Lithuania Plans to Produce Naval Drones for Ukraine
Lithuania is considering launching the production of maritime drones and other weapons under the ‘1+1’ scheme - one for itself and one for Ukraine, Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovilė Šakalienė said.
The Gaze reports on this with reference to Militarny.
‘Magura, in my opinion, is an excellent military product,’ the publication quotes Šakalienė as saying. He also notes that these Magura drones have already proven themselves on the battlefield in the Black Sea and forced the Russian Black Sea Fleet to stay in ports.
In addition to Ukrainian surface attack drones, the Lithuanian Ministry of Defence is also interested in missile drones and other weapons.
The ministry is considering launching joint production of certain types of weapons in Lithuania on a 1+1 basis. Lithuania will pay for the production and transfer half of the weapons to Ukraine.
‘That is, we pay for the production of two weapons, one of which is transferred to Ukraine and the other remains in Lithuania, but we pay for both,’ the minister explained.
‘We believe that cooperation in certain areas related to missile drones, maritime drones and other technologies is really very promising,’ Dovilė said.
As The Gaze reported earlier, Lithuania has recently allocated €20 million to finance certain projects in the Ukrainian defence industry.