Lithuanian Armed Forces

A joint allied training practice of fighter jets will take place across the skies above the cities of Šiauliai and Klaipėda on Monday, the Lithuanian Armed Forces said.

Too few Lithuanian defence industry companies cooperate directly with the country’s military and defence institutions, a deputy minister for economy and innovation says.

A new package of military assistance from the National Defence Ministry was delivered to Ukraine on Friday.

Lithuanian instructors have trained 2,900 Ukrainian soldiers this year, the military said. Trainings are planned for another 3,500 Ukrainians next year.

The Ministry of National Defence has announced that US-made sniper rifles Barrett and Belgian machineguns FN Minimi have been transferred to the Lithuanian Armed Forces to boost their capability.

Lithuanians are inclined to trust the Lithuanian army, police and the president the most, while they continue to have least confidence in the Seimas and the Government, a recent survey by Baltijos Tyrimai for ELTA shows.

The Lithuanian Armed Forces together with the German defence industry will repair Leopard tanks brought from Ukraine to Lithuania. The armoured vehicles will return to battle once their technical capabilities are restored.

On Thursday, 5 October, the largest in the Baltic States military equipment repair workshop Vilkas (Wolf) was opened in Rukla, central Lithuania.

The conscript soldier’s fatal injury in a training exercise earlier this week may have been a suicide attempt, the Lithuanian Armed Forces said.

MP Agnė Širinskienė, chair of the parliamentary group of non-attached MPs, intends to appeal to prosecutors after Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas publicly revealed on Facebook that Lithuania would purchase German-made main battle tanks. Opposition lawmakers claim that the defence min...

The Armed Forces of Lithuania are closely monitoring the security situation in the region and are ready to respond to potential threats to national security after Russia’s private military company Wagner arrived in Belarus and started holding exercises with Belarusian forces at the border with Polan...

The Lithuanian Armed Forces together with the allies have completed carrying out assigned tasks during the NATO summit in Vilnius on 11-12 July. Troops and military equipment are returning to places of permanent deployment and to normal standby mode, and will continue the cycle of exercises.

Conservative MPs of the Committee on National Security and Defence (NSGK) have initiated amendments to martial law legislation to allow greater involvement of people in the national defence system.

In the middle of November, Lithuania has signed an agreement with the United States to buy four Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters that will replace the Soviet Mi-8T still used by Lithuanian Armed Forces today. Soviet helicopter operational history exceeds 30 years, they are difficult to operate...

Lithuania is planning to sign a contract with the United States this week on the acquisition of four Black Hawk military helicopters, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian Armed Forces currently have over 200 positive coronavirus cases, twice as many as a week ago.

Lithuania's defense budget is projected to exceed 2 percent of GDP in 2021, according to the Defense Ministry.

Lithuania’s Ministry of Defense is to hold a solemn ceremony to honor the retirement of Major General Gintautas Zenkevicius from active military service on Thursday.

Twelve suspects and convicts whose extradition had to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic have been brought to Lithuania from the United Kingdom by a military plane Spartan, the Police Department reported on Friday.

Six Lithuanian troops previously served at one of the bases in Iraq that came under attack from Iran, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defense said on Wednesday after updating information on the situation of Lithuanian troops in Iraq.