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Country Defence Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025 Ends with Success
13:41 November 3, 2025
Adaptive Hussars 2025, the largest military exercise organized since the 1989 change of regime has ended with success – announced Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky at the closing event of the exercise in Budapest on 31 October.
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.
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.
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.
Country defence Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025 shows guarantee of security of Hungarian people
14:25 September 26, 2025
As the largest-scale military maneuvers since the regime change, country defence Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025 shows the guarantee of the security of Hungarian people – emphasized Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky in the Hungarian Defence Forces Central Training Area and Shooting Range, near Hajmáskér in his speech delivered on the Distinguished Visitors’ (DV) Day, 25 September.
ADHU 25: Preparedness on All Levels
12:57 September 25, 2025
The Hungarian Defence Forces prepared with a professional day and a rehearsal for the visitors’ day of Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025. One of the most complex, largest-strength phases of the pre-planned, joint and whole-of-government country defence exercise was held at the HDF Central Training and Shooting Range, where land, air and special operations forces introduced joint, combined-arms combat, together with international allies. General Dr. Gábor Böröndi, Chief of the HDF Defence Staff, told us, in relation to task execution, that the Hungarian Defence Forces introduced their whole spectrum, from the tactical to the strategic level.
“Soldiers don’t fight for war but for peace”
15:12 September 18, 2025
The area of River Isonzo was the venue of one of the cruelest and most senseless bloodbaths of the First World War, where hundreds of thousands of troops fell or got wounded during the fights. 110 years after opening the third front of the Great War, 110 Hungarian students are paying tribute to the heroes’ memory at memorial sites in the area. On the first day of their visit, they explored the town of Kobarid, the Outdoor Museum in Kolovrat and the Austro-Hungarian military cemetery in Loče.
Harmony in the Sky
12:20 September 16, 2025
Within the framework of the pre-planned, joint, whole-of-government, defence Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025, paratroopers of the Parachute Squadron of the HDF Special Operations Command are executing parachute jumps from KC-390 transport aircraft above the “zero” point shooting range and military training area. The objective of the exercise is to strengthen SOF capabilities, especially those related to covert and quick reaction deployments.
Lebanese Ambassador Leaves After Nearly Eight Years
13:22 August 12, 2025
Dr. Zsolt Kutnyánszky, MoD State Secretary for Force Development and Defence Policy, received Ms. Joanna Maria Azzi, outgoing Ambassador of Lebanon to Budapest, on a farewell visit on Monday, 11 August.
Strong Will Derives Only from Strong Faith
16:52 July 14, 2025
The Hungarian Defence Forces need impeccable soldiers who respect their mission and enhance their vocation’s honour with their exemplary service on every level, said Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky on Saturday at the oath-taking of the 355 soldiers graduating from the HDF NCO Academy in Heroes’ Square, Budapest.