Lithuania is launching five training courses for Ukrainian military personnel, Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said on August 16. “We are starting five training courses for Ukrainians in August,” he said. The courses will be designed for specialists, rather than recruits, to better improve the skills of the Ukrainian military in using Western weapons, Anusauskas said.…
Lithuania is looking at options to backfill weapons it plans to send to Ukraine, the country’s Defence Ministry says. Speaking during a donor conference for Ukraine held in Denmark, Lithuania’s Deputy Defence Minister Margiris Abukevicius said the country could send more weapons to Kyiv if NATO agreed to backfill the depleted stocks. Lithuania has already…
Turkey’s Baykar is planning to build a factory in Ukraine to produce not only Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles but also new models, such as Bayraktar Akinci and Bayraktar Kizilelma. The relevant statement was made by Baykar CEO Haluk Bayraktar in an interview with the “Come Back Alive” Foundation. According to Bayraktar, his company…
According to the draft law No. 7644 on amendments to the 2022 State Budget, tabled in the Verkhovna Rada, expenditures will be increased by UAH 270.2 billion, of which UAH 269.5 billion will go to security and defense. That’s according to the Verkhovna Rada press service, citing Danylo Hetmantsev, head of the Committee on Finance,…
Turkey’s Baykar Makina has already set up its own company in Ukraine, purchased a plot of land, developed a project for a Bayraktar UAV production plant and intends to implement the project in Ukraine, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Turkey Vasyl Bodnar has said. “The plant will be built. A week ago, the government approved a bilateral…
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…