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Coastal Brigade Maritime surveillance 24/7 and the security at the Gulf of Finland are important factors that maintains the readiness at Coastal Brigade. Read more Coastal Brigade How to contact us? Navy Here you can find contact information for C...

Nyland Brigade trains versatile coastal ranger troops with high performance capability Training The Nyland Brigade trains, among others, companies with coastal jaegers, mortar gunners and engineers as well as headquarters and signal companies, mil...

The Coastal Brigade operates in all conditions on the coast 24/7 all year round Coastal Brigade consists of Headquarter and three divisions. Those three are: Porkkala Coastal Battalion: Support Company, Transport Company, Military Police Company a...

Brigade-level units The brigade-level units of the Finnish Navy are subordinate to the Commander of the Finnish Navy. The Finnish Navy has bases in Turku, Kirkkonummi, Raseborg and Helsinki. The Navy is an independent branch that employs approxima...

Conscripts at Nyland Brigade The Nyland Brigade is planned, equipped and trained for battle missions in the demanding special conditions along the coast and in the archipelago. The Nyland Brigade produces among others coastal jaeger, mortar, engin...

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Training areas of the Finnish Navy The Navy carries out its statutory training task. Firing exercises with live ammunition are a requirement when training soldiers. Blind ammunition and simulators cannot completely replace live exercises. Movement...

Conscript training in the Navy It is great that you are interested in or that you have been ordered to carry out your military service or your voluntary military service for women in the Navy. The Navy offers versatile, interesting and challenging...

Contact information The main base of the Coastal Brigade is located in Kirkkonummi in the Upinniemi Garrison. Address: Coastal Brigade P.O. Box 5 02471 UPINNIEMI, Finland Telephone +358 299 800 (switch board) E-mail [email protected] Share on Face...

Contact Information Our national switch board number is +358 299 800. All numbers beginning with 0299 are mobile phone numbers. You can send text messages to all direct numbers. Finnish Navy Navy Command PO BOX 58, 20811 TURKU Rykmentintie 15, 208...

Welcome to the Finnish Navy! The In Service with us section provides information for the new recruits entering military service and Navy reservists. The Navy is one of the three services of the Finnish Defence Forces. A total of approximately 3,50...

For conscripts If you speak Finnish and are doing your military service in the Navy, you will always start in the Coastal Brigade. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn | Print Share via Email Coastal Brigade P.O. Box 5 FI-02471 UPI...

As a conscript in the Naval Academy The Naval Academy takes in conscripts for the Reserve Officer Course that is organized twice a year. In addition to this, conscripts serve at the school as ship’s cooks, graphic designers and with special tasks ...

2.4.2026 | For several years, the Navy has been developing a comprehensive capability to produce virtual exercises to train soldiers with better skills. This time, the Navy is piloting a procedure exercise for the virtual training environment for trainees to practise situations involving damages on a vessel in a setting that simulates reality.

27.2.2026 | Finnish Navy hosts NATO:s small scale operational experimentation exercise Dynamic Messenger in Upinniemi from 2nd to 13th March.

5.6.2024 | The Finnish Navy will participate in exercise BALTOPS24 organized in the Baltic Sea from 5 to 20 June with vessels, coastal troops and staff officers on different command echelons. Troops from 17 countries will be involved in the exercise the total strength being some 6600 soldiers. Of these, the number of Finnish soldiers will be 330 at most.

16.6.2025 | This year, the Open Regional Military Championships in Naval Pentathlon will take place in Finland, in the Upinniemi garrison on 23-28 June. The local organiser is the Coastal Brigade. The umbrella organization of military sports, International Military Sports Council (CISM), coordinates the organisation of championships and makes sure the rules are being followed.

17.10.2024 | A detachment from the United States Marine Corps, Marine Rotational Force unit, led by Combat Logistics Battalion 8, has arrived in Finland and will train together with Nyland Brigade until the end of December. The detachment with a strength of 200 Marines will be stationed in Nyland Brigade and it will mainly operate within the Brigade´s training areas.

27.6.2024 | The French amphibious assault ship FS Mistral will arrive in Helsinki for a scheduled port visit from 27 to 30 June 2024.

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