Hungarian military plane disappeared in Africa!

There is secrecy surrounding the Africa mission of the Hungarian Airbus A-319 military plane frequently used by FM Péter Szijjártó. The plane’s beacon was switched off and nobody knows where it flew with potentially 140 people on board.

Hungarian military plane disappeared over Africa

According to 24.hu, the Hungarian Defence Forces’ Airbus A-319 was sent on a secret mission to Africa on 5 June and disappeared for three days. The plane took off from the Kecskemét military airport, but nobody knows how many people were on board.

We know only the plane’s capacity, which is 140. We know its beacon was switched off in Tunisia’s airspace while heading south. The radar found it only three days later, flying back from Tunisia’s southern border region to Kecskemét. You may check out a photo of the plane in THIS article.

The Hungarian media outlet sent questions to the Hungarian Ministry of Defence but received no answer. 24.hu wanted to know whether the plane’s mission was somehow related to the Orbán cabinet’s planned Chad mission, which the parliament approved last year.

Illustration. Photo: Hungarian Defence Forces/FB

Hungary would like to send soldiers to Chad

Based on the plans, the Hungarian military would send 200 officers to the unstable Central African country to protect multiple Hungarian development projects and help train local forces. Gergely Gulyás, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, said there was no exact schedule for the mission earlier this month.

Interestingly, Chad is where PM Viktor Orbán’s only son, Captain Gáspár Orbán, travelled with FM Péter Szijjártó multiple times to take part in negotiations with local strongmen.

Hungarian soldiers departing to Chad? Photo: Hungarian Defence Forces/FB

Orbán Jr on the hunt for raw materials in Africa?

Based on information acquired by Vsquare from the inner circles of the government, the Chad mission is Captain Orbán’s idea. He convinced the decision-makers that they could acquire uranium and crude oil in the Central African country.

However, hvg.hu says Hungary does not have the means and technology to utilise these raw materials. Therefore, Hungary would need Russian help for processing the materials.

PM Orbán’s son tried to disguise himself in Chad:

And even hid behind coloumns (but the hat is the same):

French-American request

Meanwhile, Világgazdaság wrote that sending Hungarian troops to Chad was the idea of the French, and the Americans approved it after their troops had to leave the country. Hungary would have taken part in the so-called Takuba-Barkhane in West Africa with 16 European NATO members. The mission never began, but the French requested Hungary’s presence in the Chad mission.

Since Chad is vital to the USA, such a request required the approval of Washington. Világgazdaság wrote that based on their information, only Hungary got a similar request from Paris (and probably the Americans).

Orbán and Macron: together in Africa? Photo: facebook.com/orbanviktor

A reason might be that Budapest is the only European NATO member still maintaining some form of contact with Moscow. Putin had a strong positions in Chad. Furthermore, the Central African Republic even got a military base used by soldiers of the late Wagner.

Explosion close to the future Hungarian military camp

Minister Gulyás could not tell when the first Hungarian soldiers would arrive in the war-torn country. But 168.hu wrote their campsite would be close to the recently blown up ammunition depo.

On Friday, the Hungarian government announced that Budapest would extend the Hungary Helps Programme to civilians wounded in an explosion of an ammunition depot in N’Djamena, and to the capital city’s central hospital. The Hungarian government opened a complex humanitarian and development centre in the capital of Chad in January this year to strengthen the stability of the Sahel, MTI wrote.

Azbej Tristan leaving Chad. Who will be the one to come back? Photo: FB/Azbej Tristan

Read also:

• Courting Macron? Orbán helps Chad, one of the world’s poorest and least democratic countries – Read more HERE
• PM Orbán’s only son, Captain Orbán serves in an African country – Details in THIS article