The Karelia Air Wing (Finnish: Karjalan lennosto, abbr. KarLsto; Swedish: Karelens flygflottilj) is the peace-time Finnish Air Force unit responsible for...
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Squadron 11 Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Communications Flight Karelia Air Wing, at Kuopio Air Base Headquarters 7th Control and Reporting Centre Fighter...
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helicopters rescued the survivors and transported them to the city of Kem in Karelia. The passengers were quartered in the garrison's Officers' Lodge. On 22...
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Continuation War (redirect from Battle of Polyarnoe-Karelia)
desire to annex East Karelia. On 22 June 1941, the Axis invaded the Soviet Union. Three days later, the Soviet Union conducted an air raid on Finnish cities...
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Winter War (category History of Karelia)
to expand its borders, especially into East Karelia. Some right-wing groups, such as the Academic Karelia Society, supported a Greater Finland ideology...
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Sukhoi Su-35 (category Mid-wing aircraft)
Regiment – Centralnaya Uglovaya Air Base, Primorsky Krai 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment – Besovets Air Base, Republic of Karelia[citation needed] 790th Fighter...
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R-60 (missile) (category Air-to-air missiles of the Soviet Union)
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 after a navigational error had caused it to fly into Soviet airspace. One missile hit, detaching 4 meters of the left wing and...
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Lapland Air Command, Rovaniemi Air Base Fighter Squadron 11 Karelia Air Command, Rissala Air Base Fighter Squadron 31 Germany German Air Force – 35...
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No. 31 Squadron (Finland) (redirect from No. 31 Squadron, Finnish Air Force)
squadron located in Rissala, near Kuopio. It is the operational part of the Karelia Wing. Fighter aircraft of the squadron is the F-18C/D. Organization of the...
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invasion of East Karelia was a military campaign in 1941. It was part of the Continuation War. Finnish troops occupied East Karelia and held it until...
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Penfentenyo French Air and Space Force 33rd Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Attack Wing Air and Space Force Special Forces Brigade (BFSA) Air Parachute Commando...
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Fascism (redirect from Left-wing fascism)
Italian national syndicalists who drew upon both left-wing organizational tactics and right-wing political views. Italian fascism gravitated to the right...
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Special Air Service Regiment: Who dares wins Royal Australian Air Force: Per ardua ad astra (Latin for "through adversity to the stars") No. 41 Wing: Pass...
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Aerial warfare during Operation Barbarossa (redirect from Axis and Soviet air operations during Operation Barbarossa)
(JG 77) and I.(J)/Lehrgeschwader 2 (Learning Wing 2). The Deutsche Luftwaffenmission Rumanien (German Air Force Mission Romania) under Hans Speidel had...
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Inka Niskanen (category Finnish Air Force personnel)
to lieutenant colonel. In January 2019, Niskanen took command of the Karelia Air Command 31 Squadron, as the first woman to hold such a post in Finland...
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Jarmo Lindberg (category Finnish Air Force personnel)
(Lieutenant). He flew as an officer pilot, instructor and demo pilot in Karelia Air Command in 1982–87, flying Soviet MiG–21BIS 1988 fighter planes, and...
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Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu (category Low-wing aircraft)
Kuusamo, and within the south-central area of modern Russia's Republic of Karelia) and took part in its first mission on 4 May 1943. The mission was to photograph...
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Berlin Blockade (redirect from Berlin air lift)
organised the Berlin Airlift (German: Berliner Luftbrücke, lit. "Berlin Air Bridge") from 26 June 1948 to 30 September 1949 to carry supplies to the...
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to the Soviets barely a year earlier. Finnish troops occupied Eastern Karelia from 1941 to 1944. The massive Soviet Vyborg-Petrozavodsk offensive in...
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Heinkel He 115 (category Low-wing aircraft)
numerous secluded lakes. It served in this role until ambushed in East Karelia on 4 July 1943. Jenny took off but soon had to ditch and the crew was taken...
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Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 (category Low-wing aircraft)
stronger wing, simpler fixed radiator in place of the earlier retractable design, an arrangement of four belt-fed MAC guns (which were heated by hot air to...
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original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2010. "Photo Archive". gov.karelia.ru. Archived from the original on 7 January 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018...
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intelligence activities on the Finnish border in the northwestern district of Karelia and posted pictures of their soldiers at Rättijärvi. The newspaper "Contando...
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ilmavoimat.fi. Retrieved 2018-08-17. "Air Force Academy - Ilmavoimat". ilmavoimat.fi. Retrieved 2018-08-17. "Karelia Air Command - Ilmavoimat". ilmavoimat...
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Ilyushin Il-2 (category Low-wing aircraft)
traffic circle in Samara. This particular plane was shot down in 1943 over Karelia, but the heavily wounded pilot, K. Kotlyarovsky, managed to crash-land...
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Mysterious (21 January 1988) Shizuka (21 July 1988) Joy (15 March 1989) Karelia (4 October 1989) Rosette (4 April 1990) Mind Universe (6 March 1991) Trinity...
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Hawks and F/A-18 Hornets. In January 2019, Niskanen took command of the Karelia Air Command 31 Squadron, as the first woman to hold such a post in Finland...
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on 21 February. In the Ostrobothnia, Central Finland, Savonia and North Karelia regions most Reds were captured, but in Lapland many were able to flee...
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the Soviet Red Army defended Murmansk and the 7th Army defended Ladoga Karelia; thus they did not participate in the initial stages of the siege. The...
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the parliamentary republic, which faced challenges from right- and left-wing extremists. The moderate political parties were increasingly unable to stem...
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