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Leopard 2A4 in Finnish Army Arrow 24 exercise. Leopard main battle tanks are intended for destroying enemy armoured vehicles and providing armoured jaegers with direct fire support.
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The Leopard 2A4 is a German-made main battle tank designed and manufactured by the Company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, the successor of the main battle tank Leopard 1. The version Leopard 2A4 constitutes the basis of today’s Leopard-family. In 1977, the German Army selected Krauss-Maffei as prime contractor for series production of the Leopard 2 and placed an order, with options, for 1,800 MBTs, 990 of which were to be built by Krauss-Maffei and the remaining 810 by Rheinmetall. The first preproduction Leopard 2 MBT was delivered to the German Army late in 1978 for training. The first production Leopard 2 was handed over by Krauss-Maffei in October 1979 in Munich. Six tanks were delivered in 1979, 100 in 1980, 220 in 1981 and by 1982 production was running at 300 a year. The Leopard 2 is in service with Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands…
The Armoured Brigade will lead the Army mechanized exercise Arrow 24 at the Pohjankangas Firing Range and Training Area. Approximately 2600 persons will take part in the exercise, most of them conscripts and about 300 international troops.
Service personnel and conscripts from the Armoured Brigade, Karelia Brigade, Utti Jaeger Regiment, Jaeger Brigade, Pori Brigade, Army Academy, the Defence Forces C5 Agency and the 2nd Logistics Regiment will participate in the exercise. The exercise will involve Army flight operations. Allied troops from the United Kingdom, Latvia and Estonia will also take part in the exercise. The share of international troops of the total strength will be about 300 persons. The exercise will be commanded by the Commander of the Armoured Brigade Colonel Juhana Skyttä.
The aim of the exercise is to strengthen mechanized troops’ cooperation and interoperability with allied troops, and enhance the ability to receive international assistance and provide host nation support. Another objective is to develop the Defence Forces’ joint fires.
–Army mechanized exercises will provide training for mechanized troops and have them rehearse operations. These exercises will involve conscripts and personnel both on the individual and force level. The participation of the Allies will enhance interoperability between troops consisting of different nationalities and create an international operating environment for the exercise. At the same time, the exercise will serve as the most important live-fire exercise of the Finnish conscripts taking part in it, Colonel Skyttä says.
In the exercise, the mechanized troops will train battle group offensive and delaying operations in particular. Operating requires the different branches to cooperate seamlessly.
–For training to be successful in a battalion-size framework, operation between different branches must be seamless both nationally and internationally. The operating of logistics and supporting units must be seamless. What is more, in all operations, the troops must be able to work in cooperation with air support, which is represented in this exercise by the British forces’ AH-64E Apache combat helicopter detachment, Colonel Skyttä says.
The share of Finnish troops in the exercise will be about 2250 persons, including some 1850 conscripts. About 500 Defence Forces vehicles will be involved in the exercise, around 150 of them armoured vehicles. The strength of the international troops will be around 300 personnel and 85 vehicles. The United Kingdom will participate in the exercise with an approximately 200 personnel strong training audience with AH-64E Apache combat helicopters, AW159 Wildcat multi-role helicopters and CH-47 Chinook transport helicopters as their main equipment. With Scimitar infantry fighting vehicles and Spartan personnel carriers as their main equipment, the strength of the Latvian troops will be about 95 persons. Estonia will take part in the exercise with ca. 45 personnel with CV9035 infantry fighting vehicles as their main equipment.
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Leopard 2A4 in Finnish Army Arrow 24 exercise. Leopard main battle tanks are intended for destroying enemy armoured vehicles and providing armoured jaegers with direct fire support.
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The Leopard 2A4 is a German-made main battle tank designed and manufactured by the Company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, the successor of the main battle tank Leopard 1. The version Leopard 2A4 constitutes the basis of today’s Leopard-family. In 1977, the German Army selected Krauss-Maffei as prime contractor for series production of the Leopard 2 and placed an order, with options, for 1,800 MBTs, 990 of which were to be built by Krauss-Maffei and the remaining 810 by Rheinmetall. The first preproduction Leopard 2 MBT was delivered to the German Army late in 1978 for training. The first production Leopard 2 was handed over by Krauss-Maffei in October 1979 in Munich. Six tanks were delivered in 1979, 100 in 1980, 220 in 1981 and by 1982 production was running at 300 a year. The Leopard 2 is in service with Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands…
The Armoured Brigade will lead the Army mechanized exercise Arrow 24 at the Pohjankangas Firing Range and Training Area. Approximately 2600 persons will take part in the exercise, most of them conscripts and about 300 international troops.
Service personnel and conscripts from the Armoured Brigade, Karelia Brigade, Utti Jaeger Regiment, Jaeger Brigade, Pori Brigade, Army Academy, the Defence Forces C5 Agency and the 2nd Logistics Regiment will participate in the exercise. The exercise will involve Army flight operations. Allied troops from the United Kingdom, Latvia and Estonia will also take part in the exercise. The share of international troops of the total strength will be about 300 persons. The exercise will be commanded by the Commander of the Armoured Brigade Colonel Juhana Skyttä.
The aim of the exercise is to strengthen mechanized troops’ cooperation and interoperability with allied troops, and enhance the ability to receive international assistance and provide host nation support. Another objective is to develop the Defence Forces’ joint fires.
–Army mechanized exercises will provide training for mechanized troops and have them rehearse operations. These exercises will involve conscripts and personnel both on the individual and force level. The participation of the Allies will enhance interoperability between troops consisting of different nationalities and create an international operating environment for the exercise. At the same time, the exercise will serve as the most important live-fire exercise of the Finnish conscripts taking part in it, Colonel Skyttä says.
In the exercise, the mechanized troops will train battle group offensive and delaying operations in particular. Operating requires the different branches to cooperate seamlessly.
–For training to be successful in a battalion-size framework, operation between different branches must be seamless both nationally and internationally. The operating of logistics and supporting units must be seamless. What is more, in all operations, the troops must be able to work in cooperation with air support, which is represented in this exercise by the British forces’ AH-64E Apache combat helicopter detachment, Colonel Skyttä says.
The share of Finnish troops in the exercise will be about 2250 persons, including some 1850 conscripts. About 500 Defence Forces vehicles will be involved in the exercise, around 150 of them armoured vehicles. The strength of the international troops will be around 300 personnel and 85 vehicles. The United Kingdom will participate in the exercise with an approximately 200 personnel strong training audience with AH-64E Apache combat helicopters, AW159 Wildcat multi-role helicopters and CH-47 Chinook transport helicopters as their main equipment. With Scimitar infantry fighting vehicles and Spartan personnel carriers as their main equipment, the strength of the Latvian troops will be about 95 persons. Estonia will take part in the exercise with ca. 45 personnel with CV9035 infantry fighting vehicles as their main equipment.
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![Gotland Class Submarine Running On Surface [4K UHD]
[4K UHD] The Gotland-class submarines of the Swedish Navy are modern diesel-electric submarines, which were designed and built by the Kockums shipyard in Sweden. They are the first submarines in the world to feature a Stirling engine air-independent propulsion (AIP) system, which extends their underwater endurance from a few days to weeks. This capability had previously only been available with nuclear-powered submarines.
Saab’s submarines are based on generations of evolutionary design. Building on more than 100 years’ experience, 7 submarine classes have been delivered across 3 continents.
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As of 2008, the Gotland-class attack submarine is one of the most modern submarines of the Swedish Navy in service, mainly designed for submarine missions such as antiship/antisubmarine warfare, collecting of intelligence (communications intelligence (COMINT), electronic signals intelligence (ELINT)), forward surveillance, special operations, and mine-laying tasks.
Displacement
Surfaced: 1,494 tonnes (1,470 long tons)
Submerged: 1,599 tonnes (1,574 long tons)
Length 60.4 m (198 ft 2 in)
Beam 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in)
Draft 5.6 m (18 ft 4 in)
Propulsion
2 × Diesel-electric MTU engines
2 × Kockums v4-275R Stirling AIP units
Speed
Surfaced: 11 knots (20 km/h)
Submerged: 20 knots (37 km/h) on batteries; 5 knots (9.3 km/h) on AIP
Complement
18–22 officers
6–10 ratings
Sensors and
processing systems CSU 90-2 integrated sonar sensor suite
Armament
4 × 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes
2 × 400 mm (15.7 in) torpedo tubes
48 × Externally mounted naval mines[1]
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![Lastterrangbil 934 Volvo TL31 Military Truck With Bofors 40 mm AA gun - Arsenalen [4K]
[4K UHD] Lastterrangbil 934 (Volvo TL31) and Bofors 40 mm Lvakan m/48 AA gun at Arsenalen Tank Museum, September 2018. 2nd show of the day.
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Lastterrangbil 934 (Volvo TL31)
with Bofors 40 mm Lvakan m/48 AA gun
Swedish Army Lastterrängbil 934 or Volvo TL31. This was the military version of the Volvo Titan, produced between 1956 and 1962.
About Arsenalen:
The Swedish Tank Museum – Showing the military vehicle development, as well as the military history of Sweden, from the early 20th century until today. The museum also includes a very special exhibition of tin figures, as well as a soldier’s croft dating back to the 17th century, where an accompanying exhibition tells you about a bygone era.
The museum was inaugurated June 17, 2011 and is open year round. Run by a private foundation – Foundation Södermanland Military History collections. The vehicles belong to the Swedish Government – the Swedish National Museums of Military History. The vehicles were previously located to the Tank Museum in Axvall and Military Vehicle Museum in Malmköping. The collection includes about 350 vehicles, of which about 75 are on display in the museum. Some parts of the exhibition changes each year.
Beside the museum there is an original soldiers croft from late 19th century with an accompanying exhibition, The Soldier and the Croft. An exhibition about the history of the local Regiment (Södermanland regiment) tell the story from 14thcentury until 2005 when the regiment was closed. The figure museum is a private collection which previously existed as a museum in Hjortnäs in Dalarna.
https://www.arsenalen.se/en
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![Steam Locomotive Cockpit - Tk3 1136 Pikku-Jumbo Traveling With Crew Working
Historical VR Class Tk3 steam locomotive with classic passenger carriages. Traveling from Nokia to Tampere, Finland, easter 2024.
The train is operated by Haapamäen Museoveturiyhdistys ry, Finnish museum train association. More information at https://www.hmvy.fi/.
The Finnish VR Class Tk3 (original classification K5) was a 2-8-0 light freight locomotive. It was the most numerous steam locomotive class in Finland with 161 built. 100 locomotives were constructed between 1927 and 1930, with a further 61 ordered and constructed 1943–53. They were numbered 800–899, 1100–1118, and 1129–1170.
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They were designed for a low axle load of just 10.7 tonnes (10.5 long tons; 11.8 short tons). This allowed them to operate on lightly laid secondary lines, but during their many years of service, up to the end of the steam era, they were also widely used on main lines hauling slow passenger trains that made frequent stops.
They were affectionately called Pikku-Jumbo (The Little Jumbo) because of their good performance despite their low weight. They had a low fuel consumption (usually Tk3s used birch wood) and good riding characteristics. They also had good steaming characteristics and were very popular among locomotive crews.
The livery of Tk3 was the same as other VR steam locomotives: dark locomotive green with a black smokebox. When new some locos were lined with thin gold decoration. The gold decorations were not repainted during maintenance, so they were seldom seen.
Two Tk3-type engines were originally supplied by Tampella to Rauma Rautatie as Nos. 9 and 10 (ex-No. 8) in 1935 and 1927 respectively. These engines became Tk3 1117 and 1118 after the private railway was absorbed by the State network in 1950.[1]
Haapamäen Museoveturiyhdistys
Haapamäen Museoveturiyhdistys ry (HMVY) on erikoistunut kotimaisen rautatiekulttuurin säilyttämiseen.
Toiminta keskittyy vanhan rautatiekaluston kunnostus- ja ylläpitotoimintaan Haapamäen Museovarikolla ja museojunaliikenteeseen Suomessa.
Yleistä
Yhdistys on perustettu vuonna 1993 tavoitteenaan säilyttää ja ylläpitää vanhaa rautatiekalustoa sekä siihen liittyvää tietotaitoa. Liikennöimme museojunia eri puolilla Suomea. Yhdistys omistaa Haapamäen veturitallin, vanhan rautatieläisten lepohuonerakennuksen sekä läheisen rautateiden vahtituvan. Yhdistyksen toiminta perustuu talkootyöhon.
Kalusto
Yhdistyksellämme on Suomen suurin ja monipuolisin kokoelma vanhaa rautatiekalustoa eri vuosikymmeniltä höyryvetureista dieselvetureihin sekä puukorisista matkustajavaunuista sinisiin teräskorisiin matkustajavaunuihin. Lisäksi kalustoomme kuuluu useita Dm7 -moottorivaunuja eli Lättähattuja. Liikennöimme museojunia eri puolilla Suomea ja kalustoamme näkyy monissa elokuvissa kuten Marian paratiisi, Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa ja Hymyilevä mies
Haapamäki Museum Locomotive Association
The Haapamäki Museum Locomotive Association (HMVY) specializes in preserving Finnish railway culture.
The activities focus on the renovation and maintenance of old railway vehicles at the Haapamäki Museum Depot and on museum train traffic in Finland.
General
The association was founded in 1993 with the aim of preserving and maintaining old railway vehicles and related know-how. We operate museum trains in various parts of Finland. The association owns the Haapamäki locomotive depot, the old railway workers rest room building and the nearby railway guardhouse. The associations activities are based on volunteer work.
Vehicles
Our association has the largest and most diverse collection of old railway vehicles in Finland from different decades, from steam locomotives to diesel locomotives and from wooden-bodied passenger cars to blue steel-bodied passenger cars. In addition, our fleet includes several Dm7 railcars, or Lättähattu. We operate museum trains across Finland and our fleet can be seen in many films such as Marian Paradise, In the Shadow of the Double-Headed Eagle and The Smiling Man.
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