Azerbaijan

Capital: Baku

Baku is the capital and largest city.

Caucasus mountains to the north.

Access to the Caspian Sea.

Conflict with the breakaway Nagorno Karabakh Republic.

The Qabala Radar installation is operated by the Russian Space Forces under contract until 2012.

About 95,000 total active duty military personnel. Approximately 300,000 personnel can be called up potentially.

AZERBAYCAN

Air Force

About 7,900 personnel

4 airbases

106 aircraft

35 helicopters

MiG-29 fighter aircraft (26)

SU-25 attack aircraft (16)

L-39 trainer/light attack aircraft (23)

L-29 trainer/light attack aircraft (28)?
Diamond DA42 aircraft

Yak-52 trainer aircraft

Il-76 transport aircraft (10)
Gulfstream G550 aircraft (1)

An-12 transport aircraft?

An-24 transport aircraft?

Mi-35 attack helicopters (24)

Mi-24G Super Hind attack helicopters (15)

Mi-24 attack helicopters (35)

Mi-17 transport helicopters (111)
AW139 helicopters (8)
AW189 helicopters (2)
AS332 Super Puma helicopters (10)

israeli made Searcher 2 unmanned aerial vehicles

israeli made Orbiter unmanned aerial vehicles

israeli made Aerostar unmanned aerial vehicles
israeli made Heron unmanned aerial vehicles
israeli made Eitan unmanned aerial vehicles
israeli made Hermes 900 unmanned aerial vehicles
israeli made Hermes 450 unmanned aerial vehicles

Air Defense

S-300PMU-2 Favorite surface-to-air missiles

SA-2 (S-75 Dvina) surface-to-air missiles

SA-3 (S-125) surface-to-air missiles

SA-4 (2K11 Krug) surface-to-air missiles

SA-5 (S-200) surface-to-air missiles

SA-8 (9K33 Osa) surface-to-air missiles

SA-13 (9K35 Strela 10) surface-to-air missiles

SA-7 shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles

ZSU-23-4 self propelled anti-aircraft guns

Navy

About 5,000 personnel

Operate on the Caspian Sea.

Frigates (4)

Patrol Boats (5)

Mine Warfare vessels (7)

Landing Craft (6)

Missile Boats (2)

Osa II Class missile boats with SS-N-2C Styx anti-ship missiles

Triton-1 and Triton-2 midget submarines used by Navy Special Forces

Naval Aviation
CASA CN-235 (3)
Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin helicopters (2)
Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma helicopter (1)

Navy Special Forces

641^stSpecial Warfare Naval Unit

Tavor TAR-21 israeli made bullpup assault rifles

Army

T-90 tanks (94)

T-72 tanks (430)

T-55 tanks (100)

BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles

BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles (300)

BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles (200)

BTR-D (21)

BTR-80 armored personnel carriers (119)

BTR-70 armored personnel carriers (200-300)

BTR-60 armored personnel carriers (25)

BRM-1 (15)

MT-LB armored personnel carriers
Otokar Cobra armored vehicles. Turkish made.

Otokar Akrep

Marauder mine resistant armored personnel carriers. South African made. (65)

Matador mine resistant armored personnel carriers. South African made. (55)

Unimog trucks

SS-21 Scarab (OTR-21 Tochka) short range ballistic missiles

BM-21 multiple rocket launchers

Turkish made T-122 multiple rocket launchers.

BM-30 multiple rocket launchers

TR-107 (Turkish made copy of the Type 63 107mm multiple rocket launchers)

Lynx multiple rocket launcher system that fire 122mm rockets, LAR-160 160mm rockets, and 300mm EXTRA rockets.

Lynx system with 122mm rockets

Lynx system with EXTRA rcokets

TOS-1 incendiary multiple rocket launchers (6)

2S7 self propelled 203mm howitzers

Turkish made T-155 self propelled howitzers
2S19 MSTA self propelled 152mm howitzers

2S3 self propelled 152mm howitzers

2S1 self propelled 122mm howitzers

D-30 towed 122mm howitzers

M-46 towed 130mm howitzers

D-20 towed 152mm howitzers

2S9 self propelled 120mm mortars

M1938 120mm mortars
Cardom 120mm mortar system on Mercedes trucks or MT-LB

AT-5 (9K113 Konkurs) anti-tank guided missiles

AT-4 (9K111 Fagot) anti-tank guided missiles

israeli made SPIKE anti-tank guided missiles

israeli made B-300 (Shipon) anti-tank rocket launchers

RPG-7 anti-tank rocket launchers

SPG-9 recoilless guns

Istiglal (Istiqlal) IST 14.5mm Azerbaijan made anti-material rifle.

OM-50 Nemesis anti-material rifles
PGM Hecate II anti-material rifles
OSV-96 sniper rifles
Sako TRG sniper rifles
AI Arctic Warfare sniper rifles
KNT-308 Turkish made sniper rilfes
Remington Model 700 sniper rifles
Yalguzag sniper rifles. 7.62x51mm. Bolt action. Made in Azerbaijan.
Dragunov SVD sniper rifles

PKM machine guns
M-60 machine guns
israeli made Negev machine guns
G3 machine guns
HP-7 machine guns. Made in Azerbaijan.
Universal machine guns. Made in Azerbaijan.

AKM assault rifles

AK-74 assault rifles
israeli made Tavor assault rifles (Used by Special Forces)
M-16 assaulr rifles (Used by Special Forces)
M4 carbines
HK MP-5 sub-machine guns
Arsenal Shipka (Bulgarian made 9mm sub-machine guns. Used by Internal Troops)
Makarov PM pistols

Paratroops

Special Forces