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Old July 14th, 2005, 07:08 PM

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Some notes:

-Finnish air force hornets do not currently have a2g weapons (just the gun), at least to my knowing. These are planned at the present. They will appear 2010 or later.

-Helicopters are unarmed, NH90 may have door guns.

-Jaeger squad consists of 7 men (or women), not 8. Leader, machine gun pair, AT pair and rifle pair. Not sure when this structure was introduced... Possibly with the introduction of BMP:s in the early 80's?

-Pioneer squad also consists of 7 fighters. The pioneers I've chatted with have not been trained for APILAS at all.

-There are no HE rounds for APILAS or 66 KES 75/88 (=M-72 LAW).

-Apilas team (2 men) carries 8! disposable rocket launchers, rifles and hand grenades. Being over a meter long and weighting nearly 10 kilos, APILAS is not a weapon to be carried in such quantities. 2 launchers per head practical maximum.

-Squads generally carry too many rocket lauchers. Typically there would be 4/sqd, sometimes 8 66 KeS LAWs.

-Reserve sections... well finnish army IS a reserve army so I erased these. If wanted, something like home guard sections could used in most extreme situations. These would not be unlike volkssturm -obsolete weapons and low exp and morale.

-Some units and weapons missing (.338 sniper rifle 2000, shotgun...)

Please, post comments & corrections!
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