British and German soldiers have been using their M3 Amphibious Bridging Vehicles to let a stream of Nato tanks and armoured vehicles safely cross a river during Exercise Dragon 24.

Dragon 24, which is taking place in Poland, is one of several exercises that collectively make up Exercise Steadfast Defender 24 – the alliance’s largest military exercise since the Cold War.

Troops are deployed across the entirety of Europe’s eastern flank, stretching from the far north of Norway inside the Arctic Circle, all the way down to Georgia in the Caucasus.

Nato’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) has released footage of the bilateral battalion of the British and German armies using their bridging vehicles to effect a river crossing.

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“Their cooperation is the very epitome of being #StrongerTogether,” Nato ARRC posted on X.

The soldiers from 23 Amphibious Engineer Squadron are among some 16,000 British soldiers who are taking part in the largest set of Nato multinational manoeuvres in a generation.

M3 Amphibious Bridging Vehicle

The Army has many large specialist vehicles, one of which is the M3 Amphibious Bridging Vehicle being used by the Royal Engineers.

As the name suggests, it is used for crossing water and the M3 does this in two ways.

Each vehicle can either act like a ferry, crossing water as a single boat, or it can work together with other M3s to form a larger bridge across a body of water.

It does this by driving into the water and then being joined together with the other M3 Amphibious Bridging Vehicles.

Up to eight M3s can be joined together to form a 100-metre-long bridge, a structure that can support the weight of a Challenger 2 tank driving across it.