On 4 November active phase of the multinational military exercise Iron Sword 2014 began at the Gaižiūnų Training Range and the General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Range. The Training Audience from 9 NATO member states began training offensive and defensive operations in two major training areas of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, the Ministry of National Defence informs. […]
The Lithuanian Military Academy is preparing premises for the projected National Centre of Cyber Security, Defence Minister Juozas Olekas says. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has suggested earmarking additional 34.3 million litas (EUR 9.9m) for defence next year. […]
Training grounds in Kazlų Rūda, southern Lithuania, have been upgraded with a special site, which will accommodate city battle exercises of troops of various army units. […]
On 1 November the formation of the Lithuanian military rapid response force began. […]
On 3 November multinational Exercise Iron Sword 2014 will be officially opened at ceremonies at the General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Range in Pabradė and drill grounds of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas Mechanised Infantry Battalion in Rukla. […]
The heavy combat equipment used by the US 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, currently deployed in Lithuania, is supplied with the JP-8 fuel produced at the Air Base of the Lithuanian Air Force and complying with NATO standards. […]
Soldiers from nine NATO nations and military equipment are being brought to Lithuania, where two military training grounds will host this year’s biggest military exercise event, Iron Sword 2014. The exercise, starting this weekend and organized by the Lithuanian army, will involve some 2,500 soldiers. […]
2,500 troops from eight NATO member countries are coming to Lithuania for a large-scale multinational training event, Lithuania’s army said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuania’s NATO membership is a constitutional asset and the country must fulfill its commitment to ensure proper defence funding, Dainius Žalimas, president of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania, says. […]
German military equipment will be brought to a training event in Lithuania on Friday, the Baltic country’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
With tensions rising between Russia and Western countries over the military crisis in Ukraine, NATO is reporting a marked increase in Russian provocations in the skies over member states in Eastern Europe and the Baltics this year, The Financial Times reports. “You have to go a long way back to see anything like it,” according to one NATO official. […]
Lithuanian army school of Division General Stasys Rastikis on Monday started a five-week international instructor training for Ukrainian troops, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
At a meeting on Tuesday in Copenhagen, Defence Policy Director of the Ministry of National Defence Vaidotas Urbelis and Defence Policy Director of the Ministry of Defence of Denmark Kristian Fisher underscored that both countries saw essential partners for defence cooperation in one another, the Lithuanian ministry said. […]
On 20-24 October, Commander of the Lithuanian Air Force, Colonel Audronis Navickas is conducting visits to Brussels (Belgium) and Florence (Italy), the Ministry of National Defence informs. […]
On 21-23 October, the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence (ENSEC COE) in Vilnius is hosting a table-top exercise on security of critical energy infrastructure. […]
As the Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, on Tuesday endorsed President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s amendments to the martial law, the country’s armed forces are to be expanded. […]
A Lithuanian soldier sustained a serious head injury on Thursday night when returning from a training event. […]
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