NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup Lithuania joined up with a battalion from the US Army’s 66th Armored Regiment for training manoeuvres in the Baltic state’s dense forests. NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battlegroup Lithuania joined up with a battalion from the US Army’s 66th Armored Regiment for training manoeuvres in the Baltic state’s dense forests.
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If you are ambushed, there are two choices: Break through or dismount and charge the enemies. #eFP Battle Group 🇱🇹 is training these procedures during #IronWolf.
While the machine guns of the Boxers are observing, the infantrymen of our second battle company 🇳🇱 start to attack into the direction of the enemy to protect their convoy. Pushing the opposing forces out of their chosen ambush area is vital to disturb the enemies intent of an ambush.
“Gear up, get the engines running and grab your ammo!” - #eFP Battle Group 🇱🇹 is moving out into the field!
For Exercise Rising Griffin, troops performed a road march from their base in Rukla to the training grounds at Pabradė, showcasing their ability to communicate and move together. At Pabradė, the troops engaged in simulated combat operations.
To demonstrate Allies’ determination to defend Alliance territory, the US Army extended the deployment of the 3rd Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment after Russia invaded Ukraine. It was the fourth battalion to be sent to Lithuania since 2019, when the Lithuanian government requested the deployment of a cavalry squadron.
Footage includes shots of troops and vehicles from the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the United States manoeuvring and practising combat in dense woodlands, as well as a selection of cinematic slow motion shots recorded without sound.
Lithuania wants NATO to expand Baltic battalions into brigades.
Lithuania wants the NATO battalions in the Baltic countries to be expanded into brigades, the country’s defence ministry said on Monday.
A brigade consists of several battalions of troops.
Lithuania and other Baltic states have been consistently calling for more troops in their region and the whole eastern NATO flank, since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
“Lithuania, together with other countries on the eastern flank of NATO, is seeking to strengthen the battle groups of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence into forward presence brigades,” Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas was quoted as saying.
Anusauskas, who did not state the expected size of the brigades, said decisions on reshaping the forces will be taken at a NATO summit in Madrid in June.
The alliance has deployed four multinational battalions in 2017 of about 1,000 troops each in the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania as well as Poland, in response to Russia annexing Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014.
The three battalions in the Baltics were expanded this year following the invasion, which Moscow calls a “special operation.” The battle group in Lithuania now consists of 1,600 troops, defence ministry said.
