Icelandic armed forces - a video

In this video we can see some of the equipment used by the modern armed forces of Iceland. Mostly the Coast Guard with its naval patrols, the ICRU units deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and the Viking squad special forces unit of the National Police.

In between are scenes from what seems to be the second Cod War with the United Kingdom and Germany, where Icelandic patrol vessels clashed with British frigates and destroyers in the waters around Iceland in what amounted to a very limited or primitive form of warfare that was mostly fought through the media.