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The Armed Forces of Patriotic Finland are well-equipped and trained, and are able to commit various operations ranging from low-intensity peacekeeping and special operation missions to full-scale warfare. Armed Forces are divided into four branches, Ground Forces, Navy, Air Force and Space Command. They are commanded by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Space Command is responsible for satellites and other space-based systems.

There is a compulsory military service in effect for all 18-40 year old males. They must serve 9 months, 1 year or 1.5 years, depending on the training and assignment, in the military, and after that they'll serve in reserve until the age of 40. Reservists must participate in a set number of refreshment courses. Special units, such as the special jaegers (equivalent to Green Berets and Spetsnaz), airborne and air assault troops and marines are composed of professional soldiers.

Jaeger Brigade

"Jaeger" or "Jääkäri" units are motorized infantry units in Patriotic Finland's army.

Jaeger platoon:24 men. Two 9-man combat squads and one 6-man fire support team. Combat squads have two men armed with Kk-210 Squad Automatic Weapons, (Machine gun versions of the XM-8/Rk-210) four men armed with Rk-210 assault rifles (equivalent to XM-8) and three men armed with Rk-210/Krh 40D assault rifle/40 mm single shot grenade launcher combinations . Members of the fire support team carry P-90 personal defense weapons. Even though the members of fire support team carry personal weapons, they are meant for self-defence as their primary weapons are Kk-212 General Purpose Machine Guns and 40mm KrK-210 Automatic Grenade Launchers.

Jaeger company:168 soldiers. Five jaeger platoons, headquarters platoon and a mortar platoon. Jaeger platoons are transported aboard PA-220 "Lancer" APC's (10 for company), while the mortar platoon has four PA-220's specifically designed for carrying mortar teams, and the headquarters platoon in most cases has four jeeps. The mortars used by the mortar platoons are 81 mm in calibre.

Jaeger battalion:1008 men:Four jaeger companies, one mortar company, one headquarters detachment (84 men) and a maintenance/supply detachment. Mortar company has eight jeeps(for transporting fire control personnel), eight trucks
(ammunition) ja 20 PA-220's designed for carrying mortar teams. HQ detachment uses trucks, jeeps and different variants of PA-220. Maintenance detachment uses trucks, ambulance versions of jeeps and PA-220 and other variants of PA-220.

Jaeger brigade organization:
Headquarters company
5 Jaeger Battalions
Anti-Aircraft Battalion
Maintenance Battalion
Engineer Battalion
2 Anti-Armor Companies
Signals Company
Reconnaissance Company
2 Artillery Battalions
1 Transportation Battalion (headquarters detachment. 5 transportation companies each composed of 198 men and 66 PA-220's. Total 1074
men.)
Total strenght:11154 men.

Jaeger division is composed of two jaeger brigades, headquarters company, military police company and an NBC defence company.
21132 men.
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Armored Brigade:
Tank platoon:24 men. 6 "Chimaera" Main Battle Tanks.
Tank company:168 men. Five Tank Platoons, Headquarters platoon and a maintenance platoon.
30 "Chimaera" MBT's. Other vehicles.

Armored Jaeger Platoon(Mechanized Infantry):24 men. Three 8-man squads A squad is composed of three crew members of the squad's "Fireblade" MICV's and five members of the combat squad. A platoon is equipped with three Fireblades.
Armored Jaeger Company:168 men. Four Armored Jaeger platoons, mortar platoon, headquarters platoon and a maintenance platoon. The mortar platoon has 24 men, with 6 men operating the vehicles and 18 operating the mortars.
A mortar platoon uses three "Fireblades" specifically designed to carry a mortar team.

An Armored Battalion is organized into one tank company, three Armored Jaeger Companies, a headquarters detachment and a mortar company. The mortar company has ten jeeps, eight trucks and seven "Fireblades", while the HQ detachment uses jeeps and HQ variants of the "Fireblades".
924 men, 30 "Chimaeras" and 43 "Fireblades" excluding special vehicles.

Armored Brigade Organization:
Headquarters company (168)
Armored Battalion(4620)
Anti-Aircraft Battalion(840 hnk)
Maintenance Battalion(840 hnk)
Engineer Battalion(840 hnk)
2 Artillery Battalions(yht 1680 hnk)
2 Signals Companies(336 hnk)
2 Armored Reconnaissance Companies(yht 336 hnk. Armored Jaeger Company without mortar platoon and one extra Armored Jaeger Platoon.)
Total strenght:9660 men

An Armored Division is composed of two Armored Brigades, a headquarters company, a military police company and an NBC warfare company.
Total strenght:19824 men



Special Jaeger Corps
Special jaegers, more commonly "Green Berets" or "Snake Eaters", are the elite of Patriotic Finland. They are trained in long-range reconnaissance, guerilla warfare, sabotage behind enemy lines and other special operations
There are very strict requirements regarding physical and psychological fitness in the special forces, and all applicants must, among other things, have black belt in at least one common martial art (Krav Maga is also taught in the special forces) and a level A parachutist qualification. (Highest para classification possible)

Air Commando Corps
When fast strike capability is needed to secure important locations and assault the enemy from the air, the Air Commando Corps are the right forces for the job. Equipped with KH-28 "Skyhammer" tilt-rotor helicopters (similar to MV-22 "Osprey") and TsH "Skydeath" combat helicopters, they are experts in airborne assault missions and often part of Patriotic Finland's rapid deployment missions.

Federal Security Corps
Federal Security Corps is a paramilitary force responsible for wide variety of internal security missions ranging from riot-control and counter-terrorism to guarding of strategic sites during wartime. Peacetime they report to the Ministry of Security, but in wartime they come under command of Armed Forces General Staff.

WEAPONS:
VaCo Arms Rk-210
http://www.webmutants.com/strategypage/XM8_Rifle_2.jpg
5.56 mm Rk-210 (Rk = Rynnäkkökivääri = Assault rifle in finnish), manufactured by Valmet Corporation Arms Department, is the backbone of Patriotic Finland's military strenght and a standard issue rifle in all branches of service. There are four versions of the weapon in use with the Armed Forces:Basic assault rifle, assault rifle/grenade launcher combination, short-barrel carbine and a squad automatic weapon.

60mm, 81mm and 120mm mortars
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m224.jpg
Patriotic Finland's ground forces use mortars caliber 60mm, 81mm and 120mm. 60 mm mortar, used by special forces, pictured here.

12,7 mm M2 Browning ITKK (Ilmatorjuntakonekivääri or Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun)
http://www.waffenhq.de/infanterie/m2browning-05.jpg
12,7 mm M2 machine gun is used in vehicles, base weapons mounts and aboard navy warships. it can be equipped with a sniper sight and it uses a variety of box magazines.

KTk 80 and RTk 80 sniper rifles
http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m24lh.jpg
Ground force snipers use 7,62 mm KTk 80 (Kevyt Tarkkuuskivääri or Light Sniper Rifle) sniper rifles to eliminate enemy soldiers.

http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m-82-dvic539.jpg
RTk 80 (Raskas Tarkkuuskivääri or Heavy Sniper Rifle) heavy sniper rifle is used by ground force snipers for destroying "soft" enemy vehicles and for long-range anti-personnel sniping. It's 12,7 mm rounds guarantee good penetration and range.

KKs 95 (Kevyt Kertasinko. Light one-use anti armor weapon)
http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/at4-dvic540-s.jpg
KKs 95, equipped with a warhead improved from the original AT4, is the standard light anti-armor weapon in use within Patriotic Finland's army. It is mainly used against enemy's armored vehicles and light tanks.

Incomplete. More to come

OOC:Geez...i copy-pasted the whole thing from my post at one regional off-site forum, which is just about dead now and translated the stuff into english. Whew...

OOC:Grrr...why don't the IMG tags work? :headbang:

OOC: Most of them work...And I like the fact that you've renamed most of the weapons you use. I hate it when people have XM8s, Challenger IIs, and MiGs in their armed forces.

OOC: Most of them work...And I like the fact that you've renamed most of the weapons you use. I hate it when people have XM8s, Challenger IIs, and MiGs in their armed forces.

OOC:Turned on the "show images" thing from the options. Stupid me... :D And those new names except for the "Chimaera" and "Fireblade" are all abbreviations or something like that in Finnish. When i'll do the vehicles part (weekend) i'll write what they mean. Which reminds me, i gotta rename the rest of the weapons.

Patriotic Finland has a large and modern navy that is equipped to deal with various threats ranging from seaborne terrorism to enemy invasion. It is commanded by the Chief of Naval Operations, who is a four-star admiral reporting directly to the Minister of Defence and having a seat at the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Under the CNO is the Naval High Command, which is commanded by the Naval Chief of Staff (NCoS). Under the NHC the navy is divided into five commands:

High Seas Command:
Coastal Defence Command:
Material and Naval Engineer Command:
Training and Personnel Command:
Intelligence and Security Command:

High Seas Command is, obviously, responsible for operations in the high seas. Navy's carriers, cruisers, destroyers, amphibious ships, submarines and some of the frigates are under HSC's command. It is organized into fleets, which in turn are organized into groups (Carrier Group, Cruiser Group, etc.). The Coastal Defence Command, operating frigates assigned to coastal anti-submarine warfare, corvettes, fast-attack craft and shoreline defence units, is responsible for the defence of Patriotic Finland's coasts. It's units are organized into brigades.


Ships. Incomplete:
Finlandia-class carrier

The Finlandia-class carrier is the pride of the Patriotic Finland Navy. It is equipped with extensive facilities to maintain a large air group and command an entire battle group. In addition, it carries missile and gun armament enough to counter enemy air threat and also to provide a limited surface-to-surface capability. It has been built in two versions, Mannerheim and Finlandia-classes. The Mannerheim is a modified version of the Merikotka-class aircraft carrier and was originally built as a prototype for the "Finlandia" design. There are 11 Finlandia-class carriers including PFS Mannerheim currently in use, and four more are currently being built in Navy Dock Facilities (NDF) Kannelmäki and New Petsamo.

The Finlandia-class ships in use:

PFS Mannerheim CVN 45
PFS Finlandia CVN 46
PFS Liberty CVN 47
PFS Fatherland CVN 48
PFS Constitution CVN 49
PFS Victory CVN 50
PFS Unity CVN 51
PFS Justice CVN 52
PFS Revolution CVN 53
PFS Resolution CVN 54
PFS Dreadnought CVN 55*
PFS Vanguard CVN 56*
PFS Righteous CVN 57*
PFS Kekkonen CVN 58*

*=under construction.

Lenght:440 meters (350 meters for PFS Mannerheim)
Flight deck width:95 meters (82 meters for PFS Mannerheim)
Beam:50 meters (43 meters for PFS Mannerheim)
Speed:35 knots
Armament:8 x six-barrel Vanguard CIWS (six-barrel cannon and also missiles), 4 120 mm cannons in double turrets, 48-cell VLS for anti-aircraft missiles.
Aviation:Capacity for 150 aircraft (typical air group 92 F-302 "Nightshade" carrier-based attack fighters, 54 SA-95 "Seafury" anti-shipping/submarine attack/electronic warfare aircraft, 4 EP-15 "Guardian" AEW aircraft) and 12 helicopters.) For Mannerheim 95 airplanes and four helicopters.
Propulsion:Four VaEng NR420 (Valmet Engineering) nuclear reactors, each with two propellers.
http://www.nwc.navy.mil/usnhdb/GreatPictures/cvn21.jpg
(note:The ship in the photo is PFS Mannerheim, which does not match the later examples of the class.)

Merikotka-class aircraft carrier
Merikotka-class, built in 1980's, is a largely obsolete ship class that is currently being replaced by newer Finlandia-class carriers. There are four Merikotka-class ships in use, but they will be deleted when the last batch of the Finlandia-class enters service.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/images/cvn-74-Stennis-Front.jpg


PFS Merikotka CVN 20
PFS Sääksi CVN 21
PFS Vengeance CVN 22
PFS Redemption CVN 23


Aircraft:85 total. Usual air group includes 55 F-302 "Nightshades", 20 SA-95 "Seafurys", two EP-15 "Guardians" and three helicopters.
Other specifications to come later.

Guardian-class battlecruiser

The Guardian-class is one of the most powerful ships in the PFN, matched in destructive potential only by Morningstar-class missile attack ships and Centurion-class ballistic missile submarines. It is designed to provide firepower for carrier battle groups by it's destructive array of anti-surface and anti-air weaponry. It is PFN's modern equivalent to the dreadnaughts and battleships. There are currently 18 Guardian-class ships in PFN use.

Lenght:280 meters
Beam:45 meters
Speed:40 knots
Armament:Four two-barrel 127 mm cannons, 6x Vanguard CIWS (six-barrel cannon and point-defense missiles), 150-cell VLS system for Tomahawk, Harpoon, Standard and ASROC missiles , 2x80-cell VLS system for Tomahawk, Harpoon, Standard and ASROC missiles, four 4-cell launchers for Harpoon missiles, eight 533 mm torpedoes, four 30 mm rapid-fire cannons.
Aviation:Four helicopters.
Propulsion:Two VaEng NR410 nuclear reactors. Two shafts driving six-bladed propellers.

Peacemaker-class cruiser

Peacemaker-class was created when the navy realized that it's Guardian-class ships were too large for some operations and that a smaller ship was needed in order to conduct operations in some sea areas, and also that Guardian's firepower was simply not needed on all operations. Peacemaker-class, Guardian's "little brother" is designed to command destroyer task groups and destroy enemy surface ships. There are currently 44 Peacemaker-class cruisers in PFN use.

Lenght:215 meters
Beam:30 meters
Speed:40 knots
Armament:Two 2-barrel 127 mm cannons, 4x Vanguard CIWS, 96-cell VLS system for Tomahawk, Harpoon, Standard and ASROC missiles, 48-cell VLS system for Tomahawk, Harpoon, Standard and ASROC missiles, four 4-cell launchers for Harpoon missiles, four 533 mm torpedoes, four 30 mm rapid-fire cannons, six 12-cell unguided ASW mortars.
Aviation:Three helicopters
Propulsion:Four VaEng GT550 gas turbine engines. Two shafts with 6-bladed propellers.

Vigilante-class destroyer

Vigilante-class is the backbone of the PFN. Providing anti-surface escort for carriers and cruisers, it is the most numerous combat ship used by PFN's High Seas Fleet. It's armament allows it to engage various enemy targets from ships to submarines to aircraft.

Lenght:155 meters
Beam:20 meters
Speed:43 knots
Armament:Two 2-barrel 127 mm cannons, 2xVanguard CIWS, 96-cell VLS system for Tomahawk, Harpoon, Standard and ASROC missiles, two 4-cell launchers for Harpoon missiles, four 533 mm torpedoes, four 30 mm rapid-fire cannons, four 12-cell unguided ASW mortars.
Aviation:Two helicopters
Propulsion:Four VaEng GT500 gas turbine engines. Two shafts with 6-bladed propellers.

Broadsword-class frigate

Broadsword-class frigate's primary task is escorting convoys and battle groups and patrolling coasts and trade routes for enemy submarines.

Lenght:140 meters
Beam:15 meters
Speed:40 knots
Armament:One two-barrel 127 mm cannon, 48-cell VLS for ASROC, Standard and Harpoon missiles, six Harpoon missiles on two launchers, One ASROC launcher six 324 mm torpedoes, two Vanguard CIWS, two 30 mm Bushmaster cannons, four unguided 12-cell ASW mortars.
Aviation:Two helicopters
Propulsion:Two VaEng GT490 gas turbines. One shaft.

Marauder-class corvette

Sentry-class fast attack craft

Incomplete. Will do the rest later.

OOC:Will do the stuff later. For now just a bump and placeholder

F-52 "Valkyrie" Air Superiority Fighter

F-302 "Nightshade" multi-role attack fighter

B-60 "Stormfalcon" bomber

B-55 "Hellhammer" strategic bomber

C-8 "Globelifter" heavy transport aircraft

C-150 "Titan" VTOL transport aircraft

C-140 "Chariot" transport aircraft

SA-95 "Seafury" ASW/ASuW/EW attack bomber

EP-15 "Guardian" AEW aircraft

ARMY AVIATION:

RKH-25 "Skylifter" heavy transport helicopter

KH-28 "Skyhammer" tilt-rotor transport aircraft

TH-28 "Skydeath" attack helicopter