Lithuania will purchase eight M142 HIMARS rocket launchers from the US. The contract is expected to be signed until December, Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas has said. “The Americans have given 90% assurance that it will happen until the beginning of December. The contract is for a separate system and eight launchers and launch systems,” Anusauskas…
The United States’ total military assistance to Lithuania will increase to $141 million in 2022 after the US Congress approved an additional funding package, the American Embassy in Vilnius said on October 4. The funding is part of a $2.2-billion aid package to help Ukraine and 17 other countries that have made significant contributions to…
The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service (VSAT) is taking over 500 G-36 automatic rifles from the country’s armed forces. Border guards are to receive almost 1,700 more of these weapons from the military in 2022, the VSAT said in a press release on October 4. The G-36 rifles will replace border guards’ weapons that do…
The Lithuanian Defence Ministry on September 30 signed a contract with a Polish company for the acquisition of kamikaze drones for Ukraine. The ministry has said Lithuania will use funds raised in a crowdfunding campaign to buy Warmate drone systems from Poland’s WB Group and hand them over to Ukraine. Deputy Defence Minister Vilius Semeska…
Georgian defence minister Juansher Burchuladze praised conditions provided for the country’s service members as “better than in most of European states” and announced launch of new projects for domestic defence production and introduction of a defence code to promote armed forces among the youth. The official stressed his body had carried out “all key reforms”…
Lithuania will spend an additional 148 million euros on defence this year and buy Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV), HIMARS rocket systems, radars and ammunition. On September 28, the country’s government approved the allocation of additional funds planned in the budget after the Finance Ministry updated its GDP forecast, as overall defence funding was linked…
Lithuania will get back to the issue of handing over its PzH 2000 German howitzers to Ukraine later, once the government receives an assessment from the military leadership on the possible impact of such a decision, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says. The issue was not on the agenda of the National Defence Council’s meeting on…