Reference News Network, September 30 report. According to the German magazine "Focus" website on September 28, German Federal Armed Forces personnel in electronic reconnaissance vehicles in the border area of Lithuania near the Russian exclave Kaliningrad are collecting, identifying, and analyzing radio signals. They are part of a German Federal Armed Forces reconnaissance task force conducting a mission codenamed "Vigilant Owl" in Lithuania.
This mission aims to strengthen cooperation with Lithuania. A German soldier explained: "We are here to assist in monitoring and reconnaissance of NATO's eastern flank." Additionally, ensuring that the German military has real-time awareness of the situation in the Baltic region is also their mission.
About 300 personnel from the German Cyber and Information Space Forces participated in this mission. For a month, they have continuously detected foreign military activities in the electromagnetic spectrum, especially radio signals transmitted by Russian and Belarusian forces during the "West-2025" military exercises.
The Russian Chernyakhovsk Air Base is only about 40 kilometers away from the location where German troops are conducting their mission in Lithuania. The German military personnel said that they can even hear the sound of aerial bombs hitting the ground from nearby training areas. This task force is also carrying out missions in the Lithuanian border area near Belarus.
The reconnaissance task force operates in the field in several groups. The German Federal Armed Forces stated that during the "West-2025" military exercises in mid-September, the personnel of this unit had to decrypt, evaluate, and transmit hundreds of sets of radio communication signals within a very short time each day. They focused on monitoring the content and methods of Russian military communications. It is said that during the exercises, Russian military personnel strictly adhered to radio communication discipline, and their radio communications were "very professional and standardized." (Translated by Wang Qing)
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