Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[Sarkis86]

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He's embedding videos from YouTube. Do you have your browser set to block them?

Also, some public networks block flickr. When I check this thread while logged on at school, none of the images show. If a post is composed of only images, which is the case many times with Burjuin's excellent photos of the Armenian military, that post will appear to be blank because its content has been blocked from loading.

That's probably what's happening to Artashes, embedded youtube videos or flickr are being blocked.

[burjuin]

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President attended the official ceremony of inauguration of the new premise for the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations

25.01.2013

Today, President Serzh Sargsyan visited the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations and was present at the inauguration of the newly constructed unit of the Ministry. During the tour of the building, the President familiarized with the new achievements of the departments of the Ministry and works aimed at the modernization and retrofitting.

http://www.president.am/en/press-release/item/2013/01/25/President-Serzh-Sargsyan-visited-the-Ministry-of-Emergency-Situations/

[Vahram]

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Lt. General Netkachev
noted: "It was a political miscalculation of the Russian side to sell
"Favorite" Anti-Air Defense systems to Azerbaijan instead of Iran. To
be more correct we can call it a "geopolitical mistake". Azerbaijan is
increasing the military budget and this contradicts the interests of
Russia and its partners."

Like I said before, Moscow has been reacting to situations for the past few years. I think the tide has turned, but also damage has been done. This is going to be fixed, but this is going to take more then a few days to fix.

[londontsi]

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RUSSIAN STANCE: TO AND FRO
Igor Muradyan

Story from Lragir.am News:

http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28757

16:12 30/01/2013

As is known, on 30 January 2013 the Russia-based Nezavisimaya Gazeta
published an interesting article the author of which admits the
mistake of supplying S300 to Azerbaijan. In addition, Lieutenant
General Leonid Ivashov is quoted, "Sale of Favorite modern air
defense complexes to Azerbaijan instead of Iran is a political or
rather geopolitical miscalculation by Dmitri Medvedev. We lost a
lot by reaching agreement and signing New Start with Washington, the
international agreements on the northern seas are not fully in line
with our interests. Assisted by the ex-minister of defense Anatoly
Serdyukov, Medvedev authorized the signing of agreement with Israel on
reconnaissance data exchange. All these agreements are very difficult
to revoke, including with Azerbaijan which boosts its military budget
and carries out actions which are contrary to the interests of Russia
and its allies," the president of the academy of geopolitical issues,
Colonel General Leonid Ivashov thinks.

Effectiveness of S-300


The S-300 system hit accuracy is around 70-80%
By sending two missiles against a target the hit accuracy go up to 90-95%

Each system of S-300 has 4 missiles.
This means that when 2 targets have been attacked ( defended against ) the the system will have to be reloaded.

An interesting question arises.

If the S-300 system was “provoked” with dummy ( or real ) missiles it would not take much effort to empty its missiles.
Therefore a window of opportunity will exist during reloading of the tubes.

Intended targets will be vulnerable to “real” attacks.

The S-300 installation itself could be attacked and destroyed.

Am I missing something?

Also how many actual missiles have been sold to the Azeri and will the Russians resupply if they needed more of them.

[burjuin]

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Opening of the new building of MES

[arakeretzig]

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Effectiveness of S-300



Am I missing something?

Also how ma ny actual missiles have been sold to the Azeri and will the Russians resupply if they needed more of them.

that's where Pantsir-S1 and Buk come in. point of defense. BTW, the russians have a much deadlier weapon for s300, Iskander missle, once it descends, it's almost impossible to intercept.

[HyeFighter2]

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Londontsi. we have more than 60 s 300 systems, if 1 need to reload others will work, dont worry azeris havent more systems than 8 (tochkas)

[Artashes]

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Probably a silly question --- can an s300 be used against an s300 ?
Artashes

[burjuin]

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Opening of the new building of MES

[londontsi]

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Londontsi. we have more than 60 s 300 systems, if 1 need to reload others will work, dont worry azeris havent more systems than 8 (tochkas)

Thanks for the reply.

Is that 60x4 missile tubes?