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Russian Mil Mi-24 shootdown. The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict in 2020 that took place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding occupied territories. It was a major escalation of an unresolved conflict over the region, involving Azerbaijan, Armenia and the self-declared Armenian breakaway state of Artsakh.
The war was marked by the deployment of drones, sensors, long-range heavy artillery [130] and missile strikes, as well as by state propaganda and the use of official social media accounts in online information warfare. [131] In particular, Azerbaijan's widespread use of drones was seen as crucial in determining the conflict's outcome. [132]
Drone warfare is a form of warfare using unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV) or weaponized commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or unmanned surface vehicles.The United States, United Kingdom, Israel, China, South Korea, Iran, Iraq, Italy, France, India, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and Poland [1] [2] [3] are known to have manufactured operational UCAVs as of 2019.
In June 2020, the Defence Minister of Azerbaijan, Zakir Hasanov, announced that Azerbaijan had decided to purchase Bayraktar drones from Turkey. [100] During the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war , Bayraktar TB2s were used against the Armed Forces of Armenia with great success. [ 101 ]
International third parties confirmed witnessing evidence of the use of banned cluster munitions by Azerbaijan against civilian areas in Stepanakert and Nagorno-Karabakh. [49] [8] Reports indicated that Azerbaijan used missiles and cluster bombs starting on September 27, 2020. Over 180 cluster munitions were used between September 27, 2020 to ...
Turan Information Agency stated that Erbaş was of the masterminds behind drones strategy used by Azerbaijan in the second war. [69] Emmanuel Macron accused Turkey of dispatching Syrian jihadists to Nagorno-Karabakh via Gaziantep while Russia expressed concern over "illegal armed units" from Syria and Libya being present in the conflict zone. [70]
The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement was an armistice agreement that ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War.It was signed on 9 November by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, and ended all hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh region from 00:00, on 10 November 2020 Moscow time.
300–1,500 soldiers killed, 2,000–2,700 wounded. 2 helicopters, 14 drones shot down. 26 tanks, 4 IFVs, 1 AEV, 1 MRL destroyed. The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, also known as the Four-Day War, [a] April War, [24][25][26][b] or April clashes, [c] began along the former Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact on 1 April 2016 with the Artsakh ...