On October 18, 2022, the Ministry of National Defense of Lithuania announced that the Defense Resources Agency (Gynybos resursu agentūra), which is part of it, signed an intergovernmental agreement with the US Department of Defense on the purchase of 300 more JLTV (Joint Light Tactical Vehicle) light armored vehicles with wheeled vehicles under the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS). The 4x4 formula produced by Oshkosh Corporation, in addition to the 200 JLTV machines already ordered by Lithuania under the 2019 agreement. Thus, Lithuania should receive a total of 500 JLTV machines, which makes it currently their largest foreign customer.
One of the received by the Lithuanian Ground Forces in 2021 in the first batch of 50 units of American light armored vehicles Oshkosh M1278A1 JLTV (Joint Light Tactical Vehicle) (c) Ministry of National Defense of LithuaniaThe cost of the new agreement is not disclosed, deliveries of these 300 additional cars to Lithuania will be made from 2023 to the end of 2024.
Earlier, in November 2019, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense signed an intergovernmental agreement with the US Department of Defense on the purchase of 200 JLTV light armored vehicles through the American FMS program. Cost.The amount of the agreement was 145 million euros (including weapons, spare parts, service support and training of personnel), which should be paid by the Lithuanian side from 2020 to 2024.
The first 50 JLTV machines under the 2019 agreement were delivered to Lithuania in August 2021. The second batch of 50 units will arrive in Lithuania in November-December 2022, the remaining 100 cars should arrive in 2023.
The JLTV vehicles supplied to Lithuania belong to the M1278A1 Heavy Guns Carrier modification and should be equipped by design with remotely controlled Kongsberg M153 Protector Common Remote Weapon Stations (CROWS) combat modules in the Baseline v.2 Integration Kit, with 12.7mm M2 QCB machine guns and M230 TAC-FLIR round-the-clock sighting systems. In April 2020, the Lithuanian side signed a contract with the Norwegian Kongsberg group for the purchase of these combat modules, which should also be supplied through the mechanism of the American FMS program. However, the first 50 JLTV vehicles received by Lithuania are not equipped with these combat modules, but are equipped with armored "booths" with Mk 93 hand turrets with a 12.7 mm M2 QCB machine gun.
