Soviet invasion of Norway 1963

[Suhiir]

Well if you're shooting for "realistic" Canada officially dropped it's commitment to provide a light infantry brigade for Norway in 1994 (or thereabouts), and the British have vital personal interests in not seeing Norwegian ports and airfields in unfriendly hands.

For future scenarios I'd look VERY seriously at Svalbard.

[Grant1pa]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

Well if you're shooting for "realistic" Canada officially dropped it's commitment to provide a light infantry brigade for Norway in 1994 (or thereabouts), and the British have vital personal interests in not seeing Norwegian ports and airfields in unfriendly hands.

For future scenarios I'd look VERY seriously at Svalbard.

I did research this afternoon on Longyearbyen and the Russian coal mining operation at Barentsberg. Can't find a topo sheet yet but still looking.

One of the problems I'm having is finding good satellite coverage for areas in Finnmark, nortern Finland, and Troms. So I'm relying on old Soviet maps for many of the areas of interest I have.

I knew the Canadian CAST Brigade disbanded in 1989 and Canada limited its ready status for involvement in Norway. Shame, good soldiers properly tasked.

Looking forward to seeing your scenario soon.

Grant1

[wulfir]

Originally Posted by Grant1pa

One of the problems I'm having is finding good satellite coverage for areas in Finnmark, nortern Finland, and Troms. So I'm relying on old Soviet maps for many of the areas of interest I have.

Well, the Soviets did have a very ambitious mapping operation going on during the cold war - often with interesting detail.

Some links that might be useful:
http://kart.finn.no/ (covers Norway).


National Land Survey of Finland:

http://kansalaisen.karttapaikka.fi/k...u.html?lang=en

Zoom in on the part you want - extreme detail, it will give you all the terrain features you could reasonably want along with the name of every hill, lake, stream or village...

[Grant1pa]

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Well, the Soviets did have a very ambitious mapping operation going on during the cold war - often with interesting detail.

Some links that might be useful:
http://kart.finn.no/ (covers Norway).


National Land Survey of Finland:

http://kansalaisen.karttapaikka.fi/k...u.html?lang=en

Zoom in on the part you want - extreme detail, it will give you all the terrain features you could reasonably want along with the name of every hill, lake, stream or village...[/quote]

THANK YOU! The kart.finn.no site is exactly what I need. They have sat coverage for areas google earth didn't. I can even see the barracks at Overbygd!

Grant1

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

Well if you're shooting for "realistic" Canada officially dropped it's commitment to provide a light infantry brigade for Norway in 1994 (or thereabouts), and the British have vital personal interests in not seeing Norwegian ports and airfields in unfriendly hands.

For future scenarios I'd look VERY seriously at Svalbard.

45 Cdo is based up the road from me in Arbroath. The Arctic and Mountain Warfare cadre operates out of there IIRC.

Once, when working at a summer holiday student job at a Dundee cold store stacking pallets of frozen haddock, I ran into some of these guys at the back of the main cold store. This was summer, so they had decided to put a few guys to camping in there just to get them "acclimatised"...

cheers
Andy