“The development of such systems, which started a couple of months ago, after the first drone crashes, will take time,” Delfi.lt quoted the minister’s interview with Lithuanian LRT radio as saying.
According to the minister, the ministry is awaiting the Air Force’s response on how long it will take to integrate the existing radars into a single system.
He said that the Air Force is tasked to work in two directions: to test software that integrates short-range radars with drone interceptors, which are also used in Ukraine.
The second area of work, Kaunas said, is “to create, together with Ukrainian air defense experts who will come to Lithuania, a unified air defense system against drones, replacing the fragmented one we have now.”
On Sunday evening, the National Crisis Management Center (NCMC) reported the downing of a possibly military drone found in a field in the village of Samane in the Utena district.
The head of the NCUK, Vilmantas Vitkauskas, told radio station LRT on Monday that the drone that fell on Lithuanian territory was most likely Ukrainian. There is currently no data that it could have been carrying explosives.
