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. […]
Chief of Staff of the US Army General Raymond Odierno is visiting Lithuania. […]
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. […]
A formal deployment ceremony was held at the headquarters of the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces in Vilnius on Friday for yet another shift of Lithuanian soldiers joining the NATO mission in Afghanistan. […]
The first heavy US weaponry should reach the Baltic states in early 2016, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence has said. […]
Last week NATO fighter jets protecting the Baltic airspace were scrambled ten times to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation in international airspace on the way to or from mainland Russia and to the Russian region of Kaliningrad. […]
Lithuania and the United States intend to sign an intergovernmental agreement on closer military cooperation. […]
Lithuania’s defence minister has been forced to reassure that the country’s military does not discriminate against gay men after an army psychiatrist claimed that homosexuality was an exclusion criteria in selecting servicemen. […]
The first shipment of RBS70 air defence systems with night vision equipment, modernized at the Swedish producer SAAB Dynamics’ plant, has reached Air Defence Battalion of the Lithuanian Air Forces. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday adopted amendments on the extension of the service time for professional troops. […]
False information was on Wednesday published on the website of the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. An investigation has been launched into suspected hacking, the Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday. […]
On 8 June, Field Training Exercise (FTX), Phase II of Exercise Saber Strike 2015, was formally declared open at the Lithuanian Armed Forces‘ General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Area in Pabrade and the parade ground of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas Mechanised Infantry Battalion, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence will ask the government allow setting up additional 220 posts for public servants and employees. Additional workforce is required to handle reinstated conscription, growing number of exercises and plans to establish NATO headquarters. […]
NATO fighter jets, stationed in Lithuania and Estonia as part of the Alliance’s Baltic air policing missions, were on Monday scrambled to identify three Russian military planes flying over the Baltic Sea, with two of them flying with their transponders switched off. […]
NATO’s air policing fighter-jets guarding the Baltic air-space were last week scrambled three times from Lithuania to intercept aircraft of the Russian approaching borders the Baltic states. […]
A Lithuanian delegation led by the country’s National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas is on a visit to Afghanistan where Lithuanian troops are serving in the NATO-led Resolute Support mission. […]
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