Finnish Helicopter Battalion trains personnel needed to maintain flight readiness, to perform service flights for FDF and to give assistance to different authorities. Since 1962 all FDF helicopters are based at Utti Air Base and are part of army aviation.

We are proud to present an update to our first release for ArmA II: FDF Podagorsk 1.1

Version history

1.1

• Bridge leading to hotel works now with AI, also raised up the bridge several meters.
  (AI driving HMMWV or UAZ don´t seem to cross the bridge for some reason)
• Added few heliports to east base.
• Removed few bushes from roads.
• Removed hovering tree above Kirsanov.
• Removed hole from the swamp.
• Added some invisible roads to runway and changed roughness values.
• Removed cinemaborder from intro.
• Ambient civilian module now works.
• Due several requests added landmass between airport and main land.

1.0

• New terrain to ArmA II
• 6 cities/villages
• River and lakes
• Railroads
• About 600 000 objects
• Custom ground textures
• More dispersed and lower grass clutters

FDF Podagorsk requires a working installation of ArmA II: Version 1.0 or higher.

To install it, just extract FDF_Podagorsk_v11.rar to your ArmA 2\Addons directory or use modfolders.

Download mirrors (159 MB):

• http://junk.kegetys.net/xzy/FDF_Podagorsk_v11.rar
• http://armed-assault.de/downloads/fdf-podagorsk-island.html
• http://arma2base.de/include.php?path=download&contentid=1366
• http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=8791
• http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?game=1&cat=islands&id=100
• http://www.eprison.de/files/13/673/6164

(MD5 checksum DFD8848F2857DAD2B133BB5C92AFEE29 | Key for servers: FDF.bikey)

The main weapon of Finnish Air Force, Boeing F-18C Hornet, is a single seat multirole fighter that
replaced older MiG-21bis and Saab 35 Draken fighters in mid 90s. Its main armament consists of
Sidewinder and AMRAAM anti-aircraft missiles.

Recent plans of the FAF also include the possibility of guided air-to-ground weaponary such as AGM-65 Maverick.

New terrain as a playground has been an essential part of FDF Mod. There were East Border and Rukajärvi for OFP. There was Podaga for Armed Assault. Of course we need something now, too.

Podagorsk is an extended version of Podaga. For latest screenshots, there is a huge 50 MB rar archive. Invidual screenshots will be posted at both our own and BIS forums.

NHIndustries NH90 helicopter hovers above the treeline during a landing exercise. NH90 is a state of the art aircraft which has recently entered service across Europe. Finland has chosen the SAR (search and rescue) variant and first helicopters have been in service since 2008.

The legendary British Land Rover brand entered FDF service in 2000. Land Rover 5D Defender seen here is a four wheel drive cross-country vehicle that is used for troop and equipment transport. It was purchased to replace the aging Toyota Land Cruisers and Soviet UAZ utility vehicles.

This beast from Germany touched the Finnish soil for the first time in April 2003. Total of 124 new Leopard main battle tanks replaced old T-72s giving a great amount of performance compared to its old Soviet rival. The chobham-layered 55 000 kg steel monster is equipped with a hard-biting 120mm Rheinmetall smoothbore main gun and two 7.62x51mm MG 3 machine guns.

The workhorse of the Finnish army, XA-180 armored personnel carrier, is seen here on a forest road during trials. XA-180 entered service in 1983 and is operated not only by Finland but also by other nations in numerous peacekeeping operations.

The vehicle is fully amphibious and can carry two infantry squads. Several variants have been developed along the years, culminating in the Advanced Modular Vehicle (AMV) design.

A convoy of Scania R500 8×4 trucks parked beside a gravel road with ammo truck in the front followed by repair and refuel variants. 192 Finnish-built general purpose trucks were recently purchased by FDF after EU-wide contract competition was won by Scan-Auto Finland Ltd.

Scania trucks will phase out various outdated trucks such as Soviet-built ZILs.

With these news FDFmod has jumped on the ARMA 2 bandvagon.

• FDF Rapid Deployment Force Soldiers with several variations
• FDF Special Jaegers with several variations
• Sisu XA-360 (Patria AMV)
• Landrover Defender
• Completely new Podaga island
• All Armed Assault sounds replaced
• 8 new Finnish radio voice profiles
• King’s Gamble single-player campaign
• Multi-player missions

Requires Arma v. 1.14 or higher and Queen’s Gambit expansion.

Please see Downloads page for mirror listing.