Finnish Army's Karelian Brigade (KARPR) - Live Fire Exercise
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Karelia Brigade (Karjalan Prikaati, KARPR) is the second largest of Finnish Army readiness brigades. It is currently based at Valkeala.
In this live fire exercise, KARPR is training defensive capability including river crossing, road mining and ambush, artillery fire and heavy armor movement.
KARPR is a combined arms brigade which includes heavy armor, engineering vehicles, artillery, mortar and anti-air elements
That's cool! It's good to have you around brave Finnish men!
Let's hope Finland doesn't need to use this for real. Stay safe and ready brothers!
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Finns have IFVs for less than 1600 jaegers, and have 0 antitank cluster ammo (not counting fast plowed mines) in any weapon. Self-mobile artillery is small, the number of MBT ammo smaller. Nowadays all fighter landing strips (straight asphalt roads) use is visible for "AWACS" in the narrow country, and fast broken by missiles.
Wrong on almost all accounts. Although the amount of mechanized troops could certainly be higher, it may be surprising to you that the amount of main battle tanks is higher than that of the UK, for example, and Finland has more artillery than Germany and France combined. Out of those, as long as the old 122mm SPGs remain in wartime service, the numbers of self-propelled artillery will be about 170 after delivery of the rest of K-9 howitzers on order. Those and the rest of 155mm artillery are compatible with special munitions including currently in service anti-tank Bonus-munitions which deploy a cluster of smart anti-tank submunitions.
Additionally the 41 pieces of M270 MLRS systems are ugraded and provided with new, longer ranged GMLRS-ER ammunition, which Finland will apparently become the biggest user of after the US itself. There could and should always be more, but things are only improving from here in the near future.
The war in Ukraine showed that Russia is incapable of destroying a small air force on the ground and completely destroying surpressed air defence systems. Patches of road all over the country are much cheaper to repair than it is for Russia to keep cratering all of them by Iskanders. Also the Russian AWACS planes have proven to be not exactly invincible even against an air force technically behind ours. Soon to be introduced F-35 will change things decisively in our favour.
@@herptek In 2 years, nearly everything has changed! 100 old MBTs were NOT melted (Ukr war), with NATO we have Sweden runways, NATO targeting for all missiles/rockets (before: nothing), now all kinds of ammo. Mobile artillery (still most not here). But still: only 1560 mobile jaegers in IFVs, half updated old russian ones. Of all IFVs/all 200 MBTs, still max 80% war ready at any best very optimistic day.
@@herptek Bonus was before Ukr war deemed so expensive, that very few were bought, the cluster means 2 submunitions. Now I do not know numbers, and even my top top connection would not tell.
@@mattilatvala4164 You were just wrong about most things. We could and should increase the amount of mechanized forces by about 30% in my opinion. That being said Finland has always handled itself better than foreign countries and has never relied on foreign help. Most important long term procurement decisions were made and scheduled long before the war started and long before Finland even knew it was going to be a NATO member.
Another thing I forgot to mention is the upgrade of the ground based air defence system, also decided upon before all this, which is going to give us the ability to shoot down ballistic missiles during terminal phase. Russia won't be able to bully us, but their own Bases in Karelia, Kola or the Leningrad district are in range of our air launched cruise missiles.
We won't be flying from as far as Sweden, but the Swedes might be flying from Finland.
@@herptek Any equipment which is not in a country yet, but come after 2 or 8 years, will not be defending that country in a war. Promised war equipment are worth zero until they are in real world use!
Just before Ukr war, 2 top top experts told me how Russia is formidable in operational and artillery. But - in Ukr they were at level of disabled ape. NOW R will not be any real threat within 15-20 years, but still F-35 eeeextremely long thin asphalt runways only (5-6 pc) easily targettably close to enemy border is idiocy.
As long as the Finns sit next to Russia, I sleep well at night knowing Putin does not.
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