Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[Federate]

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M16A203???

Just my reaction. Seems like an M16A1 with M203 GL. Cooool

Very cool, seems to be a volunteer's personal weapon. My guess is he either got it from Georgian black market or brought it with him to Armenia from Lebanon.

[AbuSindi]

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Just my reaction. Seems like an M16A1 with M203 GL. Cooool

Very cool indeed. I just don't think it's practical. These shoot NATO rounds. Is he going to pay for his own ammo? What happens when he runs out?

Edit: Aren't those AK mags in his vest?

[armo12]

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http://www.hayzinvor.am/39028.html

Almost every armenian volunteer seems to be carrying the ak-74m

[Azad]

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Armenian Army’s laser device can blind rival snipers

I like it!

[armnuke]

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Very cool indeed. I just don't think it's practical. These shoot NATO rounds. Is he going to pay for his own ammo? What happens when he runs out?

Edit: Aren't those AK mags in his vest?

I think it's the rifle of the person taking the photo?!

And where's the grenade launcher? It's a 203 version but I don't see the grenade launcher.

[burjuin]

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M16A203???

Russian version of the South American Colt M4 Carbine — rifle for hunting boar-15

survincity.com/2011/09/russian-version-of-the-south-american-colt-m4/

[Haykakan]

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U.S. alloted $20 mln in military aid to Azerbaijan, $41.000 to Armenia


Azerbaijan has gotten $20 million in military aid from the U.S. Department of Defense over the last ten years, while Armenia has gotten nearly nothing, a review of U.S. government documents shows, according to EurasiaNet.

Baku has benefited in particular from two Pentagon aid programs, known as Section 1004 and Section 1206, which are subject to less Congressional oversight and less stringent public reporting requirements.

Azerbaijan has gotten $8.5 million since 2005 in funding from Section 1004, which provides counternarcotics assistance, and $11.5 million from Section 1206, which provides counterterrorism aid. Armenia, by contrast, has gotten just $41,000 in Section 1004 funding and no Section 1206 money, according to data collected by the Washington advocacy group Security Assistance Monitor, which maintains a database of the various U.S. military assistance programs.

Much of the money for Azerbaijan has been targeted toward naval forces, to reduce the risk that it could be used against Armenia (which is landlocked) and because of the U.S.'s interest in protecting Caspian energy infrastructure.

But not all of the training went to naval forces. In 2013, U.S. special forces soldiers conducted two month-long counternarcotics training programs for 50 members of Azerbaijan's Ministry of National Security counterterrorism unit, at a cost of $916,000. Two years later, that unit would be disbanded along with the entire ministry as part of an internal power struggle that also sent many senior officials to prison.

And State Department programs can also benefit soldiers both from Armenia and Azerbaijan who may end up fighting one another. One senior Azerbaijani special forces commander who was killed in the April violence between the two countries known as the four-day war, Vugar Yusifov, took part in an army intelligence course (run through the State Department) in 2007 at Ft. Huachuca, in Arizona, according to Azerbaijani news reports. According to State Department records, just one Azerbaijani officer took such a course in 2007, which lasted five months and which cost the U.S. $23,582, EurasiaNet says. (Credit goes to journalist/analyst Emil Sanamyan for catching Yusifov's U.S. connection.)

U.S. policy has been to attempt to be even-handed by restricting aid to Armenia equally. The Departments of State and Defense, in their annual report on military aid to Congress in 2008, wrote that "Section 907 previously prohibited most U.S. assistance to the Government of Azerbaijan and as part of a policy of even-handedness, the previous Administration extended this prohibition to security assistance to Armenia." But the Pentagon aid programs clearly throw off that balance in Azerbaijan's favor.

Last month's flareup in fighting between the two countries over Nagorno Karabakh -- the worst violence since a ceasefire was signed in 1994 -- has revived debate about U.S. military aid in the region. U.S. law, in particular another "Section" -- 907 -- has restricted U.S. aid to Azerbaijan since 1992, but since 2001 those restrictions have been waived every year.

The most recent waiver was issued April 21, when the State Department affirmed that U.S. aid to Azerbaijan:

Is necessary to support United States efforts to counter international terrorism;

Is necessary to support the operational readiness of United States Armed Forces or coalition partners to counter international terrorism;

Is important to Azerbaijan's border security; and

Will not undermine or hamper ongoing efforts to negotiate a peaceful settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan or be used for offensive purposes against Armenia.

In the wake of the fighting there have been calls to fix Section 907; Armenian lobby groups have called for the U.S. to suspend all aid to Azerbaijan, while Azerbaijan has said the restrictions should be removed altogether.

Behold the power of the Armenian lobby and the friendship of USA
The facts seem never to matter to those with closed minds. Where is the outrage here? Why are we not condemning this? O I know why...because this is Russia's fault to right... USA and its western puppets are good because they arm all of our enemies and not us while Russia is bad because it arms one of our enemies and us. I am not sure when doublestandards like this became the norm but I do know why and that has to do with propaganda aimed at brainwashing. When you clearly see things that are not there and you do not see things that are there, you are incapable of making good decisions. This is the danger of false propaganda, in that it leads you to act against your own interests. There has been and continues to be only one power on this earth which has the interest and capability of preserving Armenia.

[armnuke]

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survincity.com/2011/09/russian-version-of-the-south-american-colt-m4/

It's not the same one.

[Azad]

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Azerbaijan expresses protest to Associated Press over news release about Nagorno-Karabakh

As if having control of their own "press" isn't enough, Mehmed now wants to control the world's press.

[armnuke]

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Behold the power of the Armenian lobby and the friendship of USA
The facts seem never to matter to those with closed minds. Where is the outrage here? Why are we not condemning this? O I know why...because this is Russia's fault to right... USA and its western puppets are good because they arm all of our enemies and not us while Russia is bad because it arms one of our enemies and us. I am not sure when doublestandards like this became the norm but I do know why and that has to do with propaganda aimed at brainwashing. When you clearly see things that are not there and you do not see things that are there, you are incapable of making good decisions. This is the danger of false propaganda, in that it leads you to act against your own interests. There has been and continues to be only one power on this earth which has the interest and capability of preserving Armenia.

I bet all your savings is in Dollars

P.S. I despise the foreign policy of the US