Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[Haykakan]

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I've heard a few hundred fedyhis wanted to go and help the Syrian government out, but the oligarchs told them not to.

What kind of a bs excuse is that? If you wana go help then you go help, you don't need anyones permission.

[Serjik]

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What AK105 is talking about is the anti government "show" Pre Parliament made last year by sending journalists and like 3 or 4 members who were NKR war veterans to the zvartnots airport to "save" the Syrian Armenian community. Armenian government did not allow them on the plane saying their action was too risky because they make it look like Armenia is part of the civil war and that what will happen if they get killed or taken hostage by muslims. The government was being very careful Pre Parliament was trying to make the government look bad, that's all.

PS: AK105 seems to be related to Mher LOL

What kind of a bs excuse is that? If you wana go help then you go help, you don't need anyones permission.

[Ak105]

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What kind of a bs excuse is that? If you wana go help then you go help, you don't need anyones permission.

Well that's how a corrupt government world lol

[Ak105]

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Has armenia officially bought iskander Missles yet?

[Mher]

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Has armenia officially bought iskander Missles yet?

No I believe they haven't been exported to anyone officially. While a year ago an Armenian official did hint that they might be in Armenia presently or in the near future, I doubt Russia would give them to Armenia, as it would change the balance too greatly in our favor and also Russia doesn't have a history of giving us weapons that modern and of that value. We likely couldn't afford to straight buy them. The more realistic scenerio would be that they are placed in the Russian base in Gyumri.

[Spetsnaz]

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Its a policy. It Is possible that russia could sell us launchers without the missles just to say "ok im selling weapons to azerbaijan but look I sold u Iskandar and u can hold it as jocker" Just like they did with tochka's

[Haykakan]

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I don't buy the excuses. There are lots of azeris fighting for ISIS and plenty of the turks to our west as well..they do not care about how it looks, they just go and fight.

[Ak105]

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No I believe they haven't been exported to anyone officially. While a year ago an Armenian official did hint that they might be in Armenia presently or in the near future, I doubt Russia would give them to Armenia, as it would change the balance too greatly in our favor and also Russia doesn't have a history of giving us weapons that modern and of that value. We likely couldn't afford to straight buy them. The more realistic scenerio would be that they are placed in the Russian base in Gyumri.

The russians have definetly deployed some

[ninetoyadome]

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Concern In Baku Over Russia-Georgia-Armenia Military Transit
March 15, 2015 - 7:01pm, by Joshua Kucera

Recent reports that Russian military vehicles were appearing in Georgia have raised complaints in neighboring Azerbaijan that Tbilisi is “betraying” Baku by allowing the Russian military to ship military supplies into Armenia via its territory or airspace.

The story of the Russian vehicles in Georgia is almost certainly a tempest in a teapot – after footage surfaced of Russian-made ZIL 131 military trucks on Georgian streets, various theories quickly emerged. Georgia's opposition claimed the trucks were evidence that the current government was in cahoots with Moscow, while some suggested they may be on the way to Armenia, where Russia both has its own large military base and provides substantial military aid to the armed forces there. But it didn't take long for another, more banal explanation to come out: the vehicles were decommissioned in Russia and are being sold on the commercial market.

There's no indication that the Russian trucks were in fact destined for Armenia, but the question of how Russia supplies its base in Armenia, as well as delivers military aid there, has long been a secretive and contentious one. Armenia is separated from Russia by Azerbaijan and Turkey, which are hostile to Armenia, and Georgia, which is hostile to Russia. Georgia nevertheless did allow overflights of Russian military shipments to Armenia until 2011, when it publicly annulled the agreement with Russia allowing for that transit. The status of that transit is now unclear, though there have been various unconfirmed reports that it was reinstated even while former president Mikheil Saakashvili was in power.

Azerbaijani analyst Mubariz Ahmedoglu, in a Baku press conference March 5, accused Georgia of “betraying” Azerbaijan by allowing the transit. “Chronic problems in the Azerbaijan-Georgia relationship have shown themselves cumulatively. Georgia never expresses real support for Azerbaijan's territorial integrity. The only support is rhetorical,” Ahmedoglu said. He argued further that Georgia's government is going along with a Russian plan to annex Armenia via the Georgian occupied territories.

“Georgian officials can resort to sophistry to claim that the transit of military hardware via Georgia to Armenia does not pose a threat for Azerbaijan and Georgia. However, the incumbent Georgian leadership created the biggest threat for itself. This is both a military and geopolitical threat,” Ahmedoglu said.

It's not clear to what extent Ahmedoglu's views represent those in the government, but the fact that in Azerbaijan's increasingly repressive environment he held a press conference covered by pro-government media suggests it has official sanction.

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/72531

[burjuin]

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Armenian peacekeepers in Afghanistan