Armenia. Syunik Province. Sisian. Armen Babajaryan is the Deputy Commander of "Volunteers Union of Country Defenders" of Sisian region. He is on the phone while his secretary is typing notes on her computer. On the wall, a portrait Vazgen Sargsyan who was an Armenian military commander and politician (he was the most prominent commander of Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War) , a 2019 calendar, a clock and a religious cross of the Armenian Apostolic Church made with wheat ears. Armen Babajaryan 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 survived, but nine of his 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