The efficiency of the military equipment purchased by Lithuania is several dozen to several hundred times higher than that of Russian equipment, according to arms expert Darius Antanaitis to lrytas.lt news portal. D. Antanaitis, who […]
Taiwan’s defence industry (DI) can develop modern armaments that can deter a potential opponent and is even aiming to export them globally. The case study of Taiwan’s DI provides another argument on the need to […]
During research commissioned by the insurance group ERGO, it was found that 68% of Lithuanian citizens are concerned over potential military conflict in the country’s territory. Research data shows that currently the concerns of impeding […]
Clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church of Lithuania have expressed indignation of the Tuesday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court, which said that the clergy of traditional religious communities had been dismissed from military or alternative defense service without due grounds. […]
Clergymen of Lithuania’s traditional religious communities are dismissed from military and alternative defense service without grounds, the Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday. […]
NATO’s Allied Air Command (AIRCOM) commander is meeting with commanders of the Air Forces of the Nordic and Baltic states and Poland in Lithuania on Wednesday to discuss the regional security situation, military cooperation and share the latest information about the national air forces. […]
Lithuania should increase its contribution to international operations, new Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis says. […]
Raimundas Karoblis’ name has so far not been well known in Lithuania. A career diplomat with over 20 years of experience, he himself was surprised by the proposal to become Minister of National Defence. He is inheriting a ministry with both an impressively rising budget and at the same time – the taint of corruption, but the former diplomat tells Delfi TV that in the end he decided to operate on the idea of “If need be, then so be it”. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Thursday briefed ambassadors of European Union (EU) member-states residing in Vilnius on the foreign policy course of the new 17 th government, accentuating that consistency, activeness and continuity would be key in the area. […]
As the Baltic States continue to confront Russian air and naval power in the Baltic Sea, two small missile ships, the Zelenyy Dol and the Serpukhov entered this crowded body of water at the end of October. These Russian vessels will reportedly become part of a newly formed Baltic division in the near future (TVNET, October 26). The redeployment of the Zelenyy Dol and Serpukhov is just the latest regional development negatively affecting the security of the Baltic States. None of these three post-Soviet republics has the financial resources available to sufficiently strengthen its own naval capabilities in response. Therefore, in order to defend their sovereignty and ensure the sustainability of their defence sectors, the Baltic States’ naval policies will continue to stress the ability to “fill the gaps” in the full spectrum of Allied maritime operations in the region, Olevs Nikers writes in the Jamestown Foundation. […]
Lithuania is to spend 1.79% of its GDP on defence next year, according to the draft budget for 2017.
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Lithuania’s parliament, the Seimas, on Thursday passed a law making military conscription permanent.
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Increasing defence spending by the Lithuanian government will increase the size of the defence subcontracting market up to €150 million over the coming years. Gintaris Satkus, director of the Lithuanian Defence and Security Industry association, […]
A NATO military exercise kept farmers in Ukmergė District awake all night and left them dumbfounded when they found soldiers shooting rounds in their gardens. […]
Historical sources document medieval Lithuanian tribes to have been not just victims of crusader attacks but expansionists and pillagers in their own right, fierce warriors whose might terrorized their neighbours, including fellow Balts, and forged empires. […]
About 40 square nautical miles (about 137 square kilometres) of the Baltic seabed has been explored during international operation Open Spirit 2016. The mine search operation has so far discovered eight naval mines and one […]
The first group of recruits who have completed the reintroduced mandatory nine-month military service was transferred to reserve in a solemn ceremony in Lithuania’s port city of Klaipėda on Saturday. […]
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