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Its not that I agree with you in all details.... but I do agree that a level of threat has been posed.... the fact is, when my neighbours create border disputes with me and then buy expensive military hardware, its not something that I take easily.... to be honest, its time to put some serious...

Just wait for the day when Bangladesh produces semiconductors..... I'm absolutely sure that during that time India would still be lugging around their famous burdens.....

just add a billion or so to the published number.... that would give you an approximate idea about the overall defence budget..... that extra billion is for large defence purchases.... and even then, the number that you arrive at, won't include a lot of other stuff..... and add to that, the...

let's dismantle the air force then?...... well, inaction can hardly be justified by the term "slow"..... missile production "acceleration" is one thing, and getting aircraft on an emergency basis is another..... I just am not in favour of some influential media in Bangladesh who say that...

well, they received the JF-17 while we were thinking and thinking and thinking..... still thinking....

then we should tell Turkey to set up an APC factory here with the relevant backward linkages.... right?

rules set by them are for us only..... not for our neighbours..... Myanmar was under so-called sanctions by the "international community"..... what was the result?.... Myanmar built up a huge military..... same goes to Iran, Pakistan and India.... nuclear issues were supposed to prevent these...

a strategic strike capability has now become an urgent deterrent..... its quite evident now that if you don't have any strategic strike capability, you're a nobody and others will play with you..... our last several months' experience tells us that we simply don't have any other alternative...

really like this, brother.... we should surely think in this way..... it can greatly reduce the trouble while building deep-draft warships....

again, nice detailed post.... :) can we compare our ports with Rotterdam?.... the English Channel weather is rough enough to force the Netherlands to close off the entrance of Rotterdam with massive gates.... and Rotterdam handles goods for Germany mostly.... and it had to compete with Antwerp...

again, brother..... I was talking about "any ship", not just "container ship"..... you're ignoring the biggest volume products that are handled by Chittagong Port - cement clinker, stone, coal, wheat, iron scrap, gypsum, limestone, crude oil, diesel, palm oil, salt, raw sugar, etc.... these are...

they're in kinda "seeing-is-believing" state of mind.... you can write a lot, but they won't get convinced.... and actually its not our job to convince them.... let them find it out when we actually receive our toys.... and we haven't even discussed helicopter-capable ships, OPVs, missile...

thanks for the detailed answer..... but probably I was unable to explain my questions to you.... let me explain a bit further.... 1. if we get a deep-sea port, would that mean that most of the ships that come to Bangladesh would directly download on a jetty? - I was referring to "ships", not...

hmm.... plz don't forget the utility of that helicopter deck in the back.... for that reason alone, I like the Cassiopea-class ships..... the Castle-class only has a platform; no hanger..... Cassiopea-class is more capable in that sense... helicopters are very important machines.... in a lost...

nice post with lots of details.... but I have some basic questions - 1. if we get a deep-sea port, would that mean that most of the ships that come to Bangladesh would directly download on a jetty? 2. we would no longer require to send ships to Colombo or Klang or Singapore to fetch our...

Bangladesh coastline is shallow enough to prevent bigger ships from going even near the coast.... the cause we all know.... we are talking about three of the mightiest rivers in the globe converging on place to deposit a whopping 2.4 billion tons of silt every single year!!.... this is not faced...

this is the "gradualism" I was talking against.... this has put us where we are today....

could you please elaborate, what can Pakistan offer on the table that everyone here would take Pakistan as the most reliable partner? great thing.... and also the Patria Nemo...

we can't tell the Navy that please stop your frigate program until we get our SAMs.... or we also can't tell the Army that please stop attack helo plan now until fighters are bought.... all things are pressing.... deterrent can't be made with one force only.... all need development.... and...

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