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I was inspired by the Polish projects thread to list some Finnish projects I want to know more about.
1. Navypedia identifies a boat called Hurja as an attempted successor to the Nuoli class gunboat. I'd love to know about how far that went
https://www.navypedia.org/ships/finland/fi_cf_hurja.htm
2. The Kuha and Kiiski classes were designed to be not merely complementary in nature, but as a very forward-thinking unified system with the Kuha boats controlling the much smaller Kiiskis as USV minesweeping boats, their optionally crewed nature giving them great flexibility. Ultimately the Kiiski class was deployed crewed only, and I'd love to know about the history of these choices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuha-class_minesweeper_(1974)https://www.navypedia.org/ships/finland/fi_ms_kiiski1.htm
3. The Finns experimented with putting WW2 German 105mm naval guns on Kala class landing craft, I'd love to know whether this was planned to be a whole class fire support conversion, or only for the 2 vessels that tested it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala-class_landing_craft#Ships_in_service"Kala 4 and Kala 5 were experimentally armed with German 10.5 cm SK C/32 naval guns between 1960 and 1964, a single gun each. The guns were removed after the experiment and the other members of the class were not armed with them"
Kiiskinen, Pekka; Wahlman, Pasi (2003). "105 mm:n merikanuuna (Rheinmetall) 105 45 32 LT". Itsenäisen Suomen laivaston laivatykit 1918-2004 [The naval guns of Finland 1918-2004] (in Finnish). Helsinki: Typomic Oy. pp. 101–102. ISBN 952-91-6807-1.
4. Completed in 1960, the 3 "152/46 ELoRaut" guns were BL 6in Field Gun Mk VII guns converted for railway coastal artillery. During their testing, prolonged for manufacturing errors, the Finns decided that 130mm was a better standard caliber for their mobile coastal guns and the 3 152mm guns were used in static positions until their retirement.
https://www.jaegerplatoon.net/COASTAL_ARTILLERY2.htm#15246
1. Navypedia identifies a boat called Hurja as an attempted successor to the Nuoli class gunboat. I'd love to know about how far that went
https://www.navypedia.org/ships/finland/fi_cf_hurja.htm
2. The Kuha and Kiiski classes were designed to be not merely complementary in nature, but as a very forward-thinking unified system with the Kuha boats controlling the much smaller Kiiskis as USV minesweeping boats, their optionally crewed nature giving them great flexibility. Ultimately the Kiiski class was deployed crewed only, and I'd love to know about the history of these choices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuha-class_minesweeper_(1974)https://www.navypedia.org/ships/finland/fi_ms_kiiski1.htm
3. The Finns experimented with putting WW2 German 105mm naval guns on Kala class landing craft, I'd love to know whether this was planned to be a whole class fire support conversion, or only for the 2 vessels that tested it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala-class_landing_craft#Ships_in_service"Kala 4 and Kala 5 were experimentally armed with German 10.5 cm SK C/32 naval guns between 1960 and 1964, a single gun each. The guns were removed after the experiment and the other members of the class were not armed with them"
Kiiskinen, Pekka; Wahlman, Pasi (2003). "105 mm:n merikanuuna (Rheinmetall) 105 45 32 LT". Itsenäisen Suomen laivaston laivatykit 1918-2004 [The naval guns of Finland 1918-2004] (in Finnish). Helsinki: Typomic Oy. pp. 101–102. ISBN 952-91-6807-1.
4. Completed in 1960, the 3 "152/46 ELoRaut" guns were BL 6in Field Gun Mk VII guns converted for railway coastal artillery. During their testing, prolonged for manufacturing errors, the Finns decided that 130mm was a better standard caliber for their mobile coastal guns and the 3 152mm guns were used in static positions until their retirement.
https://www.jaegerplatoon.net/COASTAL_ARTILLERY2.htm#15246
