UPDATES
5th of May 2008
Minor update to the website. Unfortunately no new pages this time, but small improvements and fixes all over the website.
6th of December 2007
As a personal way of celebrating Finnish Independence Day I made this small update. It goes into new area, which I have long planned adding to this website, but have not been able to find time before - operations and battles. While back I was contacted asking information about this operation and once I had did some writing about it I started considering adding it to the website - and here it is. Also minor text update concerning production of AVS-36 automatic rifle and some wartime photos added in armoured trains and landmines pages - the particular pages are marked with (UPDATED).
23rd of September 2007
The main new content of this update is mine throwers and mortars, the subject which the website now gets six pages of information gathered from variety of sources. Since very little (only few articles) have been previously written about the subject even in Finnish, writing these pages proved difficult but interesting. I also succeeded finding some test reports concerning live fire testing of armour piercing rounds done in Finnish Army Field Artillery Testing Grounds in Niinisalo year 1943. This information has been added to variety of pages. In addition the same thing as always - bunch of pages have received smaller or larger updates. These are marked with (UPDATED).
28th of February 2007
This update contains the last part of armoured trains series, which completes the history of Finnish armoured trains. Included are also additional drawings showing wagons and locomotives that were used in these trains. Don't be spooked if your web-browser informs you about active content - I added some java code to each page. The code is just a connection to Google Analyst, which is the tool I am testing for getting statistics about traffic in the website. If it works as planned hopefully I get some idea which pages are most popular and what pages I should concentrate improving in the future. As usual number of pages have been updated. These updated pages have been marked with (UPDATED).
4th of September 2006
This update contains the next part of armoured trains series, history of Finnish armoured trains from end of Civil War in 1918 to 1940. Included are also drawings giving more detailed view of wagons used in Finnish armoured trains and their development. Another major new update are two pages containing often asked information of Finnish pre-WW2 and WW2-era military small arms projects, which never reached mass-production. Or at these particular weapons failed to reach mass production in time to be used in World War 2. As usual there are also number of minor and bit larger improvements in pages marked with text (UPDATED).
4th of May 2006
Minor update concentrating fixing typos, improving rediability and adding some new information to existing pages. Naturally also few photos added every here and there. Pages with new information or corrections in information have been marked as updated.
17th of November 2005
Getting this update ready took several months more than I originally expected. This was mainly due to problems concerning the Part 1 of armoured trains, which ballooned up four times the size originally intended. Anyway, that is the main contents of this update - Part 1 of armoured trains telling about armoured trains in Finnish Civil War at year 1918. Another area, which got quite a lot of new stuff is antiaircraft-machineguns and anti-aircract guns pages. This was possible thanks to to two new books published in Finland this year and some remarkably rare military manuals (some of which I got to loan from friendly collector who prefers to remain anonymous). As usual the website has also smaller updates all over the place. I tried my best to add some additional background information to some of the small arms and also succeeded finding some new small arms manuals, from which the data is now added. I also tried to improve readbility in some of the pages. Some links added to Links-page and some links updated.
13th of March 2005
The website is now in new webhosting up and running. Due to break in communications the website didn't work properly during the last three weeks or so. Incidentally I had a update coming up, but due to certain problems with the website it the update became bit different then what I had planned. Anyway, to the updates we go: