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Between 5 and 11 October, NATO air policing fighter jets patrolling Baltic airspace identified and intercepted one IL-76 transport aircraft of the Russian Federation flying in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania reports.
On 8-9 October, HMS Karlstad (K35) of the Royal Swedish Navy will conduct a friendly visit in Klaipėda seaport of Lithuania. The ship will be moored at the Klaipėda Cruise Ship and Warship Terminal, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence said.
Spain, Italy and Portugal are hosting NATO military exercise Trident Juncture 2015, which kicked off on Saturday. Some 200 soldiers from Lithuania and almost 50 units of military equipment will join NATO's biggest wargames since 2002, the Ministry of National Defence reports.
Lithuania became one of the Sponsoring Nations (SN) for the NATO Counter Intelligence Centre of Excellence (NATO CI COE).
International military war games The Baltic Piranha are kicking of in Lithuania on Thursday that will involve troops from Belgium, Luxembourg and the United States.
Belarusian and Swiss military representatives will this week check the weaponry available in Lithuania, the Ministry of National Defence said.
Lithuania has decided to buy several dozen self-propelled howitzers Pzh2000 from Germany. Representatives of the Lithuanian and German Defence Ministries are scheduled to sign the deal in Vilnius on Tuesday.
Lithuania's defence budget should expand by more than a third in 2016, according to the budget draft published on Monday.
Constructions of military infrastructure necessary for installation of new long-range radars and contracted for by the Lithuanian Armed Forces begins in the 1st (Antaversis village, Prienai district) and the 3rd (Degučiai village, Šilutė district) radiolocation posts of the Lithuanian Air Force, Lit...
On 24 September Deputy Minister Marijus Velička underscored Lithuania's intent to strengthen military cooperation with Sweden and other Nordic countries in a range of areas at a meeting with State Secretary Jan Salestrand of Swedish Ministry of Defence at the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuani...
All procedures of buying about 100 armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) are conducted in line with the law and in transparent manner, says Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee.
On Wednesday, the Lithuanian Parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence will be briefed about the purchase process of armoured fighting vehicles (AFV) and other weaponry.
A Russian army base in Belarus would worsen Belarus' relations with Lithuania and would undermine Belarus' goal to normalize its ties with NATO and the European Union, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says.
Six hundred volunteer troops are starting their initial military service in three battalions in Lithuania this week, the Ministry of National Defence said.
Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday that it had sent a note of protest to the Russian Embassy in Lithuania over the repeated impediment of navigation of ships in Lithuania's exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea.
The Defence ministries of the Nordic and Baltic countries have signed an agreement on establishing a Nordic-Baltic Assistance Program to coordinate assistance to Georgia and Ukraine, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence said in a statement.
Soldiers with the Grand Duchess Birutė Uhlan Battalion and US troops further train members of the Ukrainian National Guard. On September 14 soldiers of Birutė Battalion replaced troops of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Kęstutis Mechanised Infantry Battalion who had been raining the Ukrainian National Gua...
Hungary's JAS-39 Gripen fighter-jets serving in the NATO Baltic air policing mission were scrambled from the Lithuanian Aviation Base in Šiauliai on Tuesday to identify and accompany two Russian war planes.
After former chief of the Lithuanian Armed Forces Valdas Tutkus expressed his doubts about the transparency of the armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) purchase tender, Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that he should have involved relevant institutions. The politician has also asked the Public Proc...
A military exercise will be held in and near Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas, with armoured vehicles driving on the city streets, the Ministry of National Defence said.
