LAPLAND WAR. The Soviet Union is estimated to have had about 5,000 aircraft in 1939, and of these, some 700 fighters and 800 medium bombers were brought to the Finnish front to support the Red Army's operations. Finnish Air Force IL-28 NH-1 Introduction & General History: After the events of the Second World War the Finnish Air Force was looking to re-equip its forces with modern equipment under the conditions of the war treaties. In the conflict, Finnish forces drove the German troops situated in northern Finland out of Finnish territory through military action, in accordance with the terms of the previously established armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union. The Fokker C.V was a Dutch two-seat reconnaissance aircraft. In the Cold War, highway strips were systematically built on both sides of the Iron Curtain, mostly in the two Germanys, but also in North Korea, Taiwan, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. As of 2017, all aircraft in the Finnish Air Force are capable of operating from road bases. Rather than choosing to engage in a fruitless competition for air dominance, the Finnish Air Force focuses on redundancy and survivability: dispersing air strips, practicing emergency highway landings, and erecting a highly mobile air defense grid. Throughout the Cold War the Finnish Air Force maintained a network of secondary airfields including civilian airports and road bases to improve survivability and effectiveness in the event of war. Although the air force had stopped using the swastika on planes after World War II, the symbol was prominent on flags, uniforms and unit emblems for decades, a spokesman told BBC News. The Finnish air force said that, having been von Rosen's symbol, the swastika remains in some Air Force unit flags and decorations, albeit no longer that of the central Air Force Command. Finnish Air Force - Aircraft of the Winter War.- The Fokker D.XXI was a Dutch single-seat fighter. The Bristol Blenheim Mk. The war starts . The Bristol Bulldog IVA and IIA were single-seat fighters of British origin. The Finnish Air Force (FAF or FiAF) (Finnish: Ilmavoimat, Swedish: Flygvapnet) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces.Its peacetime tasks are airspace surveillance, identification flights, and production of readiness formations for wartime conditions. For the Finnish Air Force, World War II ended in the Lapland War that began in October 1944. As stipulated by post-war agreements with the Soviet Union Finland … I and IV were three-seat twin-engine bombers. The Fokker C.X was a Dutch two-seat reconnaissance aircraft and dive bomber. The Finnish Air Force had put up a stiff resistance to the numerically stronger Red Air Force during the Winter War (November 1939 – March 1940) and in so doing had gained invaluable experience. Finnish Air Force F/A-18 Hornet multirole fighters operated also from a road base in Vieremä. Bristol Blenheim BL-129 of Finnish Air Force LeLv 44. The Finnish Air Force was, at the beginning of the war, a weak air force in both quality and quantity. The Winter War began on November 30, 1939, when the Soviet Air Force bombed 21 Finnish cities and municipalities.