Azerbaijan PKM Production 

By Lynndon Schooler

Azeri UP 7.62 PKM. Photo by Trend News Agency.

This series of articles primarily focuses on the post-Soviet states in the South Caucasus region, which have inherited large stockpiles of arms from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. However, these stockpiles are finite and are rapidly depleted during conflicts. This issue is particularly evident in the long-standing tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia over regional territorial disputes, which trace back to the aftermath of World War I.These disputes led to the Armenian-Azerbaijani War from 1918 to 1920, which began in the final months of World War I and concluded with the Soviet invasion and takeover of the region. Over the subsequent seventy years, both countries relied heavily on the Soviet defense industry. In the late days of the Soviet Union in 1988, fighting reignited with the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, which ended in a ceasefire agreement in 1994.Azerbaijan took 14 years to develop its defense manufacturing industry. In 2005, the government issued a presidential decree to establish the Ministry of Defense Industry of Azerbaijan. This state-owned enterprise was created to

Source: The Firearm Blog