- Service emblem · official · carried by Armenian Armed Forces
- Affiliation étatique · Arménie
- Emblème de catégorie Vigil · pas un insigne officiel
Provenance de l’identité
Service emblem: Emblem of the Armed Forces of Armenia — carried by Armenian Armed Forces, not issued to this record. The emblem of the Armed Forces of Armenia — a shield bearing the eagle-and-lion arms over crossed elements, with the service's name in Armenian. A SERVICE-EMBLEM, NOT A FLAG, and the kind field says so: no flag file of the Armed Forces was located, and an emblem is what the institution publishes. This candidate was CLEARED ON LICENCE in the earlier manifest and not fetched; it is now fetched, checked and shipped. Public domain on Commons, no attribution obligation. LEGIBILITY, STATED: a badge on a transparent ground has no field colour, so at 18x12px it reads as a pale form rather than as itself. It carries real identity at 38x26 and 40x40, which is where the Atlas shows a mark on a card and a masthead, and that is the basis on which it was kept. FILE: Wikimedia Commons "Emblem of the Armed Forces of Armenia.svg", public domain, vectorised by Arman Militosyan. 111KB optimised to 65KB — editor metadata removed, coordinate precision reduced to two decimals on a 24,529-unit canvas. Geometry, colours and viewBox unaltered. Inherited by the five army corps, the ground forces, the air force and air defence, and the peacekeeping brigade; the Border Guard is a separate root under a different ministry and correctly inherits nothing.
Affiliation étatique : Arménie.
La petite marque carrée est un emblème de catégorie Vigil, établi à partir du domaine, de l’échelon et du rôle propres à cette fiche — pas un insigne officiel.
En bref
La seconde des deux armées de l’Arménie, qui réunit la petite aviation de combat — quatre chasseurs Su-30SM et des avions d’attaque Su-25 — et la défense sol-air dont la guerre de 2020 a révélé les limites de densité, en cours de reconstruction avec l’Akash indien et des radars français aux côtés des systèmes russes restants.
- Périmètre
- Structure, rôle, filiation et liens. Aucune fiche subordonnée publiée.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmée
- Sources
- 3 dans la fiche
- État de la fiche
- Partiel
- Zone d’activité générale
- Armenian airspace, nationally
- Historique notable
- Armenia's air arm has always been small — Su-25 attack aircraft from the Soviet inheritance and four Su-30SM fighters bought from Russia in 2019 — and its air defence was the Soviet layered model of S-300, Tor, Osa and older systems. The 2020 war was fought largely against that defence: Azerbaijani loitering munitions and drones found and destroyed radars and launchers whose losses were documented publicly, and the air arm played almost no part. The service since then is the clearest case of the post-2020 reform in practice: Indian Akash medium-range systems delivered from November 2024 as the first export of the type, French radars, and a stated prioritisation of air defence and unmanned systems as long-term projects. This module records the direction as stated and the deliveries as reported, and assesses no current capability.
- Points forts
- Supplier diversification that the 2020 defeat forced and that India and France have answered; a survivable short-range layer; and a lesson learned at the highest possible cost about what a drone-era air defence must be.
- Limites
- Four fighters, a Russian-dependent fleet whose support is politically uncertain, and a rebuild whose delivery cannot be assessed from outside and has not been tested. No sites, holdings by count, coverage or readiness are published.
Équipements documentés
Associations d’équipement signalées et historiques
S-300 family (Caucasus legacy): The long-range air defence of 2020, with components documented destroyed.
Événements clés
Deuxième guerre du Haut-Karabakh
L’Azerbaïdjan lance une offensive de grande ampleur et l’emporte en 44 jours — drones turcs Bayraktar TB2, munitions rôdeuses israéliennes et artillerie sont concentrés contre des défenses arméniennes retranchées, jusqu’à la chute de Shusha (Shushi). Plusieurs milliers de morts de chaque côté ; l’Azerbaïdjan récupère les sept districts environnants et une partie de l’ancienne NKAO.
Actions rapides
Accès au système
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Évalué au — 2026-06 Dernière revue — 2026-09-09
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