Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have announced that they will be delivering Stinger man-portable surface-to-air missiles and Javelin anti-tank guided missiles to Ukraine as military aid, in addition to other equipment… Continue reading "Baltic Nations To Supply Javelin, Stinger Missiles As Military Aid For Ukraine"
Welcome to Overt Defense’s Weekend Briefing where we round up the week’s most interesting and important defense news. Among many interesting subjects we covered this week we examined tensions between… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (13-17 December)"
On December 13, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met his Lithuanian counterpart Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas at the Pentagon. The two men signed a new agreement on reciprocal defense… Continue reading "US and Lithuania Sign Interoperability Agreement as Lithuanian Tensions with Russia and China Escalate"
500 additional Polish soldiers are being dispatched to the Belarusian border as the crisis over what has been described by Polish and EU officials as a “hybrid attack” by Belarus… Continue reading "Poland Dispatches More Troops to Belarusian Border After 4 Migrants Found Dead"
Lithuania’s State Border Guard Service accused Belarusian border guards of illegally crossing the border between Lithuania and Belarus on Tuesday, during an attempt to drive a group of 35 Iraqi… Continue reading "Lithuania Accuses Belarus Border Guards Of Illegal Border Crossing"
A livestreamed press conference jointly held by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda at Lithuania’s Šiauliai air base was interrupted on Thursday morning, after the Spanish… Continue reading "Spanish and Lithuanian Leaders’ Press Conference Interrupted By Aircraft Scramble"
The Lithuanian Ministry of Defence has signed an agreement covering the purchase of four Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawks with two options in a deal worth $213,000,000. The majority of the… Continue reading "Lithuania To Obtain 4 UH-60M Black Hawk"
Since the presidential election of the 9 August, the turmoil within Belarus increased exponentially. Major protests continue to take place in Minsk, Grodno, Brest, Vitebsk and other major towns and… Continue reading "Belarus Mobilizes its Army on the Polish Border"
The United States Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the body within the State Department who coordinate foreign military sales (FMS), have announced $7.5 billion in potential FMS deals with five… Continue reading "US Defense Security Cooperation Agency Approves $7.5 billion USD in Foreign Military Sales"
Lithuania has been cleared by the DSCA for the purchase of up to 500 JLTVs and associated equipment. This includes armor kits, remote weapon stations (CROWS), and Boomerang III acoustic… Continue reading "JLTV Cleared for Export to Lithuania"