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“We’ve had a great partnership with the Ohio National Guard for decades. Our troops were co-deployed in the Afghanistan mission, and we’ve been continuously supporting each other. Thanks to the good relationship, our troops have been able to demonstrate in the Alliance that we’re reliable partners” – said Defence Minister Dr. Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi PhD during Ohio National Guard Adjutant General Major General Matthew S. Woodruff’s visit to Hungary on June 4.Read more

The chiefs of staff of the Visegrád Four—including General Zsolt Sándor—met in Budapest on June 3 to discuss current regional challenges and coordinate their common objectives. The conference focused on technological issues in modern warfare, including counter unmanned aerial systems (UAS) capabilities.Read more

“It can be armed, used for the tasks of special operations, in support the land forces, for air assault and close air support, and for the execution of any logistic transport task” – this was how Colonel Krisztián Kovács, Commander, HDF 86th Helicopter Wing praised the versatility of the H225M helicopters at the 5th conference of the H225M User Group on June 2.Read more

We’ve had a huge partnership since 1993, so we’ve been developing together for a long time. The Hungarian reserve system looks very similar to the Ohio National Guard, and we’re always excited about the joint exercises with the Hungarian forces – said Major General Matthew S. Woodruff, Adjutant General, Ohio National Guard on the first day of his visit to Hungary.Read more

On June 2–3, 2026, János Szőnyegi, MoD Deputy State Secretary for Force Development and Defence Policy hosted the Defence Policy Directors from the Visegrád Group (V4) countries (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic) in Budapest.Read more

State-of-the-art technological developments and international cooperation recently played the main role at an airbase near Beja, Portugal. Together with Portuguese, Spanish and Belgian service personnel, the soldiers of the ISTAR UAV company of the HDF 2nd Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Regiment used various types of fixed-wing UAVs in practicing the reconnoitering of enemy activity, the monitoring of vehicles and the surveillance of facilities on the ground and the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean.Read more

Besides the Slovak training areas, Exercise Strong Lineage 2026 of the Slovakia-based NATO Multinational Brigade Task Force was conducted in the Bakony Hills, Hungary. The Spanish subunit (Task Force Bravo) of the brigade conducted live-fire training on the “Zero point” shooting range and training area, where its soldiers maneuvered, synchronized fires and took aim precisely on platoon level with their Uro Vamtac combat vehicles.Read more

The soldiers of the Hungarian Defence Forces Special Operations Command also participated in the international Special Operations Forces Exercise Trojan Footprint 2026, which was hosted, among others, by Hungary as well. The large-scale training event running in several countries involved the Hungarian, Slovak, Slovenian and American SOFs, which jointly carried out complex operation on the ground, on water and in the air with the objective of developing interoperability.Read more

On the occasion of Heroes' Day, soldiers of the 34th rotation of the Hungarian Defence Forces KFOR Contingent paid tribute to those who fell in World War I at the Austro-Hungarian military cemetery in Peć/Pejë, Kosovo. Prior to the event, a group of Hungarian peacekeepers volunteered to maintain the cemetery to ensure it was neat and dignified for the commemoration of the Hungarian heroes.Read more