Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[gokorik]

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I do hope this issue will be taken care of soon. I'm trying to imagine how can our guys shoot at incoming forces at night without night vision.

The only option that I can think of are illumination flares launched from mortars or grads. Only problem is by the time you realise you need flares, they have already breached your line.

[armnuke]

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Thank you very much Burjuin, this video answers a lot of questions I had in my head about night vision cameras and thermal imaging devices.

[arakeretzig]

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They were adressing the camouflage netting issue by producing under license some polish netting.

Thermal and night vision devices have been shown but they seem to be in very limited quantities. Main issue with these is they cost a lot not only to buy, but to maintain. A question to ask oneself is could that money go towards something else that could affect the military balance more significantly. The issue is limited funds available to the military forcing them to pick between night fighting equipment or other important systems. If they had the money I'm sure they would buy them.

Long story short the military has always known these shortfalls, the issue has always been funds.

Confiscate oligarch cars. Everything worth atleast 40k dollars and sell them. Thats atleast a few hundred cars. Millions of dollars. We can call it the "patriot tax for self-entitled douches". They dont like it? They can go to russia and be oligarchs as they are useless to armenia anyway.

[londontsi]

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Confiscate oligarch cars. Everything worth atleast 40k dollars and sell them. Thats atleast a few hundred cars. Millions of dollars. We can call it the "patriot tax for self-entitled douches"

The only people who will be able to buy them will be other oligarchs.

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[Mher]

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Confiscate oligarch cars. Everything worth atleast 40k dollars and sell them. Thats atleast a few hundred cars. Millions of dollars. We can call it the "patriot tax for self-entitled douches". They dont like it? They can go to russia and be oligarchs as they are useless to armenia anyway.

kind of hard to do when those oligarchs are the ones who are in charge of enforcing the rules. This is why the biggest goal in Armenia needs to be the improvement of rule of law.

Better Rule of Law --> Better Economy --> Better everything else

The black (untaxed) market in Armenia was about 40-50% of the economy about 15 years ago. It's currently at about 25-35% of the market. That's about a billion dollars a year that's stolen from our people. That would be enough to buy the Mig-29s the S-300PM2s the night vision goggles, and anything else you feel like getting.

[burjuin]

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Artsakh’s Four Day War

[Mher]

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happening right now

Karabakh Defense Army: Azerbaijan is intensively shelling frontline and civilian settlements

STEPANAKERT. - Throughout Tuesday and at this moment the adversary continues to intensively shell the entire frontline and the civilian settlements, Karabakh Defense Army press-service reports.

According to the statement, the Azerbaijani side is using mortars of different calibers, 85, 100, 122 and 152 mm cannons, MM-21 (Grad) multiple rocket launcher, and 9M33 M3 anti-aircraft autocannon.

The Defense Army vanguard units are taking retaliatory actions to suppress the adversary’s “activeness”inflicting losses on its manpower and military equipment.

The situation on the frontline continues to remain tense.

http://news.am/eng/news/324385.html

[gokorik]

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kind of hard to do when those oligarchs are the ones who are in charge of enforcing the rules. This is why the biggest goal in Armenia needs to be the improvement of rule of law.

Better Rule of Law --> Better Economy --> Better everything else

The black (untaxed) market in Armenia was about 40-50% of the economy about 15 years ago. It's currently at about 25-35% of the market. That's about a billion dollars a year that's stolen from our people. That would be enough to buy the Mig-29s the S-300PM2s the night vision goggles, and anything else you feel like getting.

Confiscate oligarch cars. Everything worth atleast 40k dollars and sell them. Thats atleast a few hundred cars. Millions of dollars. We can call it the "patriot tax for self-entitled douches". They dont like it? They can go to russia and be oligarchs as they are useless to armenia anyway.

The only people who will be able to buy them will be other oligarchs.

Everyday I pray they snap out of it and realise the harm they're doing. How they are spiting on the sacrifices of millions of Armenians that fought and suffered for thousands of years.

[AstalaVist]

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There are some reports which claims we took some of the captured positions back in Talish and that's why the intense shelling started.

[Mher]

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Everyday I pray they snap out of it and realise the harm they're doing. How they are spiting on the sacrifices of millions of Armenians that fought and suffered for thousands of years.

At the same time Movses Gorgisyan died in 1990 defending the Armenian villages at Nakhicehvan, Lfik Samo was comfortably serving in the Soviet Army

how much more can you expect from these people