A25 hovercraft, image is civilian passenger carrier. The civilian version has seating for up to 52 passengers. Military uses it as a troop and light equipment carrier.
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Not sure if true, but it is really significant. I'll see if I can find numbers for Germany and Poland and Ukraine. Surely they also have significant numbers by now or plan to. France is increasing too, I think. Hell, all of Europe is increasing. Sign of the times.
sep 1, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Hmmm, wikipedia.org says Finland's numbers are 23,850 active duty and 233,000 reserve. So not sure what's going on with the post in the YouTube video. Maybe the post is the government's *wish list* proposal, which would be a helluva surge in soldiers under arms.
sep 1, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Active Duty / Reserve Russia 1,134,00 / 1,500,000 Ukraine 730,000 / 0 Turkey 355,200 / 378,700 France 202,000 / 38,500 Germany 179,850 / 34,100 Poland 164,100 / 37,500 Italy 161,850 / 14,500 UK 141,100 / 70,450 Spain 122,200 / 13,800 Finland 23,850 / 233,000 (Finland's reserves are significant)
sep 1, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Finland's huge Reserves numbers give them an overall soldier strength above even France.
sep 1, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Looking at each country's population makes Finland's number of soldiers under arms even more incredible. If you have 2 arms and 2 legs and most of your fingers and toes, Finland probably gives you an assault rifle and snow boots.
sep 1, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Because Finland has had experience of russia.
sep 1, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, indeed. And Russia's world famous trick of suffering very high casualties compared to their opponents is continuing today in Ukraine.
sep 1, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view