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Date Posted: 04-Jul-2008
Jane's Defence Weekly
Azerbaijan displays growth of armed forces with military parade
Grzegorz Holdanowicz JDW Correspondent
Warsaw
Azerbaijan has held its first military parade for 16 years.
The parade, which was held in the capital, Baku, on 26 June and observed by the country's President, Ilham Aliyev, commemorated the 90th anniversary of the creation of Azeri armed forces and involved 4,510 soldiers and a few-hundred examples of military hardware.
Owing to tensions with neighbouring Armenia and conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan is rapidly modernising its armed forces. President Aliyev said "[the defence budget] saw a 10-fold rise in the last five years and today exceeds USD2 billion". Almost nothing is known about the contracts that have been signed by different manufacturers with the Azeri government, but the parade brought to light several new systems incorporated into the country's inventory.
One of the unnamed elite units on parade was observed with Israeli 5.56 mm IWI TAR-21 Tavor assault rifles. Their personal radios seemed most likely to be of the Motorola DTR family.
The Aeronautics Aerostar tactical unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Orbiter mini-UAVs bought by Azerbaijan were also presented for the first time. It is likely that Azerbaijan was the "member of the Commonwealth of Independent States" that, according to Aeronautics' press release of 10 January 2008, ordered four Aerostar systems for approximately USD30 million. The Aerostars have been delivered in a new configuration with a satellite communication link aerial on top of the fuselage.
The contract for Orbiters had not previously been reported. The Orbiters' launchers have been installed on top of GAZ-66 utility vehicles for Azeri service.
The Azeri land forces also paraded a multiple rocket launcher based on IMI's Lynx system and mounted on a KamAZ 63502 8 x 8 truck similar to the configuration employed by Kazakhstan. However, the Azeri launchers can fire not only 122 mm Grad system rockets and 160 mm LAR rockets but also have an eight-tube configuration for the IMI/IAI EXTRA extended-range missile. Azerbaijan has become the first - or one of the first - users of this new Israeli weapon, although Israeli sources told Jane's that EXTRA's export to Central Asia had not yet been approved.
Azerbaijan also unveiled a number of other artillery systems, including 9K79-1 Tochka-U (SS-21 'Scarab') short-range (120 km) ballistic missiles, Smerch multiple rocket systems (18 delivered to Azerbaijan from Ukraine in 2005 and 2006) as well as 152 mm 2S3 Akacya and 203 mm 2S7 Pion self-propelled howitzers.
Azeri air defence units were also shown with S-125 Neva (SA-3 'Goa') and S-200 Vega (SA-5 'Gammon') surface-to-air missile systems carried on new KamAZ-provided transporters.
A day before the parade President Aliyev participated in a live presentation of Middle East Defence Systems (MDS) Matador and Marauder mine-protected patrol vehicles, which are manufactured in Jordan, and apparently recommended that production lines for these vehicles be established in Azerbaijan. In May Jordan's King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (KADDB), a co-owner of MDS, signed a defence co-operation accord with the Azeri Ministry of Defence Industry in Baku.
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מחמלי, אחיי גיבורי התהילה ,כל הרפאים , משל"ג עד 2000
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