We were leaving for a holiday from Kuopio Rissala airport a year ago on a Turkish Boeing 737. At the time, five Finnish F-18s were flying on the field. I joked that if there was any evidence for the Turks about Finland's NATO.
@@rvborgh For a population of just 5.5 million that is actually pretty good in my opinion. Not exactly going to win against a Russian invasion, BUT surely Finland is not such a prized target that Russia would try to overrun Finland by throwing all their airwings at it to overrun Finland's air force...
Not sure why they are flying like that specifically. However, the 3 jets in a line is a "Trail" formation, while the circles are 2 fluid four formations together to create a 0. Why they flew like this I don't know though.
@Suomi Perkele! Or the Typhoon is a copy of Gripen since Gripens first flight was 6 years before the typhoon ;) F-35 might be cool but cost 35-40 000 US$ per Hour to fly, that´s ridiculously insane. Therefore it goes by the name "Hangarqueen"
@@Gripenace calling Typhoon copy of a Gripen makes absolutely no sense based on that argument. I could use the same argument to say that MiG 21 is a copy of F-4 Phantom II because it was released later.
@Suomi Perkele! They kinda ruled out the Typhoon and Rafale didn't they? I do think the Gripens would be better suited here as Sweden is using them as well so if needed Sweden can station and maintain aircraft at Finnish airbases without Finnish ground crews needing to be trained to perform maintenance on a different aircraft, aslo cheaper flight hours and better all weather capability.
