Between 9 February and 16 February, NATO air policing fighter aircraft patrolling the Baltic airspace were scrambled four times to intercept aircraft flying along the route between Mainland Russia and the Kaliningrad Oblast in international airspace near the borders of the Baltic states, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Troops from nine NATO countries took part in the main planning conference of the Saber Strike 2015 multinational exercises at the General Adolfas Ramanauskas Warfare Training Centre in Nemenčine on February 10-13. […]
Rasa Juknevičienė and Arvydas Anušauskas, conservative members of parliament, have addressed Chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence Artūras Paulauskas asking to include in the agenda of the nearest meeting the issue of privatisation of arms factory Giraitės Ginkluotės Gamykla. […]
The United States and Lithuania have agreed to sign a new agreement on defence cooperation as early as this year, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday. […]
The Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian joint military brigade, currently being established, might hold the first joint military exercises in the coming autumn, Polish Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said in Vilnius on Wednesday. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the country should seek stronger US and NATO presence in Lithuania and closer NATO ties with Ukraine. […]
The Lithuanian army will expand its forces by 450 troops every year, the country’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Monday, presenting activity guidelines for the coming six years. […]
NATO fighter-jets deployed in Lithuania on the NATO Baltic air policing mission were scrambled twice last week to intercept aircraft that had entered the policed area, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Italy, which is serving its first shift in NATO‘s Baltic air policing mission, will leave its fighter-jets in Lithuania longer than planned, while Belgium and Portugal will this year send their troops for training, Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said. […]
The Ministry of National Defence signed an agreement with the Lithuanian Defence and Security Industries Association. Based on the agreement, institutions of the national defence system and enterprises of the defence and security industry will strive for tighter cooperation. […]
Russia‘s President Vladimir Putin may “mastermind a hybrid attack on a Baltic state to test whether NATO would mobilise,” NATO’s former chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has warned. […]
NATO is expanding its rapid response force from 13,000 to 30,000 troops, including a spearhead force of 5,000 soldiers, some of whom could be deployed within “a few days,” alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg says. […]
President Barack Obama‘s nominee for defense secretary, Ashton Carter, said Wednesday he would likely support delivering arms to Ukraine to counter pro-Russian separatists. He also said the United States should do everything to reassure its allies in the Baltics. […]
US arms control specialists will visit Lithuania this week to perform a training inspection flight under the Open Air Space Treaty. […]
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