What Kind of Weapons Will Russia Supply to Armenia?

June 26, it became known that Russia will provide Armenia with a soft loan of 200 million US dollars for the purchase of modern weapons. This was announced after a meeting in Yerevan of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan with a delegation from Moscow headed by the Minister of Transport of Russia, Co-Chair of the Armenian-Russian commission Maxim Sokolov. "The agreement will significantly expand the range of modern weapons in the arsenal of the Armenian Armed Forces," it is said in the statement.

Turan has learned from unofficial Russian sources, the current stage of military-technical cooperation between Moscow and Yerevan provides a set of urgent measures in order to equalize the balance of forces in the region, which is currently in favor of Azerbaijan.

So, it provides the supply of arms that can effectively address strategic issues: ensuring the defense zone the theater of operations, acquisition of tactical assault groups of different levels, and the establishment of special mobile units.

In order to solve these technical and security problems of Armenia it is scheduled to deliver air defense missile-gun complex Armor-S, armored vehicles Tiger, BTR-80, communications equipment, anti-missile systems, portable anti-aircraft missiles, and others.

According to available information, some of these weapons have already been supplied. -02B-