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 "slug": "lithuania-nasams-vilnius-approaches-replaces-rbs-70-third-battery-2028",
 "title": "Lithuania Moves NASAMS Onto the Approaches to Vilnius, Replacing RBS 70 — Third Battery Due 2028",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/lithuania-nasams-vilnius-approaches-replaces-rbs-70-third-battery-2028/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/lithuania-nasams-vilnius-approaches-replaces-rbs-70-third-battery-2028/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-08-25T20:36:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-09-02T20:36:27.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVilnius, 25 August 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * Lithuania has replaced the short-range RBS 70 batteries covering Vilnius's approaches with the medium-range NASAMS system\n * General Raimundas Vaikšnoras: \"As planned and promised, we have already replaced our short-range RBS 70 system with NASAMS, and today the approaches to Vilnius are being protected much more effectively and powerfully, with a greater range\"\n * Two NASAMS batteries are now in service; a third arrives in 2028\n * Lithuania'",
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 "tags": [
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  "iamd-air-missile-defense",
  "polish-lithuanian-axis"
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 "sources": [],
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  "nasams",
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