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Petri Mäkelä

@pmakela.bsky.social
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Mlitary analysts, expert of all sorts, writer, reservist, shooter and engineer. B-list talking head. From Finland.

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vesselspotter.eurosky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
#FI #Finland #FNG200 helicopter above the transshipment anchorage #Prisma 9461805 #Aurum 9248552 #ElimJoyce 9340506
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Curious
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vesselspotter.eurosky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Congested anchorages in #GoF #GulfOfFinland these days and weeks? #Russia #BaltiSea @pmakela.bsky.social @volberg.bsky.social @corporalfrisk.com
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MyFry @rampanen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Finnish conscripts being now trained according to lessons learned from Ukraine. I believe it will be a permanent change process. How is it in other Western countries? yle.fi/a/74-20246750 @xtytelman.bsky.social @kaihko.bsky.social @pmakela.bsky.social @pouletvolant3.bsky.social @rikefranke.eu
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Varusmies nukkuu nyt yksin metsässä, ei enää teltassa – syynä droonien uhka
Varusmieskoulutus keskittyy sotaan, jossa teknologia kehittyy jatkuvasti. Luokkahuoneista siirrytään enemmän taistelukentälle ja droonien torjuntaan.
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm genuinely surprised
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vesselspotter.eurosky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
The Woods are full of Finnish Dragoons! #LastStandOnZombieIsland article incl pics from #WinterWar / #ContinuationWar laststandonzombieisland.com/2026/09/15/t... @pmakela.bsky.social @corporalfrisk.com
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The Woods are full of Finnish Dragoons
Here we see, some 85 years ago this month, a Finnish dragoon (Rakuuna) on horseback, 12th of September 1941, near Tsalkki-Suojärvi on the Russo-Finnish border during the Continuation War between th…
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As the world keeps spiraling deeper into madness, this might contain some hard truths that the rest of Europe, besides Ukraine, should learn. youtu.be/uGV3tHdhaJY?...
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12-ТА БРИГАДА «АЗОВ» Х «ПРОЗАК» – ХРЕБЕТ [Прем'єра музичного кліпу до Дня українського добровольця]
YouTube video by АЗОВ
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
sad but true
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vesselspotter.eurosky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
#FI #Finland special forces participating in exercise Arctic Shield 2026 #ArcticShield #ArcticShield2026 #NATO #GL #Greenland #Arctic Source FB 'Forsvaret' #DK #Denmark #Forsvaret @pmakela.bsky.social @corporalfrisk.com @natoatlas.eurosky.social
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ryssä on Ryssälle Ryssä.
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Merz seems to be a bit of a slow learner... There is a choice that needs to be done. Either nation states exist or they don't. A state whose original population becomes a minority will transform so profoundly that you might as well surrender. There has been no discussion id the change is good..
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Seriously, can we just all agree that Russia needs to be dealt with. Once and for all. Rip that rotten hellhole small pieces.
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Russians are loading something odd to a Duygon-class landing ship at Kronstadt. Anyone seen loads like this?
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This goes on every single day
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vesselspotter.eurosky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026
Saturday in #GoF #GulfOfFinland #Russia Volgo Balt 106 #VolgoBalt106 8230077 at anchor (breakdown?) #FI #Finland + #EE #Estonia surveillance flights Anchorages for #Russia traffic seems pretty full @volberg.bsky.social @pmakela.bsky.social
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just €5,690 remains to close our biggest fundraiser ever, with a total goal of €89,490🇺🇦 🔗Support the campaign: www.help99.co/patches/spec... Final goal: a Yak-52 engine for the 11th Army Aviation Brigade “Kherson”.
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My latest article about the newish Pakistan Army assault rifle blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2026/08/paki...
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Pakistani CW39: Rifle development is a flat circle
Vantage Point North: News and analysis from security and warfare related topics with the focus mostly on Russia and Scandinavia. Tanks etc
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Darkwing @darkwinganka.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I believe that this is the first time I hear someone describing the G3 as being easy to manufacture... 🙂
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Darkwing @darkwinganka.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"For the past 30 years, most of the new service rifles have been either attempts to breathe life into the AK.47 carcass, fine tuning the AR-15 or hiding the AR-18/180 into different shells." 😁
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My latest article about the newish Pakistan Army assault rifle blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2026/08/paki...
blog.vantagepointnorth.net
Pakistani CW39: Rifle development is a flat circle
Vantage Point North: News and analysis from security and warfare related topics with the focus mostly on Russia and Scandinavia. Tanks etc
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Black kit for Friday. Drifting out the original rear sight from that CZ-75B was something, had get a bigger hammer... Twice.
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Cope cages on the 57mm guns of the Ropucha class LST are icing on the panic cake.
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Kuten laulussakin sanotaan: "Kaikki ryssät maasta pois" yle.fi/a/74-20243220
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Ainakin 12 Venäjän kansalaisen epäillään saaneen Suomen kansalaisuuden petoksella – ostivat työsuhteen ja kielitutkinnon
Poliisi ja rajavartiosto epäilevät, että henkilö on solminut tekaistuja työsuhteita, joiden perusteella ulkomaiset henkilöt ovat voineet hakea Suomen kansalaisuutta. Toiminta on jatkunut mahdollisesti...
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NAFO_trinzu @trinzu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you cannot donate, please repost this. The same small circle of donors simply cannot carry a €13,970 fundraiser alone. We need NEW eyes 🇺🇦 €5,507/€13,970 Jar: send.monobank.ua/jar/7t8r4DVdTM PayPal: paypal.me/TriinuP Revolut: revolut.me/triinuuqwd
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vesselspotter.eurosky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026
Arrival or departure with mounted copecage? @covertshores.bsky.social @pmakela.bsky.social @volberg.bsky.social
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vesselspotter.eurosky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026
Sub with extended copecage @covertshores.bsky.social @pmakela.bsky.social @volberg.bsky.social
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Keskeytän normaalin #Ahvenanmaa-trollaukseni ihan vakavalla ehdotuksella. Perustetaan rajavartiolaitoksen alaisuuteen nykyisen perustuslain sallima "Luotsi- ja majakkaturvallisuuskeskus" kouluttamaan Ahvenanmaan asevelvollisista heidän erityisympäristöönsä sopivia toimijoita. >
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In otter news the Russian Buyan-M class corvette behind has checkerboard camo at bow and stern to confuse drones and extensive anti-drone netting protecting the bridge and the VLS launcher. #Kronstadt
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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Suddenly destruction is tragic when it is the warehouse, but people’s lives mean nothing to them.
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Nothing tells that you are winning, like construction of sandbag machine gun nests at your naval base on another sea, than the one your enemy is. #Kronstadt
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
New article Floating Bombs: New Trend In Dangerous Fuel Types Aboard Merchant Ships Here -> www.hisutton.com/Dangerous-Fu... We need to carefully consider how this trend in alternative fuels will affect risks and opportunities in naval warfare going forward.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A novel—and, no doubt, fleeting—moment of self-awareness.
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Russian Parchim-class corvette Aleksin is on the loading pier, most likely as a QRF ship for the Baltiysk naval base. Whenever the base steps up its readiness either a Parchim or a Tarantul gets parked there.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Kharkiv right now ‼️ Russian drones attacked residential buildings. At least 2 people confirmed killed. Bastards. Terrorists.
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I wonder if the Yemenis got some "volunteer advisors" wearing a greenish flat hat? 🤔
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roninresearch.bsky.social @roninresearch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@pmakela.bsky.social Pretty sad when you can't even dragoon enough cannon fodder from your own people that you have to hire the Norks...
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Driving down the industrial base and turning the defense contractors into overpriced boutique manufacturers during the past 40 years probably should sting in the hearts of several generations of politicians from both parties. But they will only remember giving back to their donors...
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm not sure if I'm boring when I test my training slideshow out loud 🤔 My assistant refuses to comment
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vesselspotter.eurosky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026
Aleksandr Frolov #AleksandrFrolov doodling in middle of #BalticSea between #Gotland #SE #Sweden and #Latvia #LT Working/excercising with #submarine? @spectrecrouton.bsky.social @mrfrantarelli.bsky.social @pmakela.bsky.social @volberg.bsky.social
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Very interesting development
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Andrii Katriuk 🇺🇦 @andriikatriuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I have many emotions when I see such scum. But I will only say next: everyone who shares this pedo "opinion", everyone who thinks this scum is respectable, everyone who thinks this scum should be promoted and heard - should get exactly what this fecal mass is wishing for Ukrainians. #UkrainianView
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky
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General Melchett's Funny 'BAAAH'
ALT: General Melchett's Funny 'BAAAH'
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Dave L @davel1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We have for too long been making low numbers of high quality multitasking products. We now need large numbers of good enough. You're right.
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sjupris, a Russian skipper who can't see..
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Wrote this to LinkedIn, but might as well share here: Europe is currently rearming itself faster than it has done since the end of the cold war. The past 40 years have changed a lot in the industrial base that is trying to it though. We have two categories of defense industrial companies now:
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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
14th NGU needs 20 mini-Starlinks (€357*20). This fundraiser is very painful for Russian terrorists (cuts logistics), and the guys promised us that we will see some of the results of our help🌝 send.monobank.ua/jar/5AeSu56Lmn PayPal v.titarenko@student.csn.khai.edu
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"7H3 M0N170r" by T1TU5 4NDr0N1CU5
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
That purge went so well that Russians resorted to sending hundreds of thousands of their soldiers into human wave attacks against dug in Finnish defenders, who had the whole area ranged for artillery strikes and all cover spots mined... Huge success. blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2019/11/wint...
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Winter War - A Nation Forged Into One
Vantage Point North: News and analysis from security and warfare related topics with the focus mostly on Russia and Scandinavia. Tanks etc
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Petri Mäkelä @pmakela.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
😍
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