Artsakh Air Defense units on Saturday shot down an Azerbaijani drone, which was on a reconnaissance mission in the northeastern direction of the Artsakh-Azerbaijan border.
The Artsakh Defense Ministry reported that at 6:38 a.m. local time on Saturday an Orbiter-3 unmanned aerial vehicle—drone. The Orbiter-3 is made by Israel’s Aeronautics Defense Systems, which was embroiled in legal and ethical controversy in 2017 when Azerbaijan reportedly forced the company’s technicians to test its equipment on live targets in Artsakh.
The elite units of the Defense Army continue to keep the situation on the border under full control, to confidently protect the air and land positions of the republic, the Artsakh Defense Ministry said.
This attempt to breach Artsakh’s airspace comes as Azerbaijani forces brazenly attempted to attack military and civilian targets in Armenia’s Tavush Province, resulting in massive losses for Azerbaijani forces, among them a high-ranking army general.
According to Armenia’s Defense Ministry, the situation on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border is relatively calm and new attempts to attack Armenia have been reported.
Meanwhile, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, on Thursday threatened to end the Karabakh peace talks, calling the international mediators, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs’s efforts “meaningless.”
A day earlier, Baku threatened to attack the Metsamor Nuclear Plant outside Yerevan as retaliation for what it termed as “Armenian aggression.”
At the same time, in what seemed like a government sanctioned protest took place in Baku’s Azadliq Square, where an estimated crowd of 50,000 people called for an all out war against Armenia.
Also, after weeks of pressure on its foreign ministry, Aliyev fired his long-time foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who had been a fixture at the peace talks since 2004. Aliyev appointed his education minister, Jeyhun Bayramov as the country’s new top diplomat.
Just keep your eyes open. They will try anything stupid. Hit them hard.It is the only thing they understand.
WHO CARES IF DRONE MADE IN ISRAEL??????? AZERBAIJAN HAS MONEY AND CAN BUY WHATEVER AND FROM WHOEVER IT WANTS!!!!!!! ARMENIA’S WEAPONS ARE FROM RUSSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!
ISRAEL ISRAEL ISRAEL!!!!!! ISRAEL WILL SELL TO WHOEVER HAS MONEY!!!!! MONEY TALKS!!!!!!!! ARMENIA NEEDS TO STOP CORRUPTION SO IT HAS MONEY TOO!!!!!!!!!!!
more Israeli junk.. Im sure Iran/Russia are all interested in studying this junk. Also Armenian made UAV/s are causing havoc as they killed a high ranking Azeri General and other high ranking soldiers too…. TOTALLY AWESOME! You know a general isn’t going to be near the front line. I think the UAV’s went quite deep. Also destroying tanks too from what I understand. So bad for useless Azerbaijan that Turkey is threatening Armenia and should be taken seriously.. GLORY TO THE ARMENIAN/ARTSAKH ARMY!
Ty Israel, you have shown us again who the true friends of Armenians are. Certainly not the Jews. All these drones should be shipped straight to Tehran, Iran.