Yeah, this looks a lot like 'Free Lion.' I was the Senior Intelligence Analyst for the 2nd Armored Division (Forward), an US armored brigade out of Garlstedt that was the 'attacking force' against the Dutch and Germans...
Hallo Sir ! I have seen the Exercise Free Lion 1988 as a 15 year old Teenager . Have you any Pictures of this Exercise or from the FTX-Spearhead Crusader 1980 ??? I am a Very Big Hardcore Fan of the Nato Exercises about the Area in Landkreis Hildesheim, and Landkreis Hannover in the 1980s. !!!
I'm afraid I don't have any. As I was an Intelligence guy at that time, it was our policy to restrict photography, and of course, during these exercises, we were too busy 'fighting the war' to have much time to take pictures.....
Great movie. It is about the big Nato excercise Free Lion. I still have a photo of the old woman on the bicycle (fahrrad) crossing the bridge. On the movie is the dutch 17e pantser infantrie bataljon (limburgse jagers),13e pantser infantrie brigade. They were part of the attacking forces together with the third american pantser brigade and the third german aufklarungs bataljon. The defending forces were the7e german pantser infantrie brigade and the dutch 41e and 42 pantser infantrie brigade.
From the BAOR, The British Second Light Infantry Batallion and 662 Squadron Army Air Corps took part in exercise Free Lion '88. They were with the attacking forces and did an air mobile strike on 20 september with Sikorsky helicopters across the river Leine at Coppenbrugge. Chieftain units were not in exercise Free Lion '88, must be another exercise?.
The tanks in this video are all Leopard 1 tanks (1A3?). The APC's (IFV's) are YPR 765's, there are some 155mm SP howitzers, an armored recovery vehicle, and a M577 command track (I commanded one of these during this exercise).
Oh meine Gott! Meine alte Heimat. Dass ich das noch mal sehen darf!
Kindheitserinnerungen...Danke
Der Hammer! Ich habe die ganze Zeit Gänsehaut 😀
Mensch, dieses Video ist mal ne echte Rarität. Thumbs up!
Das ist ja echt ein geiles Video!!!Schade,sowas gibt heute nicht mehr zu sehen.
Danke fürs zeigen!!
Sehr schön anzuschauen.
Mitten in Gronau, das ist mal vom feinsten. Und Oma mittendrin, ich brech ab...
...und die Oma fährt seelenruhig mit dem Rad - ich werd nicht mehr...ok, ich denke, die hat schon Erfahrungen damit gesammelt...
Yeah, this looks a lot like 'Free Lion.' I was the Senior Intelligence Analyst for the 2nd Armored Division (Forward), an US armored brigade out of Garlstedt that was the 'attacking force' against the Dutch and Germans...
Hallo Sir ! I have seen the Exercise Free Lion 1988 as a 15 year old Teenager . Have you any Pictures of this Exercise or from the FTX-Spearhead Crusader 1980 ??? I am a Very Big Hardcore Fan of the Nato Exercises about the Area in Landkreis Hildesheim, and Landkreis Hannover in the 1980s. !!!
I'm afraid I don't have any. As I was an Intelligence guy at that time, it was our policy to restrict photography, and of course, during these exercises, we were too busy 'fighting the war' to have much time to take pictures.....
1:10min cool grandma!
These are Dutch soldiers on exercise. I think from the 42nd armoured Infantry batt. stationed in Seedorf. The name of the regiment : Limburgse Jagers.
17 painbat limburgerse jagers from kazerne oirschot was there too
Bloody army! I'm trying to get to work here! :P
Mitten in Gronau, das ist mal vom feinsten.
Great movie. It is about the big Nato excercise Free Lion. I still have a photo of the old woman on the bicycle (fahrrad) crossing the bridge.
On the movie is the dutch 17e pantser infantrie bataljon (limburgse jagers),13e pantser infantrie brigade. They were part of the attacking forces together with the third american pantser brigade and the third german aufklarungs bataljon. The defending forces were the7e german pantser infantrie brigade and the dutch 41e and 42 pantser infantrie brigade.
From the BAOR, The British Second Light Infantry Batallion and 662 Squadron Army Air Corps took part in exercise Free Lion '88. They were with the attacking forces and did an air mobile strike on 20 september with Sikorsky helicopters across the river Leine at Coppenbrugge. Chieftain units were not in exercise Free Lion '88, must be another exercise?.
That´s not a Chieftain Tank Sir, it´s a Centurion . !
The tanks in this video are all Leopard 1 tanks (1A3?). The APC's (IFV's) are YPR 765's, there are some 155mm SP howitzers, an armored recovery vehicle, and a M577 command track (I commanded one of these during this exercise).
It is not a Leopard 1A3, the Dutch had the Leopard 1 V the counterpart to this is the Bundeswehr tank Leopard 1A1
Vette ypr sound
Netherlands Soldiers.
Haha wie die oma bei 1:08 da lang chillt :D
von wann is denn das video? scheint schon etwas älter zu sein als august 2011 :D
1988