MP Artūras Paulauskas, head of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, says that parliamentary groups of Lithuania have agreed that the country will draft conscripts in 2020-2021. Under current agreement, military draft was introduced for the period between 2015 and 2020. […]
Speaker of the Lithuanian parliament Loreta Graužinienė believes that military conscription must be kept beyond the five years it has been reinstated. […]
Russia‘s actions in Europe, eastern Ukraine and Syria require more resolute response from NATO to ensure security of its eastern members, according to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė who is leaving for Bucharest on Wednesday to meet with leaders of Central-Eastern European NATO member states. […]
The Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence has received two new governmental proposals to purchase infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) from the United States and Poland. As a result, the Ministry decided to carry out additional analysis and referred to companies which had submitted information earlier asking to specify certain data. […]
On 19-25 October, fighter jets conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states performed four scrambles to intercept aircraft flying in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania said. […]
US tanks M1A2 Abrams arrived in Lithuania, Rukla, on Sunday. The tanks will be used in joint Lithuanian–US training. […]
In 2015, people more actively donated to the Lithuanian army by transferring 2 percent of their personal income tax. The number of such contributions has increased seven times. […]
On October 21 at a session of the Land Combat Vehicles (LCV) Support Partnership of the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) in Luxembourg, Lithuania joined the PzH2000 self-propelled 155mm howitzer user project by a unanimous agreement of Croatia, Italy, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands – all the countries taking part in the project. […]
Military personnel from Lithuania and other countries of the NATO Alliance taking part in NATO Exercise Trident Juncture 2015 have redeployed to Spain, set up military camps in San Gregorio and are beginning to train according to the exercise scenario, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Defence ministers and army commanders of Belgium and Luxembourg are coming to Lithuania on Thursday to observe the international military exercise Baltic Piranha. […]
On 20 October in Vilnius, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Andrius Krivas, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defence met with a group of experts from the Influential US think tank Atlantic Council, led by Magnus Nordenman, to discuss current challenges to Lithuania’s security, measures to ensure security and potential support from allies in this field. […]
Draft National Defence System Budget 2016-2018 has been submitted for consideration by the Lithuanian Parliament. With an aim to implement the strategic priorities of the activities of the National Defence System for the nearest future, the demand for defence appropriations for 2016 is EUR 574.0 million, or 1.48 percent of GDP. The sum exceeds the adopted Defence Budget 2016 by EUR 149 million, the Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
Logistics and movement control specialists of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and Mobile Refuelling Unit will provide logistical support to Lithuanian and allied troops taking part in NATO‘s Exercise Trident Juncture 2015 in Spain until 6 November, the Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
Lithuanian soldiers assigned to various units of the Lithuanian Land Force take part in a spectrum of multinational training events and military competitions in Germany, Latvia, Spain and the United Kingdom, the Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
The second of three new helicopters Eurocopter Dauphin arrived in Zokniai Airbase near Šiauliai on Friday. It will be used by the Lithuanian military for search and rescue operations. […]
On 13-14 October, NATO defence planning experts conducted a visit in Lithuania to assess the status quo of Lithuania’s defence capabilities and prospective defence reforms. NATO experts were particularly interested in the steps Lithuania made to respond to changing security situation in the region, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
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