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This is a list of World War II weapons used by Finland. Finland fought in three conflicts during World War II; the Winter War (1939–1940), the Continuation War (1941–1944), and the Lapland War (1944–1945).
The Finnish Defence Forces ordered 20 000 m/44 submachine guns from Tikkakoski in August 1944. [2] The end of the war saw the order reduced to 10 000 units and the guns were produced during 1945. It is unlikely the m/44 actually saw action during WWII but the gun was used by the Finnish Defence Forces as a training weapon until the 1970s.
This is a list of military equipment used by Finland during World War II. The main Finnish conflicts of the war are the Winter War and Continuation War.After the Continuation war the Lapland War occurred which was a small military confrontation between Finland and Nazi Germany caused by Soviet demands that Finland force out Nazi Germany from its territory in order for Finland to comply with ...
Finland: Field gun: 1 unit In use between 1988– 155 K 74 Finland: Field gun: In use between 1981– 155 K 68 Finland: Field gun: 13 units In use between 1970s–. 155 K 17 France: Field gun: 12 units In use between 1941 and 1944 152 KH X 67 Finland: Field gun: 2 units In use between 1967– 130 K 90-60 Finland: Field gun: 15 units Modernized ...
Finland: Gun-howitzer: 113 [1] [32] Provides indirect fire support for various units and is used to form heavy artillery battalions under direct supreme HQ command. 155 K 83-97 is an upgrade of the existing 155 K 83. 155 K 98 Finland: Gun-howitzer: 56 [1] Supports readiness brigades with indirect fire.
During the Winter War and the Continuation War, the Finnish Army used Italian Model 40 (designated as the Liekinheitin M/40 by the finns) flamethrowers and captured Soviet flamethrowers. [1] The Liekinheitin M/44 was designed by Sergeant M. Kuusinen in 1944.
[27] [28] According to Baryshnikov this and similar drafts for the other countries the USSR was at war with existed since 1943, and they were replaced by new ones in the summer of 1944. [29] With Finnish army reinforcements, there were 268,000 Finnish army troops with 2,350 guns (of which 1,030 field artillery, 393 heavy mortars), 110 tanks ...
A view in 2007 to the south-east from Sturmbock-Stellung, a fortified German position in Finland 100 km (62 mi) from Norway. Germany and Finland had been at war with the Soviet Union (USSR) since Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941, co-operating closely in the Continuation War and Operation Silver Fox with the German 20th Mountain Army (German: 20.