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Over the past few years, Armenia has been able to significantly equip its army arsenal and raise its combat readiness to a more vigilant state, Deputy Defense Minister Gabriel Balayan told reporters on Tuesday at Yerablur Military Pantheon, where he paid tribute to the soldiers fallen during the 2016 April War.

The deputy minster’s comments came when asked what lessons Armenia has learned from the four-day war, which, some claim, came to show Armenia’s arsenal was ‘empty’.

He disagreed with the remarks, stressing Armenia didn’t lose the war. “On the contrary, we managed to show our powerful spirit and high precision of our weapons,” he said.

Balayan stressed they have already embarked on the stage of replacing the quantitative with the qualitative, which means the army has seen serious qualitative changes both in terms of the military personnel’s combat readiness and arsenal and ammunition.