Indian-made defense equipment is of interest to Armenia, but there is no intention to use it against a third party. Armenian foreign minister Ararat Mirzoyan told WION about this, and paid key attention to the reform of the defense sector.

The source notes that Armenia and India have significantly deepened their defense cooperation in recent years, with India emerging as a key supplier of military equipment to Armenia. The latter has procured Pinaka Multi-Barrel Rocket Launchers, becoming the first international customer of India's indigenously developed defense assets..

“Well, obviously, defense is one of the directions, one of the areas where we have very close cooperation with India. And I suppose this cooperation will continuously be deepened. But what I would like to mention is that this cooperation, and specifically trade of some specific equipment made in India by Armenia, is not intended to be used, however, in any other sense, is not against any other third party. You are probably aware that Armenia has a peace agenda. We are engaged in peace negotiations with our eastern neighbor. But also, in general, we very much are focused on establishing peace and stability and normalizing our relations with our neighbors. So, we are in the middle of the process of reforming our defense sector, reforming our army, modernizing our army, and here the Indian experience is some specific areas, as well as the equipment made in India, are of interest to us. But again, this is for reforming the Armenian defense system, and there is no intention to use these systems against any other third party,” Armenian FM said.