Message from @Finno
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Russians did use 7.62x39 more in 1995 and I think they're probs going to change it to that or some NATO round (5.56x45 NATO perhaps?) with next gun design but for small nation it ain't so big priority to design new guns for every change
Simo Häyhä you mean?
Short guy, his career ended when he was captured after an exploding bullet to the face.
well just the Winter War in general
I don't remember if Häyhä was captured but he did get exploding bullet to the face right before end of the war
maneuver defense worked well
That guy was like a Hurricane Katrina with arms and legs.
lol
Tbh I don't know why arty in general uses rk62 and not something more compact that would be lighter and less in the way, something like vz.61 škorpion
who would win? a battalion of Russian Soldiers or an angry Finnish farmer with a bolt gun and a suomi sub-machinegun
@Grump The Horrible The katrina man wasn't a trained soldier?
I think he was a reservist
Rk62 was good gun but for what arty is for it ain't that practical, it will just lead to golf reloading and such
Still a trained soldier.
Also, lol, let's not shit on reservists then.
Around 80% of finnish men (could be higher % cba to check right now) are military trained
No not poking fun at all
@Grump The Horrible I know, I was just saying that with this knowledge my opinion of reservists has changed a wee bit.
Also, wow, you never know where among the Finish population a gifted commie slayer might be hiding.
Invading that country would be the stuff of nightmares.
You never know from which corner a Slav Slayer will emerge and start disposing of your men.
But yeah I think mandatory military service is good thing to have, it will give some folk a bit of wakeup call and there is way less of the "firing a gun cave me ptsd" kind of folk.
Although, the Russian military are not the poorly trained and equipped, undisciplined game of uber-rapists they were in WWII.
They are a very different breed today, very well trained and equipped, disciplined.
I checked our strength from Wikipedia
>12k career soldiers and cilians
>22k trained conscripts every year
>280k fighters (wartime strength)
>900k in reserve
Finns or Russians?
Finns
What's the Russians' strength?
>1,013,628 active personnel
>2,572,500 reserve
Well that's a lot, but Russia would have a lot of territory to be concerned about, whilst Finland would only be defending its border against them.
Yeah and if we'd have to try and get out strength to same size we'd have to have 2/3rd of our population ether in reserve or active personnel, including women, underaged and unhealthy folk
Russia could probably muster a lot more troops than is written there.
But if they would annex us you could imagine what kind of harm would 900k in reserve do
Russia's economy is shite, and more babies are aborted than born.
They also have loads of territory to defend, so even if they muster a bunch of extra troops...
(The average lifespan is kind of short too.)
lol
