Spelling error! Should be "Suomea kohtaan".

Good job they still do national service.. our stupid government have made so many cuts to our armed forces that we wouldn't last a week in conflict..

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@kennethainetdin3401no, it’s perfectly fine, especially because it shouted (!) you could say and spell it in the spoken more common way by dropping the n.

Making a defense pact with UK was one of the things that helped me sleep better at night, it was done very fast and showed how the North does have the ability to unite under pressure, regardless of Brexit's and other shit.

@@yeetusfetus4503 It is colloquial Finnish to leave the 'n' out, that is what it sounds when shouted. But, when written it should have the 'n'. Pedantic, i know but it is better to be accurate than try to spare feelings.

Really!? Didn´t know that. Thanks!

Yes they did... And Simo Häyhä would be happy. ​@@samspencer582

Y'know we gotta make Simo proud ;P

Yeah, our guerilla units sniper won my age class shooting competition with Dragunov - other snipers had Sako as their service weapon.

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Welcome to NATO Sweden, greetings from Finland. :)

And I love all Nordic countries + Baltic countries as well! Greetings from Finland

Yes Swedish citizens have a reputation as very tough. Especially known through out the immigrant community in Sweden.

​@@80talet1 and half of them are In jail now and half of them want to join the Swedish Army for the all have Said Sweden Is there Country for our country want to kill us or dont care about us but Sweden care,🇸🇪

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@@80talet1 yes they practice bombing every week.

Yes that’s him 🙏

Bejala smert was not Häyhä but it was frozen finnish forrest. Some cases that forrest was much bigger treath to ones life than finnnish machine gunners. And finns used it as advance. Finnish Air Force flew every night trying to find soviet camp fires to put those down and forced troops to flee to their death in dark frozen woods.

This guy used to be just one random notable soldier among many until internet made him god.

Was the 100 day war

​@@jukkakopol7355Belaya Smert was Simo Häyhä. Kyllä sun Suomalaisena perkele pitäis tietää.

"Six feet deep along the border" is a better translation. Not as accurate but rolls of the tongue better. "Six feet deep" is so well known phrase that it puts the right emphasis on it, no one has to figure out what that means...

​@@squidcaps4308 it's common saying but Erhnroot was precise. These days random berry pickers find all kind of grim surprices scattered around forests near the border, pushed up by the deepfrost.

And this is not just a story. So he answered and russians duly lost hundreds of thousands of their troops + the wounded.

​@@squidcaps4308we use metricsystem in Scandinavia

@@donaldliden4545 We use metric system also in Finland, which is not part of Scandinavia.. US phrases and idioms are more widespread, and "six feet under" is quite famously know idiom. It just doesn't sound the same as "2 meters underground". It would sound right in Finnish.

Desperate times require desperate measures. And Desperate measures create things that no-one ever could have dreamed of.

Finland is something 70-80% forest, one of the highest in the world still, I dont know where u get 97% from?

@@spoonzor1 me neither :D Quick google and it's 78%. Seem's more realistic. Maybe 97 was counting area of total nature? I'm not sure. I'll edit my comment.

78 + 20 + 11. Quite high amount of area.

@@timomikkola4045 78% forest 20% swamp from all area and 28% swamp from land-only area. 10% of all non-ocean area is lakes and 1% smaller bodies of water. So 11% fresh water areas. Most of the swamp is included in the forests.

​​@@spoonzor1he wrote 78% forrest so who your talking about saying 97%

Yeah, Simo refused the military rifle because he simply didn’t like it. He also refused an optical scope because reflections. So just his own hunting rifle and iron sights. Bad ass.

Famous nazi in Finland?

Yep... Mosin nagant with iron sight. Then he had a machine gun... and he was Affective with that one too 🙌🏻

And yet he stayed humble. ”I was told what to do and I just did my best”.

Simo häyhä or THE White Death

I didint go to army that i would fight in Nato forces

@@FINMrCurly Defeatist!

@@FINMrCurly Well, we defend also ****** like you

Norway were occupied by Germany but Norway never surrendered.

Yeah they kept fighting trough the war if i remember right. Norway just did not have that strong army back then and hitler really wanted those recourses

And Finland was on The same side as germany so we didn't have to worry about them (mostly)

I'm not sure but the 280k is the number which can be called up, armed and equipped on relatively short notice. 900k is the number of people who have undergone military training, but measures would have to be taken to get them armed and equipped. Most could also probably do with some refresher training. So we have a pretty sizeable reserve force plus twice more for rotation. In the last two years the stockpiles of ammunition and equipment have been filled up as well. _Si vis pacem, para bellum!_

@@BooM-su5yb Because England rejected Finland as an allied. Finland's only option were Hitler. Finland could not stand up against The USSR alone like Ukraine today. While Germany attacked all over the place, Finland attacked nowhere. Why Finland would attack Norway, I don't know

...and on. This Brit LOVES our Nordic friends, and SO respects their armed forces. These guys punch far above their weight, and are precisely the guys you would want alongside you in the trenches, or in the skies, or in the Baltic. Just a bit! And are precisely the guys the Russians should - and I suspect DO - fear.

Yeah, Norwegian F35s could be guarding Finnish borders within an hour or two... Shared airspace means that they wouldn't need permission to hurl through Swedish airspace... the most polite would of course be to announce it to ATC. But the agreement is there already... no need to ask beforehand.

​@@adriangoodrich4306NATO members allowed, but since Sweden isn't officially a member yet... they'll need to ask... not that I think SE would say no...

@@BenjaminVestergaard NORDEFCO? Plus the various recent bilateral agreements like the Sweden-UK Defence pact and the Sweden-US Defense Cooperation Agreement? For all practical purposes, I have no doubt that Sweden would play a full role in any defence of Scandinavia. And once that pro-Putin nut- job in Budapest is brought into line, hopefully very soon now, Sweden's NATO membership will anyway be finalised.

​@@BenjaminVestergaardmiljöpartiet kommer att gråta över avgaserna det blir väl det värsta antar jag😂

What is K/D?

@@bjorncedervall5291kill/death ratio

@@lungimies2914 What is the definition difference between "kill" and "death"? (I thought "kill" and "death" referred to the same thing - obviously concepts that must be clarified)

@@bjorncedervall5291 it's video game term. kill is when you kill enemy. death is when they nailed you.

@@Benderkekekekekeke OK - thank you for the clarification.

That is True

If this summer is anywhere close to +30C, I'm going to die D:

I thought I heard a slighty Finnish accent

870 000 reserves with a wartime rotational strength of 280 000 comprising of all the military branches. Not a rapid response....

@@lumihanki5631 You seem to be at the bottom of Trolls' salaries.

@@lumihanki5631 2023: 900000. Every year, 22,000 soldiers are trained. - Anti-Tank Jaeger Rossi.

@@mikorossi1959 Piäppä kloppi suus siistimpänä ku puhuttelet parempias ja korkeampaa rotua.... ..Ylirajajääkäri, sissi lääk. Kainuun rajavartioston rajajääkärikomppania 1/05 kert. -11 sekä -16 ...yksi rajakoira vastaa jo puolustusvoimien Majuria.... I was merely correcting a false statement which you presented

@@mikorossi1959 21 000 conscripts in -23 and the reserves are at -870 000 and on a constant decline as the older larger generations are depleting at and soon the numbers for the annual amount of new conscripts drops below 20 000 as our demographics won't suffice for more. This is also the main driving reason why the politicians are hyping for a compulsory conscription for women as well. A grave mistake in my humble opinion as the real corrective movement would be to have our demographics rise in an "au naturel" way by seriously dumping money and benefits for family units of +4 children...

Yep

Funny fact: He lived longer than Soviet Union 😁

And we are currently rearming like hell, the politicians are okaying all sorts of acquisitions that were financially impossible earlier.

Wish i could say the same 😐🇸🇪

You are just an anglo-saxon's puppets who will be sent to fight their wars. More military expenditures will only undermine your economy since you are not even investing into your own military industrial complex unlike Russsia for example. _And we are currently rearming like hell, the politicians are okaying all sorts of acquisitions that were financially impossible earlier._ If you think Russia wants to put you on her payroll you are crazy. Your politicians are supremacists. Your country supported Nazi Germany and now they are supporting neo Nazis from Ukraine, people of the same supremacist ideiology. If you play stupid and place US nukes or other offensive missiles that will have few mitutes flight to reach Russia's major cities then those sites simply gonna be destroyed with cruise missiles and Finland or anyone else won't be able to do anything about it, no matter how many soldiers you gather.

@@qwineth hys hys

A Russian tank invasion like in Ukraine, where there's open plains and roads, would be suicide mission in Finland. There's just bogs, waterways and deep forests. Finns are masters of using the terrain to their advantage. Russians would be caught in guerilla fighting in the woods and would need significantly more than the usual 3:1 ratio to make any gains. They REALLY don't wanna try.

@@mv_5878 yup. I was designated In "querrila" or sissi In finnish when I was drafted and it was still a thing. I can vouch. Havuja perkele.

She talks a lot of shit then.

During WW2, and since then, Finnish air force slapped like no other. 1-119 kill count, with 100s of planes downed.

Also the Vikings. There is a story in King Olaf's saga about one of their raids. They were re-soundly beaten back with tail behind their legs. It is a story that repeats a few times, invader arrives and finds only empty huts, no humans around. While returning to their boats the Vikings were ambushed and forced to retreat. And then the forest around the river told that Finns just kept following them at the same pace until they headed out to the sea. And then of course witchcraft on top, Vikings took Finnish magic very seriously. The main lesson here is that Finns decide when and where to fight. This is still the main tactic. In my town our proudest moment was when we beat the Royal Navy in the Skirmish of Halkokari. The story is long, i'll try to be short. During Crimean War in the 1800s British Royal Navy decided to burn Finnish harbors on the Bay of Bothnia, between Sweden and Finland. This was during Russian rule. They started from the North, sacking Oulu and Raahe. Word got to Kokkola (called Gamla Karleby at the time) and plans were made. They constructed a wooden fence between the buildings lining the harbor. Once Royal Navy reached the town, they could not sail to the port with their warships due to the bay being to shallow. They sent an envoy to negotiate the surrender of the town, promising to only burn Russian stockpiles, and all the ships that the shipyards made. Sidenote, a LOT of those ships were actually commissioned by British merchants.. Once the envoy reached the town, they noticed that there were only some dignitaries, women, children and elderly. Looked like the easiest target in the world for the powerful and undefeated Royal Navy. To their surprise, the town refused to surrender. So, it was going to be a battle. Brits send big boats full of men, some 200 with 20 officers. The boats had small cannons but while the main fleet was forced to stay away, not being able to use their big guns this was still a fight between professional modern army and just some peasants... easy. Once the boats had advanced close to the shore, suddenly the wooden fences between warehouses fell down, revealing 100 Russian cavalry and 200 Finnish men, with 10 cannons. It was, to quote the great Admiral Akbar: a trap. Brits were totally outgunned, they could not shoot accurately while Finns peasants, trained in game hunting made a mince meat of the Brits. The battle was over once Mats Kankkonen, the leader of peasant army sniped one of the officers to the head and the ranks broke. The end result was 18 brits dead, 52 captured. Finnish casualties was one horse, and yes, i find this part particularly funny. The town was saved. But there is a epilogue: the captured Brits were invited to a banquet, and it was a night of dancing and music. Then they were sent to St Petersburg and then home after the war. Brits tried again year later but this time the town was well armed and after a 3 hour cannon fire exchange, they had to retreat. Royal navy sent a congratulation letter, praising the tactics and saying that they learn to not underestimate people who are willing to defend their homes again (lol...). And wished that trade was re-established. And that is the story of bunch of peasants defeating the Royal Navy at its height. We still have one of their boats, and the want it back. Royal Navy still pays for the upkeep of grave of their fallen soldiers.

Yes 🙌 ty

Proper American pronounciation is Saimou Hay Hah.

@@UltraCasualPenguin "Proper American pronunciation" of a Finnish name. That's funny. If that's the case, the "proper Finnish pronunciation" of _James Earl Jones_ goes like 'YA-mes E-arl YAW-nes".

@@TheRawrnstuff Wrong. In Finnish "J" is pronounced as "J", "O" is pronounced as "O", "Y" is pronounced as "Y" and so on. Very different from English and very similar to languages like Japanese.

@@UltraCasualPenguin No, you. You missed my entire point. By the rules you set up, I'd have had to say "James Earl Jones is pronounced James Earl Jones", which would not at all have sent the message I was trying to communicate. "Saimou Hay Hah" is equally wrong to "YA-mes E-arl YAW-nes".

And if actual conflict happened you can bet that swedish planes are up at least as fast and helping, and norways planes would be flying over sweden to provide back up.

Suomalainen sotilas on kova jätkä!

Indeed ( look on Ilmari Juutilainen - top scoring non-German fighter pilot of all time ), or Jorma Sarvanto - managed to shoot down six of the enemy aircraft in quick sequence. This incident drew a lot of attention worldwide, and the press considered it a world record. ). These days.. yea. Training has picked up I'd say.

JAS gripen is 4th gen fighter, and while it is fast and agile.. F35s are the backbone of the Joint Nordic Airforce. Gripens are VERY handy along with F35s, they complement each other very well. So, saying that JAS Gripen is one of the best 4th gen fighters is true, it still lacks stealth. Its radar cross section is comparable to Russian fighters. But, it is designed for the Nordic, requires very small maintenance and resupply crew and can take off from roads, doesn't need an airstrip. So, together they are very efficient, providing de-centralized airforce. It can be flown close to front lines, resupplied in a middle of nowhere, do the mission and head home. F35s are better up high, Gripen is good down low. One takes care of high value targets and air defenses of the enemy, the other supports troops on the ground.

Norway is way warmer than Finland just because the Gulf Stream that comes from the Gulf of Mexico. It brings warmth from the tropic to Norway. Finland gets the cold 🥶 air from Siberia.

Finland and Sweden signed an agreement last year where Finland starts to train Swedish army so that the conscription is back and that Swedish army meets the standards.

Finland needs to buy couple of those excellent Swedish subs asap 🎉

@@verttikoo2052 Finland is not good at purchasing war materiel. Just look at how they chose the 3 times as expensive F35 if I remember it's name correctly, over the JAS 39 Gripen. Also the cost per flight hour is 3 times as expensive as JAS. Since Stridsplan Finland chose, the number of weapons it can be armed with is limited. While the JAS can be armed with all the different weapons available within NATO. Then Finland ordered the Finnish handgun from Finnish SAKO, the only problem is that this weapon is only in drawings, so you don't know how the weapon works. Sweden had apparently also ordered this weapon, but now they have backed out of the deal, as the procurement has gone wrong and they are no longer supposed to have commercial weapons with caliber 7.62 but 5.56. So that Finland would buy from Sweden is not likely.

Gud vad dryg du är

Conscription is ON, cause ruSSian neighbor is full small-minded evil dictatorship.

@@tehokotkat We actually had conscription until 2004, I thought they removed it directly after revolution, but it was here for much longer time than I thought.

In free democracy you have freedoms but you also have responsibilities. And if you are not ready to fight a war for your freedom you can and eventually will lose your freedom. Unprovoked attacks are old russian imperialistic habbit. You should know this as well as we know here in Finland.

@@perkele2802 I am pretty sure that in case of war, half of people will immediately emmigrate to avoid military service. 😀 We can see it even with Ukrainians, they are hiding here and we can't deport them because it's illegal by some international law, you can't send them to war.

those are for civilian use, military may have their own bunkers but no one really knows

@@freezedeve3119 ya that to, wich means bombing and such and finland just move down in the bunkers.

I was there (1. jk) in 1991-1992.

@@perkele2802 I was in 2.jk. Kerran rannikkojääkäri, aina rannikkojääkäri!

Bit nippy in ldn too, got down to 6c and blossom only just starting to come out. Love you mad Nordics. Brilliant countries & locals (new arrivals..not so much) but soooo couldn't hack your winters.

No voooi... 😢 Kai saivat kriisiapua?

Here is indeed the joke like that, but I had a little different experience. My sergeant was university student and he was complaining more about the meaningless of the army than the rest of us. He was convinced that civiliced men shouldn't have wars in the modern world. He teached us like we would be in the school and raised his voice only once when did the fitness test exceptionally lazy. We had to wake up an hour earlier after that and make 4km punishment run for 3 weeks before breakfast. Finnish people do what must be done, but we aren't particilarly gung ho.

Finland is not part of Scandinavia.

Yes the training grounds were close to town of Leadville here in Colorado the 10th Mountain Division - Camp Hale, there is a bronze plate on still existing concrete structures on the site to remember and appreciate Finnish instructors! Finn from Colorado.

This winter In Mid Finland it has been -20 to -40 from November to March. Usually from December to February it is really cold. Up north it colder even longer periods.

That's actually not true. I live in mid Finland and it's often super cold here too, not just in northern parts. This winter we've had -37°C (-35°F) here. I'd call that "very cold". Southern Finland and the coast are warmer tho.

Does sweden even have an army?

he's honestly MUCH more of an important figure around Military circles than most will ever know. his tactics are still taught to this day. the building named in his memorial is the 10th Special Forces Group HQ at Fort Carson in Colorado.

@@seanprice7645 I believe quite few finnish officers ended in usa after ww2, still wanting to oppose ussr/communism while the finnish political atmosphere became difficult - but ive got no clue how well they are all documented. Publicly not very well known anyhow.

@@iivarilappalainen9836 Alpo Marttinen became a US Colonel. He defected to the US and joined the US military with a bunch of other Finns in 1945. They went on to fight in Korea, Nam etc,. Known as "Marttinens Men", These were the "Fellow Finns" you hear in Larry Thorne's story who helped him get out of trouble after the bar fight he had with a higher ranking officer.