hmmm

Ture, "bird cans" aren't especially large. But they're not like beer cans. You could never really say "annappa se kaljapönttö" unless you were talking about a barrel or a small bucket of beer.

Didn't we also have some Vickers six-tonners at the start?

If you say so, alls I remembers is one of the tanks we stole from Russia is still being prominently displayed in the Häme Regiment base in Lahti... checks on his facts Fuck, I'm too old for this shit. The Häme Regiment (HämR) was a regiment that was shut down in 2014. I mean, it was about time. But I'm still curious as to what happened to the tank I was talking about... Well, say what you want about LLM's (and they do sort of threaten a lot of society but) but it was pretty good in searching for info like this. I explained to Gemini where I did my service and asked about the tank.

​Where is it now? After the Häme Regiment was disbanded in 2014, most of the heavy historical equipment was moved. That T-34 was relocated to the Parola Armour Museum (Panssarimuseo) to ensure it was preserved and maintained, as the Hennala site transitioned into a residential and civilian area.

So yeah. Anyway, my point was that I just remember reading the sign saying how many we took from the Soviets. And also our lieutenants and whatnot military fanatics giving us some history on them. Then I couldn't remember the number years after so I googled it and saw we only had some puny WWI tanks before. Honestly, I don't even know what a Vickers six-ton is, but I'm guessing British..? (Because I do know what a Vickers gun is) Checking.

Yah. Thanks for the info.

Finland – used 33 tanks since 1938 (including an evaluation tank). They were bought unarmed, without optics and radios. Some were armed with short-barreled 37 mm Puteaux guns and later equipped with 37 mm Bofors anti-tank guns as their main gun with a coaxial turret MG and a "tank SMG" in bow plate. They were used in the Winter War with the USSR. After this war, the Finns rearmed Mark E tanks with captured Soviet long 45 mm guns and DT MGs as used in the T-26. The Finns designated the rebuilt Vickers tanks logically as: T-26Es. They were used in combat from 1941 to 1944 and remained in service as training tanks until 1959.

Oh yeah.

So about half and half apparently:

Before the Winter War (Nov 1939), Finland’s tank forces were minimal, consisting mainly of 32-34 obsolete Renault FT-17 light tanks (acquired 1919) and about 30-32 recently purchased Vickers 6-ton light tanks, which were still being fitted with armament. They had no medium or heavy tanks

So we had like 60 light tanks. By the end of the war we had captured and destroyed, quite a few.

Oh yeah and about the languages, yeah, if you speak both Finnish and English fluently, it's awesome what weird shit you can combine because of the different natures of the languages. My friends used to think me a bit pretentious for inserting English phrases or words into Finnish, but that was like 10+ years ago. Nowadays most speak Finglish pretty fluently and it doesn't matter if you add a bit of London while completely speaking Finnish, as long as you're not doing it just to be pretentious, but because the word/phrase suits better (or you've just forgotten the Finnish word, which happens to me quite a bit nowadays.)