Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[armnuke]

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Funny thing is those who preach how good an ally Russia is are in some Western capital or city, not even in Armenia.

[londontsi]

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Demonstrations live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6HaNvQ0e44&nohtml5=False

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[burjuin]

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Border soldiers protecting the Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line in Martuni direction

[burjuin]

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Border soldiers protecting the Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line in Martuni direction

[Sarkis86]

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Analysis from Zoravar (the founder of this thread) on the recent war:

My uptake on the matter from a military perspective:

1) Apart from jet fighters, the Azeris used everything they got: Helicopter gunships, Smerch, all sorts of Israeli UAVs (including Kamikaze ones), Israeli Spike anti-tank missiles, T-90S tanks etc. They showed us everything they have got and their full potential. We used no new system or weapon, we have not revealed our best cards. They also demonstrated to us their infiltration tactics.

2) With this serious incursion, the Azeri high command may have wanted us to mobilize our reserves and commit them on the battlefield in order to engage us into a nasty war of attrition where they have an advantage in human resources and finances. Our leadership did not fall in the trap. Our reservists were never called (only volunteers signed up). Most of the armed forces were kept in the back. Only the soldiers on the front and their supporting formations (tanks and artillery) did the fighting. As far as I know, even our special forces were kept in reserve.

3) The biggest damage done to our side was from the Israeli Kamikaze drones (which hit tanks, command posts and a busload of Armenian soldiers)and from the Israeli Spike-NLOS ultra-long range anti-tank guided missile (big 70 kg missile with up to 25 km range). The former can be dealt with the Pantsir-S SAM system that we are supposed to receive as part of our $200 mil. order from Russia. The later can be mitigated by using better concealment, camouflage nets, active anti-tank systems etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Harop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_(missile)

4) The Azeri human losses are very significant. While most of our dead soldiers are conscripts. A large part of their dead include their best trained special forces.

5) In materials terms (and financially), the cost of the 5 day war was much higher to the Azerbaijan army who lost some expensive assets: at least one helicopter, a good number of UAVs and a number of T-90S tanks. We lost some old Soviet era T-72 tanks and other vehicles and absolutely no air assets. By the way, the made in Israel Kamikaze UAVs are very expensive and are designed to be used only on very important targets (not on old tanks).

6) As far as territory is concerned, We regained all the positions on the northern front. On the southern front, we lost a small hill (Lele Tepe) less than 200 m inside our territory. No strategic significance in that loss, only symbolic and emotional.

[Sarkis86]

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More from Zoravar:

It looks like nobody realized that the Azeris shot down one of their own UAV. Here is a video from Azerbaijan where they are claiming they have shot down an Armenian UAV. In fact is one of their own ORBITER Israeli made drone.

[Haykakan]

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Serj Tankian: How we can contribute to families of deceased soldiers

13:46 | April 9,2016 | Politics


Renowned rock musician Serj Tankian wrote on his Facebook page:

“According to research, the US government pays a $100,000 “Death
Gratitude” to soldiers’ families. Families in Azerbaijan receive
10,000 manat (roughly $6,700). In Armenia and Artsakh, families of
deceased soldiers receive only 200,000 AMD (roughly $480). As you can
see families of deceased soldiers in Armenia and Artsakh are
economically disadvantaged to carry on. It is for this reason that I
have decided to donate to this amazing non-profit organization called
the Paros Foundation, who donate 100% of the proceeds directly to the
affected families. I encourage those who want to contribute to do so
to them.

And to all the Azeri trolls paid handsomely by Azerbaijan’s Ministry
of Offense who have been frequenting my page, I want you to know that
I really love my ban and delete buttons smile emoticon

Peace”

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[Joseph]

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More from Zoravar:

Freakin' morons

[Haykakan]

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Freakin' morons

That is so funny that it is almost sad.

[armnuke]

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Can anyone confirm this please?

"Thanks to Dan Bilzerian for helping NKR army with M82 Barrett (~30) & M110 (~50) sniper rifles also night/thermal scopes."