Helsinki Air Defence Regiment

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The Helsinki Air Defence Regiment (Helsingin Ilmatorjuntarykmentti, HELITR) is a unit of the Armoured Brigade in Parola.^[1] The regiment was previously an independent Finnish Army unit located in Hyrylä (in Tuusula municipality, some 30 km north of Helsinki). The regiment trained 800 conscripts per year.

In 2005 the Minister of Defence Seppo Kääriäinen announced that the garrison in Hyrylä would be closed as part of a cost-saving restructuring of the Finnish Defence Forces. On January 1, 2007, the operations of the regiment moved to the Armoured Brigade in Parola. Closing the Hyrylä garrison saves the Defence Forces about 5 million euro per year.^[2]