Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[burjuin]

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2A36 Giatsint-B

I was watching a military show and they were talking about how these weapons rule the battlefield. They can hit a target without seeing it. All it needs is the GPS coordinates and it can fire several types of shells, some that explode over the target rather than hitting direct hit on the ground or a single structure or could be a Tank. It can do this with accuracy of few feet and crazy distances like 10Km.

Hell of a rifling on that barrel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/152_mm_gun_2A36

Effective firing range (OFS): 30.5 km (19mi)
(OFARS) 40 km (25mi)

[burjuin]

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Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army

[Azad]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/152_mm_gun_2A36

Effective firing range (OFS): 30.5 km (19mi)
(OFARS) 40 km (25mi)

Ammunition
The gun uses separate-loading cased charges.

VOF39 with OF-29 fragmentation shell. This shell weighs 46 kg and contains 6.73 kg of Hexal (A-IX-2).
ZVOF86 with the OF-59 rocket-assisted projectile, which can destroy targets at ranges up to 30–33 km.
nuclear ammunition of the 0.1-0.2 kiloton yield range.

[burjuin]

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Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army

[Joseph]

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http://armenpress.am/eng/news/835181/armenia-and-greece-to-exchange-arms-production-technologies.html

[Mher]

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pretty important article

U.S. Intelligence Chief Warns Of Karabakh Escalation


Azerbaijan’s current economic woes caused by falling oil prices may have heightened the risk of a further escalation of violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the top U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday.

“Baku’s sustained military buildup coupled with declining economic conditions in Azerbaijan are raising the potential that the conflict will escalate in 2016,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warned in his annual assessment of threats to the United States.

“Azerbaijan’s aversion to publicly relinquishing its claim to Nagorno-Karabakh proper and Armenia’s reluctance to give up territory it controls will continue to complicate a peaceful resolution,” Clapper added in prepared testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees.

Heavily dependent on its oil revenues, Azerbaijan is increasingly suffering from the collapse of global oil prices. The Azerbaijani national currency, the manat, lost more than half of its value against the U.S. dollar last year, despite the fact that the authorities in Baku spent almost $9 billion on sustaining its exchange rate.

Late last month, the credit ranging agency Standard and Poor's downgraded Azerbaijan’s debt rating by one notch and said it now expects Azerbaijan’s economy to contract this year after more than a decade of oil-driven rapid growth.

The country’s economic problems have led to rare protests recently in several Azerbaijani towns over worsening living conditions, including the increased price of bread. The protests have fueled speculation in Armenia that President Ilham Aliyev’s government might intensify ceasefire violations in the Karabakh conflict zone to distract the disgruntled domestic public from its failed economic policies.

Last year already saw a sharp rise in fighting along “the line of contact” around Karabakh and the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, which caused both warring sides to suffer their biggest combat casualties in nearly two decades.

The U.S. as well as Russia and France, the two other mediating powers trying to broker an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal, expressed concern at that escalation throughout 2015. “There is no military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and France’s European Affairs Secretary Harlem Desir said in a joint statement issued in December.

Buoyed by his nation’s massive oil revenues, which have totaled over $116 billion since 2001, Aliyev has for years spoken of a “widening gap” between Armenia and Azerbaijan which he said will eventually allow Baku to regain control over Karabakh. A considerable part of those revenues have been spent on the acquisition of large quantities of offensive weapons for the Azerbaijani army.

The decreased oil prices may have put an end to that military buildup. Azerbaijan reportedly plans to spend an equivalent of $1.2 billion on defense and security in 2016. Only four years ago, Aliyev declared that Azerbaijani military expenditure has surpassed Armenia’s entire state budget worth about $3 billion.

The collapse of the Azerbaijani currency has also translated into some embarrassing economic statistics for Aliyev: at less than $300 a month, the official average wage in Azerbaijan is now considerably lower, in dollar terms, than that in resource-poor Armenia.

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/27541758.html

[burjuin]

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Armenian Army
Military Medical Service

[burjuin]

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Armenian Army
Military Medical Service

[Azad]

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pretty important article

Sounds like the Brits and the Americans want to shift the Syrian conflict to the Caucasus to distract Russia. All is going well for Armenia, except NATO is boiling with anger over Russia in the Ukraine and Syria.
Our best policy is to bite the bullet on all provocations till the timing is right for us. Come spring the baboons will do some major stupidity. Sounds like NATO is hinting to it with a "potential" conflict.
Russia should now arm the kurds with all kinds of advanced armaments.

[Haykakan]

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WOW. It is hard to realize how pathetic this is for the Azeris.

The collapse of the Azerbaijani currency has also translated into some embarrassing economic statistics for Aliyev: at less than $300 a month, the official average wage in Azerbaijan is now considerably lower, in dollar terms, than that in resource-poor Armenia.