JAEGER PLATOON: FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945 WEBSITE

JAEGER PLATOON:

FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945 WEBSITE

WEAPONS:

INFANTRY WEAPONS

Rifles

Rifles Part 1: Mosin-Nagants of Imperial Russia (UPDATED)

Rifles Part 2: Pre-WW2 Finnish Mosin-Nagant Designs (UPDATED)

Rifles Part 3: The Last of Mosin-Nagants (UPDATED)

Rifles Part 4: Semiautomatic and automatic rifles

Rifles Part 5: Other Rifles Captured in 1918 (UPDATED)

Rifles Part 6: Three Mausers and One Terni (UPDATED)

Rifles Part 7: Sniper Rifles (UPDATED)

Submachine guns

Machinepistols Part 1: Bergmann and Suomi (UPDATED)

Machinepistols Part 2: Captured and Bought (UPDATED)

Light machineguns

Light Machineguns Part 1: Lahti-Saloranta, DP and DT (UPDATED)

Light Machineguns Part 2: Other Light Machineguns (UPDATED)

Pistols & revolvers

Pistols Part 1: Parabellum & Lahti L-35 (UPDATED)

Pistols Part 2: Mauser M/96, Nagant and TT-33 (UPDATED)

Pistols Part 3: Ruby M/19 and FN Pistols (UPDATED)

Pistols Part 4: Beretta, CZ and miscellaneous (UPDATED)

Machineguns

Machineguns Part 1: 7,62 mm Maxim machineguns (UPDATED)

Machineguns Part 2: Other machineguns (UPDATED)

ANTITANK-WEAPONS

Antitank rifles

AT-rifles Part 1: Domestic designs (UPDATED)

AT-rifles Part 2: Foreign designs (UPDATED)

Antitank guns

Antitank Guns Part 1: 20 mm - 37 mm (UPDATED)

Antitank Guns Part 2: 45 mm - 75 mm

Infantry antitank-weapons

Infantry AT-Weapons Part 1: Molotov cocktails & satchel charges (UPDATED)

Infantry AT-Weapons Part 2: Panzerfaust & Panzerschreck (UPDATED)

ANTI-AIRCRAFT WEAPONS

Anti-Aircraft Machineguns

Anti-aircraft guns

Anti-Aircraft Guns Part 1: Light Guns (UPDATED)

Anti-Aircraft Guns Part 2: Medium Guns

Anti-Aircraft Guns Part 3: Heavy Guns (UPDATED)

ARTILLERY WEAPONS

Mine Throwers and Mortars (UPDATED)

Infantry Guns & Mountain Guns (UPDATED)

Field guns & howitzers

Artillery Part 1: Russian Guns without recoil system (UPDATED)

Artillery Part 2: French Guns without recoil system

Artillery Part 3: Light Field Guns (75 mm - 84 mm)

Artillery Part 4: Heavy Field Guns (105 mm - 155 mm)

Artillery Part 5: Light Howitzers (105 mm - 122 mm)

Artillery Part 6: Heavy Howitzers (150 mm - 155 mm)

Artillery Part 7: Super-Heavy Howitzers (203 mm and 210 mm)

ARMOURED VEHICLES:

Part 1: Armoured Trains (UPDATED)

Part 2: Armoured Cars (UPDATED)

Part 3: Renault FT 17 Tanks (UPDATED)

Part 4: Vickers 6 Ton and T-26E Tanks

Part 5: Captured T-26 Tanks

Part 6: OT-130 and OT-133 Flame Tanks

Part 7: BT-5, BT-7 and T-50 Tanks

Part 8: T-28 and T-34 Tanks

Part 9: KV-1 and PzKw IVJ Tanks

Part 10: Assault Guns

Part 11: Landsverk Anti II Anti-aircraft Tank

Part 12: Komsomolets A-20 and Amphibious Tanks

COASTAL ARTILLERY:

Part 1: Light Coastal Guns (UPDATED)

Part 2: Heavy Coastal Guns (UPDATED)

Part 3: Super-Heavy Coastal Guns (UPDATED)

Part 4: Railway Guns (UPDATED)

OTHER WEAPONS:

Bayonets and Puukko-knives (UPDATED)

Landmines Part 1: Finnish Army and Landmines (UPDATED)

Landmines Part 2: Antipersonnel Mines (UPDATED)

Landmines Part 3: Antitank-Mines

Portable Flamethrowers

Hand grenades and Rifle Grenades

Part 1: Hand Grenades of Finnish Civil War (UPDATED)

Part 2: hand Grenades of 1930's and World War 2 (UPDATED)

Smoke Hand Grenades

Rifle Grenades

Fortification Weapons

Weapons Finnish Army almost had in World War 2:

Part 1: Rifles and Machineguns

Part 2: Pistols and Submachine guns (UPDATED)

Part 3: Other Infantry Weapons

Part 4: Artillery Weapons of All Kind

UNIFORMS:

Uniforms of Finnish Armed Forces and Civil Guard (UPDATED)

FORMATIONS (Tables of Organisation and Equipment):

Formations 1: Finnish Civil War 1918

Formations 2: From 1919 to 1938, Building Finnish Army

Formations 3: World War II, Infantry

Formations 4: World War II, Armour & Field Artillery

Formations 5: World War II, Cavalry

Formations 6: World War II, Jaegers & other light infantry

Formations 7: World War II, Antitank formations

Formations 8: World War II, Antiaircraft formations

Formations 9: World War II, Engineer Corps

Formations 10: World War II, Coastal Troops

Formations 11: World War II, Border Jaeger Troops

TACTICS:

BATTLES:

Finnish Civil War of 1918 (January 1918 - May 1918)

Winter War (November 1939 - March 1940)

Continuation War (June 1941 - September 1944)

Karhumäki - Poventsa Offensive Operation, December 1941.

Lapland War (September 1944 - April 1945)

Battle of Suursaari Island, September 1944, Part 1.

Battle of Suursaari Island, September 1944, Part 2.

Other

OTHER:

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