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Israeli arms exports to Azerbaijan have included anything from loitering munitions to long-range Spike anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), missile-toting offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) and even LORA quasi-ballistic missiles.

As well as purchasing the actual UAVs, Azerbaijan has also invested in advanced surveillance payloads and the necessary infrastructure for the drones' effective operations.

According to Vugar Khalilov in AzerNews, Azeri Defence Industry Deputy Minister Mehman Bakhishov said that Azerbaijan will produce 66 types of new weapons and military equipment in 2022, Trend reported on December 17: "I hope that this armament will be launched in production in the second half of 2022".

The Azerbaijani Navy is lagging behind in modern developments compared to the rest of the country's military and other nations' navies in the Caspian Sea.

Although the two countries do not share a border, Turkey supports the Azeri position in the conflict over Armenia.

Armenia and Azerbaijan on Tuesday the 16th of November 2021 clashed along their border a year after the war over Nagorno-Karabakh came to an uneasy peace, trading accusations regarding which side initiating the clashes.

Haluk Bayraktar, one of two engineer brothers running the defense firm Baykar, said the new aircraft would be tested in the next two years and would be able to take off from a Turkish navy ship.

Azerbaijan is in talks with Pakistan to purchase Block III PAC JF-17 Thunder multirole combat aircraft to strengthen its defence system.

Azerbaijan has lodged applications to a number of international courts, citing various crimes committed by Armenia during the almost 30-year occupation of Azerbaijan’s territories, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

Tensions have increased recently between Tehran and Baku over road tax imposed on Iranian truck drivers that want to enter Armenia through Azerbaijan, over Azerbaijani ties to Israel and plans for a corridor linking Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan exclave with mainland Azerbaijan.

Over the last several weeks, military exercises by Iran near the Azerbaijani border, by Turkey and Azerbaijan in Nakhichevan, and by Georgia with Azerbaijan and Turkey have further unsettled a region that as Rhythm of Eurasia journalist Irina Marinina says, was already “difficult to call completely stabilized.”

‘We reject the allegations of any third party’s presence near the Azerbaijani-Iranian border,’ says Azeri Foreign Ministry as Tehran’s military holds drills near the border.

According to the Israeli website NEWSru.co.il, Azerbaijan may purchase the Hetz 3 (Arrow 3) anti-ballistic missile system from Israel.

Azerbaijan is planning to some requests for additional batches of Russian-designed materiel, President of the country Ilham Aliyev said in an interview with the National Defense (Natsionalnaya Oborona) magazine: "We are working fruitfully with Russia in all areas, including military-industrial cooperation.

The halting of sales of such systems would never have been considered during conflicts where Muslim Syrian and Libyan soldiers were the target, though Armenia's Christian population seems to have been a more relatable rallying point.

Next to the participation of various assets belonging to the Turkish Armed Forces, the organizers of Teknofest 2021 managed to secure the partaking of two MiG-29s fighter aircraft belonging to the Azerbaijan Air Force.

At a minimum, Russian officials worry that at least one of the littoral states could allow those powers a role in the Caspian basin that was supposed to have been prevented by the August 2018 agreement.

The Turkish, Azerbaijani and Pakistani militaries will hold joint drills for the first time from Sept. 12-20 in Baku, Azerbaijan's defense ministry said Saturday.

Almost 10 months have passed since the 44-day war in Karabakh ended, but it still remains in the center of attention of many renowned military experts and analysts. One of them is John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute, Co-Director of the Urban Warfare Project, and host of the Urban Warfare Project podcast. Spencer also previously served as a research fellow with the Chief of Staff of the Army’s Strategic Studies Group.

Turkish and Azerbaijani commandos launched joint military exercises Thursday, according to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry. 

The brief, but intense, war between Armenia and Azerbaijan last year was watched closely for the way Azerbaijan used drones. The extensive use of drones by Azerbaijan for intelligence gathering, ground-attack missions and even Kamikaze missions was considered one of the main reasons behind its victory in the conflict.