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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...

Contact information Navy Command of Finnish Navy P.O. BOX 58 FI-20811 TURKU, Finland Rykmentintie 15, Turku Telephone 0299 800 (switch board) E-mail Official e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Head of Finnish Navy Commander of the Finnish...

Navy Command The Navy Command Finland is located at the historical Heikkilä Garrison in Turku. The Navy Command Finland is led by the Chief of Staff of the Finnish Navy, Commodore Janne Huusko. Civilian and military experts, as well as the musicia...

What does the Naval Academy do? We train and educate skilled military professionals for the diverse circumstances at sea and on the coast. Our research supports and helps to develop all the Finnish Navy. Approximately 350 students attend the Naval...

20.7.2026 | Chief of Defence Command Finland, Lieutenant General Vesa Virtanen visited Italy last week. Topics of discussion included defence cooperation between Finland and Italy, crisis management operations and NATO cooperation.

20.7.2026 | The President of the Republic has appointed Colonel Antti Lautala to the general staff for the period 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2031 and has ordered him to serve as Deputy Section Chief at Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, USA.

French Amphibious Assault Ship to Visit Helsinki The French amphibious assault ship FS Mistral will arrive in Helsinki for a scheduled port visit from 27 to 30 June 2024. 27.6.2024 | 9.57 Navy to participate in exercise BALTOPS24 with vessels and ...

4.8.2026 | The keel of the fourth Pohjanmaa-class multi-role corvette was laid at the Rauma shipyard on Tuesday 4 August 2026. The keel laying ceremony is a traditional milestone of symbolic importance in the construction of a vessel which marks the concrete start of the assembly of the blocks of a warship.

15.7.2026 | Recruits who started their service in the Lapland Jaeger Battalion and the Rovaniemi Air Defence Battalion swear the military oath or give the military affirmation in Keminmaa on Saturday, 8 August. The ceremony is held on the Keminmaa School Campus and sports field.

2.3.2026 | Offshore patrol craft Tursas will be handed over to the Defence Forces by the Border Guard as part of new Turva-class offshore patrol vessels being introduced into service.

6.2.2026 | The Coastal Fleet’s annual winter operations exercise LUMIUKKO26 will be conducted in the Gulf of Finland and the Archipelago Sea from 6 to 12 February 2026. Winter operations are key parts of the Coastal Fleet’s activities.

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.

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.

26.10.2023 | A detachment from the United States Marine Corps, Combat Logistics Battalion 6 has arrived in Finland for a time of approximately two months. The detachment will train together with Nyland Brigade from the end of October until the beginning of December. This stay is a continuation of our cooperation last year, when a smaller unit from the same battalion trained together with Nyland Brigade in the autumn.

14.7.2023 | The American guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt visits Helsinki on the weekend.

2.11.2018 | Defence Forces Chief of Operations, lieutenant general Eero Pyötsiä, inspected coastal troops in the Northern Coasts 18 exercise on Thursday, 01 November. During the course of the inspection he saw action of the German-Finnish harbor protection unit among others. Finnish led exercises are interesting for partner nations as the environment in Finland is quite different from that of Central Europe. Finnish Navy is an expert in the challenging, shallow waters archipelago.

6.11.2018 | Minister of Defence Jussi Niinistö and the Chief of Defence Jarmo Lindberg inspected Northern Coast 18 exercise in Hanko peninsula area on the 6th of November. Exercise started on the 25th of October and will finish on Thursday the 8th of November and is hosted by the Finnish Navy.

1.11.2018 | In NOCO18 exercise one of the training topics is the information exchange between military and merchant shipping through NCAGS (Naval Coordination and Guidance for Shipping) center. Safe and secure merchant shipping must be enabled even under high risk situations.