NATO’s multinational battlegroup in Hungary tested its combat capabilities alongside the Hungarian Defence Forces during Exercise Adaptive Hussars 23.
During the exercise, troops from Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Türkiye practised the rapid deployment of mechanised forces across difficult terrain. Hungarian combat engineers erected a pontoon bridge across the Tisza River, allowing Armoured Personnel Carriers and other vehicles to quickly cross and move towards their objectives. These “wet gap crossings” are complicated and labour intensive, yet essential for NATO’s forces to remain mobile, agile and capable of rapidly responding to crises.
Adaptive Hussars was the largest military exercise in Hungary for 30 years, with over 5000 troops involved. Click HERE to download the b-roll. Footage includes a wet gap crossing operation (construction, defence, crossings), footage of Italian paratroopers performing a live fire exercise, and soundbites from battlegroup captains and a commander.
Border officers key to Hungarians’ safety
President Katalin Novák on Friday thanked border officers for their work, saying they guaranteed that Hungarians felt safe in their country.
Novák visited Bácsszentgyörgy, a village near Hungary’s southern border with Serbia, on the third day of her visit to Bács-Kiskun County. She noted that the county had the longest border section with Serbia in Hungary: “Here, the border protects Europe itself, not only Hungary.” Novák also visited a toy factory and Kiskoros, the town where 19th century reform poet Sándor Petőfi was born. In the evening she will host a gala dinner for the county’s officials, where she decorates Ibolya Szilágyi Szinger, the rector of the Eotvos Jozsef College, with the Order of Merit of Hungary, Knight’s Cross.
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