"Hayk's Arrow" Armenian Strategic Center
Documents bilateral and multilateral defence relationships, including agreements, military assistance, exercises and training exchanges. Shows who is involved, when cooperation was recorded and what was signed, announced or reported as carried out.
The ministry reported completion of an Operational Capabilities Concept Level-2 evaluation for a declared air-force helicopter element.
The report concerns a specific declared element, not the entire air force. It records evaluation completion and favorable assessor comments, but supplies neither a publicly accessible NATO certification document nor an independent whole-force readiness assessment.
The ministry reported completion of joint air-force training between Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates.
The closing account confirms the exercise involved both countries’ air forces and was conducted in Azerbaijan. Claims about improved interoperability and effectiveness remain the ministry’s assessment; the card adds no independent capability estimate.
Azerbaijan reported its naval personnel completed a joint special-operations exercise with Pakistani counterparts under the August working-group protocol.
The report describes certification at the exercise’s conclusion. The card uses the 5 October publication date because the source gives no separate closing date; this is an official training report, not independent performance validation.
The closing report identifies Azerbaijan, Türkiye and Uzbekistan as participants, with nine other countries represented as observers.
The closing ceremony was reported on 1 October. Participation is taken from opening and closing accounts, rather than the larger planning-conference attendance list; official praise is not an independently measured readiness gain.
The defence ministries signed a bilateral military cooperation plan for 2027 during meetings in Baku.
The report places signature on 30 September 2026 after discussion of military, educational and technical cooperation. It does not disclose the full plan; future activities are not counted as completed training or delivered equipment.
Final planning concluded for the trilateral command-staff exercise, previously scheduled for November 2026.
The July notice schedules the exercise for November 2026. The 27 August notice confirms final planning and a signed protocol. As of 1 November 2026, the retrieved sources establish preparation, not completion of the exercise.
The twelfth Azerbaijan–Pakistan defence working-group meeting ended with the signing of its protocol in Baku.
The source confirms signature but does not publish the protocol’s text, duration or detailed commitments. An October naval exercise report subsequently cites this protocol; signature is not coded as a delivered programme.
The ministry reported completion of special-forces training involving Azerbaijan, Georgia and Türkiye in Georgia.
The official closing account links the exercise to the approved cooperation plan and interoperability training. Completion is recorded separately from organisers’ positive assessments; no independently verified readiness outcome is claimed.
The international search-and-rescue exercise in Türkiye concluded after Azerbaijan’s announced participation with air-force and rescue personnel.
Azerbaijan’s opening notice identifies its participation; its 17 April report records completion. Turkish ministry material also identifies Azerbaijan among participants. These are organiser reports, not independent corroboration of performance claims.
Azerbaijan reports talks on military-technical cooperation and joint exercises during DIMDEX 2026.
The release describes discussions, not a signed procurement contract or a completed exercise.
Azerbaijan’s ministry reports Azerbaijani and Kazakh personnel began joint UAV flight-tactical training.
The 9 July release records an ongoing exercise scheduled through 10 July; it is not a completion report.
NATO reported continued support for faculty, curricula, English teaching and eLearning following a military-education reform review.
The review took place on 29–30 May 2025; NATO published its account on 6 June. The article describes DEEP support and future academic exchange, not NATO membership or proof that all reforms were completed.
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Azerbaijan’s Defence Ministry reported completion of the Araz-2025 joint exercise involving Azerbaijani and Iranian military personnel.
The closing account confirms an exercise occurred, rather than only being planned. Its favorable performance assessments come from the organising authorities and are not treated as independent evidence of military effectiveness.
The bilateral declaration included armed-forces cooperation, training, military-technical ties and conditional consideration of military assistance.
Paragraphs 12–16 describe these defence provisions. The assistance clause says the parties may consider assistance under the UN Charter and separate treaties; it should not be presented as an automatic mutual-defence guarantee.
The MoD reported the return of 120 personnel via Kabul–Ankara–Baku.
The record dates the documented return ceremony, not the entire multinational mission’s termination.
Azerbaijan and Türkiye signed a declaration covering security consultation, assistance, joint training and armed-forces modernisation.
The text links responses to threats or aggression to consultations and the UN Charter, and promotes personnel exchanges and interoperability. This records signature on 15 June 2021; it does not establish completion of every commitment.
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The MoD reports two military officers serving as rotating UN observers in South Sudan from January 2019.
The institutional account identifies UNMISS and a two-officer rotating contribution. It does not provide a year-by-year deployment or current headcount series, so the figure is not extrapolated into later years.
NSPA records completion of clearance operations across the three-phase project.
Operational completion was July 2018; the ceremony was 20 September, and formal NATO closure followed in May 2019.
The MoD reported an increase from 94 to 120 personnel in Resolute Support.
The total included six headquarters officers and two military doctors; the departing rotation of 70 was not an additional 70.
Azerbaijan continued from ISAF into NATO’s training, advice and assistance mission.
The mission change is distinct from creating a new national military unit.
This is a curated public-source reference, not a complete inventory. Each record identifies an event or publication date, implementation stage and evidence type; the detail explains which date is known. An official report establishes what the issuer said; a contract does not establish delivery, and delivery does not establish readiness. Unknown quantities remain unknown. Records count publications or developments, not weapons, personnel or military strength.