Boxer IFVs

President’s chief national security adviser Kęstutis Budrys notes that Lithuania’s decision to purchase tracked infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) will require more funding for the vehicles and infrastructure.

The delivery of German Boxer infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to Lithuania is running behind schedule due to defects identified during the quality control process.

Washington on Tuesday confirmed it allowed Lithuania to purchase US-produced armored utility vehicles.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to meet with President Dalia Grybauskaitė and the Baltic prime ministers during her visit to Lithuania next week, the Lithuanian president's office said on Friday.

About three-quarters of Lithuania's defense appropriations remain in the country through acquisitions, taxes or personnel costs and the rest goes to foreign weapon suppliers, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said on Thursday.

Boxer armored fighting vehicles, produced for Lithuania and to be named Vilkas (Wolf) to preserve links to the country's history and army traditions, are undergoing testing in Germany.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has awarded Germany's Chief of Defence Volker Wieker with the Cross of Commander of the order For Merits to Lithuania.

Lithuania's Chief of Defense Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas was this week presented the possibilities of purchasing German infantry fighting vehicles Marder, however, the purchase is not planned, officials said.

The first two German Boxer infantry fighting vehicles purchased by Lithuania's Armed Forces were delivered to Lithuania in early hours of Friday, the Defence Ministry said.

The first two German Boxer infantry fighting vehicles purchased by Lithuania's Armed Forces will be delivered in mid-December, army officials said.

After Lithuania's Armed Forces and Norway's Kongsberg signed a contract on acquisition of medium-range anti-missile defense systems NASAMS last Thursday, BNS Lithuania provides a list of five biggest army acquisitions after the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia.

Lithuania has closed a deal with the Israeli weapon company “Rafael” and will get new-generation missiles and remote controlled weapon stations, according to the Israeli newspaper “Yedioth Ahronoth”.

Lithuania's defence minister, who signed a €386-million deal with a German company on purchasing 88 Boxer infantry vehicles, says the choice was as much about the quality of product as about buying it from a partner country.

Lithuania on Monday signed a contract to purchase German Boxer infantry fighting vehicles for nearly €386 million, which is the most expensive acquisition in the history of Lithuania's Armed Forces.

Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence and the army are signing a deal with a German company on the purchase of Boxer armoured infantry vehicles.

When Lithuania had huddled up under NATO’s wing, it felt more secure and even unconcerned as to where it would get more funding for its army or how it could modernize it. The events in Georgia and Ukraine, however, jolted the Baltic country out of its lethargy and forced it to look at how it can str...

Lithuania expects to conclude its deal with Artec over acquiring infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) Boxer in July, the country's army chief Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas said. Before that, the army needs to finish talks with the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) which will ...

Starting on 1 January, 2016, a new motorized infantry brigade named Žemaitija will be formed in Western Lithuania.

The biggest military purchase in the history of the Lithuanian army will present plenty of opportunities to local entrepreneurs. After the Lithuanian government decided to open talks on acquiring almost one hundred German Boxer infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), negotiators say they will try to secu...