Equipment of The Finnish Army - Infantry Weapons

Infantry Weapons

Assault rifles:

• 7.62 RK 95 TP, modernized version of the standard assault rifle, manufactured by SAKO.
• 7.62 RK 76, modernized version of the standard assault rifle. This version is also in most widespread use, but usually identified as Rk 62.
• 7.62 RK 72 TP, East German-made AKMS-47 (MPi-KMS-72), purchased in large numbers for reserve troops. Folding stock version is used by various tank, APC and IFV crewmen.
• 7.62 RK 62, original version of the standard assault rifle, manufactured by Valmet.
• 7.62 RK 56 and 7.62 RK 56 TP, Chinese-made copies of the AK-47, purchased in large numbers for reserve troops, but not commonly used.
  • The FDF also used to have original Russian-made AK-47 (7.62 RK 54) and AKS-47 (7.62 RK 54 TP), but these are no longer in use.
• Heckler & Koch G36, operated by the border guards rapid response unit.

Machine guns:

• 7.62 KVKK 62, Finnish-made machine gun, manufactured by Valmet.
• 7.62 KK PKM, Russian-made PKM machine gun, current standard machine gun in the Finnish army.
• 7.62 KK PKT, Russian-made PKT machine gun, current standard machine gun in most tanks and IFV's in the Finnish army.
• 7.62 KK MG3, German-made MG 3, light armament on Leopard 2 tanks and NH90 helicopters.
• M123D Minigun, US-made, Gatling-type, multi-barreled 7.62x51 mm NATO calibre machine gun, produced by Dillon Aerospace. It is intended to be used by the Utti Jaeger Brigade as light armament on NH90 helicopters.
• 12.7 RSKK 2005, American-made M2 Browning machine gun, found on the Patria AMV's Kongsberg weapon turrets.
• 12.7 ITKK 96, Russian-made NSV machine gun, current standard heavy machine gun of the Finnish Army.

Sniper rifles:

• 7.62 TKIV 85, sniper rifle made by Valmet, based on the Mosin-Nagant rifle.
• 7.62 TKIV Dragunov, Russian-made Dragunov sniper rifle.
• 8.6 TKIV 2000, sniper rifle manufactured by Sako.
• 12.7 TKIV 2000 US-made .50 calibre Barrett M82A1 sniper rifle.
• 12.7 TKIV 2000 US-made .50 calibre Barrett M95 sniper rifle.

Pistols & submachine guns:

• 9.00 PIST 2008, Glock 17 with specially made RTF2 checkering texture around the grip, 20 N (4.5 lb_f) trigger pull, self illuminating tritium sights and a 17+2 round magazine.
• 9.00 PIST 2003, Walther P99, used by special forces and military police.
• 9.00 KP 2000, Heckler & Koch MP5, used by special forces.
• 9.00 PIST 80, Belgian-made FN HP-DA pistol.
• 9.00 PIST 80-91, factory-refurbished PIST 80's.
• 9.00 PIST SIG-Sauer, peace-keepers and military marching bands.
• 12 HAUL REM 870, standard shotgun.

Support weapons:

• 40 KRKK 2005, grenade machine gun, manufactured by Heckler & Koch.
• 40 KRPIST 2002, grenade launcher, manufactured by Heckler & Koch.

Bilateral trade agreements between Finland and the Soviet Union often included weapons. As a curiosity, many Russian weapons were supplied as a "package". For example, tanks came with AK-47 sidearms for the crew. A large amounts of Soviet equipment was also bought from Germany after the German reunification.