Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

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3 killed, 4 wounded in mine explosion on contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops - UPDATED - LIST

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has there been any comment by the Armenian side?

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STEPANAKERT. – The adversary carried out yet another diversionary intelligence operation.

The operation was carried out on Monday at around 10:30pm, in the southeastern (Marjanlu) direction of the Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijan opposing forces, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army reported.

The NKR Defense Army position-holding units, however, took counter actions and drove the Azerbaijani army members back to their starting positions.

While withdrawing, however, the adversary gave three casualties—one of which, an officer—and six others were wounded as they stepped on the landmines that were placed in the defensive sector of a minefield.

The Karabakh side, on the other hand, suffered no casualties, the NKR MOD press service informed.

Following the incident, the NKR Defense Army vanguard units continue to confidently carry out their military task, and they control the situation along the entire length of the Line of Contact. By news am

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Army of Azerbaijan takes delivery of new Russian military equipment and combat vehicles.
4-8-14

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev Monday, April 7, 2014, viewed the new equipment and weapons delivered for a military unit in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. Chief of the Nakhchivan garrison, lieutenant-general Karam Mustafayev reported to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.

In June 2013, Russia has delivered up to $1 billion worth of military equipment to Azerbaijan. The shipments was the result of contracts signed in 2011 and 2012. Recently purchased military hardware might be demonstrated during the upcoming military parade on June 26.

The military hardware supplied to Baku includes 94 "T-90S" tanks, about 100 "BMP-3" infantry combat vehicles, 18 2S19 "MSTA-S" self-propelled howitzers, 18 BM-30 "Smerch" heavy multiple rocket launchers, 18 2S31 "Vena" self-propelled mortar systems, and 6 "TOS-1A" heavy flame thrower systems.
http://www.armyrecognition.com/april...s_0804144.html

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Army of Azerbaijan takes delivery of new Russian military equipment and combat vehicles.
4-8-14

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev Monday, April 7, 2014, viewed the new equipment and weapons delivered for a military unit in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. Chief of the Nakhchivan garrison, lieutenant-general Karam Mustafayev reported to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.

In June 2013, Russia has delivered up to $1 billion worth of military equipment to Azerbaijan. The shipments was the result of contracts signed in 2011 and 2012. Recently purchased military hardware might be demonstrated during the upcoming military parade on June 26.

The military hardware supplied to Baku includes 94 "T-90S" tanks, about 100 "BMP-3" infantry combat vehicles, 18 2S19 "MSTA-S" self-propelled howitzers, 18 BM-30 "Smerch" heavy multiple rocket launchers, 18 2S31 "Vena" self-propelled mortar systems, and 6 "TOS-1A" heavy flame thrower systems.
http://www.armyrecognition.com/april...s_0804144.html

Photo gallery of the weapons that have been transferred from mainland Azerbaijan to Nakhichevan can be found here: 1news.az/chronicle/20140407052254125.html

Includes Smerch, BMP-3M, Mi-35M, T-90 & Spike (Israeli ATGM).

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Russia Signals More Arms Deals With Azerbaijan



Russia’s top army general has signaled Moscow’s readiness to sell more weapons to Azerbaijan during a rare visit to Baku.

General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian army’s General Staff, arrived in the Azerbaijani capital on Monday to attend a meeting of fellow army chiefs from other ex-Soviet states. Gerasimov also held talks with Azerbaijan’s Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov and the chief of the army staff, General Nejmeddin Sadigov.

“We discussed with the chief of the [Azerbaijani] General Staff further military-technical cooperation. There are prospects for stepping it up,” Gerasimov told Hasanov, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Hasanov was reported to praise the “high level” of that cooperation. “In recent years, a lot of work has been done in this direction,” he said. “Today Azerbaijan’s armed forces receive modern weapons from Russia. That helps to boost our country’s defense capability.”

“Russia is our main partner in military-technical cooperation,” Sadigov said for his part. “The implementation of big [arms] deals is continuing.”

The scale of those deals was most recently exposed in June last year when it emerged that Russian has begun delivering $1 billion worth of offensive weaponry, including about 100 tanks, to Azerbaijan in accordance with defense contracts signed in 2010-2011. Azerbaijani President Ilham President Ilham Aliyev said in August that “the volume of military-technical cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan is measured at $4 billion and it tends to grow further.”

The Russians had previously supplied Azerbaijan with state-of-the-art S-300 air-defense systems worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They also agreed in 2010 to sell 24 Mi-35 helicopter gunships for a combined $360 million.

The recent Russian arms deliveries to Armenia’s arch-foe raised eyebrows in Yerevan, with local politicians and pundits accusing Moscow of acting against the spirit of the Russian-Armenian military alliance. Armenian government leaders refrained from voicing such criticism, however. They insisted that the Russian-Azerbaijani defense contracts will not change the military balance in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Top Russian security officials gave similar assurances last summer. They also implied that Russian military assistance to Armenia will continue unabated.

Russian arms supplies to Armenia, mostly carried out free of charge, appear to have intensified in the last few years. “In the last three years we have acquired as much weaponry as we did in the previous 20 years,” Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian declared in September.

Russian assistance is critical for Armenian efforts to offset Azerbaijan’s massive military build-up. The Azerbaijani government has increased annual military spending by almost 30 times to $3.7 billion during Aliyev’s decade-long rule. Aliyev regularly threatens to forcibly regain control over Karabakh and other Armenian-controlled territories surrounding it.

General Gerasimov reportedly told the Azerbaijani military leaders that Moscow is against attempts at a military solution to the Karabakh conflict.

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/25326126.html

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STEPANAKERT. – The adversary carried out yet another diversionary intelligence operation.

The operation was carried out on Monday at around 10:30pm, in the southeastern (Marjanlu) direction of the Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijan opposing forces, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army reported.

The NKR Defense Army position-holding units, however, took counter actions and drove the Azerbaijani army members back to their starting positions.

While withdrawing, however, the adversary gave three casualties—one of which, an officer—and six others were wounded as they stepped on the landmines that were placed in the defensive sector of a minefield.

The Karabakh side, on the other hand, suffered no casualties, the NKR MOD press service informed.

Following the incident, the NKR Defense Army vanguard units continue to confidently carry out their military task, and they control the situation along the entire length of the Line of Contact. By news am

I would think they would only send one officer in charge of this "diversionary intelligence operation" and the rest are special forces guys......so, with that said, 3 were shot and killed and 6 were wounded taken out by mines as they were running back to their starting positions....which means some of them made it back.
I would guess it couldn't have been a force of more than 12 to 16 enemies in the unit......our guys must have seen/known/intel that they are coming and had them running back like rabbits into a mine field, lol.

Present Arms! ans salute to NKR defense Army and our Artsakh freedom fighters.

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Putin submits Russian-Armenian military deal for Duma’s ratification
4-8-14
Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted an agreement on the development of military and technical cooperation with Armenia for State Duma’s ratification, Kremlin pres service said.

State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolay Pankov was appointed as the official representative of the Russian leader during the discussion of the law on ratification of the agreement at Federal Council.

“The agreement stipulates for establishment of cooperation in the sectors of the development, production, operation, repair, modernization and utilization of weaponry and military equipment,” Russian media reported quoting the message posted on the government’s website.

Armenian parliament ratified the military cooperation agreement with Russia December 4, 2013. In June 2013, during the visit of the Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev to Armenia, a military and technical cooperation agreement was signed with Russia. The agreement stipulates for each side to supply military products with the same specifications as for one’s own armed forces. The agreement also enables the supplier to exert control over the presence of products and their compliance with the intended use to be described in an additional treaty.

According to another deal, Armenia and Russia will form a joint defense enterprise as well as the border guards and emergency situation experts training centers. With Russia’s assistance, Armenia’s defense industry will launch production of ammunition, armory, as well as form a repair base for land, air and air defense forces.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/177771/

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