Operations and training in the 1980s and 1990s
In 1984, up-to-date T-72 Mi main battle tanks were purchased from the USSR. Photo: Armour School photo archive
Photo: Armour School photo archive
The emblem of the Tank Battalion
The T-55 was modernised to the T-55M main battle tank in 1989. Photo: Armour Museum photo archive
In June of the same year, the T-55M tank was equipped with a firing simulator for the combat exercise in Niinisalo. Photo: Armour Museum photo archive
The yellow-green braid of the wartime Jaegers of the Armour Division, and the Jaegers’ metallic branch emblem
The Armoured Jaegers’ combat equipment included the Soviet-built BMP-1 fighting vehicle, starting from 1981. The tank is no longer in training use. Photo: Armour School photo archive / Iske ja murra (‘Strike and Breach’), the Armour Guild’s 50 year history
Photo: Armour School photo archive / Iske ja murra
BMP-2 fighting vehicles were purchased in 1988. This Soviet-built tank is still used in training by armoured reconnaissance and anti-tank missile gunners. Photo: Armour School photo archive
BMP-2. Photo: Armour School photo archive
Jaeger Battalion 4, Häme Jaeger Battalion 1938. Photo: Armour School photo archive
Engineer Company
Equipment of the Armoured Engineers. This is a T-55, equipped with KTM-6M2 de-mining ploughs in summer 1992. Photo: Armour School photo archive
This T-55 is equipped with a KTM-5M de-mining device – in other words, a mine roller. Photo: Armour School photo archive
New armoured vehicle-launched bridge equipment was also acquired in the so-called East German transaction. In the picture, an operational BLG-60M2 vehicle in 1992. Photo: from Suomalaiset panssarivaunut 1918-1997 (‘Finnish Armoured Vehicles, 1918–1997’)
A BLG-60M2 AVLB laying a bridge in 1994. Photo: from Suomalaiset panssarivaunut 1918-1997
The MT-LBV multipurpose armoured vehicle is used especially by the Engineers and Mortarmen. Importing of the equipment began in 1988. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The MT-LBV multipurpose armoured vehicle. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The flag of the Detached Engineer Company in 1932
The 2S1 (122 PsH 74) self-propelled howitzer, which, alongside the 2S5 Giatsint-S (152 TELAK 91) self-propelled gun, raised the mobility of the Armour formation’s field artillery to the same level as that of the striking forces in the first half of the 1990s. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The 2S5 (152 TELAK 91) self-propelled gun. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The flag of the Jaeger Battalion in 1958
The BMP-1 TJ fire control vehicle raised the artillery command to the same mobility level. It was introduced in 1992. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The emblem of the Jaeger Battalion
A Marksman anti-aircraft turret has been installed on the chassis of a T-55 main battle tank. The system includes a joint surveillance and fire control radar. The tanks arrived in 1991. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The Marksman anti-aircraft turret. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The weaponry of the Armoured Troops includes 23-mm anti-aircraft guns and short-range anti aircraft missiles, ‘shoulder missiles’. Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
The ‘shoulder missile’. Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
The Crotale NG Multi-Mission Air Defence Missile System represents the crown of our air defence (Crotale NG on Sisu XA-181). Photo: Armour School photo archive
The Crotale NG Multi-Mission Air Defence Missile System. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The target acquisition radar of the Air Defence Battalion (Jantronic J-1000, Sisu XA-180, Ericsson Giraffe Mk IV radar). Photo: Armour School photo archive
Signal equipment in the early 1980s. Field exchanges, radiotelegraph, and radiotelephone transmitters are shown here. Note the size and weight of the equipment. Photo: Armoured Signal Battalion photo archive
Signal equipment in the early 1980s. Photo: Armoured Signal Battalion photo archive
The BTS-2 armoured recovery vehicle. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The KAM-2 armoured recovery vehicle. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The KAM-1 armoured recovery vehicle. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The Czechoslovakian-built JVBT-55A crane tank. Photo: taken in the autumn of 1996, from Suomalaiset panssarivaunut 1918-1997
The Czechoslovakian-built VT-55 armoured recovery vehicle. Photo: taken in the winter of 1996, from Suomalaiset panssarivaunut 1918-1997
A medical version of the Sisu XA-180 armoured personnel carrier, with the Red Cross emblem, in summer 1989. Photo: from Suomalaiset panssarivaunut 1918-1997
Transportation equipment from various decades. Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
History of Parolannummi
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This can happen sometimes. A snowy railway wagon and icy caterpillar tracks were a dangerous combination for this T-54 tank in the spring 1980 military exercise. Photo: from Suomalaiset panssarivaunut 1918-1997 (‘Finnish Armoured Vehicles, 1918–1997’)
An articulated vehicle carrying a BMP-1 tank in spring 1981. Photo: from Suomalaiset panssarivaunut 1918-1997
The Armoured Vehicle Company unloading its equipment at the Parola railway station. The lead vehicle is a GAZ-69 radio jeep. The equipment consists of T-55 main battle tanks and BTR-50 armoured personnel carriers. Photo from the 1980s: from Jukka Heino’s photo archive / the Parola area, part 1)
The Armoured Brigade’s first firing exercise in Rovajärvi, in Hautainmaa, in April 1981. The mud was knee-deep. This picture is from the final firing. Photo: Armour Museum photo archive
Training armoured vehicle mechanics in maintenance and repairs. Photo: from Tapparasta tankkeihin (‘From the Battleaxe to Tanks’)
The driver of a T-55 on the job in January 1987, at nearly -40 degrees Celsius. Photo: from Tapparasta tankkeihin
A T-55 in a combat exercise at Pohjakangas, in Niinisalo. Photo: from Tapparasta tankkeihin
Preparing for firing at a winter exercise in Hautainmaa (T-55, BMP-2). Photo from the 1980s, from the Armour School photo archive
Preparing for firing at a winter exercise in Hautainmaa (T-55, BMP-2). Photo from the 1980s, from the Armour School photo archive
A BTR-60 BP firing a sequence in the dark in Hätilä. Photo from the 1980s, from the Armour School photo archive
The oath parade in Urjala, in March 1987. The return march, over 60 km, was carried out on skis through the forests to Parolannummi. Photo: Tero Siltanen
Old Jaeger traditions are still followed in transitions to summer exercises in Padasjoki. Photo: Häme Jaeger Battalion photo archive
Training in the 1990s. The APILAS heavy anti-tank weapon. Photo: Armour School photo archive
A T-72 M1 equipped with a firing simulator. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The commander of an Armoured Jaeger platoon giving orders. Photo: Armour School photo archive
Signalmen maintaining communications in an armoured HQ vehicle. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The Combat Vehicle Company (T-55M) crossing a river on a pontoon bridge. Photo: Armour Museum photo archive
Emblem of the Armoured Brigade’s Engineer Company in 1967. Photo: Armour Museum photo archive
A guide leading a 155K83 field gun to its emplacement. Photo from the mid-1990s, from the Jaeger Artillery Regiment photo archive
Firing a 105H61-37 gun. Photo from the mid-1990s, from the Jaeger Artillery Regiment photo archive
The command post of the battery at Pohjakangas, in Niinisalo. Photo from the mid-1990s, from the Jaeger Artillery Regiment photo archive
A 2S5 Giatsint-S (152 TELAK 91) gun in Pohjankangas in the winter. Photo from the mid-1990s, from the Jaeger Artillery Regiment photo archive
A target acquisition NCO in the Field Artillery doing his job. Photo: Jaeger Artillery Regiment photo archive
Ammunition men preparing grenades for firing. Photo: Jaeger Artillery Regiment photo archive
The life of a soldier is all about coming and going. The exercise train has arrived from Parola at the Misi gravel pit in Rovajärvi and is waiting to be unloaded. Photo: Jaeger Artillery Regiment photo archive
Returning to Parolannummi from the firing exercise. Equipment being unloaded from the train at the Merve loading platform in Parola. An MT-LBu-TP armoured command post vehicle (from the East German transaction). Photo: Jaeger Artillery Regiment photo archive
The BTR-50 PUM armoured HQ vehicle. Photo: Armoured Signal Company photo archive
A BTR-50 PUM armoured headquarters vehicle on the water. Photo: Armoured Signal Company photo archive
A disguised BTR-50 PUM armoured headquarters vehicle. Photo: Armoured Signal Company photo archive
Military Police performing an individual check. Their vehicle is a Ford Transit. On the left is the front of a GAZ-66 4x4 truck. Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
A Lada Niva, used by the Military Police. Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
Military Police being trained in individuals’ protection in June 1997. Photo: Military Police Company photo archive
A Military Police checkpoint. The individual is identified, and the chassis of the vehicle is checked with mirrors. This photo is from June 1999. Photo: Military Police Company photo archive
Training paramedics in the 1990s. Drills in evacuation of patients. Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
Training paramedics in the 1990s. Drills in evacuation of patients. Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
The Armour School trains permanent staff for all the needs of the Defence Forces. An armoured recovery vehicle was needed during the ‘Pasi course’ section of the basic course in autumn 1997, west of Lehijärvi. Photo: Armour School photo archive
A student in the Anti-Tank Officer Course firing an Anti-Tank Missile 82 in Rovajärvi in autumn 1991. Photo: Armour School photo archive
The field kitchen is the soldier’s faithful friend. Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
The Minister of Defence at the equipment depot. Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
The Minister of Defence inspecting the equipment depot of the Armoured Brigade in the late 1980s. Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive
When the Mobile Soldiers’ Home shows up, even a grey day becomes brighter. Photo: Armoured Brigade Headquarters photo archive