Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[Federate]

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

Don't pin your hopes too much on SCUD missiles guys, they are mostly obsolete. They're not very accurate either. It's mostly a psychological weapon at this point. Even camel riding Saudis are intercepting/downing SCUDs fired by Yemenis.

[armnuke]

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

Don't pin your hopes too much on SCUD missiles guys, they are mostly obsolete. They're not very accurate either. It's mostly a psychological weapon at this point. Even camel riding Saudis are intercepting/downing SCUDs fired by Yemenis.

they have advanced patriot missiles. you don't need a PhD to intercept a SCUD with patriots.

[armnuke]

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I know someone who works at Almaz-Antey and in the department that makes S-300. Let me talk to him.

Just talked to him. He said PMU 2 can intercept older missiles like 9K52 Luna and 2K1 Mars ONLY.

[Hakob]

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

Don't pin your hopes too much on SCUD missiles guys, they are mostly obsolete. They're not very accurate either. It's mostly a psychological weapon at this point. Even camel riding Saudis are intercepting/downing SCUDs fired by Yemenis.

But we also saw 2-3 times Yemeni scuds pass tru and do enormous damage to soudis.
We also know that our tech has upgraded scud's controls to make them accurate.
Azeris will have to think twice. Can they stop a scud salvo flying towards oil platforms?
So far they can't even shoot straight.
Last thing, who can be sure that we have not upgraded our scud's to accuracy even better than they know?

[gokorik]

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Just talked to him. He said PMU 2 can intercept older missiles like 9K52 Luna and 2K1 Mars ONLY.

That was fast. As much as I would like to believe your friend, I don't.

Edit: Isn't it 2 in the morning in Russia. How the heck did you get a hold of him on a work day?

While the Favorit superficially appears like the SA-10B, it has a wide range of technologicalx improvements internally, and a range of optimisations to improve performance in the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) role. Almaz, the system integrators, and Fakel, the missile designers, claim to have repeatedly caused Scud target vehicle warheads to detonate during test intercepts at the Kapustin Yar range in 1995.

http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-S-300PMU2-Favorit.html

[gokorik]

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

they have advanced patriot missiles. you don't need a PhD to intercept a SCUD with patriots.

Are you suggesting the patriot pac-2 is light-years ahead of the S300PMU2? The patriot pac-2 system is on par with the pmu-2.

[gokorik]

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

But we also saw 2-3 times Yemeni scuds pass tru and do enormous damage to soudis.
We also know that our tech has upgraded scud's controls to make them accurate.
Azeris will have to think twice. Can they stop a scud salvo flying towards oil platforms?
So far they can't even shoot straight?
Last thing, who can be sure that we have not upgraded our scud's to accuracy even better than they know?

Exactly. They might be able to shoot a couple scuds down, but they won't be able to hit every one of them. Another thing to remember is we probably won't strike baku in response to stepanakert being attacked. That will be something held in reserve incase they hit Yerevan.

[Vrej1915]

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[armnuke]

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That was fast. As much as I would like to believe your friend, I don't.

Edit: Isn't it 2 in the morning in Russia. How the heck did you get a hold of him on a work day?



http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-S-300PMU2-Favorit.html

This guy has a hobby of building military models and staying up late at night. I talking to him on FB and he replied. It's 2:40AM in Yerevan also and I'm awake.

[gokorik]

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

This guy has a hobby of building military models and staying up late at night. I talking to him on FB and he replied. It's 2:40AM in Yerevan also and I'm awake.

Fair enough.