medo wrote: KoTeMoRe wrote: Regular wrote:There are already pictures from Russian peacekeepers
They are very graphic.. Armenians didn't even collect their dead.. and they really got massacred, it's not the first pictures of Armenian soldiers piled up on roadside that were posted..
There was one week ago after the drones hunted them down..
https://twitter.com/StasSwanky/status/1327384003117191170
They went in like fucking headless chicken to Shusha. Anna guys saved themselves by just looking at the side of the road.
A lot of this is due to total lack of military basics.
I think we will need some time to see, how big this Pashinyan's betrayal was. It was long in the making. Pashinyan dissmissed almost all veteran generals, who were schooled un USSR/Russia and placethose, who have some courses in the west. Pashinyan surrender Artzakh to Turks and they start war, when Russia was occupied with Belarus and Baltics. There were a lot of voluntiers, who come to Armenia at the beginning of war, but Pashinyan send them home, saying they will call them, when they will need them and they never called voluntiers. Some succede to go to Artrzakh on their own, but they were unarmed and without commandres. Pashinyan simply did nothing and is waiting in his office, that Artzakh fell in the hands of Turkey. Between those, who were killed, they were mostly young Artzakh conscripts and some older veteran voluntiers. By some informations, it was Pashinyan, who order to remove defense commander of Artzakh general Harutyunyan, who was wounded, when his car explode.
Artzakh is small and have only 150.000 of citizens. They have to fihght alone against so large enemy of Azerbaijan, Turkey and ISIS and with such a traitor behind them. In such conditions they become clear, that only Russia could save they and that they have to survive and defend themselves until Russia intervene. They succede and Russian amry is now there. Artzakh didn't fall as it was planned by Aliev, Erdogan and Pashinyan. This is victory for Artzakh. In those circumastances, Russian intervention was the only solution to save Artzakh and it happened. Russia will not allow new genocide over Armenians in Artzakh, so Azerbaijan will not get it. Now we have to wait, that Russia bring all planed forces in Artzakh, than they will start fulfiling their decisions.
I know all this. I said all this.
Pash "betrayal" is none of such. None of the people involved in the problem did a thing. Buying Iskanders and SU-30's was an imperial token gesture, there were other things Armenia could have done, that even the fucking Houthis (blessed be the flip-flops) have.
There's a whole flurry of cheap systems that they did not even need to buy from Russia.
Among the few.
PASARS type for SUAV defense.
Proximity radars for awareness.
RALAS for LOC, OLOC targeting.
Targeting UCAV's, guided rounds (there's so many on the market I don't know why I saw none).
UCAV's are important, but IMO far less than LOC man portable or sub 15kg SUAV's.
The terrain once the flat south was done, was perfect for small SUAV attacks, hell the Azeris started using Spike as tactical artillery.
MRAPS's (Typhoons would have made life difficult for MAM-L's as in case of strike, effect would have been far less important).
For other issues even stuff as stupid as tensile netting (RPG nets) woould have been iteresting.
On a more complex level, IR APS like VEER/Zaslon become really important given the very slow speed of SUAV's. MAM's also are subsonic which fits nicely into the APS enveloppe.
The cost of all this shit will get decades to be piled up, Should have started around 2008 with Georgia trying in Ossetia. And after 2016, there's no excuse for the big fat nothing happening.
However all this stuff would have sooner or later bumped into the bigger issue here.
Had Armenia resisted these 45 days with minimal concessions and this maximal Azeri casualties, the war would have gone regional, with Turkey going all in, drawing Russia in the fray.
I'm not sure that stuff is what we all want to see.