MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Lithuania would acquire the automatic G-36 rifles and 40mm HK269 grenade launchers for the sum amounting approximately to $14 million (€12.5 million), the statement read.
The statement also noted that the new weapons will be delivered to the Lithuanian Armed Forces in the course of 2017.
"By acquiring an additional batch of the G-36, the rifle well-known and having good recommendations among Lithuanian soldiers, we will want to retain one type of weapon in the Lithuanian Armed Forces," Juozas Olekas, Lithuanian Defense Minister was quoted in the statement as saying.
At present, the Lithuanian army is using G-36 rifles that have to be improved and modernized according to recommendations of the servicemen.
