Fact Book of Azerbaijani Armed Forces
I thought it would be good to have a fact book and summary on Azerbaijani Armed Forces, equipments and strengths. These data are gathered to the best of my knowledge and they may be corrections needed, and some equipments will be definitely upgraded by time. Let me or the turkish mod, @Kaan , know about necessary changes, so we can fix them.
Thread is organized as follows: (You can click on each section to directly jump to the section you want)
1st post Azerbaijan Army
2nd post Azerbaijan Airforce
3rd post Azerbaijan Air Defense and Radars
4th post Azerbaijan Navy
5th post Azerbaijan Soldiers, Firearms, and Special Forces
6th post Azerbaijan Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)
7th post Azerbaijan parades
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Azerbaijan Army
A summary of Azerbaijani Tanks:
1) 100 T-90S tanks
ВЕДОМОСТИ - Россия вооружает Азербайджан
T-90 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the deal with Russia, there was an option to order 100 more T-90 tanks, in which it seems that this second batch would be delivered as well.
News.Az - 100 T-90S tanks to be delivered to Azerbaijan in early 2015
2) 400+ T-72 Tanks
Based on wikipedia, we have 542-636 T-72A, T-72B and T-72 Aslan tanks.
T-72 operators and variants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Around 100 of T-72 tanks are upgraded to the Aslan Standard. It was done by a 54 million dollar contract with Elbit.
In fact, Azerbaijan received about 300 T-72 tanks after collapse of Soviet Union. 153 T-72s were bought from Belarus in two separate deals, 62 T-72s were bought from Russia, and 48 T-72s were bought from Ukraine.
During Karabagh war, 178 T-72s lost and 23 T-72s captured. Overall the wikipedia’s statistics make sense if we exclude the tanks lost/captured during karabagh war.
Multiple countries including Russia, have proposed to upgrade the rest of T-72 fleet as well.
3) ~100 T-55 tanks, 150 units bought from Ukraine
4) There was some news about purchasing T-80U and T-84 by Azerbaijan, but, in fact, Azerbaijan purchased T-90S instead of these two Ukrainian made tanks.
5) It seems that Azerbaijan is interested in buying Altay tank from Turkey, after starting its mass production in Turkey.
Howitzers:
2S1 Gvozdika Howitzer:
2S3 Akatsiya Howitzer:
2S7 Pion Howitzer: 12 system bought from Belarus in two separate deals.
2S19 Msta 18 bought from Russia
2S31 Vena 18 bought from Russia
122 mm howitzer 2A18 (D-30): 182 units, 30 bought from Belarus
MRAPS:
Mbombe: (licensed produced, Mbombe is originally from South Africa)
Previously, Marauder and Matador from the same company were produced in Azerbaijan.
Matador: 55 units, Engine from United States
Marauder: 55 units, Engine from United States
APC:
BTR 80: 70 BTR-80A ordered in 2007, delivered 2007-2010.
BTR 70: 57 units, upgraded with diesel engine and "Şimşek" turret.
IFV:
BMP-3 100 BMP-3M with Vesna-K thermal sight:
BMP-2: (Upgraded by Elbit) 53 BMP-2s in service with the armed forces in 1992, 88 in 1993, 191 in 1994, 206 in 1995, 197 in 1996, 96 in 1997 and 1998, 91 in 1999, 41 in 2000–2004, and 39 in 2006. 100 BMP-2s in service with the border troops in 1997–1999, and 147 in 2000–2006
Rocket Launchers:
BM 30 Smerch: (30 systems)
T-122 Sakarya:
TOS: (18 systems)
Army equipments and their pictures, mostly from Azerbaijan Army Parade in 2013:
Cobra: 200+ units for Border Guards and Internal Troops, additional Cobras for the army will be jointly manufactured in Azerbaijan
land rover defender:
Toyota hilux:
Tavor:
Tochka-U: (12 systems)
LAR-160 Mk. IV: (30 systems)
Lynx ( includes Extra , Lar-160 and Grad) 100+ in total
130 mm towed field gun M1954 (M-46): 36 units bought from Belarus
9M133 Kornet: Bought from Russia
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