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Armenia. Syunik Province. Sisian. Armen Babajaryan (L) is the Deputy Commander of "Volunteers Union of Country Defenders" of Sisian region. On the building's staircase, an eagle and various written words on the wall. On top "Our home starts from our borders", in the middle the name Sisian, and in the bottom "Peace...". The eagle is one of the symbols of the Armenian coat of arms and is an ancient Armenian symbol dating from the first Armenian kingdoms that existed prior to Christ. Armen Babajaryan (L) was in charge of a group of volunteers which were hit on April 4th 2016 by an Azerbaijani military drone IAI Harop during an attack in the village of Talish, located in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. He and both elderly men, also volunteers, Kamo Gesyan (C) and Hamlet Tsatryan (R) did survive, but nine other men died in the kamikaze drone attack. The IAI Harop is a loitering munition developed by the MBT division of Israel Aerospace Industries. The unmanned combat aerial vehicle is also known as the Harop loitering munitions missile. It is an anti-radiation drone that can autonomously home in on radio emissions. Rather than holding a separate high-explosive warhead, the drone itself is the main munition. This SEAD-optimised loitering munition is designed to loiter the battlefield and attack targets by self-destructing into them. The drone can either operate fully autonomously, using its anti-radar homing system, or it can take a human-in-the-loop mode. If a target is not engaged, the drone will return and land itself back at base. Talish is a village in the Martakert Region of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. It has been under Armenian control since the 1994 ceasefire. Sisian is a town and the centre of the urban community of Sisian, in Syunik Province at the south of Armenia. 3.10.2019 © 2019 Didier Ruef