Captivated by Taistelukentta Battlefield 1998 #suomi #finland #war

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• JT

  @JTRetroReactions · 2 years ago · pinned

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• MI

  @mikkoveijalainen7430 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I saw this for the first time in the fall of 2001 when I along with a group of other youngsters were in front of the draft board. The officer in charge showed us this video and there was also a WW2 veteran who gave us a speech. I kinda liked it.

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• AQ

  @Aquelll · 2 years ago (edited)

  It was often shown at the end of the basic training phase and the conscripts were tasked to spotting mistakes that can cost lives from it. Like the fact the radio is on the right channel for air situation alerts at the supply base, but nobody is listening to it, so they miss the early warning.

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• SY

  @sygaos · 2 years ago

  Finland has never had any special &quot;ski troops&quot; because skiing is considered a basic method of moving of every soldier in wintertime.

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• CA

  @cassu6 · 2 years ago

  Honestly I think the omission of the beginning part and many others are due to the current trend of them just wanting to make cool action sequences rather than actual story telling.<br><br>It’s the reason the channel has a decently big worldwide following.

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• TH

  @TheSerubbaabel · 2 years ago (edited)

  I went to army in Finland in second group in 1998 and this was shown to us. They really hit the spot. The song that is singed in the beginning &quot;Under the Northern Star&quot; and first Ice Hockey gold medal was really emotional. What I remember that time they told us that Finland does not believe it can beat the Russians. Our strategy was to make the invasion so hard and so expensive to them that it wouldn&apos;t be smart to invade.

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• PU

  @Pukamafin · 2 years ago (edited)

  The LMG at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmRTYxWmoM&amp;t=1600">26:40</a> was KVKK62 (Kevyt KoneKivääri). It&apos;s not in use anymore and many didn&apos;t like it, but I did find it quite enjoyable and reliable<br><br>edit: the mines on the bridge were antitank ones

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• RA

  @RavenFin77 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The group in which I entered the military service was 2/98. It was the first group where some completed 6 months of service.<br><br>That gun is Assault rifle (rynnäkkökivääri) 62 or RK 62 7,62. The manufacturer is Valmet and later also Sako.<br><br>You have to remember that the world was very different in 1998. Finland had just received the Hornets and joined the EU. The Soviet Union had collapsed less than ten years ago. Cell phones were just coming in and the internet in its current form was not even in the wildest dreams. But we still didn&apos;t trust the Russians.<br><br>Even in the northernmost parts of Finland it is a real summer. Although a rather short one.<br><br>Since this is a promotional video, the soldiers are dressed in the best that the house has to offer. We didn&apos;t have such good things in Rovaniemi. The same stuff that fathers used to wear in the seventies.

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• KA

  @kallekas8551 · 2 years ago

  Yeah… I was there in ‘91 for my national service. Greetings from Karl in Australia.

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• TI

  @Timonen76 · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmRTYxWmoM&amp;t=1190">19:50</a> FDF didn´t have that time much of helos, so air transport was out of question. Nowadays, I think, the helos are in use mostly for special jaegers in Utti. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmRTYxWmoM&amp;t=1320">22:00</a> Even in Lapland there is a summer! All 4 seasons, though summer is a little bit shorter than in southern Finland.

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• PE

  @PekkaSiltala · 2 years ago

  The modern version mostly concentrates on how things advance towards real war and how we respond to all those steps.<br>Regarding the rifle, Wikipedia has a good article on our RK62 7,62 including all subversions like RK95.

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• JA

  @Jaggaraz218 · 2 years ago

  So about special effects and stuff, the 2020 one edition is almost completely filme on actual millitary exercises and thus has left over the top scenes.<br>Finland doesn&apos;t have permanent snow, at least on ground level, and really no ski troops either, since all troops use skis, but some troops definetely train more with skis than others.<br>The Finnish defence strategy is total defence, all routes to the country are defended and the defence line would most likely retreat sowly towards Helsinki, the good thing is that Finland has few lateral roads and many impenetrable forests and lakes so it would be easy to defend and slow down an invasio coming from the east. If said attack would manage to take over Helsinki (at this point the situation would be almos thopeless anyway) the fighting retreat would probably go northwest. That I do not know how the millitary would fight if the southern major cities got taken over my amphibious landings.<br><br>I suppose helicopters could be useful in Finnish woods but recoursewise it is impossible to have enough fuel and vehicles to transport a huge army via air, and also helicopters are easier to spot, and can&apos;t really transport heavy weapons that well.<br><br>When it comes to mines as far as I know there aren&apos;t permanent mine fields (and the leftist soscial democrat first female president Halonen signed the Ottawa treaty banning anti-personnel mines, but we do now have some cluster mine rocket launchers. Finland does have tons of good old anti tank mines tho, and all bridges are designed to be explodable.<br><br>When it comes to anti-tank infantry weapons among the humble anti-tank mine we have the everymans M76? 66m law light anti tank &quot;bazooka&quot; mostly effective against just lighter tanks, then we have the heavy 112mm bazooka APILAS like a mean older brother of the small law, this is mostly used by mechanized infantry as far as I know, this one does enjoy playing with main battle tanks. Finland also has NLAWS that are partially replacing APILAS, finland doesn&apos;t currently have Javelins since in the forested low combat distance grounds of Finland an NLAW is better value for money, tho Finland will probably get Javelins at some point. As a designetade anti tank missile finland uses the Israeli spike (that also has heavier anti ship missiles in use). One of the main anti-tank weapons in Finland are also our own Leopard 2A4 and 2A6 tanks that are mostly meant to be used as an anti armour fighting force, 200 Leos can hold the few roads to east quite well against lower quality yellow nation tanks.

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