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we've been learning a lot about the great and noble people known as the Finns and in case you weren't sure by that I meant
The people that are from the great country known as Finland and we've talked a lot about its country and discovered
What's great about it but also dived very heavily into its military aspects. But today specifically within this video
We are gonna look at the army
Which is one of three divisions of the Finnish Defence Forces and get a general idea of who these guys are and what they do
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So but on that guys
Let's just get started and let's start talking about the facts of the army of Finland so far, Finland
The army is sometimes known as the Finnish army to people around the world or if we were in Finland you would call it
They my format and as well in Sweden
It's known as the armed men with the main mission according to the website of the Finnish Defence Forces
Is that the army defends the entire territory of the kingdom and carries out all the tasks of the Defence Forces?
now specifically the army is
Classified as the land forces the ground forces of the entire Defense Forces
There's other branches such as the Navy and there's also the Air Force but keep in mind as some of the vehicles from those other
Departments actually bleed into the army and I'm going to talk about that shortly
But overall when it comes to the my vow mat they have about eight different departments and one
Headquarters with general Major Pete Rihoko running as the commander of the entire army since August 1st of 2017
So what are these different departments let's go into them and give you a basic idea of what these particular
Departments do first of all you have the Jaeger Brigade, which is the most northern Brigade specializing in the Lapland territory
There's also the guards or Guardians regiment which classifies somewhat of a special forces unit. And
Focuses a lot on urban combat and is located in the Helsinki metropolitan location
And also just a point out these guys do train out of you Seema as well
There's also the Cana Brigade which if I'm even pronouncing that right is the largest
Compartment of troops in the entire army because not only do they train the regional troops, but the border guards as well
Of course
There's the Karelian show department located in the Karelian area which specializes in the environment of mechanized troops the army
Academy, which has its main tasks are training the recruited staff and conscripts and the research and development
Tasks and standby tasks of the army, of course
There is also the armored department which trains the most powerful group in the entire army
And these guys specialized in mechanized and anti-aircraft and electronic warfare
There's also the porins brigade which is located in western finland
And these guys are educated skilled peacekeepers in world crisis areas
Of course, there is the oh dear edgemon
which we talked about in our last video and these guys are pretty much the Special Forces of the
Entire military and finish it off
There's also the army headquarters
Which is also known as the Army Command or our comm and is located in historic a garrison area of Karki alampi
Also should be known that when it comes to the OD regimen and also the army academy they do not have any subordinate region
It's where other places and other departments have one or two of them now
I did mention earlier that within the Finnish army
they do have other departments that bleed into the army and what I meant specifically by that although the Air Force does
maintain the use of Air Force vehicle
the army does indeed have its own aircraft in which they use helicopters such as the
Nh90 for transports and even the Hughes MD
500 however
These particular divisions go under what is more or less?
Simply the army aviation department and they state for their helicopters. The army has approximately about 20 of them
But anyways, let's take a look at the finish army as a whole how many troops do these guys have for the army alone?
They have approximately
180,000 soldiers that are ready to fight and go but however
keep in mind that is only when it's designated a
Wartime but during peacetime like right now things are actually much different and it should also be mentioned that during this time
they have a very small percentage of soldiers that are actually employed by the army itself because the army has stated that currently they have
three thousand five hundred and fifty employed soldiers and
Approximately six hundred forty employed civilians totaling the amount of individuals and personnel employed by the military
equaling
4190 but as of
2017 their numbers for soldiers for conscripts comes in at nineteen thousand eight hundred which are classified as full-time
conscripts and of that the military states four hundred and fifty of them are
Volunteering woman and the army also stated that in the reserve department
They have eighteen thousand nine hundred soldiers that were in training exercises for the reserves in
2017 overall they do have a lot of people that have a lot of military
Training and therefore if wartime was ever to break out
They would easily have a force of one hundred and eighty thousand troops
Also guys before I continue talking about some major facts about the Finnish army that's in today's world
I also want to go into history because that's very important when it comes to just facts about the army itself
Where did it come from and how did it evolve of course Finland has had an army for a long time now
Even back when Finland was known as the Duchy of Finland
It was still somewhat a part of the russian empire in 1809 being classified as an anonymous country
but before that finn was a part of the Swedish Empire and it's known that even
Finland forces participated in approximately 38 Wars of the Swedish Empire
But as for the modern version of the military many state that had started in
1918 when Carl Gustav, Emil Mannerheim
Became the commander and chief of what was known as the Civic Guards which pretty much at the time after their independence
They were known as the military of the country
It should also be noted that the Civic Guards were sometimes known as the white guards for fighting against the red guards
Who were the militia fighting against them during the Finnish civil war?
So in our previous video we also talked about the Jaeger group
but more
Specifically I want to talk about the Jaeger term now in our past video you guys have given us the constructive criticism
And corrected our facts saying that the term Jaeger doesn't come from actually a bird in the Nordic region
But comes from a German word and that one actually turned out to be pretty much true
I did some digging on that and here's pretty much the reason why
Which I'm really glad that when it comes to FTD facts
we get an opportunity to learn from you guys and even improve on our facts and with that in mind when it comes to the
word Jaeger and why it was influenced by
Germany was because of the Jaeger movement which were
volunteers that trained in the German army to become elite troops during the First World War the
volunteers that I speak of they say that there was approximately about
1,000 to 2,000 of them training with the Germans at this time
It also could be said that the first real Jaeger unit was the 27th. Jaegar battalion
Which belonged to Germany but was made up mainly of Finnish troops many of you may already know that
Finland has what is called ski warfare and
Skiing in Finland for the military is a very important thing
but I want to expand on that because it's actually world war two that made this extremely important and
Popular because although ski warfare did exist before it was extremely useful in the war effort
against Russia during the Second World War this was because during the Battle of sumo salmi which was between
Finland and Russian forces it took place on January 7th
1939 and January 8th nineteen for and this went down in history as a great victory
for Finland because for the Russians there was approximately two mechanized divisions of approximately
45,000 to 55,000 men and although they had superior numbers. They were defeated by three finished regiments which consisted of approximately
11,000 men and this battle alone is considered one of the greatest military
Achievements for the northern region of Finland and quite possibly the entire country and also to add to ski warfare
I should also mention and I'm not quite a hundred percent on this one is because from what I've researched and
understand is that
Norway and Finland are the only two countries in the world where all soldiers are trained in ski
combat, and as for Finland
It is a standard for all conscripts to know how to ski and of course learn to combat with skis again
I don't know if that is a hundred percent true
There might be some people in the comments-section
Who are part of the military that can shed some light on this so always keep an eye down there in the comment section below
Now also jumping back into the departments
Let's break down the different type of divisions within each of them because as for divisions, there's quite a few of them
There's infantry where you have your high-powered
close-range land forces in which these soldiers
Commonly, use assault rifles anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons and grenades as well
for example for assault rifles the army uses
7 6 2 RK 6 2s and 9 5s and they also use 7 6 2
Kkpk m/s as machine guns. There's also Field Artillery, which is for long-range attacks
They use howitzers like the canine Thunder armored puncher
They also use field cannons
which can shoot up to 20 kilometres with about 800 of them in use and they also have
rocket projectors that can shoot tens of kilometres away
there's also
Anti-aircraft which are mobile Sam sites and other anti-aircraft systems and let's not forget about the engineers who are in charge of laying down bridges
Tillers cleaning vehicles and other things of that nature and of course, we can't forget about the tank divisions
Which really we don't need words to describe these mechanized units, but for the Finnish army
They use the 16 point 5 tonnes 75 millimetre
Leopard a 2 a 4 s and a sixes with approximately about a hundred of them in use also
You will see them use BMPs and Raptor carriers as armored fighting vehicles with about
200 of them in total and last but not least we can't forget about the conveyance
Departments, which are all about logistics and the mobility of military personnel
However, that is me and you guys learning about some of the basic information of the Finnish army
What are your thoughts on this particular unit? And do you find this one amazing force? Ok, guys
Well, that's pretty much it
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I get my mind expanded and you do too but however
This has been some facts about the army divisions of the Finland Defense Forces the brave soldiers who are on the ground
Dealing with the conflicts literally as a hands-on experience
The individuals who may some days be crawling in the mud or patrolling in the thickest of bush and rain
But still come out standing tall and proud
These are the soldiers the history and the professionalism of the army of the Finnish Defence Forces
the soldiers who fight for honor duty and will
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