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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.

Akar met with Zakir Hasanov in Istanbul, on the sidelines of the 15th International Defense Industry Fair, one of the world's largest global defense events.

Azerbaijan’s Minister of Defense General Zakir Hasanov on Monday announced that two military vessels of his country will take part in the International Military Competitions which will be held in Bandar Anzali.

Certainly no branch of Armenia's military suffered as severe materiel losses during the 2020 Nagorno-Karbakh War as its artillery and rocket forces.

On June 15, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The two visited Shusha, which the Armenians call Shushi, in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Azerbaijan captured Shusha from Armenian forces during last year's Nagorno-Karabakh war. 

Anatolian Eagle 2021, organized by the Turkish Air Force, saw the participation of Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Qatar Emiri Air Force combat aircraft that attracted aviation spotters from many foreign countries.

Pakistan President Arif Alvi Monday conferred the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, a military medal, on the Turkish commander Gen Umit Dundar, a move seen as further deepening of ties.

And here it is, beaten by the lowly Turkey. In Karabakh, Bayraktars easily destroyed many types of ground-based weapons that make up the core of the arsenals of the Russian army and, by extension, of its satellite Armenia.