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Hungary NATIONAL SECURITY
Armed Forces: Hungarian People's Army in 1989
included
ground forces (77,000 with 58 percent conscripts); air
force
(22,000 with 36 percent conscripts); Danube Flotilla
(700); and
Border Guards (11,000 with 70 percent conscripts). All
forces
organized under Ministry of Defense. Soviet Southern Group
of
Forces stationed in Hungary numbered 65,000 troops.
Ground Forces: Three corps, with combined total
of five
tank brigades and ten motorized rifle brigades;
independent
artillery and surface-to-surface missile brigades; one
airborne
battalion; one antitank regiment; one antiaircraft
regiment; and
surface-to-air missile regiments. Danube Flotilla had
eighty-two
vessels in 1988.
Air Force: One air division and one air defense
division. Air division had three fighter or fighter-bomber
regiments, one helicopter regiment, and one reconnaissance
squadron. Air defense division had three surface-to-air
regiments
in late 1980s.
Equipment: Primarily Soviet.
Paramilitary: Included Security Police apparatus
(15,000) and Workers' Guard (60,000) in 1988. Both forces
received some military training.
Data as of September 1989
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