Fire Blade 2025 – Cooperation has outstanding importance
Text: HDF 47th Air Base | Photo: Lieutenant Gábor Magyar, Dr. Dániel Luka | 12:20 May 21, 2025The international tactical helicopter exercise Fire Blade 2025 has started in Pápa. Already for the third time, the HDF 47th Air Base is hosting this large-scale training event, which is taking place with the participation of rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft of five nations as well as supporting equipment of three nations.
At the opening ceremony of the exercise, Colonel Sándor Barta, Base Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Zoltán Szili, Deputy Commander, Multinational Helicopter Training Centre (MHTC) and Exercise Director Colonel Zoltán Rolkó welcomed the participants. In his speech, the EXDIR emphasized that in our age, cooperation and flexibility in conducting air operations have outstanding importance. Exercise Fire Blade 2025 enables the helicopter crews to develop their skills and broaden their knowledge by using various operational procedures during day and night sorties in an international environment.
Among the programs planned for the next two weeks are a live fire exercise, air assault training and medical evacuation.
Start of Exercise Fire Blade 2025
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