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Not a tank!

A picture says "Norwegian tanks from the Second Batallion under the Norwegian Army in" but the vehicles in the pictures are not tanks but CV90 infantry fighting vehicles. The only tank in service with Norway is the Leopard 2. BTW where is the list of the inventory of the vehicles used by the Norwegian Army? I see the amount and types of ships and aircraft on the pages of the Navy and Air Force but on the page of the Army I see no list of the amount and types of armored vehicles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.105.181.214 (talk) 12:34, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article name

As this page from the Norwegian Army gives the name in English to be Royal Norwegian Army I propose a move to that name. Inge 13:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Units

Porting what I have written in the talk page for the Norwegian Defence Force.

Well, June month's issue of RAIDS, a French language military review, dedicates an article to Norway's military. Here are some scans, with translations, of the tables:

Norwegian Army - according to the article, the 6th reserve brigade shall be dismantled under the Army 2008 reform plan. ISTAR stands for "Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance".

Norwegian Air Force

In both cases, sorry for the bad quality of images, but I am not really skilled in using skanners and Photoshop. There is also a table of the Navy, but it says that the near entirety of the Navy is regrouped at Bergen and that a Battalion of "Rangers" is under the Navy command. The Coast Guard is said to have 21 flotillas (based at Harstad and Haakonsvern) and a battalion of "Coastal Rangers". Russoswiss 01:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some information from a "local".

The Army's Logistic Education and Competence Centre (LOGUKS) at Sessvollmoen Camp is renamed "Forsvarets Kompetansesenter Logistikk (FKL)", which loosely translates into "Defence Centre of Logistic Competence". It is currently an independent, joint asset (common for all services), and should be considered to be deleted from the army-article alltoghether.--80.143.242.118 (talk) 19:46, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AG-3

The AG-3 rifle is a battle rifle, not an assault rifle; it's 'full calibre', rather than the smaller 'intermediate calibre' required to designate it as an assault rifle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.50.212 (talk) 23:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The HMKG Boot Camp is no longer located at Rena, it has been moved to Terningmoen —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.109.76.218 (talk) 22:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Student Officers

There should be a picture of the insignia (the "S") of Student Officers too. Daniel337 (talk) 20:02, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Typos

After having looked over the article, I see a LOT of typos and outright wrong info in this article. For instance, that we've ordered 152 new Leopard 2s? That there's still 20 Leopard 1A5NOs in service? From what information the military's released, the Leo 2A5 was retired last year. The article should be given a full quality check to root out the mistakes and improve quality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.202.54.63 (talk) 12:24, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the Leo 1A5 is retired. Telemark Battalion and Panserbattalion uses Leo2A4NO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.71.204.50 (talk) 12:18, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Norwegian specialforces engadgments

The various special forcesof norway has been involved in many more operations than the ones mentioned. Both in afghanistan and Kosovo. Mortyman (talk) 22:51, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Royal Norwegian Army?

Is the Norwegian Army really the Royal Norwegian Army? -- Nidator ^{T / C} 11:58, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not that I've heard, no. The Air Force and Navy are both Royal, but the Army I've never heard been called Royal. Both seem to be in use at the armed forces' website: [1], [2]. It seems to me that the articles which leave out the Royal bit are most numerous. Also, the Norwegian government [3] leaves out the Royal. In fact, I couldn't find a single "Royal" Norwegian Army on regjeringen.no. I think the correct name for this article is simply "Norwegian Army". If there's no justified objections, then I'll move the article within a few days. Manxruler (talk) 19:22, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done As no counter-arguments were made in three days, the move back to the original name has been made. Manxruler (talk) 20:28, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chief of staff

The link to Chief of staff Harald Sunde points to the wrong person. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.113.188.65 (talk) 21:54, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Cold War

I have added the Cold War to engadgments. Someone is proabably gonna say that this is'nt really a war. But Norwegian defence forces, special forces, navy, army, airforce and iteligence operatives were all involved in the Cold War, keeping an active eye on the Soviet Union and activities . Mortyman (talk) 18:23, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Size

OK, i know some militaristic individuals would love to have 220 000 strong army, but fro crying out loud Norwegian army has only 2 active brigades, therefore 10 000, 15000 personal at most. Could someone confirm this with Norwegian MOD, right now it looks ridiculous.

As to 800 000 reserves, sorry that's just utter nonsense too, norm is 5% of the active male population, therefore reserves should be in the region of 4.8 million x 2.5% = 120 000, after all there are only 11 reserve brigades or home guards brigades, each brigade having 5000 men, you are looking at 55 000 strong reserves. I don't think Norway needs that large army, after all Russia is the only potential threat to Norway's security, but at least at this point relations between the two countries is relatively good, unless i am missing something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.53.72 (talk) 15:59, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Emblem

It's simply the wrong enblem. Read this http://www.mil.no/fakta/start/om/#0 --Magnode (talk) 21:07, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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boom bang

aaah... just kidding....don't get so scared man..ur my people..lol — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.97.61 (talk) 18:21, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Scottish brigade

In August 1940 Army High Command took over command of the Norwegian Army camp, Dumfries, Scotland. The camp was established in June 1940 and named Norwegian Reception Camp Dumfries, consisting of some 500 men and women, mainly foreign-Norwegian^{[clarification needed]} who had volunteered for war duty in Norway during the Nazi-occupation in the spring of 1940. When the Army High Command took over, there were 70 officers and about 760 privates in the camp. Throughout the summer the numbers increased to around 1,500 as several Norwegians stranded abroad made it to Britain. It was however not a big growth, many of them were transferred to the Norwegian and British navies, Norwegian merchant ships, air force or SOE.^[1]

− The soldiers in Dumfries had uniforms and had no heavy equipment brought over from Norway, including machine guns and artillery. Arming of the Norwegian Army had at this time little priority for the British Government. Later on the British Government would give them weapons of varying quality, for a large part surplus material from World War I.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "The Norwegian Brigade in Scotland 1940 - 1945". Home.Online.no. Retrieved 15 February 2009.

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npov

Part of the text sounds like its written by Forsvarets Pressetjeneste as a recruitment brochure for HMKG:

Garde is a battalion with high standards in physical fitness, dependability, loyalty, independence, discipline, morale, sense of order, ability to lead themselves in uniform, and the ability to balance their complicated guard duty with relationship to the civilian environment. What can be read in the Norwegian press is something else: guardsmen hiding under their beds when an emergency alarm i sounded and guardsmen failing to qualify for foreign service.Creuzbourg (talk) 21:08, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Updated now.--Znuddel (talk) 20:34, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Creuzbourg (talk) 18:00, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[DUMFRIES-1] "The Norwegian Brigade in Scotland 1940 - 1945". Home.Online.no. Retrieved 15 February 2009.

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