Tasks of the Hungarian Defence Forces in disaster and crisis situation: Communication and information services and capabilities

Abstract

Nowadays, the number of disaster and other crisis situations are growing, and the tasks of the Hungarian Defence Forces are significant. The National Disaster Management is the most important organization, but the Hungarian Defence Forces possess special equipment, and technical devices, so they take part in these situations as the other organizations like Law Enforcement, Hungarian Ambulance Services, and other civilian services. The defence forces have complex communication and information system, which build-up modular elements, so it is easy to use for command and control in these kind of tasks. In this article, the author shows the disaster relief tasks of the Hungarian Defence Forces, and the military communication and information capabilities in these crisis, and disaster situations.