History of Finnish Tanks

Finland is not well known for its arms manufacturing prowess, and there is a reason for that: before the mid-20th century, the government simply didn’t have the means to develop the industry, and during the Cold War, political complications arose. Historically and geographically, though, Finland could not really remain truly neutral: after the events of the Winter War and the Second World War, the country found itself between the devil and the deep blue sea, squeezed between two massive geopolitical blocs.

Subtitles are available in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Polish, Turkish, Chinese, Portuguese.

#WarThunder

[DieRatteNr.]

The germans provided finland with StuGs too and the finnish subtree has no StuG in it

[harriporo]

Finnish decisionmakers in the cold war period definitely didn't consider "engaging western armour of behalf of the socialist bloc". It was totally obvious that beneath the level of official foreign policy talk to uphold relations to the east the finnish army was 100% geared to fighting the soviet union, not the west. If the soviet union would have demanded it, the finns would have fought them, not the west.

[Rempai]

The marksman can hit targets from 4km. The Devs "We'll pretend we didn't know that"

[sapukki]

What about the stugs? They were (to my knowlege) the backbone of the Finnish armored forces in late ww2.

[mikkojk]

Finnish army hated captured BT-5/-7's and disbanded the Christie tank platoon after few months as the armor was too thin and they tended to get stuck in forested terrain. Most BT's ended up as bunkers and Bt-42 was just a test to get something out of obsolete British field guns. Most numerous tank during the war were captured T-26's and until more modern tanks arrived they even converted dozens of captured OT-130/-133 flame tanks into unique T-26's with hull mg's. Gaijin also forgets that ALL Finnish T-28's were uparmoured into T-28E standard in 1941.

[code_aj]

As a Finnish person who completed my military training in the Armoured Brigade heres few small details that are wrong in the game: The T-72M1's dozer blade is all wrong and does not loot like that, all T series tanks were painted with the finnish camoflauge which the T-54 isnt in game and Finland does not mainly use a 105mm cannon in the Patria AMV but rather a twin 120mm Mortar known as the Patria Amos. Finland used a lot of German StuG tanks, so much so that it is kind of insulting to forget it. Last one, we use a modern thermal camera in the Leopard 2A4 and not a shitty one.

[antcommander]

so when Finland is getting StuG III and JSU-152 (captured ISU-152)?

[Swingfin]

There is only 1 BT-42 still that is some what good condition in a army museum in Finland

[hopojesse]

I promise Finland never even entertained the idea of fightíng any western nation on behalf of the soviet union

[slnged]

I mean it's pretty cool to have my own nation mentioned in a videogame but sadly the rechtree is missing the Finnish sutgs.

[Blitz_fi]

The T-72s weren't really decommissioned in the 2010s but around 2005

[ukraine]

for some reason, the Germans have a premium Finnish KV1 but the Finnish don't have the KV1

[sturmghast]

Redo the Finnish voice lines. They keep calling artillery strike an airstrike and the line you get from winning battle is autism made manifest.

[zsizso]

I think the AA is a sneak peak for the next update

[sirgoofusgoobus]

Add back the VL Myrsky, and add the VL Viima and VL Humu to the tech tree

[jerkku]

Anybody else bothered that he said that finns didn't abandon the soviet inheritance completely and proceeds to show a swedish made CV90 and says bmp...

[smigoltime]

Quite inaccurate to be fair on a few ends

[tottero]

The part about germany providing Finland with panzer 4 tanks is misleading as they didn't arrive in time for the war and thus weren't used in it.

[Kanalankettu]

When do we get KV-1E, KV-1S, STUG 3 & 4, BMP 2 AND 3 for finland

[ninazu]

One thing missing here is the Stug SPGs.