault a position
- 01:41 ~ Polish Army Leopard tank moves towards an objective
- 01:51 ~ British Army Warrior fighting vehicles scan the treelines as they move towards an objective
- 02:17 ~ British Army Challenger 2 tanks engage a simulated enemy
- 02:28 ~ Challenger 2 tanks camouflaged in a tree line
- 02:52 ~ British Army tank drivers check the tree lines from their Challenger 2 tank
- 02:57 ~ Challenger 2 tanks move towards an objective
- 03:21 ~ Convoy of challenger 2 tanks move towards an objective
- 03:46 ~ A drone hovers above a British Army Stormer air defence vehicle
- 03:54 ~ A British Army Stormer air defence detachment commander enters his vehicle
- 04:00 ~ British Army Stormer air defence vehicle crew prepare to move towards an objective
- 04:29 ~ A British Army Stormer air defence vehicle moves towards an objective
- 04:39 ~ Armoured vehicles support an infantry assault
- 04:53 ~ Armoured vehicles support an infantry assault
- 05:19 ~ A British Army Warrior fighting vehicle undergoes repairs in the field
- 05:37 ~ A British Army armoured medical vehicle
- 05:49 ~ British Army combat medics practise administering medicine
- 06:18 ~ Soundbite, Royal Canadian Army Captain Miles Smith, NATO Multinational Brigade Latvia
- 06:40 ~ Soundbite, Captain Miles Smith
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