A lot of the equipment was captured in a fully working condition or with minor damage that should be easy to fix. Vehicles and quipment that need more significant repairs are classified as 'damaged and captured' in the list.
That said, it remains to be seen if there's an actual need for most of the captured equipment. Armenia suffered such significant losses that there's little reason for Azerbaijan to increase the size of its military with dozens of additional tanks, howitzers and trucks.
Yes but I believe Azerbaijan only goes back to full time peace mode when it has all of N-K reclaimed or signed permanent peace (and hopefully a longer term normalisation path) with Armenia in some other agreement.
Till then the (captured + refurbished) equipment at very least makes up good reserve war material if there is not a present short - mid term use, need or capacity to absorb them in the azeri military for active duty.
Azeris will also have to work up some newer paradigms/aces up sleeve in warfare past drones (which are now revealed) as Armenians (and Russians) clearly will game that in from this point forward.
Anyway it will be interesting bunch of years (and decade at large) coming up, let us see.
Some of them were successfully used in active combat. I don't see a reason why Azerbaijan wouldn't fill its lost arsenal and even enlarge it with the captured equipment. There are a lot of tanks and APCs for example that are fully intact or other that needs repair and are ready for service. It will be a sin to throw them away like that. Also another possibility is that all or some of the equipment is sold to other countries that needs them.
Yah I would definitely go beef up arsenal or reserves rather than selling to other countries.
These will not fetch much on foreign markets compared to their utility for Azeris directly
There is also the positive morale for Azeri forces to harness by having these around...or spread a demoralisation on Armenians by marking these a different way and showing them now and then etc. Azeri psy-ops, lets see how it goes. These things don't have directly accessible monetary value....the larger world of
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