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Dear Members and Friends,
On September 23, 2025—the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Lithuanian Air Force’s Air Defense Battalion and the 90th anniversary of the creation of the air defense branch within the Lithuanian Armed Forces—MDAA held the inaugural Eastern Flank Deterrence Line (EFDL) Missile Defender of the Year event in Kaunas, Lithuania with the Lithuanian Air Force.
The first MDAA Missile Defender of the Year (DOY) Award ceremony was held in January 2011 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first operational Patriot missile intercept on January 18, 1991. Since then, MDAA has held 83 total Defender of the Year Award ceremonies and honored 1,028 Awardees from 25 different nations, including Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Events have been hosted by nine countries: Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Qatar, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and now Lithuania.
Any Data, Any Nation, Any Sensor, Any Shooter on the Eastern Flank Deterrence Line. It starts here with winners and champions and it builds exponentially to become an invincible winning team.
We are honored to present our 2025 EFDL Missile Defenders of the Year.
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