History of Finnish Tanks

Published 2024-08-07
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.

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All Comments (21)
  • @DieRatteNr.1
    The germans provided finland with StuGs too and the finnish subtree has no StuG in it
  • @harriporo796
    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.
  • @Rempai420
    The marksman can hit targets from 4km. The Devs "We'll pretend we didn't know that"
  • @mikkojk83
    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.
  • Redo the Finnish voice lines. They keep calling artillery strike an airstrike and the line you get from winning battle is autism made manifest.
  • @sapukki
    What about the stugs? They were (to my knowlege) the backbone of the Finnish armored forces in late ww2.
  • so when Finland is getting StuG III and JSU-152 (captured ISU-152)?
  • @sl1nged491
    I mean it's pretty cool to have my own nation mentioned in a videogame but sadly the rechtree is missing the Finnish sutgs.
  • @SgtBlitz_fi
    The T-72s weren't really decommissioned in the 2010s but around 2005
  • @smigoltime
    Quite inaccurate to be fair on a few ends
  • @zsizso1944
    I think the AA is a sneak peak for the next update
  • Add back the VL Myrsky, and add the VL Viima and VL Humu to the tech tree
  • @tomppeli.
    So when the KV-1B in to the Finnish sub-tree? Edit: So when T-55 Marksman? Edit 2: So many more vehicles yet to be added
  • @addedcheese
    Could we finally get non event AMV variants.....
  • @ninazu7307
    One thing missing here is the Stug SPGs.