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Finland - Coastal Artillery

Coastal artillery was transferred from the Navy to the Army as early as 1952, but it gained the status of an independent branch. It was not until 1967 that the General Staff was established, with command by a coastal artillery inspector office. The development of coastal defense entered the most profound period in the early 1970s, when the expert Coast Guard commission published its report RPT-72. The report adopted operational, technical and economic criteria for coastal development of civil defense. Content of the plan further clarification of future parliamentary defense committees' policies.

Shooting artillery at the coast management and maritime surveillance were combined, leadnig to the creation of the RAVAL system and more diversified in the 1990s and thus better battle-resistant RANTA system. RAVAL-system acquired the Swedish hopping frequency FIKA that developed a native user interface for display-equipment.

Coastal artillery shifted to the missile era in the early 1960s. The first sea-going missile purchased in Finland was the French SS-11, originally designed for anti-tank applications, with a sea-going warhead Tui RO-63 for Coastal Artillery. The MTO-66 was acquired by the Navy as a joint project of Coastal Artillery. Ohjuskoetoiminta started in Hästö-Busö, Hanko Coastal Battery at the fort where the first missile shots were made from a fixed platform in 1968. The next generation anti-ship missile MTO-85 was also designed for Coastal Artillery use. Coastal-artillery anti-aircraft battery project (RAMETO) led to establishing the first anti-aircraft missile battery in connection with the Coastal Artillery School in autumn 1987.

After the war, the most significant development of the projects were tower cannons 100 56 TK and 130 53TK. The lighter cannon (100 TK) was developed by the Soviet Union from the T55 tank cannon, which was bolted fixed in a rock quarry or concrete pit built position. The problem to be solved was the recoil of a fixed installation. In a tank wagon, it happens by the hull sway. The cannon succeeded in designing functional flexibility restorers that dampened recoil to the required level.

The advantages of a 100 millimeter cannon were its long barrel high output velocity. The suitability for Finland in the early 1960s from the Soviet Union purchased Hämeenmaa-class escort ship cannons. First four-piece 100 TK battery installed on line in the summer of 1970 in Tulliniemi, Hanko.

First Parliamentary Defense Committee as early as the early 1970s focused on the 152/50T heavy modern cannon. It was recommended by the Parliamentary Defense Committee that heavy work be done on the basis of reports and work done for replacement of main equipment in domestic areas in key areas with 130mm turret cannons. The early stages of the investigation included 120mm Bofors cartridge firinga turret canon for which the naval version had already been acquired. The advantage would have been the same supplies for both Coastal Artillery and Navy guns.

Defense experts held the caliber was too small, and the automatic system was expensive. The Soviet solution was thought to be the solution with the 130 mm cannons already purchased for field artillery and motorized coastal artillery. The development project was implemented by Oy Tampella Ab and its subcontractors, and in addition to the Coastal Artillery Bureau, its electrical and electrical weapons departments. Series contract for new equipment was signed in 1982, and cannon installation continued until 1990.