Radars Did Not Detect Drone That Crashed In Lithuania

At the site where an object crashed in Lithuania’s Varėna district, an internal combustion engine has been found. The Lithuanian army assumes the object was a drone, but radars did not record any drone flights overnight, Delfi reports.

“What kind of object this is will be determined by the investigation (…), but it is clear — we can say that an internal combustion engine has been found. Such engines are used in some drones (…). It can be assumed that this was a drone,” said Lithuanian army representative Major Gintautas Čiūnis.

According to him, metal and plastic fragments were also discovered, while no traces of explosives were found. The origin of the suspected drone remains unknown. One possible version is that it came from Belarus.

Eyewitnesses reported the explosion of the object to the unified emergency response center and the Lithuanian army, but military radars did not detect any drone flights.

“We can confirm that Lithuanian army radars — its main radars — did not detect such a trace. Of course, the army is now checking all data, reviewing the overall picture, including units responsible for air security. They are not deployed in that specific location. Therefore, the radars did not record this object,” Čiūnis said.

On the night of Monday, an unidentified object, presumed to be a drone, crashed and exploded in Lithuania’s Varėna district near Lake Lavysas, close to the Belarusian border.