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Encyclopedia > Utti Jaeger Regiment

The Utti Jaeger Regiment (Finnish: Utin Jääkärirykmentti) is the Finnish Defence Forces training and development centre for special forces and helicopter operations. It consists of about 500 personnel of which about 200 are conscripts. The Finnish Defence Forces (Finnish: Puolustusvoimat) consist of 34,700 people in uniform (27,300 army, 3,000 navy, and 4,400 air force). ... Special forces or special operations forces are relatively small military units raised and trained for special operations missions such as Special Reconnaissance (SR), Unconventional Warfare (UW), Direct Action (DA), Terrorism (T), Counter-Terrorism (CT), and Foreign Internal Defense (FID). ... The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors (propellers). ...

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Organisation

  • Helicopter Battalion
  • Airborne Jaeger School
  • Military Police School

Special forces

The airborne jaeger school trains special forces for the whole Defence Force. Conscripts are trained in both long range recon and Sissi operations. Finnish sissi troops on skis during winter. ...


Equipment

  • Mil Mi-8 (6)
  • McDonnell Douglas Hughes 500 (8)

New NH90 transport helicopters have been ordered and will be deployed to Utti. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Mil Mi-17. ... The Hughes H-6 is a family of light utility and assault helicopters of the United States Army. ... The NHI NH90 is a twin-engine, ten-ton multi-role helicopter manufactured by NHIndustries, a company established by Agusta, Eurocopter and Stork Fokker Aerospace. ...


History

The regiment was formed in 1997 from the old Parachute School, the Finnish Air Forces Helicopter Flight, and the Armoured Brigades MP school. The Finnish Air Force (Finnish: Ilmavoimat) is one of the braches of the Finnish Defence Forces. ... The Armoured Brigade (Panssariprikaati) is a Finnish Army unit. ...


The Finnish special forces trace their history to the four long-range patrol units (Kaukopartio-osastot) of the 4th Detached Battalion (Erillinen Pataljoona 4) which fought in the Continuation War. Erillinen Pataljoona 4 (4th Detached Battalion, ErP 4) was a Finnish Army special forces unit during the Continuation War. ... The Continuation War was fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II, from the Soviet bombing attacks on June 25, 1941, to cease-fire September 4, 1944 (on the Finnish side) and September 5 (on the Soviet side). ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Finnish Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (506 words)
The Utti Jaeger Regiment which trains Airborne Jaegers and Special Jaegers is directly under the Defence Staff.
In wartime, the army is composed of Jaeger, Infantry and Armoured Brigades.
Jaeger and infantry brigades are similar, except that infantry brigades are equipped with older materiel.
The Finnish Defence Forces: Utti Jaeger Regiment (1227 words)
Utti Jaeger Regiment is subordinated to the Chief of the Army.
The regiment was established the 1st January 1997, including the Parachute School, the Helicopter Flight transferred from the Air Force and the Military Police School transferred from the Armoured Brigade.
Utti is located on the Salpausselkä ridge, along the road to Lappeenranta and Vyborg, and became thus of strategic importance.
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