Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

Fun fact: nearly all males in Finland go through mandatory conscript service which includes training to use this very same gun (without the folding mechanism and with full auto setting, of course). The mandatory training includes passing required tests which include tearing down the gun and rebuilding it in 30 seconds, blindfolded. I was a bit unlucky during the test day because I had to do it outdoors when it was -30 degrees Celsius outside, so it was quite hard for your fingers (some parts are small enough so you cannot keep using the winter gloves for the whole process). All the parts were obviously about -30 degrees Celsius because the gun had been outdoors with us for a couple days at that time. I cannot remember if the body was stamped or milled in the gun that I had in 1998 for my conscript service.
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@dominuslogik484 Finnish and Estonian indeed have very similar sounding sounds. When a Finn hears Estonian, it sounds weird because some words sound identical to Finnish words but the meaning is different.
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Finnish Defence Forces (Finland does not officially have army) has a bit boring style. The RK95 is literally short for "Rynnäkkökivääri 1995" or Assault Rifle 1995. Nearly all the other equipment follows equally functional naming standard. When I was doing my conscript service, we still had to use RK62 76. It was a pretty accurate rifle but due it's age, the accuracy of each specific gun depended on its history. Some conscripts mishandled the guns and the accuracy of the rifle was permanently damaged. As part of the basic training, all conscripts are trained to tear down the gun to pieces and build the gun again blindfolded outdoors – I don't remember the time limit for sure but I think it was 30 seconds. I was a bit unlucky and the outside temperature was -30 °C so it was a bit painful because some parts of the process cannot be done with thick gloves. And I honestly no longer remember the serial number of my gun even though we had to remember it during the service. In the end, Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) did't ever switch to RK95 but used RK 62 M1 or M2 or M3 which is a refurbished and modified version of RK62.
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Very impressive design for such an early semi-automatic rifle. It would have been interesting to have explanation in the same video about why this design didn't catch up and got really popular.
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@dominuslogik484 I would say food was typically around 7–8 out of 10.
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@dominuslogik484 I guess it depends on what you're expecting. It's definitely not haute cuisine fine dining but considering the circumstances, it was good. I don't remember skipping even a single meal during my 8 month service because the food wouldn't have been worth eating. The worst part I can remember is that the liverwurst I was offered had too hard consistency. I like the soft stuff that you can smear with a knife and army stuff was much harder so you had to eat it sliced instead. That's not something I consider awful food.
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