U.S. could deploy M1 Abrams MBT and Bradley IFV in Hungary during military exercises 12307151

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U.S. could deploy M1 Abrams MBT and Bradley IFV in Hungary during military exercises.
According the news website Napi Gazdaság, U.S. main battle tanks and combat vehicles coulb relocated in Hungary in the next few months. Some military equipment will arrive to Hungarian military base. to be used in training exercises as part of NATO’s preparations to react to the Ukrainian-Russian conflict.
     
According the news website Napi Gazdaság, U.S. main battle tanks and combat vehicles coulb relocated in Hungary in the next few months. Some military equipment will arrive to Hungarian military base. to be used in training exercises as part of NATO’s preparations to react to the Ukrainian-Russian conflict.
U.S. Soldier with Special Operations Command, Europe, 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Detachment Alpha 0114 trains with his Hungarian counterpart in small arms training at Szolnok Air Base, Hungary, July 13, 2012
     
Napi Gazdaság said the option to station tanks in Hungary, Ukraine's western European Union neighbor and a former central European communist satellite, emerged during a February visit by Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, commander of U.S. Army Europe.

The Hungarian government spokesman's office said Hungary had not received an official request from the U.S. to deploy heavy weaponry in Hungary. However is said it would make sense for some military equipment to remain in Hungary between exercises.

The website of Napi Gazdaság said U.S. forces would also take part in the Brave Warrior exercise in Hungary with Stryker fighting vehicles as well as in a joint crossing exercise on the Danube river planned in the autumn.

The United States Army could send Bradley armoured infantry fighting vehicles and M1 Abrams main battle tanks to Hungary for the next year military exercises.