Former equipment of the Finnish Army

This is an (incomplete) list of former equipment used by the Finnish Army:

Tanks

• PT-76: In use between 1963–1994, 12 units
  • PT-A: some converted to driver training tanks of BTR-50 after PT-76 decommission
• T-72: In use between 1984–2006, some ex-East German. 162 units
  • T-72M1 (157)
  • T-72M1K (3)
  • T-72M1K1 (2)
• T-55: In use between 1966 and 2017, modernized in 1989, total 74 units
  • T-55: 64 units
  • T-55K: 10 units
  • after modernization:
  • T-55M: T-55s modernized in 1989, 70 units
  • T-55MK
• T-54: T-54-3 also known as M1951, in use between 1959 and 1969 (removed from storage in 2005), 43 units^[1]
• Comet Mk I Model B: In use between 1960 and 1971, 41 units.
• Charioteer Mk VII Model B: In use between 1958 and 1980, 38 units
• ISU-152V: (1944–1959), 1 unit
• ISU-152:
• Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. J: In use between 1944 and 1962, 15 units
• Sturmgeschütz 40K: In use between 1943 and 1966, 30 units
• Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G: In use between 1943 and 1966, 29 units
• Landsverk Anti II: (1942–1959), 6 units
• KV-1 m 1942: (1942–1954), 1 unit
• KV-1E m 1941: (1943–1954), 1 unit
• T-50: (1942–1954), 1 unit
• T-34-85: (1944–1959), 9 units
• T-34 m 1941, T-34 m 1942, and T-34 m 1943: (1942–1959), 9 units
• BT-43: (1944–1945), 1 unit
• BT-42: (1943–1956), 18 units
• BT-7 m 1935 and BT-7 m 1937: (1942–1945), 53 units
• BT-5:
• T-28V: (1945–1950), 1 unit
• T-28 m 1938 and T-28E: (1939–1950), 7 units
• T-20 Komsomolets m 1938, 1939: (1939–1959), 184 units
• T-20 Komsomolets m 1937: (1939–1959), 33 units
• T-38-KV: (1944–1959), 4 units
• T-38-34: (1944–1959), 11 units
• T-38 and T-38M-2: (1939–1945), 19 units
• T-37A: (1939–1942), 29 units
• T-26T: (1942–1959), 6 units
• T-26E: (1939–1959), 63 units
• OT-133: (1942), 3 units
• T-26 m 1937 and T-26 m 1939: (1939–1959), 36 units
• OT-130: (1941–1942), 4 units
• T-26 m 1933: (1939–1959), 63 units
• OT-26: (1939–1945), 2 units
• T-26 m 1931: (1939–1945), 12 units
• Vickers 6 Ton Tank: (1933–1959), 32 units
• Vickers-Carden-Lloyd Model 1933: (1933), 1 unit
• Vickers-Carden-Lloyd Mk VI: (1933-), 1 unit
• Saint-Charmond Modèle 1921: (1923–1937), 1 unit
• Renault FT: (1919–1942) 34 units

APCs (tracked)

• BMP-1: (1982–2004) 195 units, bought in two batches (85 in 1981 from the Soviet Union and 110 from ex-German stocks in the beginning of the 1990s.)
  • BMP-1TJ (still in use)
  • BMP-K1
  • BMP-PS
  • BMP-1K
• BTR-50: total 118 units
  • BTR-50PK: 110 units
  • BTR-50PU: 8 units
  • after modernization:
  • BTR-50YVI
  • BTR-50PUM1
  • BTR-50PUM

APCs (Wheeled)

• BTR-60: total 112 units
  • BTR-60PA: 1 unit
  • BTR-60PB: 83 units
  • BTR-60PUM
  • BTR-60 R-145BM
  • BTR-60PBK
• BTR-80: 2 units (test vehicles, later converted to command vehicles in BTR-60 units)
• Valmet 1912-6: 1 prototype unit (lost competition to Sisu XA-180)
• VK: 1 prototype unit (lost competition to Sisu XA-180)

Armored cars

• BA-10 and BA-10N: (1939–1959), 24 units
• BA-6: (1944–1956), 10 units
• BA-3: (1944–1954), 1 unit
• FAI-M, BA-20 and BA-20M: (1939–1956), 18 units
• FAI: (1943–1950), 3 units
• D-8: (1941–1942), 1 unit
• Landsverk 182: (1936–1941), 1 unit
• Fiat armored car: (1918-early 1920s)
• Austin Model 1917: (1918-early 1920s)
• Peerless:

Various vehicles

• Sisu Nasu: Being sold by 2017
• Bandvagn 202: Tracked articulated, all-terrain transport vehicle (15 units).
• TshMZAP-5247G:
• MAZ-537G:
• GT-SM:
• AT-59:
• AT-S: 28 units (1960-2002)
• RSO: 20 units (1943-)
• Sisu KB-45:
• Sisu A-45/AH-45:
• Vanaja VAKS / AS-33: 155 units
• Vanaja NS-47

Artillery

Rocket launchers

• 122 RAKH 76: (1976-), 24 units
• 280 RAKH 44: (1944-), 15 units
• 150 RAKH 41: (1944-), 15 units

Self-propelled guns and howitzers

• 152 TELAK 91: (1991-2015), 18 units

Super heavy guns and howitzers

• 210 H 17: (1940-), 4 units
• 203 H 17: (1940–1944), 32 units

Heavy Guns

• 155 K (93): (1993), prototype for 155 GH 52 APU
• 155 K (91): (1991)
• 155 K (88): (1988), 1 unit
• 155 K 74: (1981-)
• 155 K 68: (1970s-), 13 units
• 155 K 17: (1942-), 12 units
• 152 KH X 67: (1967-), 2 units
• 130 K 90-60: modernized 122 K 60
• 122 K 60: (1960-), later modified into 130 K 90-60
• 122 K 31: (1941-1970s), 29 units
• 120 K 78-31: (1941-), 24 units
• 120 K 78-17: (), 1 unit
• 107 K 10 and 107 K 13: (1918-), 9+4 units
• 105 KH 36: (1939-), 1 unit "Chile gun"
• 105 K 34: (1940-), 12 units
• pl:105 mm armata wz. 29 Schneider(105 K 29): (1941-), 54 units
• 105 K 13: (1940-), 22 units
• 105 K 10: (1943-), modified 107 K 10, 4 units

Heavy howitzers

• 155 H 17: (1941-), 151 units
• 155 H 15: (1940–1960s), 24 units
• 152 H 88-40: (1990–2007)152 mm towed howitzer. Originally a German 150 mm 15 cm sFH 18 howitzer (called 150 H 40 in Finland), modernized in Finland. 47 units.
• 152 H 88-37: 152 mm towed howitzer. Originally a Soviet 152 mm ML-20 howitzer, modernized in Finland. 64 units.
• 152 H 88-31: 152 mm towed howitzer. Originally a Soviet 122 mm A-19 gun, modernized in Finland. Being phased out of service. 21 units.
• 152 H 55: Soviet 152 mm towed D-20 howitzer. 126 units.
• 152 H 38: (1941-), 102 units, of which four were modified into 152 H 38M
• 152 H 37-31: modernized 122 K 31 guns
• 152 H 37: (1942-), 66 units, later modernized into 152 H 37 A and 152 H 88-37A
• 152 H 30: (1944), 1 unit
• 152 H 15 and 152 H 17: (1924-), 4+8 units
• 152 H 09-30: (1939-1980s), 109 units
• 152 H 10: (1918–1966), 9 units
• 150 H 40: (1940–2007), 48 units, of which 42 were modernized in 1992 into 152 H 88-40
• 150 H 15: (1940–1962), 20 units
• 150 H 14 J: (1918–1939), 12 units
• 150 H 06: (1940–1944), 12 units

Light howitzers

• 122 H 38: (1942–1975), 35 units
• 122 H 09-40 and 122 H 10-40: 232 units
• 122 H 10-30: (1939-), 161 units
• 122 H 10: (1918-), 39 units
• 122 H 09-30: (1939-), 25 units
• 122 H 09: (1918-), 30 units
• 120 H 13: (1940–1960), 13 units
• 120 H 05: (1918–1944), 4 units
• 120 MH 01: (1918-), 2 units
• 114 H 18: (1940–1966), 54 units
• 105 H 41-18: (), 1 unit
• 105 H 41: (1941-), 27 units
• 105 H 37: (1942), license manufactured Swedish 10,5 cm fälthaubits L/22, 134 units, all modified into 105 H 37-40 in the 1960s, and into 105 H 61-37 in 1961. 40 were given to Estonia.
• 105 H 33-40: (1944-), 8 units
• 105 H 33: (1944-), 53 units
• 105 H 36-09: (?-?), unit
• 105 VH 10: (1940–1944), 4 units

Guns with recoil system

Light Guns

• 84 K 18: (1940–1960), 30 units
• 77 K 96 n.A: (1918–1926), 8 units
• 76 K 42: (1944-), 12 units
• 76 K 39: (?-?), 9 units
• 76 VK 38: (1939–1951), 5 units
• 76 K 36: (1939–1994), 76 units
• 76 RekK 35 or 76 K/DRP: (1939–1941), 2 units
• 76 RK 27-38: (1941-), 1 unit
• 76 K 27-k: (1941-), 13 units
• 76 RK 27 and 76 RK 27-39: (1939-), 235 units
• 76 K 23: (1926–1945), 4 units
• 76 K 22: (1926–1945), 4 units
• 76 LK 13 or 76 LK 10/13: (1918–1960), 72 units
• 76 LK 10: (1918-), 49 units
• 76 VK 09: (1918–1946), 18 units
• 76 VK 04: (1918–1944), 11 units
• 76 K 02-38: (1938–1942), 2 units
• 76 K 02-34: (1934–1941), 1 unit
• 76 K 02-30/40: (1941–1994), 12 units
• 76 K 02-30: (1941–1994), 93 units
• 76 K 02: (1918–1994), 233 units
• 76 K 00: (1918-), 34 units
• 75 K 40 A, later 76 K 37: (1940-), 8 units
• 75 K 36: (1939-), 1 unit
• 75 K 17: (1940-), 200 units
• 75 VK L14: (1918–1931), 12 units
• 75 K 11: (1929-), 1 unit
• 75 K 02: (1939-). 36 units
• 75 K 01: (1940–1944). 12 units
• 75 VK 98: (1918–1937). 44 units
• 75 K 97: (1940–1962). 48 units
• 63 K 84: (1918-) 4 units

Guns without recoil system

• 279 M 77: (1918–1951). 5 units
• 229 M 77: (1918–1944). 6 units
• 155 K 77: (1940–1944). 48 units
• 152 K 04-200 p: (1918–1944). 4 units
• 152 K 77-190 p: (1918-). In storage only. 81 units
• 152 K 77-120 p: (1918–1944) 76 units
• 120 K 78: (1940–1944) 72 units
• 107 K 77-piirk: (1918-?)
• 107 K 77-ptrik: (1918-?) 102 units
• 90 K 77: (1940-?) 100 units
• 87 K 95 and 87 K 95-R: (1918–1941) 87 units
• 87 K 77: (1918-) 144 units
• 80 K 77: (1940–1951) 12 units

Mortars

• 120 KRH 85: 120 mm mortar model 1985
• 120 KRH 73: 120 mm mortar model 1973
• 120 KRH 65: 120 mm mortar model 1965
• 120 KRH 40: Finnish 120 mm mortar model 1940 377 units
• 120 KRH 38: Soviet 120 mm mortar model 1938 ~250 units
• 82 KRH 41: Soviet 82 mm mortar model 1941 478 units
• 82 KRH 37: Soviet 82 mm mortar model 1937
• 81 KRH 90: Finnish 81 mm mortar model 1990
• 81 KRH 71: Finnish 81 mm mortar model 1971
• 81 KRH 64: Finnish 81 mm mortar model 1964
• 81 KRH 56: Finnish 81 mm mortar model 1956
• 81 KRH 42: Finnish short-barreled 81 mm mortar model 1942 24 units
• 81 KRH 39: British 81 mm mortar model 1939 10 units
• 81 KRH 38: Finnish 81 mm mortar model 1938, later modernized and renamed 81 KRH 38 Y
• 81 KRH 36: French 81 mm mortar model 1936 227 units, later modernized and renamed 81 KRH 36 Y
• 81 KRH 36: Italian 81 mm mortar model 1936 109 units, later modernized and renamed 81 KRH 36 Y
• 81 KRH 35: Short-barreled 81 mm mortar model 1935 68 units
• 81 KRH 35: Long-barreled 81 mm mortar model 1935 187 units
• 81 KRH 34: Swedish 81 mm mortar model 1934 25 units
• 81 KRH 33: Finnish 81 mm mortar model 1933 161 units
• 81 KRH 32: Finnish 81 mm mortar model 1932 118 units
• 81 KRH 31: French 81 mm mortar model 1931 12 units
• 81 KRH 30: Polish 81 mm mortar model 1930 16 units
• 60 KRH 39: Finnish 60 mm mortar model 1939 only a few units
• 50 KRH 40: Soviet 50 mm mortar model 1940 1268 units
• 50 KRH 39: Soviet 50 mm mortar model 1939
• 50 KRH 38: Soviet 50 mm mortar model 1938
• 47 KRH 41: Finnish 47 mm mortar model 1941 50 units
• 47 KRH 40: Swedish 47 mm mortar model 1940 only a few units
• 47 KRH 39: Finnish 47 mm mortar model 1939 6 units

Trench mortars

• 170 MH 12: (1918-1937) German 170 mm trench mortar model 1912 2 units
• 91 MH 16: (1918-1937) Russian 91 mm trench mortar model 1916 4 units
• 76 MH 16: (1918-1937) German 76 mm trench mortar model 1916 18 units

Infantry weapons

• Lahti-Saloranta M/26: 6,200 units
• Degtyaryov machine gun
• Lewis gun
• Chauchat
• Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun
• Hotchkiss M1909 Benét–Mercié machine gun
• Kg m/40 light machine gun
• 30 KRKK AGS-17:
• FG 42
• 7.62 KK 54 RPD: 1,000 units
• 7.62 RK 54: 25,000 units
• 7.62 RK 54 TP: 1,000 units
• 7.62 RK 72 VV:
• DS-39
• MG 42: Post-war use, captured guns from Lapland War. Retired 1955
• MG 34
• Maxim gun
• MG 08
• ZB vz. 26
• Schwarzlose machine gun
• Vickers machine gun
• Madsen machine gun
• FM 24/29 light machine gun
• PM M1910
• Maxim M/32-33
• M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun
• Neuhausen MKMS
• MP 18: Bergmann M/20 & MP-28II
• MP 40: MP 38 & MP 40 in limited use
• Suomi KP/31
• M50 Reising
• PPD-40
• PPSh-41
• PPS submachine gun: M/42 and M/42 PPS
• KP m/44 submachine gun
• Thompson submachine gun About 20 units got captured during World War 2 and did saw some small actions on the Karelian front and KP/40 variant from Sweden got used in small numbers.
• FN P90: test purpose
• Lee–Enfield
• Berdan Rifle: Berdan M/1870 both variants in limited use
• Berthier rifle
• M1870 Italian Vetterli
• Carcano: M/38 "Terni"
• Mauser Model 1871
• Type 30 rifle: Used some different variants
• Type 38 rifle
• Mannlicher M1895
• Mannlicher M1888
• 35M rifle
• AVS-36
• SVT-40
• Mosin-Nagant: Different variants including Finnish made rifles
• Winchester Model 1895
• AR-10: small numbers for test purpose
• Colt AR-15
• Browning Automatic Rifle
• 9.00 kp Sten II & 9.00 kp Sten III
• TT-33
• M1911 pistol: Relatively small number of these captured pistols ended up to hands of authorities after Finnish Civil War. Finnish military had about 120 pistols during World War 2
• Luger pistol
• Lahti L-35
• Mauser C96
• Dreyse M1907: Small numbers in Finnish Civil War
• Mauser M1914
• Nagant M1895
• Ruby pistol
• Walther Model 4
• Walther P38
• Beholla pistol over 100 units for home front troops
• Sauer Modell 14
• Astra 400
• FN Model 1900 Also Browning No.1 variant
• FN Model 1903
• FN Model 1910
• FN Hi-Power
• Beretta Model 15
• Beretta M1923
• Beretta M1934
• Bodeo Model 1889
• Pistole vz. 24
• ČZ vz. 27
• ČZ vz. 38
• Bergmann-Bayard pistol
• Ortgies Semi-Automatic Pistol
• Federov Avtomat
• Gewehr 98
• Gewehr 41
• Gewehr 43
• Gewehr 1888
• Karabiner 98k
• Swedish Mauser: M/96

Anti-aircraft weapons

• ITO 86 M: (1994-2005) Soviet SA-18 Grouse man-portable SAM missiles. Some 80-100 launchers, 912 missiles.
• ITO 86 - Soviet SA-16 Gimlet man-portable SAM missiles. Some 160 launchers, 1558 missiles.
• ITO 79: (1978–2000) 3 batteries, 400 missiles.
• ITO 78: (Soviet SA-7B Grail), 122 launchers, 1091 missiles.
• Thunderbird: 1 unit
• ITPSV 90 Marksman: (1990-2015), British Marksman turret using two Oerlikon 35 mm autocannons mounted on a Polish T-55AM chassis. The turrets were moved to Leopard 2 chassis.^[2]
• 57 ITPSV SU 57-2: (1961-2006), Soviet ZSU-57-2 SPAAGs, 12 units. An additional 9 were obtained from Hungary in the 1990s for upgrade purposes of the old wagons, but the entire programme was scrapped in 1999, when it was decided to end the modernization programmes of old Soviet equipment.^[3]
• 88 ITK 37: (1943–1980), 90 units
• 75 ITK 37: (1940-), 20 units
• 76 ITK 34: (1936-), 12 units
• 76 ITK 27, 76 ITK 28 and 76 ITK 29: (1928-), 16 units
• 76 ITK 16: (1934), 24 units
• 76 ITK 02-34: (1930s-), 8 units
• 76 ITK 14: (1918-), 2 units
• 57 ITK: 12 units
• 40 ITK 38: (1939-), 288 units
• 40 ITK 15: (1918-), 9 units
• 30 ITK 62: 27 units
• 30 ITK 61 HS: 3 units
• 30 ITK 57:
• 37 ITK 37: (1944–1959), 4 units
• 37 ITK 39: (1941), 1 unit
• 20 ITK Hispano-Suiza: (1965–1972),
• 20 ITK Oerlikon: (-1972),
• 20 ITK 43-44: (1943–1944), 2 units
• 20 ITKIV 39-44: (1939–1986), more than 300 units
• 20 ITK 40: (1943–1980s), 180 units
• 20 ITK 35: (1939-), 88 units
• 20 ITK 30 and 20 ITK 38K: (1938-1980s), 123 units
• 20 ITK 23: (1926-), 4 units
• 8.00 ITKK 36: (1939-), 4 units
• 7.62 ITKK 09-31: (1939-), more than 80 units
• 7.62 ITKK 31 and 7.62 ITKK 31-40: (1931–1986), more than 500 units

Anti-tank weapons

Guided

• PstOhj 83M: TOW-2, also known as BGM-71D
• PstOhj 83: I-TOW, also known as BGM-71C
• PstOhj 82: AT-4 Spigot.
• PstOhj 82M: AT-5 Spandrel.
• RO-63: (-1995): French SS-11, 200 missiles, ? launchers
• Vickers Vigilant: (1965-) 250 missiles, ? launchers

Unguided

• 66 KES 75 - M72A2 LAW
• Sarpac
• Miniman
• 55 S 55: (1955-) 10,000+ units
• 100 pshp/F1 and 142 pshp/F2: 26,288 units
• 88 rakh/B 54: 1,854 units

Anti tank guns and rifles

• 8 PSTKIV: 30 units
• 14 PSTKIV 37: 300 units
• 14.5 m 41 Simonov:
• 20 L 39 and 20 L 39-44: 2,078 units
• 25 K 34 and 25 K 37: 250 units
• 37 K 15:
• 37 K 34: 17 units
• 37 K 36: 435 units
• 37 K 40: 150 units
• 45 K 32: 25 units
• 45 K 32-38:
• 45 K 37:
• 45 K 38:
• 45 K 38-41:
• 45 K 42: 45 mm guns total 618 units
• 47 PSTK 35 and 47 PSTK 39: 10 units
• 47 PSTK 40: 12 units
• 50 K 38: 27 units (1942-)
• 75 K 40: 210 units (1943-)
• 75 K 97-38: 46 units
• 75 K 44: 1 unit
• 76 RK 27:

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