Military exercise

The Armed Forces have announced that more active than usual movement of military aircraft will be noticeable in Lithuania’s airspace on 20-31 May.

The Lithuanian Armed Forces will fire the first shots from the self-propelled PzH 2000 howitzers acquired from Germany at home in a military exercise on Tuesday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

A NATO military exercise kept farmers in Ukmergė District awake all night and left them dumbfounded when they found soldiers shooting rounds in their gardens.

Two soldiers were injured when an explosive went off in a military training ground near Pabradė, Lithuania, on Tuesday evening.

MP Artūras Paulauskas says his statements several weeks ago about a possible landing of Russian forces on the Lithuanian coast were "hypothetical".

MP Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee, suggested in an interview that Russian forces could have landed on the Lithuanian coast of the Curonian Spit during military exercise.

The Lithuanian army is planning to expand its training grounds in Pabradė and Gaižiūnai by cutting down some of the surrounding forests.

Lithuanian and foreign military analysts have been looking into hypothetical scenarios of a hybrid war breaking out in the Baltics for some time now - most of them envisage an attack from Russia, forgetting or simply ignoring the possibility of such an attack coming from Belarus.

Russia is planning to conduct its most extensive nuclear missile tests in over a quarter-century, according to media reports in Germany.

Concepts of military strategy and doctrine have long influenced the political and military geography of the Baltic region.

The Kremlin is starting large-scale exercises involving up to 2,500 paratroopers close to the Baltic countries’ borders, reports Ekho Moskvy, citing a Russian Defence Ministry announcement. The Estonian Mission to NATO also shared the news on Twitter.

A major British army exercise to practice an Iraq invasion-scale operation with US forces in Jordan is in preparation for a possible confrontation with Russia in Eastern Europe.

Over 250 soldiers and civilian staff of the armed forces are to take part in an international special forces exercise Flaming Sword this spring.

Five national and international military exercises are planned in Lithuania in November. Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas, the Chief of Defence of Lithuania, says that these exercises, which involve thousands of soldiers and considerable military equipment, do not only show Lithuania‘s prepar...

Logistics and movement control specialists of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and Mobile Refuelling Unit will provide logistical support to Lithuanian and allied troops taking part in NATO's Exercise Trident Juncture 2015 in Spain until 6 November, the Ministry of National Defence reports.

Spain, Italy and Portugal are hosting NATO military exercise Trident Juncture 2015, which kicked off on Saturday. Some 200 soldiers from Lithuania and almost 50 units of military equipment will join NATO's biggest wargames since 2002, the Ministry of National Defence reports.

International military war games The Baltic Piranha are kicking of in Lithuania on Thursday that will involve troops from Belgium, Luxembourg and the United States.

Military equipment from Belgium and Luxembourg arrived in Lithuania's port city of Klaipėda on Tuesday for use at the Baltic Piranha war games that will take place in Lithuania in October.