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In Azerbaijan people love to regale with the talks of a "quick" war for Karabakh. According to the Baku propaganda, the losses of Azerbaijanis were to be minimized due to long-range weapons. However, at the same time they open a new multi-storey housing for the military hospital of 540 beds and acquire mobile hospitals in Baku. This suggests that in case of war, military doctors of Azerbaijan plan to receive a large number of wounded, reads the portal which specializes in military subjects “Razm.info”.

As stated in the article, yet on June 25, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the opening ceremony of the second corpus of the Main Military Clinical Hospital. Aliyev also was demonstrated the new acquisition, a mobile field hospital made in Turkish “Turmaks” company. This event, which at first glance seems to be a protocol, is really interesting from several points of view, the author notes.

The fact that Azerbaijan at the highest level makes bellicose statements and claims that they are ready "to return Karabakh by force of arms" is not new, but there is another nuance here: one of the pillars of the military rhetoric of Azerbaijan is the thesis of "blitzkrieg" – the lightning offensive. A statement was issued both for the external and internal audience, which stated that "the second Karabakh war" will not be long as the first.

"The emphasis on Azerbaijani propaganda of remote warfare is actually an indirect promise of a domestic audience that the Azerbaijani armed forces will not cause major life losses," writes Razm.info.

However, the author notes, in parallel with the "blitzkrieg 'moods, the second building of the Main Military Clinical Hospital is being opened in the capital of Azerbaijan, with increasing of the number of beds from 560 - to 1,000 seats. Housing is provided for 560 patients, the dining room of the hospital, however, can feed up to 1,700 people if needed. From this we can conclude that military hospital is planned to operate in congested mode, if necessary.

It also notes that the Baku military hospital is not the only one in Azerbaijan. Large military hospitals should be (and in fact are) within each army corps of Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan. "The reader is left to imagine the number of injured that are going to be accepted by all of the military medical institutions of the country," the material stated.

Another acquisition of Azerbaijani military medicine is a mobile field hospital of production of Turkish "Turmaks" company. According to the manufacturer's site, this field hospital has 50 operating rooms. The Azerbaijani sources claim that it is designed to serve up to 150 casualties a day.

According to the authors, this increase in the number of places in the military hospitals of Azerbaijan means that in case of renewed hostilities the Azerbaijani leadership expects large losses of life. "And neither rocket systems nor other means of long-range combat will not help Azerbaijani Armed Forces to avoid this," Razm.info sums up.