Finish Army to Procure New Precision Rifles
The rifles, worth about EUR 10 million, will be procure from the Finish Company Sako
Eyal Boguslavsky
| 27/12/2021
Photo: Sako website
Finish Ministry of Defense authorized last week the Defense Forces to conclude a contract with Finish Sako on procuring a new rifles, worth about EUR 10 million.
The procurement contract includes Precision rifles type 23 that equipped with high-quality optical sights and together with a high-performance precision cartridge, enable marksmen to fire at targets at a distance of up to 800 meters and Rifles type 23 that is intended for use by soldiers in jaeger and infantry groups providing fire support.
With this rifle, a group can provide precise fire at targets at a distance of up to 600 meters. The Army will receive the first set of firearms by the end of 2022 and training in the rifle system is to be started in the course of 2023.
The German website Soldat & Technik tells that despite numerous modernization efforts, the Finnish Army is grappling with serious obsolescence when it comes to equipping them with precision handguns. The snipers use the TKIV 85 rifle from the 1980s, while the Designated Marksman Rifle issued in the infantry is still the Soviet-made Dragunov SWD to this day. The new system is intended to counter this fact.
Finnish company Sako, which has been part of Beretta since 2000, developed the rifles in close cooperation with the Finnish armed forces based on the AR-10 in caliber 7.62 mm x 51. Designated as the Gewehr 23. The German site notes that precision rifle 23 will, according to well-informed circles, be equipped with an M7Xi 2.9 to 20 x 50 optics from Steiner Optik GmbH.
The Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR) 23, which is based on the same system, will have a different, currently unspecified optics.
The rifles, worth about EUR 10 million, will be procure from the Finish Company Sako
Photo: Sako website
Finish Ministry of Defense authorized last week the Defense Forces to conclude a contract with Finish Sako on procuring a new rifles, worth about EUR 10 million.
The procurement contract includes Precision rifles type 23 that equipped with high-quality optical sights and together with a high-performance precision cartridge, enable marksmen to fire at targets at a distance of up to 800 meters and Rifles type 23 that is intended for use by soldiers in jaeger and infantry groups providing fire support.
With this rifle, a group can provide precise fire at targets at a distance of up to 600 meters. The Army will receive the first set of firearms by the end of 2022 and training in the rifle system is to be started in the course of 2023.
The German website Soldat & Technik tells that despite numerous modernization efforts, the Finnish Army is grappling with serious obsolescence when it comes to equipping them with precision handguns. The snipers use the TKIV 85 rifle from the 1980s, while the Designated Marksman Rifle issued in the infantry is still the Soviet-made Dragunov SWD to this day. The new system is intended to counter this fact.
Finnish company Sako, which has been part of Beretta since 2000, developed the rifles in close cooperation with the Finnish armed forces based on the AR-10 in caliber 7.62 mm x 51. Designated as the Gewehr 23. The German site notes that precision rifle 23 will, according to well-informed circles, be equipped with an M7Xi 2.9 to 20 x 50 optics from Steiner Optik GmbH.
The Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR) 23, which is based on the same system, will have a different, currently unspecified optics.
