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KARABAKH ANNOUNCES FURTHER MILITARY BUILDUP
http://asbarez.com/112014/karabakh-announces-further-military-buildup/
Friday, July 26th, 2013
Military drill in Karabakh
BY LUSINE MUSAYELIAN
STEPANAKERT (RFE/RL)-The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's armed forces on
Friday announced the acquisition of large quantities of heavy weapons
and ammunition in the last two years.
"The position we are in, in terms of obtaining concrete weapons and
military hardware, is unprecedented," Nagorno-Karabakh's top commander,
General Movses Hakobian, told a news conference in Stepanakert.
Hakobian said the arms acquisitions have been so extensive that the
Karabakh Armenian military has difficulty storing them and plans to
build a new arms depot for that purpose. He declined to specify the
types of new weaponry delivered to it.
Hakobian already reported a major military buildup in late 2011. He
spoke of new tanks, anti-tank rockets and artillery systems at the
time. Some defense analysts in Yerevan believe that Karabakh's Defense
Army was supplied with around 100 tanks through Armenia in 2011-2012.
Azerbaijan reportedly began receiving last month a similar number
of tanks as well as many other Russian-made offensive weapons worth
an estimated $1 billion in accordance to defense contracts signed
with Russia.
Hakobian expressed concern about the Russian arms sales to Baku that
have been widely criticized in Armenia and Karabakh. He insisted at
the same time that the Azerbaijani army is still not strong enough
to start and win a new war with the Armenians.
The Karabakh army chief also said that his forces have built new
defense fortifications and placed more anti-personnel land mines
this year along the Armenian-Azerbaijani "line of contact" east and
north of the disputed territory. He said this is aimed at preventing
sabotage attacks by Azerbaijani troops.
http://asbarez.com/112014/karabakh-announces-further-military-buildup/
Friday, July 26th, 2013
Military drill in Karabakh
BY LUSINE MUSAYELIAN
STEPANAKERT (RFE/RL)-The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's armed forces on
Friday announced the acquisition of large quantities of heavy weapons
and ammunition in the last two years.
"The position we are in, in terms of obtaining concrete weapons and
military hardware, is unprecedented," Nagorno-Karabakh's top commander,
General Movses Hakobian, told a news conference in Stepanakert.
Hakobian said the arms acquisitions have been so extensive that the
Karabakh Armenian military has difficulty storing them and plans to
build a new arms depot for that purpose. He declined to specify the
types of new weaponry delivered to it.
Hakobian already reported a major military buildup in late 2011. He
spoke of new tanks, anti-tank rockets and artillery systems at the
time. Some defense analysts in Yerevan believe that Karabakh's Defense
Army was supplied with around 100 tanks through Armenia in 2011-2012.
Azerbaijan reportedly began receiving last month a similar number
of tanks as well as many other Russian-made offensive weapons worth
an estimated $1 billion in accordance to defense contracts signed
with Russia.
Hakobian expressed concern about the Russian arms sales to Baku that
have been widely criticized in Armenia and Karabakh. He insisted at
the same time that the Azerbaijani army is still not strong enough
to start and win a new war with the Armenians.
The Karabakh army chief also said that his forces have built new
defense fortifications and placed more anti-personnel land mines
this year along the Armenian-Azerbaijani "line of contact" east and
north of the disputed territory. He said this is aimed at preventing
sabotage attacks by Azerbaijani troops.