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Finland SOURCES OF EQUIPMENT
By the late 1980s, nearly 40 percent of Finnish
military
equipment purchases were of domestic manufacture, the
remainder
being imported about equally from Soviet and Western
sources. The
Soviet Union was the largest single source, followed by
Sweden,
France, Britain, and the United States. Finnish industry
was
capable of supplying many of the Defense Forces' needs for
explosives and ammunition, light weapons, mortars and
artillery,
ships, and transport. Low-level radar and many other
electronic
items were also being produced locally. Finland continued
to be
dependent on foreign suppliers for jet aircraft and
helicopters,
missiles, tanks and most armored vehicles, and
antiaircraft
systems.
Data as of December 1988
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