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PHOTOS: Hungary gets brand-new military choppers, troops prepare for Chad mission amid French withdrawal
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New Airbus H225M military choppers arrived in Hungary on Tuesday. The new helicopters will be used by the Hungarian Defence Forces. Meanwhile, Chad decided to end military cooperation with France. As a result, French soldiers are to return home soon. However, the Chad-Hungary agreement about sending a contingent of Hungarian soldiers to the Sahel area country remains in effect. Thus, the Hungarian military may depart to the African country soon.
According to portfolio.hu, new Airbus H225M military choppers arrived in Hungary to be used by the Hungarian Defence Forces. The main area of use of this type is the transportation of soldiers, but it is also used as a search and rescue aircraft.
The Hungarian Defence Forces ordered two versions from the French company. One is equipped with missiles (70 mm Hydra missiles and Spike precision-guided surface-to-air missiles), while the other is not since the Hungarian Defence Forces would only like to use it for transport duties. Thanks to the two new choppers, the Airbus H225M fleet of the Hungarian military grew to 12. In 2025, Hungary will receive another four aircraft. Therefore, the fleet will become complete with 16 helicopters.
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Chad sends home the French, welcomes Hungarian troops
It sounded odd at first when the Hungarian prime minister’s spokesperson announced that Chad’s president, Mahamat Idriss Deby, would travel to Hungary and meet with PM Orbán in Budapest in September. Before, Hungarian media wrote about a possible Hungarian military mission to the unstable Sahel Area country. They added that one of the brokers of the deal was PM Viktor Orbán’s only son, Gáspár Orbán, who travelled to Chad multiple times.