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Lithuania approves buying 100 Swedish designed CV90 MkIV vehicles

Lithuania's State Defence Council approved buying 100 Swedish designed CV90 MkIV infantry fighting vehicles, joining Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia and the Netherlands in a six nation programme. Local production and maintenance work is to follow.

Reported Editor-read Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania (kam.lt), 15 December 2025

What it does not test. It does not fix the purchase price or the date the six nations will sign the main procurement contract.

How this item counts. This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the European Sovereignty Index.

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-07. How the record is made

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