VIGIL CONSILIUMSearch
Context. Not headlines.
Conflict coverage · South Caucasus

Force Structure

Every published organisation on both sides, as an order of battle you can walk: pick a formation, see the parent above it and its subordinates below, and read what the record itself states.

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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Order of battle

Structural · historical · non-operational

This view needs JavaScript. Every organisation it draws has a permanent page of its own — the Formations indexlists all of them, and the browser on the left links each one.

Line pattern is the subordination the record states: solid confirmed · dashed reported · fine dots disputed · sparse dots unknown or historical. Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia. No positions, strengths, readiness or movements are published, and none is drawn.

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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. Each system's confidence grade, status date and sources are shown on its own record.

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
Ukraine–Russia · Mali · Nagorno-Karabakh · Libya · Syria

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

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 conflictFull 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 / withdrawnFull 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
Ukraine–Russia · Mali

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
Ukraine–Russia · Syria · Nagorno-Karabakh · Iraq