Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[KarotheGreat]

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Armenian army among best in post-Soviet area, expert says

March 02, 2011 | 14:31

Armenia has a very good army. The armies of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh are copies of the Soviet army with its best traditions, Igor Korotchenko, a member of the Public Council, Russian Ministry of Defense, Editor-in-Chief of the National Defense magazine, said in an interview with Golos Rossii (Voice of Russia) radio. As regards the most efficient armies of the former USSR, he also named the armies of Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Korotchenko stressed that Azerbaijan`s military budget is larger in terms of the budget/GDP ratio now than the Georgia military budget in 2008. However, the Azerbaijani army is inferior to the Armenian army in terms of moral and efficiency despite the fact the Azerbaijani army is technically better equipped.

A rather risky situation may develop. Baku may resort to a military settlement of the conflict due to the fact that its army is formally better equipped, the expert said.

As regards the possibility of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, the expert does not rule it out. However, neither Turkey nor NATO, or Russia or the United States needs a military conflict in the region. "We do not need a new Armenian-Azerbaijani war," the expert said.

http://news.am/eng/news/49916.html

[KarotheGreat]

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Yes, we do have S-300. That being said, it seems that Russia is equally arming us and Azeris. But for some reason when Russians give us weapons, Azeris complain.

I'm thinking of something, it seems we had the S-300 for a while now, what did we get as a secret weapon that we revealed the S-300 to the public. So what weapons do we now have that the Azeris can only dream of.

[KarotheGreat]

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Azerbaijani soldier stabbed
March 02, 2011 | 18:10

Zirya Aleskerov (born in 1987), a soldier of the Azerbaijani N military unit was hospitalized with multiple knife injuries. His health state is esteemed as grave. According to APA agency, Aleskerov’s fellow soldier stabbed him. No other details on the incident are available.

http://news.am/eng/news/49959.html

[Eddo211]

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We own or want?

That is what I would suggest (want) to counter those 24 mi-35M that will be delivered to Azerbaijan (if not already). The mi-35M has the capability for night ops with new weapons such as Ataka anti-tank missiles (8 of them). Azerbaijan has already added these aircraft to their inventory of attack helicopters in paper.

A squadron can be as little as 9 aircraft and since our pilots are already proficient in SU-25s there should be an easy transition to the SU-25TM which is the Russian frontline combat aircraft. Not only it is a tank killer but with the kopyo radar and AE/R-77 missiles it can engage aerial targets (such as mi-35). The cost should be less than 24 mi-35Ms given to Azerbaijan, I would think.

[Joseph]

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What are they talking about, I thought that the Armenian side was in control of their own S-300? It seems that some people who claim to be an expert don't really know what they are talking about.

Armenia has several batteries and the Russians have several more stationed in Armenia.

[Mos]

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As our ally Russia should be supplying us only, especially when it comes to sophisticated weapons. Or is Russia also Azerbaijan's ally now? Azerbaijan is not part of CSTO and they get same weapons as we do - what's up with that??

[Odar]

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What if Russia is again playing the divide-and-conquer game they've been practicing for centuries?

[arakeretzig]

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As our ally Russia should be supplying us only, especially when it comes to sophisticated weapons. Or is Russia also Azerbaijan's ally now? Azerbaijan is not part of CSTO and they get same weapons as we do - what's up with that??

Money. You're not thinking like a business man. We get things for free. they have to buy them. Who is the sucker here?
Besides like Ohanyan said, we do know the S300 weaknesses better. Take into note that, even if they got the S300 by now, it would take them years of training to master the beast.

[Mos]

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Money. You're not thinking like a business man. We get things for free. they have to buy them. Who is the sucker here?
Besides like Ohanyan said, we do know the S300 weaknesses better. Take into note that, even if they got the S300 by now, it would take them years of training to master the beast.

Well we do get weapons much cheaper or even free, but how much cheaper? Especially given Azeri's oil wealth I'm sure the purchases are no problem for them. Just the fact that Russia is offering to sell such sophisticated missiles to Azeris is of concern to me, I understand that they are trying to utilise the "divide and conquer" tactic, but they have formal allies in the region (us) that they need to support the most.

[Federate]

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All empires use divide and conquer anyway. But we stand to benefit much more from S-300s than the Azeris. Not only are we better trained and exposed to it but we lack a major airforce while the Azeris have a better airforce. When the war starts, we'll be squatting many more flies than they will. It's more useful for us.