Almost a week ago, the Ministry of Defense of Finland announced that they were preparing the eighth military aid package for Ukraine. However, its amount and the terms of delivery were not disclosed. Oryx decided to find out what equipment and weapons Finland has already supplied to Ukraine, relying exclusively on publicly available data. The results of the analysis look like this.
So far, the most powerful systems that Ukraine definitely received from Finland are the ItK 61 anti-aircraft autocannons, a licensed copy of the Soviet ZU-23-2, and the Krh/92 120-mm mortars, in both cases without numbers of delivered units. Finland also became a supplier of 155-mm shells for the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Finnish army has at its disposal 54 units of GH-52 (K-83) 155-mm towed howitzers.
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As for infantrymen equipment, the situation here looks something like this.
It is known for sure that Finland supplied Ukraine with 1,500 M72 LAW anti-tank grenade launchers, 2,500 assault rifles (unnamed type) and 150,000 cartridges for them, 2,000 helmets and body armor. In general, it turns out that Finland has provided Ukraine with military aid worth at least 88 million euros.
Also, Oryx analysts assume that Finland could supply Ukraine with Giatsynt-S self-propelled guns from storage bases (in 2010, the Finnish army had 18 units of such self-propelled guns).
Also, some of Finnish D-30 howitzers, anti-tank weapons, small arms and grenades. But it hasn’t been confirmed yet. Considering that Finland is doing everything to keep the actual volume of supplies for Ukraine a secret. Especially since the length of the "logistics arm" plays into Helsinki's hands when delivering weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Formally, Finland has a sufficiently large fleet of Soviet-made armored vehicles and artillery systems: BMP-2 IFVs (110 units as of 2021 according to Military Balance), MT-LB (40 units), D-30 122-mm howitzers (234 units) and 2C1 Gvozdika self-propelled guns (36 units). But Oryx analysts say that Finland is unlikely to supply such equipment to Ukraine, because the country itself needs reserves in case of a possible russia’s attack.
However, Finland seem to have in reserve an interesting option that can strengthen the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Until 2010, Finland had three batteries of Buk air defense systems in service (18 launchers in total), and already in 2010 they were replaced by American-Norwegian NASAMS air defense systems. The authors of Oryx claim that even in 2022, Finland could have a certain stockpile of missiles and Buk launchers, which in theory can be transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine as part of new military aid packages. Of course, if they haven't been sent already.
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