Editing Hungarian Defence Forces (section)

{{Short description|Combined military forces of Hungary}}
{{Infobox national military
| name               = Hungarian Defence Forces
| native_name        = {{lang|hu|Magyar Honvédség}}
| image              = Emblem of the Hungarian Defence Forces.svg
| image_size         = 150px
| alt                = 
| caption            = Emblem of the Hungarian Defence Forces
| image2             = Flag of the Hungarian Defence Forces.svg
| alt2               = 
| caption2           = Flag of the Hungarian Defence Forces
| motto              = {{lang|hu|A hazáért}}<br />({{translation|For the homeland}})
| founded            = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1848|05|16}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Csákváriné Kottra|first=Györgyi|title=Magyar zászlók a honfoglalástól napjainkig|year=2011|publisher=Kossuth Kiadó|location=Budapest|isbn=978-963-09-6494-4|page=99}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Tarján|first=Tamás|author-link=:hu:Tarján Tamás|title=A Batthyány-kormány megalapítja a magyar honvédsereget|language=hu|trans-title=16 May 1848: Hungarian National Army Formed By Batthyány Government|url=http://www.rubicon.hu/magyar/oldalak/1848_majus_16_a_batthyany_kormany_megalapitja_a_magyar_honvedsereget/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110627225400/http://www.rubicon.hu/magyar/oldalak/1848_majus_16_a_batthyany_kormany_megalapitja_a_magyar_honvedsereget/|archive-date=2011-06-27|work=Rubicon|access-date=9 June 2014}}</ref>
| current_form       = 15 March 1990<ref>{{cite journal|title=A honvédelmi miniszter 2/1990. (III. 31.) HM rendelete a honvédségi szervezetek elnevezéséről és bélyegzőhasználatáról|journal=Honvédségi Közlöny|date=5 May 1990|volume=46|issue=7|page=137|editor=HM Igazgatási és Jogi Főosztály|publisher=Zrínyi Katonai Könyv- és Lapkiadó}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=1990. évi XVI. törvény a Magyar Köztársaság Alkotmányának módosításáról |url=http://www.1000ev.hu/index.php?a=3&param=8672 |work=1000 év törvényei |access-date=9 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714171548/http://www.1000ev.hu/index.php?a=3&param=8672 |archive-date=14 July 2014 }}</ref>
| disbanded          = 
| branches           = {{army|Hungary}}<br />{{air force|Hungary}}
| headquarters       = [[Budapest]]
| website            = {{URL|defence.hu/}}
<!-- Leadership -->
| commander-in-chief = [[Tamás Sulyok]]
| commander-in-chief_title = [[President of Hungary|President]]
| chief minister     = [[Viktor Orbán]]
| chief minister_title = [[Prime Minister of Hungary|Prime Minister]]
| minister           = [[Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky]]
| minister_title     = {{nowrap|[[Minister of Defence (Hungary)|Minister of Defence]]}}
| commander          = Colonel general [[Gábor Böröndi]]
| commander_title    = [[Chief of General Staff (Hungary)|Chief of General Staff]]
<!-- Manpower -->
| age                = 18–50<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.parlament.hu/irom41/03621/03621.pdf|title=Törvényjavaslat címe: A honvédelmi alkalmazottak jogállásáról|language=hu|trans-title=Bill Title: On the legal status of national defense employees}}</ref> years of age<ref>{{cite web|title=2013. évi XCVII. törvény a honvédségi adatkezelésről, az egyes honvédelmi kötelezettségek teljesítésével kapcsolatos katonai igazgatási feladatokról.Zrínyi 2026 is a plan,to enlarge the number military personers to 40.000.|url=http://jab.complex.hu/doc.php?docid=WKHU-QJ-XML-000000A1300097TV |work=CompLex Hatályos Jogszabályok Gyűjteménye |access-date=9 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714161415/http://jab.complex.hu/doc.php?docid=WKHU-QJ-XML-000000A1300097TV |archive-date=14 July 2014 }}</ref>
| conscription       = No (suspended on 3 November 2004)<ref>{{cite book|title=Katonai alapismeretek|year=2010|publisher=Zrínyi Kiadó|location=Budapest|isbn=978-963-327-490-3|page=5|url=http://www.ekonyvtar.zrinyimedia.hu/container/files/attachments/24338/katonai_alapismeretek.pdf|access-date=2014-06-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217152257/http://ekonyvtar.zrinyimedia.hu/container/files/attachments/24338/katonai_alapismeretek.pdf|archive-date=2011-12-17|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| manpower_data      = 
| manpower_age       = 
| available          = 
| available_f        = 
| fit                = 
| fit_f              = 
| reaching           = 
| reaching_f         = 
| active             = 41,600<ref>{{cite web |url=https://honvedelem.hu/hirek/hazai-hirek/elfogadta-az-orszaggyules-a-magyar-honvedseg-hivatasos-katonai-letszamat.html) |title= Parliament approved the number of professional military personnel of the Hungarian Defence Forces |website=honvedelem.hu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106160022/https://honvedelem.hu/hirek/hazai-hirek/elfogadta-az-orszaggyules-a-magyar-honvedseg-hivatasos-katonai-letszamat.html |archive-date=2021-11-06}}</ref>
| ranked             = 
| reserve            = 20,000<ref>{{cite web| url = https://abouthungary.hu/news-in-brief/hungary-to-increase-its-military-reserves-to-20000-by-2026)| title = About Hungary - Hungary to increase its military reserves to 20,000 by 2026| date = 2 October 2017}}</ref>
| deployed           = 868 (2019){{sfn|IISS|2020|p=116}}
<!-- Financial -->
| amount             = $5.23 billion (2024)<ref name="defence.hu">{{cite web| url = https://defence.hu/news/resources-necessary-for-hungary-s-defence-are-secured-in-times-of-war-as-well.html| title = Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky noted that together with the National Defence Fund, the 2024 defence budget passed by the National Assembly includes HUF 1823.1 billion. (1823.1 / 348.9 (USD/HUF exch. rate) = $5.23 billion | date = 18 Jan 2024}}</ref> ([[List of countries by military expenditures|ranked 41st]])
| percent_GDP        = 2.14% (2024)<ref name="defence.hu" />
<!-- Industrial -->
| domestic_suppliers = 
| foreign_suppliers  = {{flag|Czech Republic}}<br />{{flag|France}}<br />{{flag|Germany}}<br />{{flag|Italy}}<br />{{flag|Sweden}}<br />{{flag|Turkey}}<br />{{flag|United States}}<br />Former:<br />{{USSR}}
| imports            = 
| exports            = 
<!-- Related articles -->
| history            = [[Military history of Hungary]]
| ranks              = [[Military ranks of Hungary]]
}}

The '''Hungarian Defence Forces''' ({{langx|hu|Magyar Honvédség|lit=Hungarian Homeland-Guard}}, {{IPA|hu|ˈmɒɟɒr ˈhonveːt͡ʃːeːg}}) is the national [[armed forces|defence force]] of [[Hungary]]. Since 2007, the Hungarian Armed Forces has been under a unified command structure. The Ministry of Defence maintains political and civil control over the army. A subordinate Joint Forces Command coordinates and commands the HDF corps. In 2020, the armed forces had 22,700 personnel on active duty. In 2019, military spending was $1.904 billion, about 1.22% of the country's GDP, well below the NATO target of 2%.<ref name=SIPRI-2019>[https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: Military Expenditure Database], sipri.org, accessed 18 July 2020 (download data for all countries from 1949 to 2019 as an Excel spreadsheet).</ref> In 2016, the government adopted a resolution in which it pledged to increase defence spending to 2.0% of GDP and the number of active personnel to 37,650 by 2026.{{sfn|IISS|2020|p=115}}<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://hungarytoday.hu/hungary-focuses-on-military-improvement-to-meet-nato-requirements/|title=Hungary Focuses on Military Improvement to Meet NATO Requirements|date=25 October 2018|publisher=hungarytoday.hu|access-date=13 July 2019}}</ref>

[[Military service]] is voluntary, though [[conscription]] may occur in wartime. In a significant move for modernization, Hungary decided in 2001 to buy 14 [[JAS 39 Gripen]] fighter aircraft for about €800 million. It also bought two used Airbus A319 and two Falcon 7X transport aircraft. Three C-17 III Globemaster transport aircraft are operating from Pápa Air Base under Hungarian nationality mark but are maintained by the NATO [[Heavy Airlift Wing]] (HAW). An intensive modernization program started in 2016 under the name "Zrínyi 2026". New helicopters, tanks, IFVs and artillery equipment were purchased beside others. Hungarian National Cyber Security Center was re-organized in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.enisa.europa.eu/about-enisa/structure-organization/national-liaison-office/meetings/june-2016/revised-hungarian-it-security-policy|title=Revised Hungarian IT Security Policy|publisher=National Cyber Security Center|access-date=20 November 2016}}</ref>

As of 2016, the Hungarian military has about 700 troops stationed in foreign countries as part of international peacekeeping forces, including 100 HDF troops in the [[NATO]]-led [[ISAF]] force in [[Afghanistan]], 210 Hungarian soldiers in [[Kosovo]] under command of [[Kosovo Force|KFOR]], and 160 troops in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]. Hungary sent a 300-strong logistics unit to Iraq in order to help the US occupation with armed transport convoys, though public opinion opposed the country's participation in the war. One soldier was [[killed in action]] by a roadside bomb in Iraq.

During the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]], the HDF drove Habsburg forces from the country in the [[Spring Campaign]] of 1849, but was defeated by an Austro-Russian offensive in the summer. The [[Royal Hungarian Honvéd]] was established in 1868. During World War I, out of the eight million men mobilized by [[Austria-Hungary]], over one million died. [[Conscription]] was introduced on a national basis in 1939. The peacetime strength of the [[Royal Hungarian Army]] grew to 80,000 men organized into seven corps commands.<ref name="ReferenceA">Mollo, Andrew, ''The Armed Forces of World War II'', Crown, 1981, New York, p. 207. {{ISBN|0-517-54478-4}}.</ref> During World War II the [[Hungarian Second Army]] was destroyed on the banks of the [[Don River (Russia)|Don River]] in December 1942 in the [[Battle of Stalingrad]]. During the Socialist and the [[Warsaw Pact]] era (1947–1989), the entire 200,000 strong [[Southern Group of Forces]] was garrisoned in Hungary, complete with artillery, tank regiments, air force and missile troops with nuclear weapons.