DefenceTalkFighter jet engines whined this week on a stretch of highway in central Finland, where the military trained on stretches of road that double as spare landing strips. As one of Finland’s dozens of reserve runways, the empty highway near the town of Joutsa, hosted an annual air force exercise with F/A-18 Hornets taking off […]https://www.defencetalk.com/finnish-air-force-turns-highways-into-landing-strips-79448/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkFinland’s air force, which for over a century has had a Swastika as part of its emblem, has replaced the controversial Nazi-linked symbol with a golden eagle, the military said Thursday. The decision to remove the emblem was actually made in 2017, but it has taken time to roll out the change and only received […]https://www.defencetalk.com/finlands-air-force-quietly-drops-swastika-from-emblem-75814/

Saab has successfully completed its participation with Gripen E and GlobalEye AEW&C in the Finnish HX Challenge, the Finnish Air Force testing and evaluation event at Pirkkala Air Base in Finland. The flight evaluation is part of the capability assessment in the on-going HX program, the procurement of new fighter aircraft to equip the Finnish […]

Eurofighter has offered Finland the chance to join Europe’s largest combat aircraft program in an updated proposal to the HX fighter acquisition program. The proposal has been submitted by the UK Government with the support of the Governments of Germany, Italy and Spain, the nations which are represented in the Eurofighter industry consortium. It offers […]

Five fighter manufacturers have sent their responses to the revised request for quotation that was asked by the Finnish Defence Forces’ Logistics Command. In October 2019, the Defence Forces sent a revised request for quotation to the governments of France, United Kingdom, Sweden and the United States, to be forwarded to five manufacturers of multi-role […]

Finland’s Air force began testing candidate aircraft vying to replace the Air Force’s aging fleet of fighter jets on Thursday, as the government weighs a purchasing decision due next year. Each of the five short-listed manufacturers will bring their aircraft to Finland for a week of flight tests at the Satakunta Air Command in Pirkkala, […]

DefenceTalkThe working group which was set up to make a preliminary assessment of how to replace the operational capability of the Air Force F/A-18 aircraft proposes procurement of multi-role fighters. The capabilities of multi-role fighters would be complemented with air defence capabilities. The need and possibilities to procure unmanned aircraft and other complementing capabilities will […]https://www.defencetalk.com/working-group-proposes-multi-role-fighters-to-replace-finnish-fa-18-aircraft-64484/