Azerbaijan purchased 321 tanks, 44 artillery systems and 64 battle planes last 20 years
In 1992-2012, Azerbaijan purchased 321 tanks, 264 military machines, 44 artillery systems and 21,295 rocket and missile systems from different countries.
SIA reports citing the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms that in this period, official Baku significantly strengthening the military aviation has purchased 64 training and combat aircrafts and 24 combat helicopters.
Note that the list does not include artillery systems and reactive volley fire systems, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, including tanks and military machines that Azerbaijan purchased from Israel, Turkey and Russia in the recent years.
According to UNRCA, the country selling most of military equipments to Azerbaijan during the reporting period was Ukraine. Official Baku has purchased 198 battle tanks (mainly T-72 and T-55), 173 armored transport vehicles, 294 artillery systems, 37 training and combat aircrafts, 12 combat helicopters and 95 rocket systems from Ukraine.
The second country for arms sale is Russia. This country has sold 62 tanks, 24 armored transport vehicles, 18 howitzers, 12 helicopters and 1,200 rockets. The list does not include two division S-300 PMU-2 "Favorit" complexes, as well as Ka-32 and Mi-17V transport helicopters which were purchased in 2008-2012.
Azerbaijan has purchased 60 tanks, 42 howitzers and 6 planes from Belarus.
The report says that in 1992-2012, Azerbaijan has purchased 1 tank from Slovakia, 10 RAK-128 reactive fire systems and 20,000 rockets from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 32 armored transport vehicles from the South African Republic, 13 combat planes from Georgia, 8 – from Kazakhstan.
In general, the planes purchased from Ukraine were MiQ-29 and L-39, from Belarus and Georgia – Su-25, from Kazakhstan – MiQ-25.
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