Early in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, many Armenian soldiers seemingly expected to fight a similar war to the one they had won in 1994.

Axar.az reports this was expressed in an article published in Forbes magazine about Azerbaijan's brilliant victory in the Second Karabakh War.

The publication also mentions that the Armenian forces were utterly decimated by their Azerbaijani adversary, which had adequately prepared itself for tomorrow’s war rather than a repeat of yesterday’s war.

The article also discusses the important role of modern unmanned aerial vehicles, which give Azerbaijan an advantage over enemy forces.

"Recent reportage outlined how Azerbaijan used the Harop drones to devastating effect against Armenian air defences. The tactic and its execution was genius in its sheer simplicity. Baku converted vintage Soviet-built Antonov An-2 biplanes into remote-controlled decoys that took to the skies and fooled the Armenian S-300s into activating their radars, thus enabling Azerbaijan’s Harops to locate and destroy those high-value targets with pinpoint accuracy and efficiency" - the article reads.

The publication also states that during the conflict, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev credited his armed force’s Turkish TB2s with destroying $1 billion worth of Armenian military equipment. That probably wasn’t an exaggeration since approximately 240 Armenian tanks were reportedly destroyed.

"Whatever the case ultimately proves to be, it increasingly seems that last year Azerbaijan aptly demonstrated how small nations cannot be underestimated in modern-day wars" - the article states.