“In Lithuania, due to the threat of drones, a special air defense unit was moved closer to the border with Belarus. Source: “European Truth” with reference to the statement of the commander -in -chief of the Armed Forces of Lithuania Raimundas Wayknoras, which is quoted by TV3 TV3: Vayknoras participated in a meeting convened by President of Gitanas Nauseda after the incident with a drone.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “European Truth” with reference to the statement of the commander -in -chief
Details: Wykshnoras participated in a meeting convened by President Gitanas Nauseda after the incident with a drone that flew into the Lithuanian territory from Belarus.
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As a result, the General said: “Currently, air defense measures are intensifying, closer to the border, a battalion of air defense, capable of identifying and, if necessary, destroy various threats, has been relocated.”
In turn, the Defense Minister Radly Shakaliene, who also participated in the meeting, said that there were not enough air space surveillance to detect objects flying at low altitude.
“There are lacking radars who could detect small, maneuverable goals in difficult meteorological conditions,” she said.
According to the Ministry, the changes proposed by her department provide for the improvement of aircraft surveillance systems, the acquisition of new equipment and the acceleration of existing purchases.
We will remind, in the morning of July 28 Lithuanians from the border with Belarus informed the police, which they see and hear something similar to the drone. From the video of one of the witnesses it looks like a Shakhad type apparatus.
Shakalene suggested that the drone could fly into the Lithuanian territory as a result of The influence of Ukrainian means of the I rpm.
Lithuania’s Commander -in -Chief told that closer to the border with Belarus will be deployed Additional air defensethat from next year Lithuania will start using the Ukrainian system Acoustic detection of UAVs.