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Finland - Submarines

Finland is the only Baltic state without submarines. The Baltic Sea states currently have five in Poland and Sweden, four in Germany and three in Russia at the Kaliningrad base. It is said that the best weapon against a submarine is another submarine. The submarine is one of the most dangerous and powerful warships of modern times and can be used for many different purposes. The submarine itself is a very great deterrent value. The enemy can never know with certainty where it might be encountered. Or when, how and where it attacks. The submarines have a large and varied weapon load and range. Torpedoes and missiles are standard weaponry.

Considering the magnitude of the defeat and the blows that were dealt to other states fighting on Germany's side during World War II, Finland did not fare badly when the terms for the Treaty of Paris were completed on February 10, 1947. Finnish army to 34,400 soldiers, the navy to 4,500 individuals, and the air force to 3,000. There were also exclusions of equipment of an offensive nature, such as bombers, missiles, and submarines. The Finnish navy was purely a coastal navy without "big ships". In the 1930s the navy had been under a determined upgrading and modernizing program (for a small country's navy), strengthened by submarines and armored coastal vessels. v Germany wanted to build itself a new coastal submarine. As the building of subs was prohibited by the Versailles Treaty, the boat was designed by Germans in Holland and the boat was built in Turku, at the Chrichton-Vulcan drydock. Germany's interest in co-operation was to circumvent Versailles submarine construction ban by developing new submarine technology out of the country. To this end, Germany set up separate engineering firm, NV Inge-nieurskantoor voor Sheepsbouw (IvS) in The Hague, Netherlands, which also worked with the Finnish shipyards (Crichton-Vulcan and Kone and Siltarakennus Oy) as a designer. The most significant German development project was the submarine CV707, which was a prototype of a German Type II coastal submarine.

Germany orders submarine via IvS Crichton-Vulka under which the Finnish State had right. The German Navy made a secret submarine pilot and training activities in Finnish waters during the years 1933-34. In December 1935, Parliament approved an additional estimate of the funds granted to the Defense Forces purchased the CV707 submarine in January 1936. The boat was converted into a military museum in 1959 and can be found at the island of Suomenlinna.

During the World War II, Finland had five submarines: Vetehinen, Vesihiisi and Iku-Turso Vesikko and Saukko. Vesikko participated with four other Finnish submarines in the Winter and Continuation War. After the wars, Vesikko was the only Finnish submarine to survive the collapse. Four other submarines in service during the war years were scrapped in 1953. After extensive restoration work, it was opened to the public as an exhibition site for the War Museum in Suomenlinna in July 1973. The submarine Vesikko is the most visited site of the Suomenlinna Military Museum and a significant naval war memorial worldwide. At present, the museum submarine Vesikko remains the only one in Finnish possession.

Under the Paris Peace Treaty of 1947 between Finland and the Soviet Union, Article 17 states "- Finland shall refrain from making, fabricating or testing any atomic weapon, self-propelled or guided ammunition, or equipment related to its launch (except for torpedoes and torpedo launchers included in the warships permitted by this Treaty). weaponry), non-contact explosive sensing mechanisms, sea mines or torpedoes, manned torpedoes, submarines, or other submersible craft, motor torpedo boats, or special types of assault craft."

The Mir submarines, built in Finland in 1987, were designed in collaboration between Rauma-Repola and the Institute of Marine Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Built in the late 1980s, the Mir submarines represent state-of-the-art technology. The specialty of the ships was that they were able to withstand diving to a depth of over 6,000 meters. The US CIA suspected that Mir ships could be used against a superpower underwater information management system. The CIA and the Pentagon put pressure on Rauma-Repola to stop submarine production and the development of marine technology.

In the 1980s, Finland was one of the leaders in the submarine industry. Mobimar is one of the companies founded in the wreckage of the shipping industry, Late, which closed down in Turku in the late 1980s. Mobimar has built 16 submarines, or nearly half of the world's tourist submarines. The last one went to Korea in 2003. No new ships have been ordered because the old ones are working and very expensive.

Military articles of the Peace Treaty were abolished by a government announcement in September 1990, with the exception of the nuclear section. Nevertheless, no submarines have been purchased for the Finnish Navy.

Iran wanted to buy a military submarine or prototype suitable for shallow Gulf waters from Rauma Oy . In addition, plans included the construction of several submarines as a Finnish-Iranian cooperation project for the Iranian Navy. Rauma Oceanics, a Finnish company based in Tampere, had received an Iranian cooperation offer from an Austrian agency company. Iran was represented by a military research unit under the cover of Isfahan University of Technology. Representatives of the unit told the Finns that Iran intended to increase its own expertise in the production of military submarines. Iran said it was looking for an industrial partner with whom it would build a submarine or submarine prototype . After that, Iran would start serial production of submarines. The project progressed briskly in the fall of 1991. Trade tentatively gave the green light to Finland in Tehran - Ambassador, Ministry of Defense, trade - and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The submarine was supposed to be a 22-meter long diesel electric boat, which would be able to operate at a depth of one hundred meters. However, the shop collided with the wall; possibly after the matter came to American ears.

Finland's own submarine procurement was last discussed in the 1990s. The acquisition of own submarines was presented at the time. later Juhani Kaskeala became Commander of the Defense Forces. According to Jussi Niinistö , Chairman of the Defense Committee of the Parliament interviewed by Suomen Kuvalehti, the acquisition of three submarines would be a billion-dollar investment.

Designed for the marine environment, the NH90 NFH helitcopter provides naval self-propelled flight operations, crew and maintenance supplies (vertical replenishment VERTREP) between boats and ships, and submarine warfare (ASW) anti-surface unit Warfare (ASW). Equipped with dipping sonar, a submersible sonar can both detect submarines and provide a fire solution for ASW torpedoes.