Taistelukentta Battlefield 2020: Reacting with Awe and Amazement #taistelukentta #finland #war

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• JT

  @JTRetroReactions · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Hey all - just for the fun of it I&apos;m going to share an old Irish joke about annoying neighbours. This joke goes back a long way in history but I think if you substitute Finland for Ireland and Russia for the UK you will get the same resulting humour. I hope you enjoy it!<br><br>God created the world and was very proud of his achievement and wanted to show it off. So he called over the Angel Gabriel and said to him - look! Look at this beautiful thing I created that I call earth. There are seas and skys&apos;, animals and birds, it&apos;s stunning. <br><br>Everything is equal and in balance, birds fly in the air, animals walk on the land, fish swim in the sea etc.. There is day and night. Everything equal and everything in balance. <br> <br>Then God said to the Angel, but there is one special place I want to show you, it&apos;s called Ireland (you can substitute Finland here). And God said to the Angel, it&apos;s the most perfect place I created, magical people, magical drink called Guinness, magical music, magical food etc. etc. <br> <br>The Angel was amazed but said to God, I thought you created everything equal and in balance. God said I did - wait until I show you the absolute b**tards I put next door to them :)

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• HA

  @Haryu73 · 2 years ago

  One part of this Battlefield 2020 always gives me chills... The part when the news anchor says &quot;Finland is at war&quot;. He is not an actor but an actual news anchor so it feels too real.

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• ZA

  @Zarniwooper · 2 years ago

  Finland has the largest artillery in Western Europe, this is the deterrent for Russia&apos;s meat wall tactic.

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• VI

  @VilleHapponen-w8y · 2 years ago

  Finland has ordered 64 jets (f-35 fighter jets) to replace 55 Boeing F/A-18 Hornets.

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• SA

  @sampsalol · 2 years ago (edited)

  Finland was one of the first countries to react by ordering war equipment when war in Ukraine broke out. A few weeks ago there was a news piece in the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper where a logistics command officer of the FDF said that the weapon stocks are filled to the brim and we need to commence building new storage sites (mined into the bedrock) because there are still lots of weapons to be delivered that Finland has ordered. As a side note Finland has the second largest stockpile of HIMARS missiles in the world after the US. Also Finland is probably the biggest artillery shell manufacturing country in Europe at the moment, the production lines are running 24/7. I think we are good.

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• RE

  @rejontt9435 · 2 years ago

  Did my military service in Uudenmaan Prikaati &nbsp;(Nylands Brigad), the only brigade in Finland to offer education in Swedish, as we&apos;re about 300,000 native speakers, and also the only brigade to train coastal jaegers which are just marines, the whole &quot;jaeger&quot; tag in the Finnish military comes from the fact that its structure was originally based of the imperial german army, especially the Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion. I was in the heavy (120mm) mortar company though so I never got to do much &quot;marine&quot; training, it was always the light (81mm) mortar squads that got all the glory (as in taistelukenttä 2020) because they were the ones working closely with the coastal jaegers.

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• SA

  @sampohonkala4195 · 2 years ago

  About the sizes of armies: the Finnish Air Force is said to estimate that if they have one tenth of the enemy numbers they are about even in strength. The same goes with the Army: the doctrine is to stop and destroy the enemy. That has worked rather well for the last 1000 years. We are still here.

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• IL

  @Ilovispila · 2 years ago

  In 2030&apos;s our Nordic block will have a fleet of ~140 F35s (NOR 52, DEN 27, FIN 64) and Sweden alone should add around 120 operational Gripens to that tally.

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• M.

  @m.cfender4183 · 2 years ago

  Finnish ports are quite open these days. In the olden days (about 10-20 years ago) there were garrison islands in front of most of the big port cities with coastal artillery. Today, they are deployed only during a possible war. Otherwise, Finland has mobile coastal missile units around its coast that can be moved to the desired area. In addition, there is usually a garrison in the nearby areas/cities of large ports that can react quickly. The use of the cargo ship shown in the simulation for military operations is very likely and actually difficult to prevent without prior knowledge. The fact that the area in question - Hanko is at the tip of a fairly long promontory makes the scenario easier. Sergeant, Coastal Missile Fire Director

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• 瓦森

  @瓦森 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Nice Reaction video. As a Finn it&apos;s somehow comforting to know that in other European countries there exist some people, who understand how severe existential threat Russia is for not only the Eastern European countries, but for the whole security system of our beloved Europe.

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• JU

  @Juhani96 · 2 years ago

  this video allways give some chills for me :D im glad that FDF can predict very well how Russian army works and how they act in different scenarios. Even this video is made before Ukrainian war, there is still pointed out different things how Russia do its job before and after full-scale invasion.

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• TH

  @TheApilas · 2 years ago

  The Finnish basic tactic is to allow the enemy to pass in along some of the roads leading in from Russia to Finland duw to the terrain, that causes the enemy to get into bottle necks and exposed to AT units and different types of artillery to halt the enemy. <br><br>Coastal Jaegers are Marines/Marine Commandos specialised in war along the coasts and archipelago. They have plenty of co-op with the Swedish Coastal Rangers, Royal Marines, US Marines etc. Finland and Sweden have also a unit named ATU that is made up by Finnish coastal jaegers and Swedish coastal rangers.<br><br>The tube launcher is a newer version of the classic LAW72, when I served as APILAS shooter in the AT platoon at the Coastal Jaegers I carried 2 of these LAW72´s besides the heavy APILAS launcher and my RK62, we normally aimed for the hull/track and or turret ring depending on weapon used.

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