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There have been a total of 143 Leopard 2A4 vehicles in the Finnish army: [5] 100 MBTs. 6 MBTs equipped with Urdan mine rollers. 10 Leopard 2L bridging tanks. 6 Leopard 2R mine-clearing tanks (all given to Ukraine in 2023, to help repel the Russian invasion of Ukraine) 6 Leopard 2 Marksman. 1 MBT in the armour museum.
The name used during the testing was "20 ItK/HS/HS 669/HS 820 L 85". 20 ITK OE. Switzerland. Anti-aircraft gun. 2 units. Swiss Oerlikon 20 mm anti-aircraft gun bought in 1963 and used until 1975 for testing purposes. The name used during the testing was "20 ItK/Oe/10 ILa/5 TG". 20 TorKK MG-151. Finland.
AVS-36. Berdan rifle (Small amounts used by supply corps and homefronts troops) [ 6 ] Carcano (named the M/38 "Terni" in Finnish service) [ 7 ] Fedorov Avtomat (Captured from Soviets) Karabiner 98k. Mosin–Nagant and Finnish variants [ 8 ] SVT-38 [ 9 ] SVT-40. Winchester 1895 [ 6 ]
The RK 62 was designed in 1957–1962 by a Valmet engineer Lauri Oksanen [ 3 ] and is based on the Polish licensed version of the Soviet AK-47 design. The RK 62 uses the same 7.62×39mm cartridge as the AK-47. Between 1965 and 1994 350,000 M62 rifles were produced jointly by Valmet and Sako.
The 7.62×53mmR cartridge remains in military use to this day, although it is now only used by the 7.62 TKIV 85 sniper rifle. [citation needed] PKM machine guns and other Russian weapons in use by the Finnish Defence Forces use the 7.62×54mmR exclusively. The Finnish Defence Forces issued instructions that when ever possible, personnel issued ...
The RK 95 TP (from Finnish Rynnäkkökivääri 95 taittoperä, 'Assault Rifle 95 folding stock'), officially 7.62 RK 95 TP and commercially known as the M95, is a 7.62×39mm Finnish assault rifle adopted in relatively small numbers by the Finnish Defence Forces in the 1990s. [2]
The 95 S 58-61 is a heavy recoilless anti-tank weapon used by the Finnish Army. [1] It is also referred to as raskas sinko (heavy recoilless rifle), [1] or colloquially as Musti ("Blackie"). The weapon was developed in 1958 (version 95 S 58) and it was given a new wheel-equipped carriage in 1961. The name of the weapon means " 95 mm, S inko ...
The 155 GH 52 APU (which stands for 155 mm gun-howitzer, 52 calibers, auxiliary power unit), Finnish designation 155 K 98 (155 mm kenttäkanuuna 1998 or "155 mm field gun 1998"; FDF terminology does not recognise gun-howitzers), is a Finnish towed artillery piece developed in 1998. It is largely based on the 155 K 83 with some major enhancements.