National army
On April 7, on the opening ceremony of the fully renovated 4th building of the Central Hospital, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, 1st Deputy Head of RA AF GS Lt. General Enriko Apriamov, Head of MoD Staff Garnik Hayrapetyan, Chairperson of “Military Doctors’ Armenian Association” NGO Ruzanna Khachatryan were present.
Hospital chief Colonel Aram Asaturyan said in his speech that in the new building will operate the flight examination, therapy, maxillofacial surgery, dentistry and gynecology departments.
Azerbaijani armed forces at the border have already begun to use 120mm caliber mortars. Azerbaijani Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov said that “we have so many weapons and equipment that from our strike Armenians hundreds of years will not come to their senses” and that the “first strike would destroy 70% of the enemy.”
Radio-Electronic Warfare – REW with its capabilities became kind of combat operation, method of warfare. Today there is no kind of troops in its composition not having the electronic component. Even if the weapon is super-modern, but if we incapacitate or put under the control its electronics, it turns into scrap-metal. Today, while fighting against the electronics, we may effectively reduce the possibility of military equipment of the enemy without destroying it. For example, it is not necessary to destroy the enemy tank. It is enough to “blind” tank driver with electron beam or disable the breech-sight system.
I am very picky about myself. When they wanted to assign me as a company commander, I refused and asked to be sent on retraining courses. I always compare myself with my father, he is the ideal image of the military. He never said he was proud of me. But the other day he came home very happy and said: “If before somebody saw you, they said – this is Ivan’s son, and now somebody greeted me and asked – are you the father of Captain Mehrabian?”
– Military training is always accompanied by the lessons of combat training. Through historical episodes we introduce a soldier with the tactics of our ancestors, how to win with small number and appliances – says Major V.Stepanyan.
Officers every day talk about Genocide, and this is done with a clear goal – to get rid of victim complex. Here is a comparison: in 1915, 8 million Turks committed genocide in relation to the 3 million of our fellow citizens, and during the Artsakh war was the same size – 3 mln Armenians against 7 mln Azerbaijanis, and we were able to win.
On morning of March 19 enemy’s special forces enhanced team undertook an attack on the positions of the northern direction (Gyulistan). During clashes Hagop Gagikovich Khachatryan (1996), Edward Gagikovich Hayrapetyan (1995) and Arshak Karenovich Harutyunyan (1995) fell with courage, four were wounded.
We visited the Central Clinical Military Hospital of Defense Ministry, where the wounded Lieutenant Sarkis Gabrielian and soldier Edgar Martirosyan get treatment.
A conversation with wounded Norayr. I feel that he does not want to pass again the way of pain and loss. Suddenly I am asking quite unexpected even for me question – whether he fell in love?
And he says that not yet, he has not found the one that can love. She should be a good housewife, kind, should respect his parents, be hardworking. Norayr is from the Karabakh village of Gishi. He plans to graduate from the institute, work, and have to live in his village: