Rūdninkai Training Area () is a military facility in Lithuania, located southwest of Vilnius and from the border with Belarus. It is surrounded by Rūdninkai Forest, the fifth largest forest in Lithuania. It is part of a larger training complex encompassing about .
History Established in 1948, during the Soviet occupation, the area was used for training bomber crews. The facility was closed in 1993. Unexploded ordnance (UXO), usually air-dropped bombs weighing , are still discovered in the facility. The largest bomb, detonated in 2007, weighed . In 2008, Rūdninkai training area was the largest territory of 222 areas in Lithuania, covering a total of , that were still contaminated by unexploded ordnance.
The training area was re-established in 2022. From 2025, the Lithuanian Armed Forces will begin hosting the German 45th Panzer Brigade (Bundeswehr) in Rūdninkai Training Area. In June 2025, the European Investment Bank approved €540 million loan for the construction of a new military base in Rūdninkai.
See also Pabradė Training Area Gaižiūnai Rukla
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