Lithuania, which is buying Switchblade combat drones from the United States, will get additional drones in the form of support, Deputy Defence Minister Vilius Semeska has announced. “Regarding Switchblades, decisions have already been made, and we are waiting for a contract. We have already got consent enabling us to receive the technology, and we are…
Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur (Reform) set out on August 1 the initial steps in a joint Estonian-Latvian mid-range air defense systems procurement, joined by his Latvian opposite number. The procurement follows the announcement that Estonia will be buying, in a separate, $500-million procurement, six M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers and related…
Lithuania will soon send additional military assistance to Ukraine, Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas told his Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksii Reznikov, in Kyiv. “Additional military assistance will arrive in Ukraine soon,” the Lithuanian Defence Ministry quoted Anusauskas as saying in a press release. “The country is getting plenty of M113 APCs, therefore, we could train the corresponding…
Vilnius is planning to buy the HIMARS rocket artillery systems from the United States, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry has confirmed. “Lithuania is planning to acquire HIMARS from the US at the same time as Estonia and Latvia,” the ministry said in a written comment. Vilnius will sign the contract “separately” from the other Baltic States…
Lithuania’s Ministry of Defence was going to buy possibly Russia-made equipment for NATO fighter jets, but cancelled the purchase after the media became interested in the acquisition. Last year, the Defence Ministry announced a tender and selected the winning bidder, Baltijos Tiekimas, from which it planned to buy mobile voltage frequency converters. The successful bidder…
Lithuania will soon provide additional military support to Ukraine, as the country is continuing to resist the Russian invasion, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry has said in a press release. Lithuania plans to send to Ukraine M113 and M577 armoured personnel carriers and ammunition for reserve training, the ministry announced on July 20. According to Defence…
The Council of the EU at the level of foreign ministers reached a political agreement on the allocation of the next tranche of military assistance to Ukraine within the framework of the European Peace Facility in the amount of another EUR 500 million. That’s according to EU High Representative Josep Borrell, who spoke at a…