Finland conducts first test-firing of Gabriel V SSM from Hamina class
A Finnish Navy Hamina-class fast attack craft launches an IAI Gabriel V (PTO2020) missile as part of tests on the system carried out in the third quarter of 2025. (Finnish Defence Forces)
The Finnish Navy has conducted a first-of-class test-firing of the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Gabriel V (known in Finnish service as the PTO2020) surface-to-surface missile (SSM) from a Hamina-class fast attack craft.
In a post on the Finnish Navy's website on 22 August, it said that exercises with the new SSM had been conducted over the boreal summer and that the missile had entered operational service.
The PTO2020 replaced the RBS15 SSM on the Hamina class following a mid-life upgrade (MLU) programme, which saw all four ships of the class modernised between 2018 and 2023.
Janes assesses that the Gabriel V, also known as the Advanced Naval Attack Missile (ANAM), has a length of 5.5 m and an estimated launch weight of 1,250 kg. The SSM can reach a maximum speed of Mach 0.8 and has a range of over 200 km. According to the Finnish Defence Forces, PTO2020 can also be used for land attack and is equipped with a radar seeker, while also using global navigation satellite services (GNSS) positioning and inertial navigation.
PTO2020 is to also equip the Finnish Navy's four future Pohjanmaa-class corvettes, while land-based versions of the missile are scheduled to replace Finland's truck-mounted MTO 85M anti-ship missiles for coastal defence before 2030.
The Commander of the Finnish Navy, Rear Admiral Tuomas Tiilikainen, said that “by installing the missile system [PTO2020] on several different platforms, we will achieve combat durability and a wide-area strike capability on land and sea”.
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