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30.6.2026 | On Monday 6 July 2026, the conscripts of the summer contingent will report for military service in the Army. 9700 recruits will begin their military service in Army brigade-level units. Karelia Brigade, Pori Brigade and Kainuu Brigade will receive the largest numbers of recruits.

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...

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...

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...

Coastal Fleet trains conscripts in many demanding tasks, most on the vessels. Service time varies from 165 days to 255 and 365 day.

Competent reservists with high performance capability are an important part of the Navy capacity The naval reserve officer training is a versatile, ascending package of training, in which the various forms of reserve training support each other. T...

Coastal Fleet consists of Headquarters and four squadrons: 4th Mine Countermeasures Squadron, 6th and 7th Surface Warfare Squadrons and 8th Service Support Squadron. Bases are situated in Turku and Kirkkonummi but the battleships operate around all Finnish territorial waters.

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...

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...

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.

31.5.2024 | The naval mine countermeasures vessel MHC Vahterpää's nine-week period as part of Standing NATO Mine Counter Measures Group 1 will end on 31 May 2024, after which the vessel will return to Finland. 

17.5.2023 | Exercise Atrain 23, led by the Coastal Brigade, will be held 26 May - 2 June 2023. The exercise activities will concentrate on the coast of the Gulf of Finland and the sea areas between the Hanko Peninsula and Hamina.

14.9.2022 | On Wednesday, September 14, 1,303 conscripts will end their conscript service and be transferred to the reserve. Now 84 of the returning are women. The conscription period continues until the end of the year in which the conscript reaches the age of 60.

31.10.2018 | Northern Coasts 2018 has gathered together 4 000 soldiers from 13 countries. Among other things the exercise command takes responsibility of the logistics in order to keep the forces battle ready. In this exercise there is a logistic task group supplementing the organic logistics of the task groups. Logistic task group is formed from units of Coastal Fleet and Coastal Brigade. In addition there are some Swedish detachments in the task group organization.

8.4.2016 | The Navy has released a new video called “The Navy guarantees the security of Finland - naval operations”, which sheds light on the role and the tasks of the Navy to the public.

18.11.2016 | Finnish Navy's main war exercise in 2016 is now completed. During the two weeks long exercise, the tasks of the Navy were put to the test, and tasks such as leadership, the use of fires and cooperation between the branches, as well as with other authorities were exercised.

8.5.2017 | MTH-17 Lyydia is an exercise arranged annually by the Finnish Navy for its naval and coastal units. The exercise will be held in the Gulf of Finland from 22 May to 1 June 2017.

24.10.2016 | The exercise Meripuolustusharjoitus 2016, MEPU16, is the Finnish Navy's main war exercise and the most important operational exercise in 2016.

8.8.2016 | The annual national naval firing exercise of the Finnish Navy, METU-16, will be held from 22 to 26 August and 29 August to 2 September 2016 in the Archipelago Sea and the Gulf of Finland. The aim of the exercise is to improve the know-how of the participating units as well as the interoperability between the services.