Raw LLM Responses

It wasn’t a secret. Those of us who focus on news of arms deals knew that Azerbaijan had been building up a huge drone fleet for years, including Israeli Harop loitering munitions that had never been used in a major conflict before. If people with access to public news knew it, Armenia’s military knew it too. The Harop is such a brilliant and unique weapon (with some autonomous capability too!) that its sale was very newsworthy. The problem (from Armenia’s perspective) was two-fold. Firstly, there was little precedent for drone warfare on this scale (Turkey’s operations in Syria and Libya were just a hint but were against militaries that were in far worse condition than Armenia’s). Secondly, Armenia had evidence from its previous war that the fighting quality of its soldiers was superior to Azerbaijan and that they would be able to win the ground war. They bet on this; as it turns out the quality of your men is irrelevant when the other side can point and click on them on a computer screen to just delete them with drones.