Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has downplayed NATO‘s plans to reduce the air policing mission in the Baltic states, saying that eight fighter-jets are perfectly sufficient for efficient protection of the air-space. In his words, rotations are planned for the coming five years. […]
NATO‘s decision to downsize the air policing mission by half will not affect the security of the three Baltic states, says Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. […]
NATO fighter jets, stationed in the Lithuanian northern city of Šiauliai as part of the Baltic air policing mission, performed five scrambles last week to intercept Russian military planes over the Baltic Sea. […]
NATO fighter jets, stationed in Lithuania as part of NATO’s Baltic air policing mission, were scrambled three times on Wednesday to identify and accompany Russian planes flying over the Baltic Sea. […]
NATO fighter-jets serving in the Baltic air-policing mission were scrambled seven times last week over Russian aircrafts. […]
A company of Portuguese troops is leaving Lithuania this week after spending four months in the country in training. […]
NATO fighter-jets serving in the air policing mission were scrambled once from Lithuania last week to identify a Russian warplane flying above the Baltic Sea. […]
NATO Baltic air policing fighter jets were scrambled once last week to intercept and accompany a Russia plane flying over the Baltic Sea, according to Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence. […]
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. […]
Visiting Chief of Staff of the United States Army General Raymond T. Odierno says military exercises in the Baltic states will be of “greater sizes” in the future. […]
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. […]
Lithuania says to have received the NATO supreme commander’s pledge to seek that training in Eastern Europe takes place “without major intervals”. However, no specific decisions on the so-called Baltic brigade have been made yet. […]
NATO fighter jets protecting the Baltic airspace were scrambled twice last week to intercept and escort two Russian planes flying in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea with their onboard transponders switched off. […]
Chief of the General Staff of the Portuguese Armed Forces General Artur Neves Pina Monteiro is arriving in Lithuania on Monday for an official visit at the invitation of Chief of Defence of Lithuania Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas. […]
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. […]
NATO has made major contribution to ensuring security for Eastern Europe and the Alliance will continue assessing allies’ requests and do everything to protect then, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says. […]
Only Russia can stop the current arms race with NATO as it is the one carrying out aggressive policies, raising its military budget and militarizing its economy, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says. […]
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