Lapland Air Defence Battalion information

unit with the name Lapland Air Defence Regiment (Finnish: Lapin ilmatorjuntarykmentti). In 2015, the Regiment became a battalion-level unit and part...

brigade has two main units: Lapland Jaeger Battalion in Sodankylä and Lapland Air Defence Battalion at Rovaniemi air base. The Jaeger Brigade specialises in...

flights. The Lapland Air Defence Battalion is also located at the base. The Fighter Squadron 11 is the operational unit of the Lapland Air Command. Headquarters...

During World War II, the Lapland War (Finnish: Lapin sota; Swedish: Lapplandskriget; German: Lapplandkrieg) saw fighting between Finland and Nazi Germany...

increase defence capability. This resulted in the commissioning of several new weapons systems and the strengthening of the defence of Finnish Lapland by the...

kaukopartio-osastot) and Detached Battalion 4 (Finnish: Erillinen pataljoona 4), which fought in the Winter War, Continuation War and Lapland War during 1939–1944...

(Finnish: Maavoimat, Swedish: Armén) is the land forces branch of the Finnish Defence Forces. The Finnish Army is divided into six branches: the infantry (which...

Finnish Air Force (FAF or FiAF; Finnish: Ilmavoimat, lit. 'Air forces'; Swedish: Flygvapnet, lit. 'Air arm') is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces...

(Autokoulu) Colours of the battalion-level units Kymi Jaeger Battalion East Finland Signal Battalion Salpausselkä Air Defence Battalion Karelia Artillery Regiment...

divisions. On 11 December, the Finns rearranged the defence of Lapland and detached the Lapland Group from the North Finland Group. The group was placed...

promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed the commander of Defence Command's Radio Battalion (Finnish: Radiopataljoona) in October 1941 during the early...

two battalions in Petsamo was defeated by a German counterattack. In November 1941, Hitler decided to separate the German forces fighting in Lapland from...

was the first major engagement between Nazi Germany and Finland in the Lapland War; although hostilities had already begun elsewhere (see Tanne Ost)....

The Army Ranger School and in 1975 Lapland Ranger Regiment. The regiment merged with the Norrbotten Armoured Battalion (P 5) in 1975 to form Norrbotten...

ports. First line of defence against territorial invasions. Rescue operations (mainly at sea and in the remote areas of Lapland). Provide aid to other...

of the Finnish Defence Forces, the Finnish Air Force Band, Finnish Navy Band, the Lapland Military Band, and the Dragoon Band. Lapland Military Band from...

with how it had performed during the air battle. One report judged the Fw 190, which formed the bulk of the air defence, to be 'in every way suitable as a...

Lapland. The Army Ranger School has its origins in the Ski Battalion which in 1910 was established in Boden as Norrbotten Regiment's 4th battalion. 372...

8th Coastal Defence Company Middle section, Coastal Infantry Battalion 7 (strength 295 men) 7th Coastal Defence Company 9th Coastal Defence Company 34th...

Battalion attacked the Commandos with the help of the 372nd Coastal Defence Battalion, 553rd (under Captain Giovanni Sartor) and 554th (under Captain Fausto...

such as an army, navy, air force, space force, marines, or coast guard. The main task of a military is usually defined as defence of their state and its...

Infantry Northeast Air Fleet Karafuto Region ground defence units some units from Ominato Defence Force part of the Soya Defence Force - the icebreaker...

to exist". The Polish border defence forces in the east, known as the Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza, had about 25 battalions. Rydz-Śmigły ordered them to...

refugees and prisoners of war. Morshead planned an active defence and stressed that, with battalions holding 5 mi (8.0 km) frontages, a break-in should be...

1937, the Minister in charge of Defence Coordination, Sir Thomas Inskip, sided with Dowding that "The role of our air force is not an early knock-out...