On the one-year anniversary of Operation Interflex, Senior Army Media Officer Chris Fletcher has shared details about the initiative to train 37,000 Ukrainian troops.
Marking the first anniversary of the programme, Fletcher highlighted the significant strides made, stating, “26 June marks the first anniversary of the launch of Operation Interflex…To date, some 17,000 Ukrainians have gone through the five-week training package and in the year 2023 to 2024 the UK is on track to deliver another 20,000.”
The operation involves hundreds of military personnel from various nations, including the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Lithuania, and the Netherlands. They are committed to delivering the training at several locations across the UK.
Fletcher explained the evolution of the training programme, noting, “One year ago, the first two tranches of recruits received a basic five-week training package… the requirements have changed to the point whereby the recruits now remain in the UK receiving five weeks of intense training.”
Operation Interflex, as Fletcher clarified, should not be directly compared to the standard 14-week training provided to British Army recruits. He asserted, “Interflex is solely about improving the survivability and increasing the lethality of people who only a matter of a couple of weeks previously may have been a butcher, a baker, or a computer game maker.”
Though the exact training content remains confidential for security reasons, Fletcher gave an insight into the areas it covers, “What I can say is they are taught battlefield casualty drills, the law of armed conflict and cyber warfare… given the prevalence of drones in this conflict the use of and counter drone measures form an important module within their package.”
The trainees, as revealed by Fletcher, comprise a wide age range, and often have previous careers, highlighting that this is more than just a military initiative, “Whilst the average age of the recruits coming through is 33-34 years-old… some have been as young as 18 and as old as 59. Around 11% will have had some previous military experience be that a former serving person or someone with reserve service.”
That number 37 000 is more trained troops than the entire Russia Army. Russia have a lot of poor conscripts but very few trained troops .
Another poor soul ideologue believing in their own ‘horse manure’ propaganda. 37000 more for the ‘attrition’ table making it 390,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers. See valid reports on increasing UKR surrendering on the front lines.US/Europe supporting NA..Zs, despicable. I hope this ukrnaz regime is ‘destroyed’, and I support the RF for carrying this out.
P/ss off Ivan. Your man Putin is destined to fail. Grab some popcorn and sit back and watch the show because there is no way the West will allow Ukraine to fall to feral murdering Russians.
Bit late response but take a break muppet troll, your weak nonsense is sad and boring.
It’s a fraction of the full basic training course. So don’t get carried away
Hopefully the training helps get the soldiers skills they need. Follow on training in Ukraine upon return will be just if not more important. Not all this trained troops will head straight to the front and they rotate in and out. I wondered if Russia is doing any rotation with its forces. 17 months in a war zone and add on the time they were “training” near Ukraine before entering. How many of the actual original forces that started the conflict are left is another unknown. Hopefully Russia pulls back soon and ends the invasion, sorry special operation , de… Read more »
An amazing achievement…yet the UK struggles to train combat pilots. The peace dividend with it’s multiple pfi projects has ultimately shrunk and weakened the UK’s military fighting ability.
We train combat pilots it all takes time in ultra modern state of the art 5th gen jets .Russia hand a manual to pilots and instructions training over before being given a halfords sat nav easy to fix in any jet .
Russian combat air training is taxi, take off, fly straight, bomb your own country or at least a city 40 miles inside your own country.
Land the plane.
Job done.
Don’t complicate things with trying to deliver a coherent air strategy or train for dissimilar combat. Definitely don’t train for flights of aircraft more than 1 or 2 at a time.
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We’ll get there, unlike Yevgeny Prigozhin’s attempt on Moscow or Mad Vlads’ attempts on Kyiv.
Good luck with the training by the way!
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Going by what we’ve seen lately our fighting ability is fine our infantry regiments train all over the world every day the numbers have shrunk but we are not American we do not have 350 000 000 people to chose from and even then they can muster maybe 2000000 men. Most of which are not combat troops. Secondly when’s the last time a nato member has fought alone. Sick of hearing this crap about numbers in mostly every modern conflict we’ve fought together.
“Secondly when’s the last time a nato member has fought alone.” Falklands – NATO failed to assist the UK, even though Argentina invaded the UK. Does this mean if Russia attacked Hawaii it would not invoke article 5?
Yeah you didn’t read the mostly part
Agree….but the ability to train 17-20,000 troops a year without really pulling out all the stops is a good indicator of our country’s potential.
If required we could get 100,000 troops trained up fairly quickly and double the size of the army. Equipping them might be a problem but training them probably wouldn’t be a problem.
Agreed its a really good rate of training which im actually surprised we can do it and sustain it.
Some useful idiots still believing China got 2 million trained troops I will be surprised if China have 100 thousand trained troops in reality . 37 000 a brilliant effort .
Worth reading. RUSI Land Warfare Conference 2023Mobilising Today to Secure Tomorrow The next 2 years will see the delivery of Boxer, Ajax, more than 60 recapitalised M270 rocket launchers and Archer 6×6. We will reprioritise investment towards Remote and Autonomous Systems and dismounted situational awareness capabilities. We will continue to enhance our long-range fires capabilities, including investigating those like which enable us to support the other domains from the land, such as through attacking an adversary’s air defence or sinking enemy ships. We will invest in Air Defence, tripling our short range and doubling our medium range capabilities.… Read more »
Air Defence is a must for the UK 🚀🚀
So Astor and sea / land captor or not air defence ?
Not for defence of UK installations Peter, means for the Field Army.
Am sure that could be sorted overnight in emergency like we’ve seen the Ukraine forces adapt very quick to new system’s . Daniele I would wait for all the Ukraine end of war data before buying any news system give us a good idea what’s needed.
You think it will end quickly? I’m not so sure.
I used to be against it, now I’m very much in the camp that thinks some sort of GBAD for the UK, both point and area/BM, is necessary. We spend so so much on exquisite infrastructure and have so few assets they need insurance.
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Yes we’re a bit like a house with security fences, cctv etc at the front but the back gate & back door open. If anyone started lobbing missiles at us here in the UK we’ve little possibility to intercept & no home defence planning.
Sky Sabre . Aster 15/ 30. Land and sea ceptor.
The AD the CGS talks of is for the Field Army, not UK GBAD.
“The United Kingdom’s Joint Helicopter Command (JHC) is to be re-organised as the Joint Aviation Command (JAC) to better exploit the potential of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), according to the head of the British Army. General Sir Patrick Sanders, Chief of the General Staff, announced the move at the Royal United Services Institute Land Warfare Conference in London on 26 June. “By the end of this year, Joint Helicopter Command will have evolved into a Joint Aviation Command,” said Gen Sanders. “This new organisation will pioneer uncrewed aviation into the 2030s, reflecting the emergence of human-machine teaming technology and the… Read more »
So more name changes and musical chairs.
What new assets does JHC get?
What new assets does JHC get?
Have you been drinking 😂🥴
That’s the million dollar question Nigel – they will get zip!
New name badges, headed notepaper & signage. Call it whatever you like but get it properly funded & functional.
Frost . Good news for the Russian navy Russia managed to purchase unlimited amounts of high strength Red lead dual purpose glue / paint . Also the Kremlin announced from 2025 all Russian navy ships will Be upgraded with a new improved Sextant and Compass navigation system . Russian Sub fleet navy chiefs are looking on Amazon for fish finders and depth monitors & new radio communication systems .
Anybody thinks Ukdj own Russian troll Frost is bad Google Colonel Douglas Macgregor he takes the Russian propaganda Bull to another .
I see this batch of recruits are equipped with early pattern Polish Beryl’s.
A good solid rifle.
They certain have a diverse collection of small arms these days…
The video link put up recently by that stalwart of this site farouk showed how dreadfully badly trained (sic) some Russians are; it was like watching children being mown down. That bast@rd Putin has so much blood on his hands.
Blighty comes out of this effort looking good. Well done to all concerned.
Shocking same training for my grandson in Turkish army .
That video was of Ukrainians taking on Russians in trench clearing. Here is (what I believe to be) Russians clearing Russian trenches. F-ing disgusting
That’s disciplined troops there. What a poop show. Many more Russians like that and Ukraine won’t need to fight.
Did Blighty supply the bullets? 🤦🏼♂️
A few major European Arms dealers have done extremely well out out of the UK ( among a select few countries) have been banging on doors with the cheque book out, bought 10s of thousands of AK variants and millions of rounds of ammunition. Added to this, throw in UK surplus equipment and excellent high quality UK training in its use for the young volunteers. Often overlooked, but just as important, more detailed training for their senior NCO’s and officers and you slowly build a tactically intelligent and disciplined field army that’s streets ahead of the Putlers Neo Nazi rabble… Read more »