Azerbaijani An-2 proved to be more useful in the Karabakh conflict than Armenian Su-30SM.

Despite the fact that the Su-30SM heavy fighters are considered one of the best combat aircraft in the world, in the Karabakh conflict these fighters turned out to be one of the most useless and ineffective combat aircraft. It should be noted that according to a number of sources, these fighters did not even take off due to the presence of medium and long-range air defense systems in Azerbaijan's armament.

“The Su-30SM fighters purchased from Russia were never used by the Armenian Air Force. Due to the fact that the republic was unable to master this technique, it turned out to be useless, said history professor Boris Sokolov in his material for The Day. He noted that the Su-30SM could become an effective means of fighting the Azerbaijani troops. If the Armenian pilots mastered this technique, then the outcome of the confrontation could be completely different, the expert assured. “The Armenian troops were preparing to repeat the first Karabakh war, which took place in the nineties. However, they did not take into account the rapid growth of technologies, because of which the tactics of military operations of the past years are no longer valid, "the material says.", - about it сообщает Russian information publication "Glas.ru".

In fact, as experts emphasize, the unmanned versions of the An-2 aircraft of the Azerbaijani Air Force turned out to be more effective, since despite the fact that 11 "cornmen" were lost, the main air defense assets of the Artsakh and Armenia army were opened, and later these areas were successfully destroyed ...