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The Air Forces of Finland, Norway and Sweden will host multinational Arctic Challenge Exercise 2023 from 29 May to 9 June 2023. More than one 150 aircraft from 14 nations will participate in the air exercise carried out in the airspace over the northern areas of the host countries.

24.3.2025 | Finland deploys five F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets to the Ramstein Flag 25 exercise at Leeuwarden Air Base in the Netherlands from 31 March to 11 April 2025.

30.3.2026 | The introduction into service of the F-35 capability progresses, and the first multirole fighters will be flown to Finland this autumn. In this article, the Commander of the Finnish Air Force and the Director of the F-35 Programme explain details of how the service introduction of the fighter jet in the course of the year will take place.

16.5.2025 | The final exercise of the unit training phase 1/25 (JPH 1/25) consists of a base operations exercise and Baana 25 highway strip exercise. The Finnish Air Force conducts the exercise biannually at its different bases.

7.4.2025 | The Commander of the Finnish Air Force visited Lockheed Martin's F-35 production line in Fort Worth and the Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith at the end of March. Finland's first F-35 fighter jets are currently in production, and preparations are underway at the training bases for the arrival of Finnish personnel.

The Finnish Air Force is one of the oldest aerial warfare service branches in the world to operate without interruption since its establishment in 1918.

29.9.2023 | The Finnish Air Force is set to participate in the Frisian Flag 23 live air exercise in Netherlands with two F/A-18 Hornet multi-role fighter jets on September 29 to October 13.

11.4.2025 | Finland participated in NATO’s large-scale live-fly exercise alongside Allied nations.

27.6.2025 | Commander of the Finnish Air Force, Major General Timo Herranen starts as a Space Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces alongside his duty. In this article, Herranen provides insight into what space capabilities come down to from the viewpoint of defence.

16.4.2024 | The Finnish Air Force's F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets will fly training missions with the Multinational Multirole Tanker Transport Unit’s A330 MRTT tanker aircraft on 16–17 and 23–24 April 2024.

28.11.2024 | The year is ending and the commander of the Finnish Air Force changes at the turn of the month. In this article Major General Juha-Pekka Keränen, Commander of the Finnish Air Force, discusses the current status of the F-35 Programme and the aims of the capability introduction in the near future.

8.7.2024 | The Finnish Air Force will participate with five F/A-18 Hornet multirole fighters in the FWIC 24 flight operations exercise in Norway from July 10 to August 2, 2024.

6.4.2016 | The Finnish Air Force is set to deploy six Boeing F/A-18 Hornet multi-role fighters to the Netherlands for the Frisian Flag 2016 combined live air exercise on April 11 to 22.

29.3.2023 | Four Finnish F/A-18 Hornet multi-role fighters will train together with NATO Baltic Air Policing detachments and visit Ämari Air Base in Estonia on 29 March 2023.

5.5.2023 | The Arctic Challenge Exercise from 29 May to 9 June is one of the Europe's largest live air exercises. The exercise will be led by Finland.

5.5.2023 | The Arctic Challenge Exercise from 29 May to 9 June is one of the Europe's largest live air exercises. The exercise will be led by Finland.

10.12.2021 | Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II Page 1 / 4 BASIC INFORMATION Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II is a single-engine multi-role fighter. The Government of Finland authorised the Finnish Defence Forces on 10 December 2021 to procure 64 F- 35A figh...

17.5.2021 | The Arctic Challenge Exercise 21 organised by the air forces of Finland, Sweden and Norway has been scaled down from the original number of participants due to the coronavirus pandemic.

21.5.2019 | ACE 19 air exercise hosted by the Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian air forces will commence on Wednesday 22 May. More than 100 aircraft and several hundred personnel from nine nations will take part. The units in the exercise will mainly be located at the air bases of Bodø in Norway, Kallax in Sweden, and Rovaniemi in Finland.

9.5.2019 | The Swedish, Finnish and Royal Norwegian Air Forces will host the fourth multinational Arctic Challenge Exercise from 22 May to 4 June 2019.