HUNGARIAN DEFENCE FORCES ONLINE

As the largest-scale military maneuvers since the regime change, country defence Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025 shows the guarantee of the security of Hungarian people – emphasized Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky in the Hungarian Defence Forces Central Training Area and Shooting Range, near Hajmáskér in his speech delivered on the Distinguished Visitors’ (DV) Day, 25 September.Read more

The HDF 4th Territorial Defence Regiment is playing a significant role in the pre-planned, joint and whole-of-government defence exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025, held within NATO frameworks. Our photo selection shows what kind of tasks reservists received.Read more

The Hungarian Defence Forces prepared with a professional day and a rehearsal for the visitors’ day of Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025. One of the most complex, largest-strength phases of the pre-planned, joint and whole-of-government country defence exercise was held at the HDF Central Training and Shooting Range, where land, air and special operations forces introduced joint, combined-arms combat, together with international allies. General Dr. Gábor Böröndi, Chief of the HDF Defence Staff, told us, in relation to task execution, that the Hungarian Defence Forces introduced their whole spectrum, from the tactical to the strategic level.Read more

The security of Central Europe is one and indivisible, so the only way for us is to join forces to be able to successfully tackle the challenges of the age – declared Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky in Bratislava, following the Annual Meeting of the Central European Defence Cooperation (CEDC) Ministers together with the Ministers of the Western Balkans.Read more

The future prospects of our defense relations and the mutual assessment of our successfully delivered military programmes over the past year constituted the main topics for discussion at the third meeting of the Hungarian-Egyptian Joint Military Committee (MJC) organized in Budapest on September 24-25. The Hungarian delegation at the committee meeting was led by Colonel István Hajnal, Head of the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Defense, whilst the Egyptian military delegation was led by Brigadier General Sameeh Yahia Hamed Khodier, Egyptian Co-Chair of the MJC.Read more

Besides Hungarian servicemembers, other nations’ forces also participate in the pre-planned, joint and whole-of-government defence exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025, held within NATO frameworks.Read more

“The largest-scale and most complex exercise of the Hungarian Defence Forces since the regime change has reached another milestone: on Monday, more than 1000 reservists are going to join the territorial defence regiments to undergo a kind of training that is organically connected with the operations of Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025” – announced Brigadier General Dr. László Drót, Commander, Hungarian Defence Forces Territorial Defence and Military Augmentation Command.Read more

The national parachute team of the Hungarian Defence Forces came in second at the 2025 Skydive World Cup Series in total. The sixth, and closing, competition was held in Locarno, Switzerland, with the participation of more than 200 parachutists from 22 countries.Read more

As part of the defence Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025 organized within the framework of NATO, Hungarian Special Operations Forces (SOF) soldiers held a joint training program with the allied North Macedonian forces. The main objective of the one-week Cold Peak 2025 was to develop their rapid reaction capabilities – with regrouping in a foreign environment. Together with his counterpart, North Macedonian Chief of Defence Major General Saško Lafčiski, General Dr. Gábor Böröndi, Chief of HDF Defence Staff also observed the training in North Macedonia, which was conducted with the aim of assisting cooperation within NATO.Read more