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Hungary is an active contributor to NATO’s efforts towards security

11:44 October 16, 2025
We trust that similarly to the Middle East, President Trump’s peace efforts will succeed in Ukraine, too. Creating peace is in Hungary’s fundamental national interest. NATO is a defence alliance aimed at maintaining peace, one of the main pillars of which is NATO’s credible deterrence posture. And the real basis of this deterrence posture is provided by committed and reliable allies such as Hungary – stated Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky following the Meetings of NATO Ministers of Defence in Brussels on 15 October.
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Soaring up together

11:37 October 15, 2025
During the Helicopter Tactics Instructors Course (HTIC) 2025, rotorcrafts of the participating nations took to the sky together for the first time. The composite air operation (COMAO) was carried out with the support of fighter aircraft and land forces.
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Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky: The government’s aim is to establish a highly digitized force

15:01 October 15, 2025
The government’s aim is to ensure that Hungary has 21st-century quality, highly digitized armed forces, which take care of humans even more and mobilize technology in the interest of defence – stated Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky at the designated event Space & Defense Day of Infotér Conference in Balatonfüred.
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The Hungarian Defence Forces Passed with Flying Colours

13:26 October 14, 2025
Hungary is not drifting but is working well-preparedly, thoughtfully and by a pre-defined strategy to defend our country and guarantee the security of the Hungarian people. Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025 is an important element in armed forces development, underlined Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky in his latest video posted on social media.
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Attention from high above

11:41 October 15, 2025
The students of the 46th International Military Observers’ Course are spending the last week of their training. While at the HDF 86th Helicopter Wing in Szolnok, they took off aboard a H225M helicopter to practice aerial reconnaissance.
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Transport on the battlefield

12:57 October 14, 2025
On the Distinguished Visitors’ (DV) Day of Exercise Safety Transport 2025, a company consisting of German, Czech and Hungarian platoons was operating in the framework of a complex logistic transport mission to demonstrate its capability of executing loading and transportation tasks on the battlefield. On 13 October, representatives of the three nations observed a display of the military logistic exercise on the Tatárszentgyörgy shooting range and training area of the Hungarian Defence Forces Joint Forces Training Centre.
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ADHU 25: Special Operations Forces on the ground and in the air

10:53 October 13, 2025
The operation of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) battle group was based on a fictitious story. During it, the SOF operators launched air and ground assaults to recapture Mezőkövesd airport – which had fallen into enemy hands – at the cost of an intensive firefight. This was one of the most spectacular elements of the multinational SOF Exercise Black Swan 2025, which forms part of country defence Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025. Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky and General Dr. Gábor Böröndi, Chief of HDF Defence Staff also observed the operation on the spot.
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Safe and precise transportation

13:08 October 13, 2025
During the logistic Exercise Safety Transport 2025, German, Czech and Hungarian platoons are moving at company level under a joint command. Besides training tasks, they are strengthening their transportation capabilities by meeting the requirements of the NATO-framed joint, whole-of-government, country defence Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025.
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Zoltán Kaszab takes over CSEL position at NATO Allied Command Operations

12:57 October 13, 2025
For the next three years, Chief Warrant Officer Zoltán Kaszab has assumed Command Senior Enlisted Leader (CSEL) position at NATO’s Allied Command Operations in Mons, Belgium. This is the first time that a Hungarian soldier has taken over the CSEL position at the NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).

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Ministry of defence

Szalay-Bobrovniczky Kristóf

Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky

Minister of Defence
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Tamás Vargha

Parliamentary State Secretary, Deputy Minister
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Dr. Árpád Vidoven

Permanent State Secretary
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Zsolt Barthel-Rúzsa

State Secretary for the Control of Military National Security
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Dr. Zsolt Kutnyánszky

State Secretary for Force Development and Defence Policy
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Dr. Ádám Schmidt

State Secretary for Sport
Magyar Honvédség

General Staff Hungarian Defence Forces

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General Dr. Gábor Böröndi

Chief of General Staff Hungarian Defence Forces
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Lieutenant General Ferenc Kajári

Deputy Chief of General Staff Hungarian Defence Forces
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Lieutenant General Zoltán Mihócza

Deputy Chief of General Staff for Territorial Defence
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Major General Zoltán Schmidt

Deputy Chief of General Staff for Economic Affairs
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Major General Zoltán Somogyi

Director of General Staff
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Chief Warrant Officer Tamás Zsiros

Command Sergeant Major, Hungarian Defence Forces