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Camping with the Defence Forces

Camping with the Defence Forces

Laid-back camping and hiking is fine and a globally well understood thing. Among other things Finns sometimes do differently than others is military excercise and reservist training as a replacement...

EKS/SCMM 2018, Part 6, Team Leka firearms training

EKS/SCMM 2018, Part 6, Team Leka firearms training

Four basic rules for safe weapon handling. Handle your weapon as if it were loaded. ALWAYS! Do not point your weapon at anything that you are not ready to destroy....

EKS/SCMM 2018, Part 5, Team Leka Final march exercise

EKS/SCMM 2018, Part 5, Team Leka Final march exercise

Training rehearsal and recon mission 6-8.4.2018. Our march is approaching and the demands put on us by our training have grown. This time we rehearsed our march and did a...

Varusteleka's brands 12-month warranty

12 Monate Garantie auf die Marken von Varusteleka

Zusätzlich zu unserem regulären 100-tägigen Rückgaberecht haben alle unsere Produkte Särmä, Särmä TST, Terävä und Jämä eine 12-monatige Garantie gegen Material- und Verarbeitungsfehler. Die 12-Monats-Frist beginnt mit dem Tag, an...

Särmä TST Backpack Use as Day Pack Lids

Särmä TST Rucksack zur Verwendung als Tagesrucksackdeckel

Särmä TST Tages-/Kampf-Pakete sind so konzipiert, dass sie am Särmä TST RP80 Aufklärungspaket befestigt werden können, um als Tagesrucksackdeckel verwendet zu werden. In diesem Tutorial zeigen wir anhand eines Särmä...

Varusteleka Profit Report 2017

Varusteleka Profit Report 2017

We have crunched the numbers, and our results from 2017 are in. Here’s a little recap of everything that happened last year.In general 2017 was a little hectic. We kicked...

EKS/SCMM 2018, Part 4, Team Leka Fitness

EKS/SCMM 2018, Part 4, Team Leka Fitness

Our team continues training and this time we had scheduled some physical training at our gym. Coach for this session was Petteri Kantola. Petteri is officer (ret.), assumingly gentleman as...

EKS/SCMM 2018, Part 3, TCCC

EKS/SCMM 2018, Part 3, TCCC

Preparation for SCMM continues. Our goal is to refresh our basic soldier skills, and this time we were focusing on Tactical Combat Casualty Care basics. We managed to get ourselves...

How to dress in layers

Wie man sich im Schichtenlook kleidet

Dieser Artikel ist aus finnischer Sicht und unter Berücksichtigung des nordischen Klimas verfasst. Und da wir völlig kommerziell handeln, basiert die vorgestellte Kleidung auf der Auswahl von Varusteleka. In diesem...

EKS/SCMM 2018, Part 2, First March Exercise

EKS/SCMM 2018, Part 2, First March Exercise

We held our patrol group's first training march on 12.12.2017. The purpose of this training march was to try operating as a group, as well as to test the base...

EKS/SCMM 2018 Team Leka Introduction, Part 1

EKS/SCMM 2018 Team Leka Introduction, Part 1

How to spend some quality time with the colleagues? Well, taking part into demanding military patrol competition, instead of drinking beer at cozy Sotima bar. But such is life at...

Särmä TST RP80 recon pack assembly and adjustment

Särmä TST RP80 recon pack assembly and adjustment

The pictured RP80 is an early production piece, some details such as buckles and has changed since then but the assembly is done exactly as described in this tutorial. A:...

Särmä TST Clothing system

Särmä TST Clothing system

A comprehensive and functional four-season clothing system designed foremost for the Finnish military end-user. Our system offers significant improvements in weight-saving, comfort and functionality when compared to their Finnish Defence...

Palveluksessa I/17, osa 1

Palveluksessa I/17, osa 1

Suurimmalle osalle suomalaisista miehistä tulee eteen aika, jolloin valtio kutsuu suorittamaan velvollisuutta, ja voihan sinne naisiakin vapaaehtoisesti hakeutua: intissä on jo kauan sanottu sukupuolineutraalisti ihan vaan "taistelija", niin edistyksellinen laitos...

HAVU 2016 harjoitus

HAVU 2016 harjoitus

Kainuun MPK järjesti jälleen Havu -harjoituksen. Olin kuullut paljon hyvää kyseisestä harjoituksesta ja tänä vuonna kävi niin hyvin, että kalenteri antoi myöden osallistua. Tämän tyyppiset harjoitukset ovat aina loistavia mahdollisuuksia...

Washing textiles

Textilien waschen

Das Waschen von Kleidung und anderen Textilien wirft manchmal Fragen auf. Wir versuchen, auf jeder Produktseite die bestmöglichen Pflegehinweise zu geben, aber ein separater Artikel hat dennoch seinen Platz, um...