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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.
After testing by the military, the RK 60 was slightly modified (trigger guard was reinstated) and adopted as the 7.62 RK 62. In August 2015, the Finnish Defence Forces announced that they will gradually modernize existing RK 62 rifles. The old tubular butt and leather sling will be replaced with a telescopic stock and tactical sling.
The name used during the testing was "20 ItK/Oe/10 ILa/5 TG". In use 1944–1950s. Fully-automatic version of the Lahti L-39 anti-tank rifle. In total there were 362 cannons in use from 1930 until 1980s. In use from 1943 until the 1980s. Italian Breda Model 35, in use from 1939. In use from 1939 until the 1960s.
The Valmet Sniper M86 was used as a basis for the Sako TRG sniper rifle line. Even though the TRG-21 obtained its origins from the successful Sako TR-6 target rifle and 1984–1986 development work for the hardly produced Valmet Sniper M86 rifle by the former Finnish state firearms company Valmet which merged with Sako, the 4.7 kg (10 lb 6 oz) TRG-21 was designed as a result of a thorough ...
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 ]
M/91: When Finland achieved independence from Russia, over 190,000 Model 1891 infantry rifles were already stockpiled in the ex-Russian military depots within Finland. As a result, the rifle was adopted as the standard Finnish Army weapon, and surplus Mosin–Nagants were purchased from other European nations which had captured them during ...
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.