Armed forces launch missiles during drills
By Mushvig Mehdiyev
Azerbaijani armed forces have launched missiles and carried out bombing operations as part of the major phase of large-scale military drills on February 4.
The military units and subunits of the army successfully realized the mission to enter into a battle in a state of combat readiness. They also conducted attacks on a conditional enemy to destroy its major forces.
The armed forces opened fire on the conditional enemy and conducted operations at the prearranged territory.
The drills also served to check the level of the army's combat
readiness, its capability to fulfill the tasks set and interaction
among all military units.
Motorized rifle and tank subunits, warplanes and combat helicopters
also joined the scaly exercises at the training polygon.
The Azerbaijani armed forces launched their next large-scale operational and tactical exercises on February 2 involving 15,000 personnel, 300 armored vehicles, over 200 means of missile and artillery troops and 20 aircrafts of the air forces, air defense units and sophisticated anti-aircraft missile complexes.
Azerbaijan, whose 20 percent of internationally recognized territory is under the Armenian occupation, boosts its fighting capacity in an effort to liberate its lands and sets it as a top priority in 2015.
Armenia ignores all international calls to withdraw from Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, historical and internationally recognized territories of Azerbaijan. Armenia fought a lengthy war against Azerbaijan in early 1990s, claiming the lives of hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijanis. Armenia keeps under control the one fifth of Azerbaijani territory, causing over a million Azerbaijanis to live as IDPs and refugees in their homeland.
The regular anti-Azerbaijan provocative operations on the contact line of the armies represent a threat to flare up the conflict. Peace talks mediated by international organizations aim to reach the soonest end to the conflict without repeating the fatal skirmishes. Azerbaijan is showing an exemplary tolerance to stay committed to the peaceful solution of the conflict despite Armenia's sabotage movements, but it doesn't exclude the armed settlement of the dispute.
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