POTD: U.S. Troops with Finnish RK62s and PKM Machine Guns
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Eric B
Published: August 12th, 2022
POTD: U.S. Troops with Finnish RK62s and PKM Machine Guns
Photo Of The Day: We have U.S. soldiers on training in Finland. The U.S. unit got to shoot with the Finnish unit’s RK62 rifles and PKM machine guns. The Finnish troops also provided a mobility demonstration with engineers clearing an opening with a Bangalore in an adversary’s imaginary mine obstacle.
Below: Shooting the RK62s.
And Finns shooting the M4s.
International exercise activity is being conducted at Pohjankangas, where US troops have been training with Pori Brigade’s high readiness unit.
Among other things, the troops have been training together to operate each other’s equipment. In the Weapon Sharing exercise, the US unit got to shoot with the Finnish unit’s RK62 MI assault rifle and PKM machine gun. In turn, the Finnish unit operated the M4 assault rifle and the M240L machine gun of the American unit’s. In addition to infantry troops, other branches as well operated the counterpart’s equipment.
Finns getting acquainted with the M4 rifles.
The U.S. unit was the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division (Iron Brigade).
The Finnish troops also provided a mobility demonstration with engineers clearing an opening with a bangalore in an adversary’s imaginary mine obstacle to allow Jaegers to breach in. Joint training not only contributes to the training of units’ own operations, but also to the interoperability of procedures with international partners.
Images and captions: Puolustusvoimat/Finnish Defence Forces, Jääkäri Rantanen.
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I didn't know the Bangalore was still a thing. Very interesting, looks like satan's lemon juicer.
Training for the next proxy war? Is there a central bank in Finland? Oil? Gas? Gold? There's no limit to what the banksters are willing to steal...