Azerbaijani Armed Forces

Azerbaijan demonstrated the rocket systems "Polonaise" and LORA

On June 11, 2018, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev attended the opening ceremony, as it was stated, of the "N-th Military Unit of the Missile Forces of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan" (apparently, the missile brigade). The President of Azerbaijan was demonstrated, among other things, mobile ground-based missile systems - the Belarusian-Chinese "Polonaise" and the Israeli LORA - that are in service with the said unit. All cars of both complexes are made on the automobile chassis of the Belarusian production of types MAZ and MZKT.









https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3235433.html

Large-scale military exercises began in Azerbaijan in the front-line zone with Armenia



https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3258473.html

Barak 8ER anti-aircraft missile system launcher of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces

At the parade in Baku on June 26, among other things, not only the conventional Barak-8 missile systems were launched, but also launchers for the Barak-8ER missiles with an elevated range of 150 km.

There are very good pictures for comparing the launchers of both versions, it is clearly noticeable that the Barak-8ER launcher installed on the same chassis from the MZKT is much larger.





https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3265101.html

Azerbaijan's missile base

The journal "Jane's Defense Weekly" in the material of Sean O'Connor "Spaceshot: Azerbaijan's new missile base - 40.490297 N 049.594878 E" published a satellite image of the missile unit of the armed forces of Azerbaijan, which was opened on June 11, 2018 during the ceremony with participation of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. Armament of this missile unit is newly acquired by Azerbaijan mobile ground-based missile systems - Belarusian-Chinese "Polonaise" and Israeli LORA, the cars of both complexes are made on Belarusian-made automobile chassis of types MAZ and MZKT.



01.06.2018 satellite image of the new missile unit of the armed forces of Azerbaijan near the village of Perekeshkul in the Absheron region of Azerbaijan, equipped with mobile ground-based missile systems "Polonaise" and LORA (clickable) (c) DigitalGlobe (via Jane's)


According to a satellite image, this missile unit (apparently a rocket brigade) is stationed near the village of Perekeshkul in the Absheron region of Azerbaijan, 20 km northwest of Baku (coordinates 40.490297 N, 049.594878 E). The military town of the unit covers an area of ​​about 50 hectares, and on June 1 was in the final stage of construction work. The construction of the missile unit was launched in May 2017. According to the analysis in the publication, in the territory of the part hangars containing 14 launchers of the Polonez and LORA missile systems are located. There are also two hangars of the missile and technical base and protected semi-underground bunkers for the storage of missiles.

A commercial satellite image was taken by DigitalGlobe.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3271747.html

Azerbaijan purchased Israeli Elbit Systems' SkyStriker loitering munition





https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3491440.html

According to the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, on July 24, 2019 at 22.00 [21.00 Moscow time], a MiG-29 fighter jet of the Azerbaijani Air Force, carrying out training flights at night, crashed and fell into the Caspian Sea.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3716884.html

Azerbaijan signed an agreement on acquisition of M-346 aircraft

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3941827.html

George1 wrote:Azerbaijan signed an agreement on acquisition of M-346 aircraft

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3941827.html

Well, good for the italian industry (and for their suppliers)... i just don't understand why that and not the yak-130...

By the way, there was a market share agreement between Alenia and Yakovlev, where Alenia wad able to Nato countries and Yakovlev to CIS countries and allies, but apparently it was only for 10 years...


Edit: by the way, is it true that Russia refused to sell aircrafts to Azerbaijan?

If not maybe they could start replacing fruits and vege3 imported from Azerbaijan with those from Iran

Israeli weapons at a military parade in Baku

BTR-70 upgrade with 7.62mm and single 23mm cannon. I believe that there is also a 30mm cannon variant. For the Azerbaijan MT-LB upgrade see my posts on the MT-LB thread.





Azerbaijan and Turkey developed new anti-tank guided missile system based on the BRDM-2 vehicle. Mizrak-U or UMTAS (Uzun Menzilli Tanksavar Sistemi) is a long range air-to-surface and surface-to-surface anti-tank missile developed by Turkish armor and missile manufacturer Roketsan.
The missile comes in two versions, one is the Turkish Antitank Missile – Long Range (TAM-LR – UMTAS), which is a long range anti-tank missile system primarily developed to operate from attack helicopter platforms; the other is the Laser – Turkish Antitank Missile – Long Range (L-TAM-LR – L-UMTAS). Both are equipped with state of the art technologies making it effective against all armoured threats of the modern battlefield.

Tactical characteristics include, day-night and all-weather operational capability; fire-and-forget and fire-and-update operation modes; the capability of target update enables, fire behind mask, fire against targets hiding behind mask, accurate aim point adjustment, and damage assessment; tandem Warhead effective against all types of heavy armoured vehicles within 8km range; effective against stationary and moving targets; wide firing envelope allows off-boresight engagement; and insensitive munition characteristics against fuel fire and bullet impact.

Roketsan’s MIZRAK-O, with its 4km maximum range and 200m minimum range, can function in all weather conditions, day and night. MIZRAK-O, which can be used in fire-and-forget and fire-and-update modes, with the elasticity provided by its target update capability, offers possibilities to fire in covered position, to fire at targets behind cover, to point precisely and to evaluate the effectiveness of the hit, can be used against fixed and moving targets.

https://www.leonardo.com/en/press-release-detail/-/detail/08-06-2023-leonardo-contract-signed-for-c-27j-to-the-azerbaijan-air-force

Azerbaijan will buy a certain (still unspecified) number of C-27J transport aircrafts.

Well they could not buy russian aircrafts in this class even if they would have wanted it.

After the new PDV-4000 engines will be available, I would like to see a new russian transport aircraft (or derivative/evolution of the il-112v) with similar characteristics (payload and cargo hold size) to the C-27J.

Azerbaijan interested in buying J-17 from Pakistan. Although they have considered buying Mig-35 and Su-35 which are better aircraft but they believe the J-17 to be cheaper to maintain due being single engined.

A bit disappointed in Azerbaijan buying M346 instead of Yak-130 although pretty much the same aircraft but when you consider buying Russian or Chinese aircraft surely buying a trainer that's more geared towards what you might buy in the future makes sense than a trainer that's geared for western aircraft.

https://idrw.org/azerbaijan-shows-interest-in-buying-jf-17-fighters-from-pakistan/

Azerbaijan signed a contract for the purchase of the Israeli Barak MX anti-aircraft missile system

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4775718.html


Video of live firing of the Barak 8 air defense system in service in Azerbaijan with Barak 8ER anti-aircraft guided missiles in September 2023 (c) Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan: