Bangabandhu
bought modern fighter jets? There wasn't money for food then. These Mig 21s were hand-me-downs from the Indian Air Force and the Soviet Union.
The BAF couldn't even maintain them.
When the maintenance personnel and airmen of the BAF mutinied
they were arrested and hanged...
all 561 of them.
The first official accounts of a failed 1977 coup attempt against President Ziaur Rahman say authorities over a six-month period hanged 561 air force...
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Bangladesh took a far more realistic approach later acquiring F-6s ( ironically from Pakistan
), and Mig 17s. These were maintained well though some were lost in a cyclone, because despite a warning they had not been tied down or wheels chocked on the runway.
The government has ordered an inquiry into the loss of half of its military aircraft in last week's typhoon, which left at least 131,000 people dead, swept away homes and battered the country's coastal areas, local newspapers reported Tuesday. The typhoon crippled the Bangladesh Air...
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