On 16 June, last members of the 92nd Jaeger Battalion of the Bundeswehr deployed in Lithuania for combined training left for home. As part of the agreed NATO measures of deterrence over 200 German soldiers were conducting combined training and exercises for three months with soldiers from Lithuania and other NATO allies, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Volunteers should be enough for carrying out mandatory military service, Lithuanian National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas says, adding that no additional men might be conscripted. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence will propose raising pay for professional troops. […]
The new commander of the Lithuania National Defence Volunteer Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Artūras Jasinskas, hopes to attract up to 3,000 troops to the volunteer forces during his five-year term. […]
NATO Baltic air policing fighter jets were scrambled once last week to intercept and accompany a Russia plane flying over the Baltic Sea, according to Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence. […]
The Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union (LSS) and the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) have signed a cooperation agreement, based on which the two organisations will enhance cooperation and members of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union will assist in protecting the state border. […]
If it transpires that German rifles Heckler & Koch G36 are unreliable, other alternatives will be sought, says Lithuania’s National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. […]
Lithuania’s major online news outlets had their operations disturbed late Thursday night. Experts suspect preparations for a major cyber attack against Lithuania. […]
Lithuania plans to buy Boxer armoured fighting vehicles from Germany, the spokesman for the Lithuanian chief of defence confirmed to BNS on Thursday, adding that the proposal would be submitted to the State Defence Council. […]
The progress made in the establishment of a NATO headquarters, the NATO Force Integration Unit (NFIU) in Vilnius, its leadership, tasks and organization will be presented to national defence leadership, foreign defence attachés in Lithuania, and media at the headquarters of the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces in Vilnius. […]
Visiting Chief of Staff of the United States Army General Raymond T. Odierno says military exercises in the Baltic states will be of “greater sizes” in the future. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė presented the Cross of Commander of the Order for Merits to Lithuania to the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General Raymond T. Odierno. Later on, they discussed the security situation in the region, the presidential press service said. […]
Lithuania is getting involved in an internationally-escalating scandal centred around G36 assault rifles produced by German company Heckler & Koch. […]
Chief of Staff of the US Army General Raymond Odierno is visiting Lithuania. […]
Soldiers of the 4t Infantry Division of the United States deployed in Lithuania for combined training will carry out training flights by U.S. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters early in the morning of July 5, Sunday, over the Lithuanian regions of Utena, Panevėžys, Šiauliai, Kaunas and Alytus. […]
Two Lithuanian soldiers from the National Support Element (NSE) have been seen off to the Operation ATALANTA in Africa, the Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday. […]
On 1 July, a US Air Force‘s C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft landed at Vilnius International Airport bringing 80 members of the Germany-based 4th Infantry Division’s Mission Command Element (MCE) under the command of Brigadier General Michael Tarsa for combined training in Lithuania, the Ministry of National Defence Said. […]
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