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Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas regrets that the European Commission has decided not to allocate funding for the "drone wall" initiative aimed at boosting border security. He says Lithuania will have to take steps on the national level.
On Thursday, 20 February, a drone was noticed in the territory of the Air Force Base in Šiauliai. Its operator and people that were together with him were transferred to Military Police.
The first shipment of 25 Lithuanian drones purchased by the Radarom! crowdfunding campaign has reached Ukrainian troops.
Air defence company Frankenburg Technologies, operating in Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine, has also expanded to Lithuania. Karolis Žemaitis, the head of the company in Lithuania, says it aims to produce small missiles that destroy drones.
The Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union has acquired computer simulators to train drone operators. A total of 40 simulation workstations will be handed over to the union’s teams across Lithuania within January, the state-funded paramilitary force said on Wednesday.
The residence of the Estonian Ambassador to Ukraine Annely Kolk was damaged in a drone attack on Kyiv on Thursday morning, reports Estonia’s public broadcaster ERR.
Oro Navigacija, air navigation service provider of Lithuania, on Tuesday presented a new air traffic management system intended for tracking unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
One thousand FPV drones manufactured by Lithuanian companies were delivered to the Armed Forces on Friday and will be transferred to Ukraine.
Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas has announced that the first FPV drones made by Lithuanian companies will be delivered to the military at the end of this week.
There are many things within the defence system and the National Armed Forces (NBS), beyond communication, that need to be changed and will have to be changed, President Edgars Rinkevics told TV3 this morning, commenting on the findings after the downing of a Russian drone on Latvian territory.
After a Russian military drone crashed in Latvia on Saturday, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis stated that Lithuania would support a strong allied response while President Gitanas Nausėda condemned the violation of NATO airspace.
After a Russian military drone crashed in Latvia on Saturday, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis stated that Lithuania would support a strong allied response.
On Tuesday, Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas opened the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Competence Centre in Vilnius. The centre is expected to train 480 drone operators in 2024.
Vilnius City invites residents to learn flying drones in a training course starting in September.
National Defence Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas says it is planned to equip the entire Lithuanian Armed Forces with First Person View (FPV) combat drones.
The Lithuanian Armed Forces is set to buy unmanned sea drones worth EUR 1 million this year as it enters a new phase of operational capability enhancement with plans to integrate maritime drones into the Navy, the National Defence Ministry has said.
The Defence Materiel Agency is buying drones worth EUR 8 million from five Lithuanian manufacturers of combat drones, the National Defence Ministry said Monday. The new unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are intended for the Lithuanian military and Ukrainian armed forces.
The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has carried out a repeat testing of combat drones from Lithuanian manufacturers near Kyiv in a battlefield-realistic environment, the National Defence Ministry said in a press release on Thursday.
The newly launched drone operator course is already fully booked up until the end of this year, which prompts for seeking ways to expand the training initiative, says National Defence Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas.
Vilnius has opened its first training area designated for pilots of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The city invites all residents and visitors to improve their skills of operating drones and plans to set up more areas in the future.
