German troops rescue a downed pilot as part of NATO Unified Vision trial testing resources in intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Synopsis
A NATO trial is underway to test resources in Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. It’s called Unified Vision 2018 and it tests NATO’s ability to gather and synthesize information from a mixture of aerial, ground and maritime platforms. Seventeen NATO nations are taking part, along with partner countries Finland and Sweden. The trial runs until 26 June.
In this part of the exercise, troops from a German special operations unit can be seen rescuing a downed pilot who had been located using a variety of JISR tools.
Footage includes shots of German troops carrying out a personnel recovery operation. They were transported to the site on an Italian HH-101A Caesar helicopter. Personnel were provided by the European Personnel Recovery Centre at Poggio Renatico Air Base in Italy.
Transcript
(00:00) SLOW-MOTION SHOTS OF GERMAN SOLDIERS GEARING UP BEFORE THE EXERCISE
(00:15) VARIOUS SHOTS OF ITALIAN HH-101A HELICOPTER ARRIVING
(00:31) VARIOUS SHOTS OF SOLDIERS GETTING IN THE HH-101A HELICOPTER AND TAKING OFF
(01:22) VARIOUS SHOTS OF GERMAN SOLDIERS EXITING THE HELICOPTER
(01:40) GOPRO SHOTS OF A GERMAN SOLDIER FINDING A WOUNDED SOLDIER IN A MOCK SCENARIO
(01:59) VARIOUS SHOTS OF A GERMAN SOLDIER WORKING WITH AN ANGLE GRINDER
(02:19) VARIOUS SHOTS OF A GERMAN SOLDIER HELPING THE WOUNDED SOLDIER
(02:26) WIDE SHOT OF THE SOLDIER TALKING ON A RADIO
(02:30) VARIOUS SHOTS OF THE WOUNDED SOLDIER GETTING MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
(02:47) VARIOUS SHOTS OF HELICOPTER TAKING OFF AND LANDING
(03:16) WIDE SHOT OF GERMAN SOLDIER GETTING MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
(03:24) VARIOUS SHOTS OF SOLDIERS CARRYING THEIR WOUNDED INTO THE HELICOPTER
(04:00) CLOSE-UP SHOT OF SOLDIER WITH HELICOPTER IN BACKGROUND
(04:09) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – COMMODORE ARNE MORTEN GRØNNINGSÆTER, ROYAL NORWEIGAN NAVY
“When you lose personnel out there in the battlefield or in hostile environments or ambiguous situations, it is obviously very important to get an understanding of the situation out there, where the personnel are located and in what situation they are finding themselves. In order to do that you want to leverage all possible information and all possible sources. What we do in Unified Vision is to make sure that these sources are available to NATO, that we are able to make sense of it and that we can put it into a holistic picture. In that way, our decision makers at the political level and our decision makers at the military level can make informed decisions on extraction of the personnel, of location of the personnel and the risks involved in search operations.”
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