General Gábor Böröndi: Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025 is starting
Text: Ministry of Defence | Photo: archive (illustrations) | 10:50 September 1, 2025The large-scale national defence Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025 (ADHU 2025) starts on 1 September as the largest, most important and most complex operation of the Hungarian Defence Forces since the 1989 regime change – said General Dr. Gábor Böröndi, Chief of HDF Defence Staff. The exercise – which is test of strength both on the national and the allied levels – will run until mid-October.
During the next one and a half months, the mechanisms to be activated at the exercise conducted within NATO defence frameworks will be based on reactions to fictitious injects and aimed at the whole-of-government preparation and support for military tasks – added General Böröndi.
The Chief of Defence emphasized that the entire Hungarian Defence Forces as well as the NATO command elements and units stationed in Hungary would participate in the military maneuvers and movements, which are planned according to a fictitious scenario. Besides career and contract servicemembers, the Hungarian Defence Forces are going to involve more than 2000 reservists in the implementation of the tasks covering several counties of Hungary, and forces of other NATO members states will also join the exercise actively.
The Hungarian Defence Forces organize the armed defence of the country and prepare the reception, staging and onward movement of Alliance forces stationed in, arriving in or transiting the area of Hungary – in cooperation with Hungary-based NATO forces as well as organizations of the public and defence administration.
The following weeks will see a number of central and garrison-based training programs, among them the exercises of Lynx infantry fighting vehicles, Leopard 2A7HU main battle tanks and PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers, live fire exercises and route marches, maneuvers of rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft and parachute jumps – said the Chief of Defence.
Due to the movement of troops and regrouping of military equipment to areas of the central exercises and the military training areas of garrisons, the populace should anticipate increased traffic on public roads, rail and in the air, as well as intensive noise impact. In every case, the citizens will be informed about these changes beforehand – added Dr. Gábor Böröndi.
Press release of the Ministry of Defence
