Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

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Soldier burnt in boiler house explosion ten days ago died

[ 25 April 2013 12:58 ]

Baku. Hafiz Heydarov – APA. One of the soldiers burnt in the explosion in Azerbaijani military unit 10 days ago died.

APA reports that Natig Musazadeh taken to Central Clinical Hospital of the Defense Ministry with serious burn injuries on April 15 died today.

Spokesman for Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, Colonel Eldar Sabiroglu confirmed to APA the fact that Musazadeh died of burn injuries.

The incident happened at the boiler house of the Defense Ministry’s military unit in Terter region on April 14. Soldiers Musazadeh Natig drafted from Binagadi region and Khalig Bayramov drafted from Aghsu region were injured in the explosion and hospitalized.

apa.az

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Soldier of Azerbaijani Army shoots himself

[ 22 April 2013 10:37 ]

Baku. Hafiz Heydarov – APA. One more armed incident happened in Azerbaijani Army.

APA reports that the incident was recorded in Gazakh military unit of the Defense Ministry. The soldier of Azerbaijani Army, 19-year old Gismat Vali Guliyev was hospitalized for abdominal gunshot wound as a result of reckless behavior with gun.

Guliyev was drafted from Imishli region in October, 2012.

Spokesman for the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, Colonel Eldar Sabiroghlu told APA that soldier of Gazakh military unit Gismat Vali Guliyev was wounded as a result of violation of safety rules on April 21 at 12:30.

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Armenian Air Force
Aircraft repair unit

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[Haykakan]

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This is so good to see. Thank you for posting this. Our military capabilities and professionalism have increased by leaps and bounds. I think we need a guy like this to lead our nation at least on the domestic front. I think Mr Ohanyan is a very capable person and we are lucky to have him leading our defence.

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That source is hardley a reliable one so i don't know how true it is.

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Is Russia Cutting Off Arms Sales To Azerbaijan?

April 26, 2013 - 5:14am,
by Joshua Kucera The Bug Pit

Azerbaijan's air force on display. Re-equipping could be in jeopardy if Russia cuts off sales to Baku. (Photo: Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan)
For some time now, there have been unofficial reports that Russia has cut off arms sales to Azerbaijan, in particular of military aircraft that Baku has been seeking. There has been no comment from Moscow, either formally or via anonymous sources, and it's not clear why Russia would have made this move. Possible motives include Azerbaijan's hard bargaining over the Gabala radar station or a more general desire to punish Baku for refusing to take part in its various post-Soviet integration schemes. But a new report in Azerbaijan's APA news service simultaneously provides some compelling evidence that the reports are true and proposes the most unlikely motive: the machinations of the Armenian lobby in Russia. From APA:

Persons of Armenian descent, who lead the Russian aviation industry, have impeded the negotiations between Azerbaijan and Russia on the purchase of combat aircrafts, military sources told APA.

According to the information obtained by the Azerbaijani side, as a result of the efforts made by the persons of Armenian descent in the leadership of Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation, as well as MIG and Sukhoi companies, the negotiations with Russia on the purchase of combat aircrafts Su-27, Su-30 and MiG-31 have not produced results. Except for YaK-130 advanced training aircraft, Russia refused to sell warplanes to Azerbaijan.

Indeed, among UAC's top management, according to its website, there is one recognizably Armenian name -- Mikhail A. Pogosyan, president and chairman of UAC's executive board. But it's fair to say that if Mr Pogosyan were carrying out Armenia's strategic interests rather than those of Russia, he wouldn't have that job for long. While Russia is a strategic partner of Azerbaijan's foe Armenia, it has nevertheless conducted a robust arms trade with Baku, in recent years including sales of combat helicopters, air defense, and armored vehicles.

So what to make of this move, if Russia is in fact cutting Azerbaijan off? BBC Monitoring recently rounded up some of Baku's expert opinion on this. The chairman of the Azerbaijani National Strategic Research Center Natiq Miri told the opposition newspaper Yeni Musavat:

"When Putin returned to office, Russia pursued a new policy that includes offering a customs union and a Eurasian Union model. Today Putin puts his efforts towards implementing this model. Because if this plan is implemented, all post-Soviet republics will have to indirectly subject their independence to Moscow. Since Azerbaijan does not agree, Russia is creating problems for our country. One of these problems is Russia's restriction on selling advanced weapons to Azerbaijan."

The consensus is that Azerbaijan has other options, including other purveyors of Russian-designed equipment, like Ukraine or Belarus, to other sources like Israel, China, Pakistan, and Turkey. The opinion seems split on the role of NATO and the West; one source quoted says that Russia wouldn't have made the move without coordination from Washington, another says that NATO countries could fill in the gap created by Russia's embargo. But both those seem unlikely. In the case of the US and some European countries, there actually are Armenian lobbies that block weapons sales to Azerbaijan.

Anyway, if it is in fact true that Russia is cutting Azerbaijan off, it would be a pretty significant move. Could there be some truth to the dark warnings of increasing anti-Azerbaijani government activity from Moscow?

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This report also references the report in question. Even if it is true that Russia has cut them off -they still have plenty of options like Isreal etc.. I do not think Russia cares too much about the Azeri money since Russia has plenty of cash but it does care about making it dependent. If it is true that Russia is playing carrot and stick with azeris then i wonder what the carrot and the stick are in this game?

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Russian military base in Armenia transfers several plots of land and realty to Armenian side

April 26, 2013 | 14:22

YEREVAN. – The Armenian-Russian interstate commission held a session on handing—to the Armenian side—of the plots of land and realty of the Russian military base in Armenia. The event was held in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan, from Wednesday to Friday.

In addition, Armenia’s First Deputy Defense Minister, Davit Tonoyan, received Valery Yevnevich, the Assistant to the Russian Minister of Defense, who is among the Russian delegation visiting Armenia. They discussed bilateral military cooperation, and the avenues for optimizing and modernizing the Russian military base in Armenia.

During the aforesaid session, the parties signed the acts with respect to handing and receiving the plots of land and realty of the Russian military base in Armenia, and the minutes of the session of the Armenian-Russian interstate commission.

http://news.am/eng/news/150757.html

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Azeri Weapon...lol during war how they can use this weapon??