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Katsuhiko “Katsu” Tokunaga captured, in his photos, these specially painted aircraft – including the JAS 39 Gripen fighters of the Hungarian Defence Forces – flying above the Greek landscape as participants of the multinational Exercise NATO Tiger Meet 2026.Read more

Organized annually since 2010 by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE), Locked Shields is one of the world’s largest and most complex cyber security exercises, which tests the participating nations’ technical, strategic, legal and communicative response capabilities under real-time cyberattacks.Read more

Following the 2024 command year, the Hungarian Defence Forces have completed the tasks of another successful leadership role in the peacekeeping mission of the European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as Brigadier General Tibor Szabó has been Chief of Staff EUFOR Operation Althea for a year. He relinquished his responsibilities as chief of staff to Romanian Brigadier General Traian T. Maghercă in Camp Butmir, Sarajevo on 14 May.Read more

Italian Centauro combat vehicles, Leopard tanks, as well as H145M and H225M helicopters were roaring on the Zero Point shooting range and training area on 13 May. Part of the multinational NATO Forward Land Forces Battle Group (NATO FLF BG HUN) arrived in the training area as air assault force, and then the whole personnel carried out a successful and coordinated live firing exercise with firearms, other weapons and tanks.Read more

On Tuesday, 12 May, Defence Minister Dr. Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi was sworn in in the National Assembly.Read more

Hungarian and Serbian servicemembers arriving in the area of Dóc encountered a thick screen of smoke and the deafening roar of helicopters. Casualties lying on the ground with realistic moulaged wounds on them were waiting for personnel recovery. The objective of the two-day, cross-border Exercise Cross Landing was to have the two nations’ armed forces perfect their joint air search and rescue (SAR) operations.Read more

This year, too, the NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) held a spectacular event in Mons, Belgium on the occasion of World Children’s Day. During the celebration, the children of allied nations presented their cultural and musical values on stage.Read more

Colonel Mauro Bruschi, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR), received the Partnership Medal of Merit from Colonel Gábor Hangya, the senior Hungarian national representative to KFOR, in Pristina.Read more

Figuratively speaking, the ferries and combat vehicles of the Hungarian Defence Forces occupied River Danube on 11 May. They crossed Hungary’s largest river first at Meszes-Gerjen, and then at Fajsz, under cover of night. The wet gap crossing operation of the Lynx infantry fighting vehicles of the HDF 30th Mechanized Infantry Brigade was assisted by soldiers of the HDF 14th Engineer Regiment and the Ohio National Guard.Read more