General Staff of Azerbaijani Armed Forces
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan Republic is the military staff of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. It is the central organ of the Armed Forces Administration and oversees operational management of the armed forces under the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan Republic. The Chief of the General Staff is appointed by the President of Azerbaijan, who is the supreme commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
Image: Habib bey Salimov (cropped)
Image: Süleyman bəy Sulkeviç
Image: Əbdülhəmid bəy Qaytabaşı
Image: Safar Abiyev in 2006
The Azerbaijani Armed Forces is the military of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It was re-established according to the country's Law of the Armed Forces on 9 October 1991. The original Azerbaijan Democratic Republic's armed forces were dissolved after Azerbaijan was absorbed into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 28 April 1920. After the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991–92, Azerbaijan's armed forces were reformed based on Soviet bases and equipment left on Azerbaijani soil.
Officers of the army of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918
Cadets of the Baku Higher All-Arms Command School during a parade in Baku in 1960
A Guard of Honor during a parade in Baku in 1966
Azerbaijan has a dozen 300mm salvo rocket systems 9A52 "Smerch" with a range of 70-90 km (55.92 mi).
