The security of Hungarian troops serving in northern Afghanistan’s Baghlan province has considerably improved thanks to the recent procurement of new military hardware, the Defence Ministry told MTI on Thursday.
The new equipment necessitated by the spread of insurgents from the southern areas to relatively peaceful northern regions, where Hungarian troops have been serving under the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), the ministry said in a statement.
Defence Minister Csaba announced the purchase of ten US-made MRAP – Mine Resistant Ambush Protected armoured vehicles and 500 safety helmets last year.
The troops have also been provided with protective gear and armoured container homes, Hende said at a military event in eastern Hungary’s Debrecen on February 3.
Currently one thousand Hungarian troops serve in NATO, UN and EU-led missions in 11 countries in Europe, in the African continent and in Asia.
Most of them, over 700, are serving in NATO missions in Afghanistan, Kosovo and Iraq, the ministry said.
It does not matter what safety equipment you have when you have this type of Officers:
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http://www.svd.se/nyheter/utrikes/webbtv/livsfarlig-skjutovning_5951701.svd
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I have not been able to find any English version so you have to use your best Turkish and Swedish, but the video is telling enough
“Hungarian troops have been serving under the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT),”
What are they reconstructing, Humpty-Dumpty?
@Viking
And what is your video has to do with Hungarian Officers or the Hungarian Army? (Now if you showed us a video of Hungarian officers drunker than shit then that would be ok.)
And what is your video has to do with Hungarian Officers or the Hungarian Army?
DoubleH63 at February 20, 2011 2:49 AM
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Nothing, but I never claimed that either
But it is a fellow NATO Army practising methods their Defence Minister calls bad, but as can be seen in the end of the video, the Turkish Elite Forces uses these exercises on public shows, calling them the “Shot of Trust” (meaning the colleagues who hold the targets should trust the guy firing at them, even when he fires between his legs, head down)
Maybe not the exercise for the new recruits in Boot Camp
And I have no idea if this is standard procedure in the Hungarian Army, it was not in the Swedish Navy at least (where I did my military service hunting Soviet submarines)
@Viking
The NATO Army means shit to me, you are the one who creams all over himself Hungary being part of NATO and the EU.
DoubleH63,
The European Union is the Future. Nationalist Hungary is the Past.
You will be consigned to the Ash Heap of History just like the Soviet Union.
China is the future
Actually it’s US which can be likened to the Soviet Union since the USA has clearly entered the declining stage of its superpower status and it will be just of the great powers by about 2040-2050.
The only question is if the transition will be similarly peaceful or not.
correction: the US will be just one of the great powers like Russia is today
China is the future
China is the future at February 20, 2011 2:45 PM
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But for what is the question?
This week-end 15 leading Chinese Human Rights activists were picked up by the Police and the Police were also out in force to stop the many demonstrations that were planned for this week-end:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12517909
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“Police in China showed up in force in several major cities after an online call for a “jasmine revolution”
Calls for people to protest and shout “we want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness”, were circulated on Chinese microblog sites”
“China’s authorities blocked searches for the word jasmine on the internet
Protesters in Tunisia who overthrew President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January called their movement the Jasmine Revolution.
On Saturday President Hu Jintao called for stricter controls on the internet “to guide public opinion” and “solve prominent problems which might harm the harmony and stability of the society”"
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Read the last part one more time
Remind a bit about the arguments for the need for the New Media Law in Hungary, the need to control the Internet and the need to have “balanced information” controlled by people being appointed by The One Party
@Viking:
It will be “very interesting” to see how the Chines authorities handle the next years.
I was in China on business in 1991 (not long after those happenings at Tianmen square) and it felt strange. I’ve been following the country as an interested observer ever since and just now proofread a thesis on the Chinese banks by my nephew – the numbers are really staggering …
The mass of “things” that China produces for the West (not only cheap crap but high value electronics up to most Apple products) and the money they earn – and reinvest in Europe, but also in Africa and everywhere is gigantic.
I met some very sophisticated, intelligent and clever people years ago – it is a Herculean task to manage this country – let’s hope they can do it without any more bloodshed …
@Wolfi – many years ago, I met an expert on China who came to my country to advise our leaders. He thought that China would have a major revolution inside of a generation. The reasons for this was mainly because China was no longer operating as a communist country, but a capitalist one, with a communist govt each with their own interests. There was a widening rift between the people in power (party), the people with the money (rich businessmen with their own interests), and the working class (who neither of the two groups really care about, but are struggling with both economic & political issues). Over time, he thought the income & opportunity gaps would cause these 3 interest groups to clash & upset the country & possibly the region.
On your second point, you’re right about China producing both cheap goods, but also quality electronic goods. What a lot of people (Geza, commonsense etc) fail to realize is that China is also producing many high end industrial, medical and some aerospace products & components. More than half of the worlds X Ray, MRI machines are currently, or will be produced in China or India. My cousin is right now working in China for Fed-Ex. No, he’s not delivering packages. He’s overseeing Chinese engineers converting/modifying/upgrading Fed-Ex planes – jobs which were once done only in developed countries.
An unidentified caller into CNN just claimed that ‘East-European mercenaries’ are roaming the streets in Tripoli, Libya
The Hungarian Army got lost?