An international exercise Fire Thunder 2015 is starting in Lithuania on Monday, involving about 450 troops from Lithuania, the United States, Poland and Portugal. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Friday that over the last two weeks a total of 206 citizens had volunteered to sign up for a 9-month military service, including 9 women. […]
US Paladin artillery systems were brought to Lithuania on Saturday for the first time for an international exercise. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said after meeting with his Baltic counterparts on Friday that the three Baltic states should consider joint acquisition of weaponry as part of defence cooperation. […]
Lithuania’s Armed Forces cannot do without conscripts, they are needed all the time, not for five years only, says opposition leader Andrius Kubilius. […]
Norway will take over the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic states in May, while the Italian contingent will stay in Šiauliai, Lithuania, for the second shift to reinforce the mission. […]
The Lithuanian army‘s Logistics Board handed over about 500,000 munitions for automatic weapons to the police at an arsenal in Linkaičiai on Thursday. […]
US troops currently in Lithuania will Wednesday perform the first combat firing with main combat tanks M1A2 Abrams, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
NATO air policing jets were Tuesday scrambled from Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, to accompany a Russian transport airplane. […]
More than 100 volunteers registered for initial mandatory military service over the first ten days, Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said at the parliament on Tuesday in his presentation of the guarantees and privileges for conscripts. […]
Fighter-jets of the NATO air policing mission in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, were scrambled on Monday to identify and accompany a Russian jet that was flying with its transponder switched off. […]
Lithuania’s Armed Forces and the United States government are in talks about leaving some of the US weaponry in Lithuania, Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says. […]
Media around the world are increasingly focusing on Kaliningrad as the possible next site of Russian-Western confrontation, as Moscow keeps dispatching military equipment to its enclave squeezed between Lithuania and Poland. […]
Lithuania’s Armed Forces intend to establish a new motorized infantry brigade in western Lithuania, with the brigade staff to be set up next year. […]
On April 2 Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with a delegation of US congressmen led by US Congressman and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry, conducting visit in Lithuania, the Ministry reports. […]
NATO fighter-jets guarding the Baltic skies from Šiauliai, Lithuania, were scrambled on Thursday evening to accompany a Russian transport airplane that was flying without a flight plan. […]
Lithuania’s State Defence Council has proposed raising the 2016 defence budget by further 150 million euros. […]
Lithuania’s Armed Forces is Thursday starting to send out induction papers to reserve soldiers for one-day mobilization exercise to check the performance of the mobilization system. […]
On 31 March, soldiers of the Portuguese Armed Forces arrived in Lithuania for combined training as part of NATO reassurance measures in the Baltic region, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
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