Dr. Zsolt Kutnyánszky
08:02 January 22, 2024
Another deployment: The Hungarian Defence Forces extinguish fires in Bulgaria as well
11:08 August 5, 2025
The Hungarian Defence Forces recently participated with a H225M helicopter in containing wildfires raging in Bulgaria. A seven-strong contingent of the HDF 86th Helicopter Wing was fighting fires for three days in the area of Ploski and Ilindentsi. During their 26 flight hours, they landed on 20 occasions and scooped up water 146 times with the Bambi Buckets used for extinguishing, using up a total of 277,000 liters of water.
Screw by screw
10:58 August 5, 2025
Helicopters. Realizations of the fantasy of man eager to fly, products of engineering ingenuity. Marvel machines assembled from tens of thousands of components, screws and elements. The Airbus H225M rotorcraft of the Hungarian Defence Forces have arrived from France. They have undergone a thorough technical inspection before entering service.
Rotary-wing flying: from the factory to the training area
19:00 August 4, 2025
What does it take to put the brand new Airbus H225M helicopters into service? Viewers of our short film can follow the path of the last two homecoming H225M rotorcraft of the renewing air force of the Hungarian Defence Forces from the factory in France to Szolnok, Hungary.
Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky: Baltic countries can count on the Hungarian Air Force
15:48 July 31, 2025
Hungary is a reliable ally in NATO, the Baltic countries can count on the Hungarian Air Force – stated Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky at Siauliai Air Base, Lithuania on 31 July, when, together with the Spanish air force, four JAS 39C Gripen fighter aircraft of the Hungarian Air Force took over from the Polish and Romanian air forces air policing duties in the airspace of the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania within the framework of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission.
Judo seminar for North Macedonian policemen
12:01 July 31, 2025
“In my opinion, judo is one of the Olympic sports whose movement material is used effectively by the armed forces” – said Major Szabolcs Krizsán, after he held a further training session in martial arts for North Macedonian special police units in Skopje. The commander of the HDF Sport Company is currently the head police & military commissioner at the Police & Military Commission of the European Judo Union, and at the same time a member of the Military and Police Commission of the International Judo Federation.
Wildfire Control in Bulgaria with Hungarian Assistance
11:57 July 31, 2025
Snapshots of Bulgaria from onboard the Hungarian Defence Forces’ H225M helicopter fighting roaring fires. The modern rotary-wing aircraft of the HDF 86th Helicopter Wing, with its crew, departed from Szolnok three days ago to assist in controlling the forest fires in Bulgaria.
Baltic Air Policing for the fourth time
10:32 July 31, 2025
The personnel of the 69th rotation of the Hungarian Defence Forces Baltic Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) Detachment – stationed in a lead nation role at Šiauliai Air Base, Lithuania – are about to start performing air policing tasks for the fourth time as of 1 August. The airmen are already preparing on the spot for executing the tasks of the next four months, with several of them serving at the base not for the first time.
Military diplomacy recognition
11:05 July 30, 2025
On the occasion of completing her military diplomacy service in Hungary, Minister of Defence of Hungary Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky awarded the “Service Medal for Military Diplomacy” to Colonel Feride Tosun, the military attaché of Türkiye accredited to Budapest. The decoration was presented to the colonel by MoD Deputy State Secretary for Defence Policy László Hajnik in the Ministry of Defence on 25 July.
Hungarian general again in “the NATO capital of Poland”
11:46 July 29, 2025
Already for the third time, a Hungarian general has been appointed deputy commander and chief of staff of the NATO Joint Force Training Centre in Bydgoszcz for three years again, starting from July 2025. Brigadier General Zoltán Bárány has taken over the command position – which is filled by Czechia and Hungary in three-year turns – from his Czech colleague, Brigadier General Petr Svoboda.
Torrent of Medals at the Weekend
11:35 July 29, 2025
Outstanding military athletes of four sports awarded Hungary with a torrent of medals over the weekend.