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Finnish Armed forces

Finland
Population
5,566,000
Military budget
6.7 billion $
Active personnel
24,000
Nuclear weapons
☢
0 warheads
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Basic informations

Capital: Helsinki
Area: 338,455 km2
Population: 5,566,000
Etnic groups: Finnish 89%, Swedish 5.3%, Russian 1.3%, Estonian 0.8%
Religions: Lutheran 73%, Orthodox 1.1%, other 1.6%, none 25.1%

Military branches

Finnish Defense Forces (Puolustusvoimat) Army(Maavoimat), Navy (Merivoimat; includes Coastal Defense Forces), Air Force (Ilmavoimat)

Military service

18 years of age for male voluntary and compulsory - and female voluntary - national military and nonmilitary service; service obligation 6-12 months; military obligation to age 60

Military expenditures

Military budget
6.7 billion $
Percent of GDP
2.3

Manpower

Active personnel
24,000
Reserve
870,000
Available
1,155,368

Land Forces

Tanks
239
AFV
2,020
Artillery
821
Self-propelled guns
97
Rocket artillery
62
Armoured fighting vehicles includes infantry fighting vehicles, tank destroyers, armoured personnel carriers, mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles(MRAP), amphibious and reconnaissance vehicles.
Total artillery includes towed, self-propelled gun(SPG) and rocket artillery.

Tanks

TypeNameNumber
Leopard 2A4 139
Leopard 2A6 100

AFVs

TypeNameNumber
- Protolab Misu 4
- Patria 6x6 3
- Sisu GTP 6
- Sisu NA-120 GT 250
CV-9030 FIN 102
BMP-2 110
- Patria AMV XA-360 62
Sisu Pasi XA-180/185 476
Sisu Pasi XA-202 101
Sisu Pasi XA-203 48
- MT-LB 439
- BV308 19
- BV206 D6N 400

Self-propelled artillery

TypeNameNumber
155 PSH 17 48
122 PSH 74 74

Rocket artillery

TypeNameNumber
298 RSRAKH 06 28
- 122 RAKH 89 M1 34

Air Forces

Total aircraft
158
Fighters
0
Multirole
55
Attack
0
Helicopters
27
UCAV (combat drone)
0
Total aircraft - number of all military aircraft and helicopters in country. Includes training and cargo aircraft. Does not include drones.
Attack includes ground-attack and strategic bomber aircraft.

Fighter aircraft

TypeNameNumber
- -

Multirole aircraft

Attack and bomber aircraft

TypeNameNumber
- -

Helicopters

TypeNameNumber
NHI NH90 20
- MD Helicopters MD 500 7

UCAV (combat drone)

TypeNameNumber
- -

Navy

Total naval
170
Aircraftcarriers
0
Destroyers
0
Frigates
0
Corvettes
2
Submarines
0
Total naval - number of all military ships in country. Includes auxiliaries.
Aircraft carriers includes helicopter carriers. Destroyers includes Battlecruisers and Cruisers.

Aircraftcarriers

TypeNameNumber
- -

Destroyers

TypeNameNumber
- -

Frigates

TypeNameNumber
- -

Corvettes

TypeNameNumber
- Pohjanmaa 4

Submarines

TypeNameNumber
- -

☢ Nuclear weapons

Does not have nuclear weapons.