9K720 Iskander-M / K
Missile / precision strike- Role
- The workhorse short-range ballistic missile of the strike campaign — and the hardest routine target Ukraine's air defences face.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
Fielded Full record →
Conflict coverage · South Caucasus
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Akash
Air defence- Role
- The Indian medium-range air-defence system that is the first foreign export of the type and the clearest single object of Armenia's post-2020 supplier realignment — a replacement for the Russian layer the drones destroyed, bought from a country that had never sold Armenia anything before 2020.
- Origin
- India
Delivered Full record →
Barak-8
Air defence- Role
- The Israeli medium-range air-defence system that modernised Azerbaijan's ground-based defence in the years before 2020 — the layer that, together with the S-300, meant Armenia's small air arm played almost no part in the war.
- Origin
- Israel, India
Fielded Full record →
Bayraktar Akıncı
Strike UAV / loitering munition- Role
- Heavy Turkish strike drone — a step up from the TB2 in payload and reach, and the aircraft whose loss to Algerian air defence ruptured Mali–Algeria relations.
- Origin
- Türkiye
- Also appears in
- Mali
Fielded Full record →
Bayraktar TB2
Strike UAV / loitering munition- Role
- The early-war icon whose strike role faded as Russian air defence coalesced — a case study in how fast adaptation cycles run in this war.
- Origin
- Türkiye
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Mali · Nagorno-Karabakh · Libya · Syria
Fielded Full record →
BM-21 Grad
Rocket artillery- Role
- Truck-mounted rocket artillery in small numbers — area fires with all the accuracy problems that implies in a war among civilians.
- Origin
- Soviet Union
- Also appears in
- Mali
Fielded Full record →
CAESAR
Artillery- Role
- The French wheeled 155 mm howitzer — shoot-and-scoot survivability that kept it in the counter-battery fight where towed guns could not live.
- Origin
- France
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Middle East
Fielded Full record →
IAI Harop
Strike UAV / loitering munition- Role
- The loitering munition that announced the drone era in the Caucasus — Azerbaijani Harops destroyed Armenian air defences in 2016 and 2020, four years before the same technique became universal in Ukraine.
- Origin
- Israel
- Also appears in
- Nagorno-Karabakh 2016 · Nagorno-Karabakh 2020
Documented in conflict Full record →
LORA
Missile / precision strike- Role
- The Israeli quasi-ballistic missile that gave Azerbaijan a precision deep-strike capability in 2020 — used, on Baku's own footage, against the bridge on the Armenian supply route into Karabakh — and the other half, with the drones, of the Israeli contribution to the 2020 outcome.
- Origin
- Israel
- Also appears in
- Nagorno-Karabakh 2020
Documented in conflict Full record →
Pinaka multiple rocket launcher
Rocket artillery- Role
- The Indian rocket artillery system Armenia bought in its first post-2020 arms package from Delhi — the counter-battery and deep-fires capability the 2020 war showed the army lacked, sourced from a supplier chosen for not being Russia.
- Origin
- India
Delivered Full record →
S-300 family (Caucasus legacy)
Air defence- Role
- The Soviet long-range SAM that anchored Armenian air defence — and whose documented destruction by drones in 2020 became the era's defining image of legacy air defence meeting the loitering-munition age.
- Origin
- Soviet Union / Russia
- Also appears in
- Nagorno-Karabakh 2020
Historical / withdrawn Full record →
Su-25
Combat aircraft- Role
- The Soviet “flying tank” — a rugged, heavily armoured close-support jet built to operate low, from rough fields, and absorb hits.
- Origin
- Soviet Union / Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Mali
Fielded Full record →
Sukhoi Su-30SM
Combat aircraft- Role
- The Russian multirole fighter that is a mainstay of the Aerospace Forces' war against Ukraine — and, in a fleet of four, the only modern fighter Armenia has ever operated, bought in 2019 and by published accounts unused in the 2020 war for want of the missiles to arm it, now the subject of an Indian-assisted upgrade discussion that says more about Armenia's supplier realignment than about the aircraft.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Nagorno-Karabakh 2020 (unused)
Fielded Full record →
T-72 family
Main battle tank- Role
- Core mechanised firepower fielded by both sides — one family record, two operators.
- Origin
- Soviet Union, Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Syria · Nagorno-Karabakh · Iraq
Fielded Full record →
Tor-M2 family
Air defence- Role
- The Russian short-range air-defence system that is the Ground Forces' standard point-defence layer in the war against Ukraine — and, in Armenian service, the survivable layer of the country's air defence: bought before 2020, credited with some of the few Armenian drone intercepts of the war, and retained under the post-war rebuild alongside the Indian and French systems bought to replace what was lost.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Nagorno-Karabakh 2020
Fielded Full record →