Archives for September 2003
L-39 AT Rifle
24 September 2003 | Operation Flashpoint | 1 Comment
The 1930s trend was to build AT rifles to counter enemy armor, especially the lighter vehicles. Finland followed the suit and just before Winter War in late 1939 the 20mm L-39 AT rifle entered service. It proved to be excellent weapon in it’s class with semiautomatic operation, 10-round clip and capability to penetrate 20mm of […]
Maxim m09/21
23 September 2003 | Operation Flashpoint | No Comments
After the Finnish Civil War of 1918, captured Russian water-cooled 7.62mm Maxims proved to be suitable heavy automatic weapons for the Finnish Army. A domestic version with a tripod instead of the Sokolov wheeled mount was therefore put into production in 1921 and it was designated Maxim m09-21. Later m09-32 model featured improvements such as […]
95 S 58-61 “Musti”
15 September 2003 | Operation Flashpoint | No Comments
Finnish soldiers shooting domestic made Heavy Recoilless Rifle 95 S 58-61, nicknamed “Musti”. Even though considered by some as obsolete, Musti is still very lightweight for a crew-served weapon and it can be mounted on most vehicles. Also new hard-nosed warhead designed in 90’s can penetrate T-72 equipped with explosive reactive armor. Though slowly being […]