A week later, sergeants’ personnel of military units of the armed forces will be staffed by newcomers. According to the plan of combat training of the Armed Forces of Armenia in the framework of summer training stage in the military unit under the command of Colonel A.Petrosyan, on 8-13 December exams for officers were conducted.

Interview with RA AF GS Military orchestra department head, chief military conductor, RA Honored Artist Colonel Armen Poghosyan

In the most critical moment of the Artsakh war Davit Baghdasaryan, like thousand of his peers, instead of school went to the trenches. After the cease-fire, process of forming the army received a new impetus. To fill the vacancies of officers, experienced Lieutenant General Kristapor Ivanyan chose the shortest and most effective way, organizing courses for officers who had combat experience and knowledge. Having completed successfully “School of Ivanyan”, they become valuable specialists because Ivanyan didn’t present anybody to get officer rank just for nothing.

American psychologist, PhD, Professor Norman Copeland in his book “Psychology and soldier” (the first time was published in 1942.) refers to a very important issue in military psychology – the psychological preparation of a soldier, without which even physically well-trained army is doomed to failure. One of the great generals of the world, Napoleon, often emphasized that the spiritual power to the physical correlates as 3 : 1.

Recently in one of the units the final stage of the competition of the all-army communications specialists was carried out. This event was provided by the preparation plan of the armed forces, in which all communication units participated.
The purpose of the event is to promote the professional growth of the military, to create an atmosphere of competition, so that all strive to become the best in their field.

We previously announced about the exercises and said that helicopters would also participate. Destruction of the Armenian military-training helicopter from the Azerbaijani side was a previously planned action, and the enemy used this opportunity. It is evident that even with a strong desire ordinary soldier, having questionable mental capacity, could not take our helicopter’s flight as a threat.

Scout usually operates behind enemy lines, and he chooses himself – where, when and how to act. One of the advantages of the scout is that nobody expects him, he himself is the initiator, but in this case it was different. The conditions were quite peculiar. The first – the scene, according to the enemy, was under proper control. The destroyed helicopter was at a distance of only a few tens of meters from the enemy positions. Special operation meant a clear timetable. Special Forces of the NKR repeatedly penetrated into that territory and came back, worked under the nose of the enemy.