Finnish army thread

[Knarfo]

Becouse the Paris peace treaty...all offencive weapons were banned. Althoug we no longer follow that threaty torbedoes have been so long out of service so it's actually quite difficoult to adapt to "new" systems.

...and as previously mentioned Sweden and Finland is currently co-developing a new torpedo.

 

[Knarfo]

Along whit actual german troops came also some six thousand 'jaegers' or voluntary finns serving in imperial german army.

Some nitpicking...

About 2000 were trained. And only 1261 participated in the independence/civil war.

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So remembering that every generation prior to independence had fougth against Russians also, .

If you mean armed fighting. I do not remember reading about any armed resistance 1809-1917. Although there were some weapons smuggling affair and the Bobrikoff assassination. In this time period quite number of finns had military careers in the imperial russian army. No famous names need to be mentioned
But since you are a navy buff maybe you know the name of the finn who commanded a vessel or was it even a squadron in the infamous Tsushima battle??
Anyhow, plenty of fighting pre 1809 though.

After some five to ten years most are called into annual refferesment trainings...(I havent been yet )

Do not worry. Our defence forces both work and dysfunctions in mysterious ways
I waited for 16 years, and I know a person that waited for 20 before he got called.

Currently the 60 combat planes are still being maitaned in form of 57 F-18 Hornets and

F-18D is fully combat capable too. 57 C and 7 D were ordered. Two Cs have collided. One went down the other one got quite alot of damage. It is to be repaird at some point. But last I read it may not be to full combat status

So at the moment we have 62 fighters.

 

[Gauntlet]

After skimming through that handy pocket guide to the Finnish Armed Force (

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, I noticed something shocking! Your data on the Norwegian Armed Forces are a little wrong!

For example:
Norway:
Tanks: 170.
That is with only our old Leo 1s. We bought 60 Leo 2s from the Dutch in '01, making the grand total 230 tanks.

Fighters: 48
If we didnt loose 10 fighters this last week, we still has 58 F-16s.

Warships: 15
We have 15 MTBs alone. 14 boats from the 80's, with one of the new Skjold class (limited stealth capacity) delivered (6 in total by 2008).
We have 3 old frigates from the 70s, and we just fot the first of totally 5 brand new Frigates delivered. All of the rest will be delivered by 2009.
We got one large minelayer, and 8 large minesweepers/hunters.
And our coastguard operates 3 large helicopter carrying patrol vessels.
In total [REAL]: 23 (31 with minesweepers/hunters)

I am about to write a letter to the Finnish inteligence with this info!


PS: Otherwise, splendid little pocket guide.

 

[Gollevainen]

If you mean armed fighting. I do not remember reading about any armed resistance 1809-1917. Although there were some weapons smuggling affair and the Bobrikoff assassination. In this time period quite number of finns had military careers in the imperial russian army. No famous names need to be mentioned
But since you are a navy buff maybe you know the name of the finn who commanded a vessel or was it even a squadron in the infamous Tsushima battle??
Anyhow, plenty of fighting pre 1809 though.

well that was exeption but as the relation goes back for some thusand years, we can forgive one century of almoust peacfull coexistence can we?

Do not worry. Our defence forces both work and dysfunctions in mysterious ways
I waited for 16 years, and I know a person that waited for 20 before he got called.

Well they frightened us 'Brigade2005' rapid-reaction artillerymens that refres trainings are going to hit us in 5 years. But my brother managed to ditch out in same brigade so that he was placed in 'military district's' reserve and migth never have to go refressing

After skimming through that handy pocket guide to the Finnish Armed Force (

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, I noticed something shocking! Your data on the Norwegian Armed Forces are a little wrong!

Well im not responsible of our defenceforces intelligence about Norway, but you can always do similar thread in here about norwaigian armed forces.

 

[BrotherofSnake]

Fighters: 48
If we didnt loose 10 fighters this last week, we still has 58 F-16s.

How did you guys lose those fighters?

 

[Gauntlet]

I was trying to say that since we didnt loose 10 fighters last week, we still have 57 (sorry, not 58) F-16s flying. I was just stating that the Finnish pocket folder used wrong numbers.