Finnish FRDF Militarised Defender 110 FFR

History

Joint-Forces.com's Military Land Rovers series (part 38) describes two batches of Defender 110 station wagons in Finnish service. After the near-civilian first batch, the Finnish Rapid Deployment Force took a second, partially militarised batch of Td5 station wagons around 2005. These were Fitted For Radio communications vehicles with integrated bumper winches, bull bars, brush and steering guards, raised air intakes, large roof racks and multiple antennae, running on pierced steel rims with studded winter tyres. The photographed example, on a snowy Norwegian exercise, carries FRDF on the doors, a short rear roof rack with an amber lamp bar, two whip antennae and a rear-door spare.

The registry's model shares the Finnish station wagon body with the rack, lamp bar and antennae, bull bar, winch and raised intake, black pierced wheels and FRDF lettering; in the game it carries winch pickups.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Land Rover (Defender 110 station wagon Td5)

Manufactured

Second batch, about 2005

Modifier / coachbuilder

Finnish Defence Forces (FFR communications fit, winch and guards)

Engine type

Land Rover Td5 2.5 L turbo-diesel

Production run

Small batch; count unknown

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Operated in

Finland

Status

unknown

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Defender

Wheels

4

Nominal wheelbase

110″

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.

Sources & citations

Researched sources

• MLR 38 — Finnish Defender 110 Station Wagons ↗ — Joint-Forces.com (accessed 2026-09-11)

Catalogue references

• https://www.joint-forces.com/land-rovers/32338-mlr38-finnish-defender-110-station-wagons https://www.joint-forces.com/land-rovers/32338-mlr38-finnish-defender-110-station-wagons ↗