Civilian-specification Defender 110 station wagons taken into Finnish Defence Forces service, photographed with the Finnish Rapid Deployment Force in dark green with FRDF lettering on the doors, roof racks and civilian plates — a body style used far more widely by overseas armies than by UK forces.
BASE VEHICLEDefender 110BUILT BYLand Rover (Defender 110 station wagon, civilian specification)IN SERVICE2000–17OPERATED INFinlandPRODUCTIONProduction variantLAYOUT4 wheels · 110″
The record
Joint-Forces.com's Military Land Rovers series (part 38) looked at the Defender 110 station wagons of the Finnish Defence Forces, bought to civilian specification and used by the Finnish Rapid Deployment Force (FRDF), the Pori Brigade's international readiness unit, for liaison and personnel transport on exercises and deployments. The photographed vehicles, on winter tyres in the snow, are dark green with body-colour roofs, black tubular roof racks, large white FRDF lettering on the front doors, small Finnish flag decals on the rear quarters and civilian white registration plates (JCL-87 and JEC-84). The near-civilian Td5 station wagons were bought through Volvo's Finnish dealership and served from the early 2000s to about 2017, both for liaison work and, with beacons fitted, as convoy escorts for the Pasi armoured personnel carriers. Fleet size is not published.
The registry's model is a Defender 110 station wagon in dark green with the roof rack, FRDF door lettering, flag decal, white plates and silver steel wheels.
Specification
MANUFACTURERLand Rover (Defender 110 station wagon, civilian specification)
MANUFACTUREDIn Finnish service early 2000s to about 2017
FITTINGSRoof rack, winter tyres, FRDF door lettering
ROLELiaison; beacon-equipped convoy escort for Pasi APCs
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEDefender
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE110″
CATEGORYMilitary · Finland
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Imagery
No published image yetA rendering impression or a free-licence photograph will appear here once one is published — the sources below link to photographs elsewhere
Where it was
FI Finland2001–2017 · Finnish Rapid Deployment Force
