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  • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

    Մարտական հենակետում 20-ամյա զինվոր է զոհվել
    11.06.2015

    Հունիսի 11-ին` ժամը 01:30-ի սահմաններում, ՊԲ հարավային ուղղությամբ տեղակայված զորամասերից մեկի պահպանության տեղամասի մարտական հենակետում զոհվել է ժամկետային զինծառայող, 1995թ. ծնված Էդգար Գենադիի Մելքոնյանը:

    Դեպքի մանրամասները պարզելու համար կատարվում է քննություն:

    ԼՂՀ պաշտպանության նախարարությունը կիսում է կորստյան ծանր վիշտը և իր զորակցությունը հայտնում մահացած զինծառայողի ընտանիքի անդամներին, հարազատներին ու ծառայակիցներին:

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    • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

      Read This Carefully..


      «168 ժամ». Ի՞նչ է լինելու Բաքվի խաղերից հետո
      11.06.2015

      «168 ժամ» թերթը գրում է. «Տարածաշրջանային այցով Երեւանում է գտնվում ԵԱՀԿ Մինսկի խմբի ամերիկացի համանախագահ Ջեյմս Ուորլիքը, ով, բացի նախագահի ու արտգործնախարարի հետ հանդիպումներից, հանդիպել է նաեւ ԱԺ պատգամավորների հետ: Թե կոնկրետ ինչ է քննարկվել այդ հանդիպումների ընթացքում՝ չի հաղորդվում: Այդուհանդերձ, ամերիկացի դիվանագետն «Ազատություն» ռադիոկայանին տված հարցազրույցում հայտարարել է. «Եթե Ղարաբաղում լայնամասշտաբ հակամարտություն ծագի, անհնար կլինի հասնել բանակցված կարգավորման»:

      Սա, իհարկե, նորություն չէ, նորություն է այն, որ Մինսկի խմբի համանախագահի մակարդակով խոսվում է «լայնամասշտաբ հակամարտության» մասին: Ադրբեջանական կողմը կոշտացրել է ռազմական հռետորաբանությունը, եւ կա սպասում, որ Բաքվում երկու օրից կայանալիք Առաջին Եվրոպական խաղերից հետո հակամարտության գոտում կարող են սադրանքներ լինել:

      Ընդ որում, դա պայմանավորված է նաեւ ռուս-ադրբեջանական վերջին ջերմացմամբ, եւ պատահական չէ, որ օլիմպիական խաղերից հետո ռազմական գործողությունների սպառնալիքների մասին խոսում են առաջին հերթին՝ ռուս իշխանամերձ փորձագետները: Ու բացառված չէ, որ օլիմպիական խաղերի մեկնարկի նախօրեին Ուորլիքը Հայաստան է եկել՝ իշխանություններին ինչ-որ բան նախազգուշացնելու համար»:

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      • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

        Originally posted by Spetsnaz View Post
        Read This Carefully..


        «168 ժամ». Ի՞նչ է լինելու Բաքվի խաղերից հետո
        11.06.2015

        «168 ժամ» թերթը գրում է. «Տարածաշրջանային այցով Երեւանում է գտնվում ԵԱՀԿ Մինսկի խմբի ամերիկացի համանախագահ Ջեյմս Ուորլիքը, ով, բացի նախագահի ու արտգործնախարարի հետ հանդիպումներից, հանդիպել է նաեւ ԱԺ պատգամավորների հետ: Թե կոնկրետ ինչ է քննարկվել այդ հանդիպումների ընթացքում՝ չի հաղորդվում: Այդուհանդերձ, ամերիկացի դիվանագետն «Ազատություն» ռադիոկայանին տված հարցազրույցում հայտարարել է. «Եթե Ղարաբաղում լայնամասշտաբ հակամարտություն ծագի, անհնար կլինի հասնել բանակցված կարգավորման»:

        Սա, իհարկե, նորություն չէ, նորություն է այն, որ Մինսկի խմբի համանախագահի մակարդակով խոսվում է «լայնամասշտաբ հակամարտության» մասին: Ադրբեջանական կողմը կոշտացրել է ռազմական հռետորաբանությունը, եւ կա սպասում, որ Բաքվում երկու օրից կայանալիք Առաջին Եվրոպական խաղերից հետո հակամարտության գոտում կարող են սադրանքներ լինել:

        Ընդ որում, դա պայմանավորված է նաեւ ռուս-ադրբեջանական վերջին ջերմացմամբ, եւ պատահական չէ, որ օլիմպիական խաղերից հետո ռազմական գործողությունների սպառնալիքների մասին խոսում են առաջին հերթին՝ ռուս իշխանամերձ փորձագետները: Ու բացառված չէ, որ օլիմպիական խաղերի մեկնարկի նախօրեին Ուորլիքը Հայաստան է եկել՝ իշխանություններին ինչ-որ բան նախազգուշացնելու համար»:

        http://news.am/arm/news/271201.html

        Warlick: "We can't work to achieve a negotiated settlement if a widening conflict breaks out"



        Ambassador James Warlick, the U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, gave an exclusive interview to RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Wednesday.


        .
        Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
        Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
        Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interests

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        • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

          Originally posted by Spetsnaz View Post
          Մարտական հենակետում 20-ամյա զինվոր է զոհվել
          11.06.2015

          Հունիսի 11-ին` ժամը 01:30-ի սահմաններում, ՊԲ հարավային ուղղությամբ տեղակայված զորամասերից մեկի պահպանության տեղամասի մարտական հենակետում զոհվել է ժամկետային զինծառայող, 1995թ. ծնված Էդգար Գենադիի Մելքոնյանը:

          Դեպքի մանրամասները պարզելու համար կատարվում է քննություն:

          ԼՂՀ պաշտպանության նախարարությունը կիսում է կորստյան ծանր վիշտը և իր զորակցությունը հայտնում մահացած զինծառայողի ընտանիքի անդամներին, հարազատներին ու ծառայակիցներին:
          Rest in Piece Edgar

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          • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

            WHY ARE THE CAUCASUS HOSTING SO MANY JOINT MILITARY EXERCISES?

            Silk Road Reporters
            June 9 2015

            Published by John C. K. Daly

            The Caucasus, a volatile region where Russian, Iranian, Turkish and
            Western interests collide over hydrocarbons, is hosting yet another
            multinational tactical military exercise.

            On May 31 Turkish, Azeri and Georgian special forces units began the
            Kafkas Kartalı ("Caucasian Eagle"), exercises, which are scheduled
            to continue through to June 10.

            The ostensibly stated goal of the drills is to develop friendship,
            partnership, coordination and interaction in the conduct of joint
            operations and to exchange mutual knowledge and practices among
            the Turkish, Azeri and Georgian special forces troops. Turkey is
            represented by one special forces company, two helicopters and a
            passenger plane, while Azerbaijan and Georgia are represented by one
            special company in the drills. A military company usually consists
            of 80-250 soldiers commanded by a captain or a major.

            Not that this is the sole recent military exercise in the south
            Caucasus. On May 12-25 tactical bilateral exercises between the
            Azeri and Turkish militaries were held in Baku and Nakhchivan. The
            Baku-Nakhchivan joint tactical exercises were on a larger scale than
            the Kafkas Kartalı maneuvers, as about a thousand troops participated,
            along with 80 armored vehicles, 60 artillery pieces and mortars, 12
            military transport helicopters and air force and air defense units,
            armed with modern defensive systems.

            What joint interest might the Turkish, Azeri and Georgian special
            forces be training to defend? While the militaries of all three nations
            are saying little beyond several sentence bland press releases, one
            hydrocarbon facility unites all three - the $3.6 billion, one million
            barrel per day (bpd), 1,092-mile Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline,
            which ships oil Azerbaijan's offshore Caspian Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli
            fields across Georgia to Turkey's deep-water Mediterranean Ceyhan
            port. The BTC pipeline, constructed by an international consortium
            traverses 669 miles of Turkish territory, nearly all of which contains
            significant Kurdish populations.

            The "wild card" in this territory is the shifting presence of the
            Marxist Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (Kurdistan Workers' Party, or
            PKK), which began its armed struggle against the Turkish state in 1984
            for cultural and political rights and self-determination for the Kurds
            in Turkey, who comprise 10%- 25% of Turkey's population. Turkey's
            Kurds are situated in the southeast of the country, the territory
            that BTC crosses. Turkey and many other nations have branded the PKK
            a terrorist group.

            On February 15, 1999 PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was captured in
            Nairobi and extradited to Turkey. Ocalan was sentenced to death under
            Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code, which was later commuted to
            life imprisonment when Turkey abolished the death penalty in support
            of its bid to join the European Union. The government of President
            Recep Tayyip Erdogan has inched towards a political dialogue with
            Ocalan, who has basically issued truce orders to the PKK, but as
            with all large-scale militant organizations, there are rejectionist
            elements within the PKK, leaving a reemergence of violence as a
            genuine possibility.

            In one of its most notable successes, on August 5, 2008 the PKK
            attacked the BTC pipeline, which began operations in May 2005. An
            explosion devastated the BTC pipeline segment at Turkey's Yurtbasi
            village; after Ankara was notified, valves 29 and 31 were closed as
            officials waited for the oil contained in the 4-mile segment of No. 30
            terminal to burn out. BTC operator BP declared force majeure. When
            BTC resumed operations 20 days later, Azerbaijan had been blocked
            from shipping approximately 17 million barrels of crude and the US
            Department of Energy estimated that Azerbaijan's final cost for the
            lost shipments was more than $1 billion. The PKK subsequently claimed
            responsibility for the attack.

            A further wildcard in eastern Anatolia is the four-year Syrian civil
            war and the rise of the Islamic State both there and in Iraq, all
            regions like eastern Anatolia with significant numbers of Kurds.

            The number of targets in the South Caucasus is about to increase, as
            Erdogan's government intends to turn Turkey into an energy hub. This
            dovetails nicely with Azeri interest in constructing pipelines parallel
            to the BTC in the future to transmit natural gas from Azerbaijan's
            offshore Shah Deniz field in Phase 2 of its development, connecting
            the three countries via the Southern Gas Corridor, intended to bring
            additional and alternative natural gas volumes to EU member countries,
            lessening their dependency on Russian Gazprom imports.

            As if the possibility of a renewal of PKK violence in Turkey weren't
            enough, the neighborhood is beset by other difficulties, including two
            "shooting" wars.

            Three years before the collapse of the USSR, Armenia went to war with
            Azerbaijan in February 1988 over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.

            Military operations continued until May 1994 at a cost of 30,000
            lives, when a ceasefire brokered by Russia left Armenia controlling
            Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent districts, approximately 20 percent
            of Azeri territory, something that Baku has never accepted. A final
            peace treaty has not been signed and the two sides regularly trade
            accusations of cease-fire violations. For the past 20 years the "frozen
            conflict" has rebuffed all diplomatic efforts to resolve the dispute.

            What the stalemate has produced is an arms race between Armenia and
            Azerbaijan, which the latter is clearly winning. Flush with revenue
            from hydrocarbon exports, in 2014 Azerbaijan's military budget was
            $3.8 billion, up from $3.6 billion in 2013 and $3 billion in 2012. In
            comparison, Armenia's 2013 defense budget was $447 million.

            But, complicating the picture, Armenia is a close ally of Russia,
            which is zealous in maintaining its influence in the Caucasus.

            Which brings up the August 2008 five day conflict between Russia and
            Georgia. The BTC terrorist attack occurred two days before the outbreak
            of hostilities between Georgia and Russia. Seeking an alternative
            route following BTC's closure BP switched to the recently reopened
            550-mile 140,000- bpd Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP), better
            known as the Baku-Supsa line, which opened in 1999 and was running
            at about 90,000 bpd. On August 12 BP announced that it was suspending
            shipments through Baku-Supsa, as well as the South Caucasus Pipeline
            (SCP), which transports natural gas from Baku to Turkey via Tbilisi.

            The conflict also halted maritime oil exports from the Georgian Black
            Sea ports of Poti (100,000 bpd) and Batumi (200,000 bpd), both supplied
            by rail, and Kulevi, Georgia's third Black Sea oil terminus, which
            opened in 2007 and is capable of shipping 200,000 bpd, was shuttered
            as well.

            Seeking to extract maximum political damage from the encounter,
            Georgian Security Council Secretary Aleksandr Lomaia stated that
            "The Russians bombed the BTC pipeline south of the city of Rustavi,"
            but the charges were denied by the Russian military and subsequently
            proven to be false. More than 155 miles of the BTC transits Georgia,
            with the pipeline in places running as close as 34 miles from South
            Ossetia. For Tbilisi, the revenue losses from BTC's closure were
            significant. In 2007 BTC fees generated $25.4 million in transit
            revenues, with the Georgian government projecting transit payments
            for 2008 before conflict erupted at about $45 million.

            As a result of the conflict Georgia saw two provinces, Abkhazia and
            South Ossetia, secede and declare independence, a situation that
            Tbilisi has never accepted.

            Seeking to even the odds against Russia, whose air superiority in 2008
            decimated Georgia's military, Georgian Defense Minister Tina Khidasheli
            is scouring Europe to procure an air defense system for Georgia by
            the end of June. While in Brussels last month Khidasheli discussed
            Georgia's NATO membership aspirations and plans at a meeting with
            NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, commenting that Georgia-NATO
            relations must move to a "qualitatively new level." Later in June
            Khidasheli is scheduled to visit France for discussions about the
            possible procurement of an air defense system from France.

            Accordingly, the Azeri-Turkish-Georgian Kafkas Kartalı exercises
            are understandable - what is not is whether if violence on the scale
            of previous unrest in the South Caucasus and eastern Anatolia flares
            up again whether a relative handful of highly trained special forces
            troops will be enough to make any difference. For the moment, all
            they are providing is the illusion of security.

            Hayastan or Bust.

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            • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

              Russian airbase commander: Our goal is Armenia’s peaceful skies (PHOTOS)
              14:07, 11.06.2015
              Region:Armenia, Russia
              Theme: Politics


              YEREVAN. – Our objective and main task is the peaceful skies of Armenia.

              Commander of the “Erebuni” Russian airbase, Aleksandr Petrov, told the aforesaid to reporters.

              The airbase, which is located in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, held an Open Day on Thursday (PHOTOS), and ahead of Friday’s Russia Day events.

              The Open Day brought together Russians and Armenians, alike.

              Petrov highly praised the cooperation with Armenian partners, but at the same time apologized to the residents of Yerevan.

              “I apologize that we make noise in the morning, that we make noise at night, too,” the Russian commander said. “But this is done to preserve security.”


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                    Questions of the day:

                    1) Russia will sell, If we show Money? Yes or No answer is mostly Yes

                    2) Do we have the financial capability to buy good fighter Jets? Yes rich people in Armenia actually can make an investment in Armenian Air force.

                    3) Are Armenians United? Yes, but not really because each Armenian thinks that he is the King.

                    4) Does Russia needs Allies or Vassals? Answer is you know very well!

                    For all Armenians: Try to restore Armenian Empire so at least you restore something!
                    Last edited by Armynia; 06-11-2015, 06:53 AM.

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