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Quickness, teamwork, harmony. This is how one can summarize the tactical week of the HDF 30th Mechanized Infantry Brigade held in the Bakony Hills, where the soldiers of the 2nd company of the 1st Grenadier Battalion breached a bunker, seized it and then conducted trench warfare. The training sessions did not end nightfall, as the mortar platoons used their Hirtenberger M12 mortars to break the silence of the night.Read more

Hungarian soldiers serving in KFOR, NATO’s peacekeeping mission in Kosovo successfully completed the multinational military strength and endurance competitions held at Camp Novo Selo.Read more

In 2026 again, outstanding significance was attached to the NATO Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exploration, Experimentation, Examination Exercise (CWIX) held in Bydgoszcz, Poland with the objective of testing and perfecting the interoperability of coalition and national command and control (C2) systems of allied and partner nations across all domains of operations.Read more

The member states of the Visegrád Group (V4) – the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia – consider it necessary to strengthen their cooperation in the fields of military logistics and defence industry – this was announced at a press conference following the meeting of V4 defence ministers in Budapest on June 25.Read more

After two weeks of intensive work on difficult terrain, NATO’s international military medicine Exercise Vigorous Warrior 2026 ended in Estonia. The Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo aircraft transporting to Budapest the medical and field equipment of the Hungarian Defence Forces used in the Baltic state made two turns and so it landed at Liszt Ferenc International Airport on June 21 and 22. A prepared convoy of the Hungarian Defence Forces was awaiting for the cargo, so that it can return the items of equipment to the HDF Medical Center after unloading. On June 21, the Hungarian service members participating in the exercise also arrived in Kecskemét, Hungary aboard an Airbus A319 of the Hungarian Defence Forces.Read more

With the completion of the Hungarian Defence Forces fighter aircraft fleet, already 18 armed JAS 39 Gripens safeguard Hungary’s and NATO’s airspace. “Our Gripens protect not only the Hungarian sky” – said MoD Parliamentary State Secretary László Kürtös at the reception ceremony of the last two assets of the fleet on June 23.Read more

Exercise Safety Fuel 2026 was planned and directed under Hungarian lead. This year, the main focus of the activities was on fielding the joint Bulk Fuel Installations (BFI) and on the complex tasks relating to them.Read more

On June 23, traffic was busy at the HDF 101st Aviation Wing. Two new JAS 39 Gripens arrived to their permanent home base, and besides, some special “dinner guests” came along to visit the airbase. A Northrop F-5A fighter aircraft and an Airbus A400M Atlas giant airlifter of The Turkish Stars – the aerobatic demonstration team of the Turkish Air Force – landed on the runway for refueling. En route to their destinations in Germany and Belgium, the members of the world’s largest aerobatic team equipped with supersonic fighters thanked their hosts in Kecskemét for their hospitality by performing a short demo flight.Read more

Signal specialist assigned to the 34th rotation of the HDF KFOR Contingent has successfully deployed and tested a mobile high-frequency (HF) radio station in the field.Read more