Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[ninetoyadome]

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«Faktxeber.com»: «In the Azerbaijan army lice have reached the heads of the generals"
Vice-Speaker of Azerbaijani Parliament Bahar Muradova recently made a criticism of the Azerbaijani TV channels that do not observe the purity of speech. In connection with this site «Faktxeber.com» wrote, that concerned about the purity of speech by the regime, telling his people the language clubs, looks like a mockery. The site advises authorities say the long-standing demands of the people "freedom", "Retired", "good life" and "law-justice."

Bahar Muradova be better said that the army has to head lice, the generals got. One of our staff has sent his son to the army sweets on the occasion of Nowruz. Poor was struck by the situation prevailing there.

The next day the son phoned and said that it would be better instead of sweets to send a cure for head lice, because the whole military unit is teeming with them. We say that we are a rich country. It's all there: from not knowing the way to the military part of the generals to the Fund's assistance to the armed forces. No, we only venture to manufacture drugs for head lice. An urgent need to build it and solemnly cut the red ribbon to the generals, dare once a year to spend the night in a military unit is not picked up there lice "- writes the site.

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[ArmeniaR1]

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Airport looks good, i remember they once said it will be opend at May 9th?
Thanks for the photos btw!

[ArmeniaR1]

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Azerbaycan Özel Kuvvetleri Operasyon

[burjuin]

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Army reservists-sappers during exercises (02-10 April 2011):

[Eddo211]

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Stepanakert airport opening planned in middle of summer: Photoreport
April 12, 2011 - 14:23 AMT 09:23 GMT

PanARMENIAN.Net

As David Atbashyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, special attention is given to the concrete runway. “We’re taking our time to provide quality work. I believe the opening will take place in the middle of summer,” Atbashyan said.

That is a very good decision......higher runway weight requirements will assure landings from heaviest military transport airplanes.



Looks like a VOR (VHF Omnidirectional range) Navigation system right inside the airport…..this is very good. With a little altitude after departure from Yerevan you can receive this NAVAID, not to mention it can be used for landing at this airport in low ceilings and visibility if approach procedures and charts are put in place.



Is that a surveillance Radar or some type of none directional approach system for the control tower burjuin, do you know by any chance? I know Russian NAV systems are very different.

[ninetoyadome]

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Azerbaijan’s military budget makes $ 1.421bn in 2010-newspaper


April 14, 2011 | 09:04
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published a report on military expenditures of countries in 2010, Azg newspaper writes.

According to the report, Armenia’s defense budget makes U.S. $ 404m, or $ 45m more than in 2009. The share of defense expenses in country’s budget amounted to 4.2% in 2010.

Azerbaijan’s military expenses totaled $ 1.421bn in 2010, (or $ 52m less than in 2009). Georgia’s military expenditures make U.S. $ 452m against U.S. $ 604m in 2009.

http://news.am/eng/news/55311.html

[burjuin]

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Army reservists-sappers during exercises (02-10 April 2011):

[KarotheGreat]

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Azerbaijan Preparing For War Against Armenia - April, 2011
Tensions between Yerevan and Baku have been very high recently. After years of dissemination anti-Armenian propaganda, after years of violating the Russian brokered ceasefire, after years of spending billions of dollars in building up the fighting capacity of its armed forces, after years of making public threats about the resumption of hostilities, Baku may now be thinking this is their best chance to retake Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh).

Putting aside the overt support Ankara is providing Baku, it is widely believed that government connected "private" military contractors from various Western nations and Israel are also actively building-up Azerbaijan's military infrastructure as well as fine-tuning its fighting capability. There has even been talk about professionally trained foreign sharpshooters (snipers) working on the Azeri side of the demarcation line in Artsakh.

I have no doubt that international energy interests as well as Western officials fully stand behind Azerbaijan. Behind closed doors and away from television cameras and journalists' microphones, high level officials in the West strongly favor Azerbaijan over Armenia. Their primary intent is to defeat a belligerent Armenia so that it does not become a hindrance to their regional energy exploitation efforts and their efforts to drive Russians out of the south Caucasus.

Tehran, which also has a vested interest in the south Caucasus, does not want to see Armenia's defeat simply because Iranian officials have long feared the potential rise of an Azeri/Turkic insurgency inside Iran. Thus, Tehran can be expected to openly (or covertly) side with Yerevan in the event of major hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It is also well known that the Russian Federation does not want to see the resumption of a new war between Armenia and Azerbaijan primarily because the status-quo prevailing in the region today is geopolitically very favorable to Moscow (and to Yerevan). Moscow has repeatedly warned Baku against attempting to retake Artsakh by force. Simply put: Moscow and Tehran desire to keep the status-quo in the region.

Therefore, if hostilities resume. If Baku is foolish enough to disregard its northern and southern neighbors' wishes by striking at Artsakh with full force, with the moral initiative and Moscow and Tehran on its side, I personally believe Yerevan should take the opportunity to strike deep into Azerbaijan's north western territory and by doing so finally establish a land connection with the Russian Federation.

I hope that the aforementioned scenario has already been thought of by military planners in Armenia and Russia. The benefits to such a historic undertaking is very clear for Armenia and its benefits to Russia, in my opinion, are as follows:

Dissecting the south Caucasus in such a manner would immediately drive the last nail in the coffin for Western interests in the region. Such a scenario would immediately bring Saakashvili's government to its knees and it would turn an already isolated Azerbaijan into a full-0fledged hostage to Moscow. Such a scenario would be a major blow to the Islamic insurgency in the north Caucasus. Such a scenario would also preempt any future inroads in the region by Turkey or by Islamists or even by Iran. By allowing Yerevan to establish a common borders with the Russian Federation, Moscow would immediately create a more effective balance of power in the volatile region where besides Russia there are four other major influences - Western, Turkish, Iranian and Islamic. Moreover, by establishing a safe trade route to Iran via Armenia, Moscow can easily and more effectively implement major regional economic projects.

If Russian officials have stood in the way of Armenia's territorial expansion, it's simply because they fear losing Armenia once Yerevan becomes less dependent on Moscow. In my opinion, Russian officials need not fear about this. Armenia will not break away from it. Although some high level Russian officials may take issue with this, I think Moscow can feel fully confidant about Armenia's friendship. Armenia will be firmly embedded in the Russian camp for a very long time. Moscow has already bought into virtually every sector of Armenia's economy and its infrastructure. There is a deep level of cooperation between the military establishments of Armenia and Russia. The largest and by-far the most prominent Armenian Diaspora is that of Russia's. Moreover, Russian intelligence assets are deeply entrenched throughout Armenia. Gains for Armenia in the south Caucasus will ultimately translate as gains for Russia. As long as Moscow continues helping Armenia's current political establishment keep its Western agents on the fringes of Armenian politics, Moscow should not be worrying about where Armenia's true allegiance lies - even when Armenian officials sometimes give lip-service to the Western world.

Moreover, as long as Azeris continue to have ethnic and cultural ties with the Turkic and Islamic worlds and as long as Baku continues to be wooed by Western energy interests - Baku will not be fully trust by the Kremlin. Armenian officials and influential Armenians residing in Russia need to exploit this situation by driving these points across with Kremlin officials. It needs to be a pan-national task to make Kremlin officials fully confident of Armenia's genuine friendship and to convince them that strengthening Armenia's geopolitical stature in the region will strengthen Moscow's regional presence as well.

If Baku wants to get adventurous. If Baku tried to upset the prevailing status-quo in the region by resorting to military means. If Baku (and Tbilisi) continues being troublesome in the region - why not allow the establishment of common borders between Armenia and Russia?

Other than freezing the provision of extortion money (IMF loans) to Armenia, the Western alliance would be powerless. With a resurgent Russia making a strong presence in Eurasia recently, with various military entanglements already diverting Washington's attention, with a global economic crisis continuing to plague the western world - the "internationally community" (a palatable term used to describe the Anglo-American-Zionist global order) would be powerless to stop Armenia from establishing common borders with the Russian Federation. By establishing common borders with the Russian Federation, Armenia would no longer need Western bribes and extortion monies to help it survive and Moscow would have direct access to the south Caucasus. The following are some relevant news reports that made the Western press recently.

Arevordi
April, 2011

http://theriseofrussia.blogspot.com/2011/03/tensions-are-definitely-high-in-south.html

[haysip]

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absolute beauty

[Karabed]

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RPA: Stepanakert airport construction is beyond OSCE MG authority

PanARMENIAN.Net - Head of the Republican Party of Armenia parliamentary group Galust Sahakyan said that the airport construction in Stepanakert is beyond the authority of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen.

“Discussion of the Stepanakert airport is beyond the authority of the Co-Chairmen, and the airport will be constructed anyway,” Sahakyan told a briefing in the Armenian parliament, commenting on the April 14 statement of the OSCE Minsk Group.

In their joint statement, the Co-Chairs expressed their concern that the planned opening of an airport in Nagorno-Karabakh could lead to further increased tensions. They cautioned that the operation of flights to and from this airport could not be used to support any claim of a change in the current status of Nagorno-Karabakh under international law. The Co-Chairs urged the sides to reach an understanding in keeping with international conventions and agreements, as well as current practice between Armenia and Azerbaijan for flights over their territory. The Co-Chairs welcomed assurances from the sides that they will reject any threat or attack against civil aircraft, pursue the matter through diplomatic steps, and refrain from politicizing the issue.

The airport is going to open no matter what. But that's not why posted it, it seems that azeribaboonis don't know when you quote someone you're not supposed to change anything. But this baboons do it anyway:

'Airport construction is beyond authority of Minsk Group co-chairmen'

Head of the Republican Party of Armenia parliamentary group Galust Sahakyan said that the airport construction in Khankendi is beyond the authority of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen.

“Discussion of the Khankendi airport is beyond the authority of the co-chairmen, and the airport will be constructed anyway,” Sahakyan told a briefing in the Armenian parliament, commenting on the April 14 statement of the OSCE Minsk Group.

In their joint statement, the co-chairs expressed their concern that the planned opening of an airport in Nagorno-Karabakh could lead to further increased tensions. They cautioned that the operation of flights to and from this airport could not be used to support any claim of a change in the current status of Nagorno-Karabakh under international law. The co-chairs urged the sides to reach an understanding in keeping with international conventions and agreements, as well as current practice between Armenia and Azerbaijan for flights over their territory. The co-chairs welcomed assurances from the sides that they will reject any threat or attack against civil aircraft, pursue the matter through diplomatic steps, and refrain from politicizing the issue.