Finland about to discontinue lots of equipment around 2015

[Griefbringer]

From a news article this morning, I spotted that the Finnish army is about to discontinue usage of various weapons and vehicles around 2015 due to various reasons (ammo supplies getting old, wear on the vehicles and so on). The list includes at least:

- M72 LAW
- Apilas LAW
- 95 mm recoilless rifle ("Musti")
- 152 mm howitzers (both towed and self-propelled)

Probably no point in adjusting OOBs, but perhaps something for scenario designers to keep in mind (in case somebody is actually doing post 2015 scenarios featuring Finland).

[dmnt]

Originally Posted by Griefbringer

From a news article this morning, I spotted that the Finnish army is about to discontinue usage of various weapons and vehicles around 2015 due to various reasons (ammo supplies getting old, wear on the vehicles and so on). The list includes at least:

- M72 LAW
- Apilas LAW
- 95 mm recoilless rifle ("Musti")
- 152 mm howitzers (both towed and self-propelled)

Probably no point in adjusting OOBs, but perhaps something for scenario designers to keep in mind (in case somebody is actually doing post 2015 scenarios featuring Finland).

Probably it's not worth changing anything as the replacement equipment hasn't been decided yet. Some speculations exists that NLAW is the replacement for Apilas and Spike MR will replace 95 mm recoilless, but it's all guesses and speculations.

[DRG]

Get back to me in Four years. By that time the economy will either be better or worse and the Finns will have had an election.

It's REALLY getting old putting things in and taking things out on speculation. We'll deal with it in 2015

Don

[Griefbringer]

On other news, Finland is investigating the possibility to purchase Stinger SAMs from the US in future.