Israeli specialized сайтisraeldefense.co.il with reference to the military analysis blog istiglal reported applying in the zone of the armed conflict in Nagorno Karabakh anti-tank missiles Spike in the production of the Israeli company “Rafael”.
Judging from these publications, a source of information on the use of these missiles by the Azerbaijani armed forces in Nagorno-Karabakh was the blog of a veteran of the Karabakh war, the military expert Tarlan Aivazova, reported in the evening of 4 April that the Spike missiles were destroyed six tanks of the Armenian army.
On the website of the Ministry of defense of Azerbaijan has published the information about the downed Armenian tanks, but statements about the use of anti-tank missiles Spike didn’t sound.
In the concern “Rafael” this information does not comment.
Armenian defense Ministry confirms reports of the downed Armenian tanks. Earlier, the press service of the Ministry said 29 of the Azerbaijani lined tanks.
Spike – a multipurpose anti-tank missile system. Developed by the Israeli company Rafael. Is intended for defeat of tanks, engineering and fortifications, surface targets. There are several modifications of these systems. Azerbaijani media and press service of the President of Azerbaijan was informed about the purchase of data ATGM, but at the present time these publications are not available.
We will remind that some days ago the Ministry of defense of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) released footage showing the downed drone aircraft of the Azerbaijani army. According to a leading Russian expert in the field of unmanned aircraft, the chief editor of the site UAV.ru Denis Fedutinov, the photograph shows a UAV ThunderB Israeli company BlueBird Aero Systems. At the same time, the expert expressed doubts about the authenticity of the published shots. In the company BlueBird Aero Systems has refused to give any comments about it.
Note that in the last days, on the background of aggravation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, official sources in Baku and Yerevan are publishing conflicting information about combat actions and casualties of the parties.
