Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[burjuin]

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Candlemas day in St Gregory Illuminator Church

[Eddo211]

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Oh nice. Thanks

I am sure they be placed in strategic position and camouflaged.

[burjuin]

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Armenia defense minister tours military industry enterprise

http://forum.hyeclub.com/showthread.php/11485-Nagorno-Karabagh-Military-Balance-Between-Armenia-amp-Azerbaijan/page467?p=356766&viewfull=1#post356766

[Hakob]

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Candlemas day in St Gregory Illuminator Church

This is a manifesto of our nations reverence of fire.
In past, there was an opinion in middle east that "if you see a kid that plays with fire without fear, most likely is Armenian".
We used to worship fire and sun long time before christianity. In christianity we cary this beliefs stil, because both are god's devine and lifegiving creation elements.
This reverence to fire maybe goes way back to the times when humans started mastering it first.
Our boys get strong from it just like the steel gets hard after first being quenched in fire.

[Hakob]

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More or less agree with you on cause of casualty drops but can't argue that our soldiers manning posts at night would benefit from night and/or thermal vision or addition of simple goggles or pads would make it easier to prevent certain injuries. I posted the graphic because of its detailed information on what soldiers carry on them rather than the casualty statistic.

There are many kinds of equipment and tools that for sure our boys need. Agree with you Federate.
But number one tool that I see in NATO or Israeli soldiers or armies is the tactical training, system of warfare and discipline.
I have seen video of middle eastern army using night vision equipment, but in the same stationary and slow WWII manner. Just sit and shoot towards the enemy as much as you can.
In ukraine, in Donbass the tactics are from WWII too. Slow and predictable movements and penetrations, folowed by attempts of encirclement or fire suppression, artillery duels.
The command is slow to react. Situation assesment or battlefield analisis lagging terribly or none existent.
Both sides used drones but almost ineffective. The chain stracture between reconaisane and quick reaction none existent. Whole groups of reconaisance were lost repeatedly because they were sent right into enemy's laps blindly.
By the time field commanders send their reports and get back new orders, whole situation is changed drastically and orders received are absolete and can't be carried out.
Chaos and abandonment ensues.
This are things that our army should keep in mind and find and implement improved systems for army groups down to single soldier.
Getting night vision or like is necessary. But effectiveness of using any item we've got is essential.
The Azeri ceasfire violations and infiltration attempts are very predictable now. Nothing new. But I wish that our military could come up of new sytems of beating them back or ambushing them, or making the contact line crossing very deadly.
The above pictured armored observation and firing booth can be one such item in a system.

[londontsi]

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.........
Kevlar is the best but they have come up with something better.....

A Cheaper Alternative to Kevlar

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201110/innovation-a-cheaper-alternative-to-kevlar.html

Tougher Than a Speeding Bullet
Kevlar has long been the bulletproof material of choice for military and law enforcement agencies.
But Kevlar is costly to produce, involving a complex process of spinning fibers and the use of sulfuric acid.
Novana, based in Alpharetta, Georgia, says it has developed an antiballistic material, ABC-Matrix, that is just as tough but less expensive to make.
To do so, Novana melts polymers from recycled plastics, including auto parts, and molds them into a lightweight material with
microscopic structures that absorb and dissipate energy from bullets.
The material, which is also waterproof and flame retardant, can withstand 3,000 rounds of fire from an AK-47 rifle.
Novana has received a $70,000 grant from the Department of Defense to develop ABC-Matrix for use on battlefield vehicles.
The company plans to begin selling it by 2013 for less than $10 a pound, a small fraction of the cost of Kevlar.

http://novanainc.com/ABC.html

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[Haykakan]

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There are many kinds of equipment and tools that for sure our boys need. Agree with you Federate.
But number one tool that I see in NATO or Israeli soldiers or armies is the tactical training, system of warfare and discipline.
I have seen video of middle eastern army using night vision equipment, but in the same stationary and slow WWII manner. Just sit and shoot towards the enemy as much as you can.
In ukraine, in Donbass the tactics are from WWII too. Slow and predictable movements and penetrations, folowed by attempts of encirclement or fire suppression, artillery duels.
The command is slow to react. Situation assesment or battlefield analisis lagging terribly or none existent.
Both sides used drones but almost ineffective. The chain stracture between reconaisane and quick reaction none existent. Whole groups of reconaisance were lost repeatedly because they were sent right into enemy's laps blindly.
By the time field commanders send their reports and get back new orders, whole situation is changed drastically and orders received are absolete and can't be carried out.
Chaos and abandonment ensues.
This are things that our army should keep in mind and find and implement improved systems for army groups down to single soldier.
Getting night vision or like is necessary. But effectiveness of using any item we've got is essential.
The Azeri ceasfire violations and infiltration attempts are very predictable now. Nothing new. But I wish that our military could come up of new sytems of beating them back or ambushing them, or making the contact line crossing very deadly.
The above pictured armored observation and firing booth can be one such item in a system.

Making it costly for them is the key here. If those azeris who are attacking, know they are likely to get killed then regardless of orders they will eventually stop attacking. I think that by now our defensive positions should have been so strengthened that the opponent would not dare to attack but unfortunately this is not the case. It is cheaper and much easier to defend then to attack successfully thus the kinds of losses we have been taking for months now is unacceptable. The azeris may be actually doing us a favor by pinpointing our weaknesses and forcing us to bolster them but it is costing us the lives of our young men. There are ways to deal with bad defensive positions to as we have been doing. If we are at a disadvantage somewhere we change the situation by taking up higher ground or more defendable positions. We can take those positions which are good and in enemy hands by special operations or we can retreat to a more defendable position. While the later is much safer to do, both will result in less deaths in the long run for our soldiers and a stronger position defensively. It has been over 20 years and we should not have the kinds of vulnerabilities we have shown. Sometimes during war political agreements are made between various parties without the knowledge of the public nor the soldiers and I wonder what is going on behind the scenes last few months. Our leaders know far more about the present situation then we do and what looks to be the case to us may be ery different then what the situation actually is.

[Ak105]

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Armenia defense minister tours military industry enterprise

http://forum.hyeclub.com/showthread.php/11485-Nagorno-Karabagh-Military-Balance-Between-Armenia-amp-Azerbaijan/page467?p=356766&viewfull=1#post356766

The missiles at 0:05 look promising

[burjuin]

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Armenian Army
The front line. North-East of Armenia

[burjuin]

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Armenian Army