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Lithuanian army to purchase infantry combat vehicles
Lithuania’s Armed Forces will purchase infantry combat vehicles in the framework of modernization of its Land Forces, the Defense Ministry has announced on Monday. […]
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Lithuanian rotation actively preparing for standby for EU Battlegroup next year
Fifty members of the Grand Duchess Birutė Uhlan Battalion are continuing training for a standby for the European Union Nordic Battlegroup (EU BG) in the first semester of 2015 which is going to be formed by Ireland, Estonia, Latvia, Norway, Finland, and Sweden, the Ministry of National Defence informs. […]
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NATO officer: exercise in Lithuania will be larger, adapted to Russian action
Exercises in Lithuania and NATO‘s other Eastern member-states will be larger and adjusted to the Russian actions in Ukraine, NATO’s Joint Forces Headquarters officer Lieutenant Colonel Hans Houf said in Vilnius on Friday after his team inspected Lithuania’s military infrastructure. […]
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NATO officials visit Lithuania’s Klaipėda seaport
Integration team of the NATO Joint Force Headquarters Brunssum (the Netherlands) visited the Lithuanian seaport of Klaipėda, the port’s directorate said on Thursday. […]
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Lithuania’s military infrastructure assessed by Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum’s team
On 12-20 July, a NATO Forward Integration Team (NFIT) from Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) Brunssum (the Kingdom of the Netherlands) is visiting military units, ranges, and facilities in Lithuania, the Ministry of National Defence announces. […]
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New Riflemen’s Union commander wants to increase enrollment to 10,000
On Friday, 11 July, in the garden of Kaunas Vytautas Magnus Museum, the new commander of the Riflemen Union was been officially sworn in. The reserve’s Colonel Antanas Plieskis officially ceded leadership of the union to Colonel Lieutenant Liudas Gumbinas, and the newly appointed commander is already planning for the future. […]
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Lithuanian and US troops hold joint training in urban warfare
Dust in the training range, another day wearing out with the heat of July, a bulletproof jacket weighing down your shoulders with its 20 kg, your helmet suddenly heavier and rivers of sweat running down your face and body… […]
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Would 2 percent GDP protect Lithuania from Russian aggression?
Some experts call the current tensions between Russia and the West the new Cold War. Meanwhile, NATO countries, especially the ones that are on the outskirts of the Alliance, are concerned about the lack of funding for defence. Would two per cent of the GDP, in the face of Russian aggression, be enough to repel the fully armed eastern neighbour, should the need arise? […]
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Lithuanian parliament allocates additional 130 million for national defence
The Seimas of Lithuania adopted budget amendments which allow to increase spending on national defence by LTL 130 million (EUR 37.6 million). 100 MPs voted in favour of the proposal, none voted against and 2 abstained. […]
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Sweden’s Saab Bofors Dynamics AB will supply Carl-Gustav munitions for Lithuanian armed forces
In the coming 5 years Saab Bofors Dynamics AB company of Sweden will be providing munitions for Carl-Gustav grenade launchers of the Baltic States’ armed forces, the Ministry of National Defence informs. […]
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Gen. Zenkevičius: Lithuanian army is on a course of improvement
TLT/DELFI.lt visited the Ministry of Defence to talk with Brigadier General Gintautas Zenkevičius about the current situation in the Lithuanian Army and its capacity to defend the nation. […]
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Gen. Zenkevičius on Lithuanian Army acquisitions
TLT/DELFI visited the Ministry of Defence to talk with Brigadier General Gintautas Zenkevičius about new acquisitions planned by the Lithuanian Army. […]
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Seimas to decide on defence funding
On Tuesday Lithuanian Parliament deliberated on amendments to 2014 state budget project in order to increase appropriations for national defence by LTL 130 million (EUR 37.6 million) yet this year. […]
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Lithuania to spend over EUR 17 million on weaponry for Land Force
60 million litas (over EUR 17 million) will be spent on fighting vehicles, anti-tank weaponry and mortars next year to bolster the Lithuanian Armed Force’s Land Force, the Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday. […]
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US military ship arriving in Lithuania
US missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) will arrive in the Lithuanian western port of Klaipėda on Thursday. […]
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Žukas appointed Lithuania’s chief of defence
Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas has been appointed new chief of defence of Lithuania. He will start his five-year term on Jul. 24, the Lithuanian president’s press service said on Tuesday. He will replace Lieutenant General Arvydas Pocius. […]