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Regional System Module · Caucasus

Faction & Force Atlas

A structured catalogue of major publicly documented forces, formations, and equipment — cross-linked, sourced, and deliberately non-operational.

Context, not targeting. This atlas describes structure and history. It deliberately excludes current locations, live strength, unit movements, and anything operationally sensitive — the content model has no fields for them. See the methodology.
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Force Structure

Structural · historical · non-operational

Armenia

Azerbaijan & partners

Georgia

De facto & historical entities

Russia & aligned structures

External missions

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Equipment Library

Major publicly documented systems · full profiles and structured records

Reviewed profiles of major publicly documented systems — the ones unit profiles and key events link to, each with a permanent page. The full structured catalogue, including the stub index, lives at Equipment.

Bayraktar TB2

Strike UAV / loitering munition
Silhouette · not to scale
Role
The early-war icon whose strike role faded as Russian air defence coalesced — a case study in how fast adaptation cycles run in this war.
Origin
Türkiye
Also appears in
Russia–Ukraine · Mali · Nagorno-Karabakh · Libya · Syria
FieldedConf highAs of Full record →

BM-21 Grad

Rocket artillery
Silhouette · not to scale
Role
Truck-mounted rocket artillery in small numbers — area fires with all the accuracy problems that implies in a war among civilians.
Origin
Soviet Union
Also appears in
Mali
FieldedConf lowAs of Full record →

IAI Harop

Strike UAV / loitering munition
Silhouette · not to scale
Role
The loitering munition that announced the drone era in the Caucasus — Azerbaijani Harops destroyed Armenian air defences in 2016 and 2020, four years before the same technique became universal in Ukraine.
Origin
Israel
Also appears in
Nagorno-Karabakh 2016 · Nagorno-Karabakh 2020
Documented in conflictConf highAs of Full record →
Silhouette · not to scale
Role
The Soviet long-range SAM that anchored Armenian air defence — and whose documented destruction by drones in 2020 became the era's defining image of legacy air defence meeting the loitering-munition age.
Origin
Soviet Union / Russia
Also appears in
Nagorno-Karabakh 2020
Historical / withdrawnConf highAs of Full record →

Su-25

Combat aircraft
Silhouette · not to scale
Role
The Soviet “flying tank” — a rugged, heavily armoured close-support jet built to operate low, from rough fields, and absorb hits.
Origin
Soviet Union / Russia
Also appears in
Russia–Ukraine · Mali
FieldedConf moderateAs of Full record →

T-72 family

Main battle tank
Silhouette · not to scale
Role
Core mechanised firepower fielded by both sides — one family record, two operators.
Origin
Soviet Union, Russia
Also appears in
Russia–Ukraine · Syria · Nagorno-Karabakh · Iraq
FieldedConf highAs of Full record →