Hungary offers evacuation capacity to EU Battlegroup
Hungary has offered strategic air medical evacuation capacity consisting of an Airbus 319 aircraft and flight and health-care personnel to the Polish-led EUBG battle group, the Hungarian Armed Forces said on Saturday.
An aircraft of the Hungarian Airforce. Photo: Daily News Hungary/Mercédesz Hetzmann
The aircraft and staff will not be an active participant in the battle group but prepared to fly 200 hours as supporting capacity in the second half of 2024 and the first half of 2025, the press secretary of Brigadier General Csaba Ugrik said. The capacity will be stationed in Hungary, he added.
Brigadier General Csaba Ugrik (right). Photo: MTI/Ujvári Sándor
If necessary, the aircraft will be used to support EUBG operations in strategic airborne medical evacuation tasks, he said, entailing the evacuation of wounded soldiers to Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava or other airports, the armed forces said.
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