THE corps symbols are also commonwealth based
http://ns2.army.mil.bd/taxonomy/term/80
I just gave a few examples above.
Bengal presidency had Bengali soldiers if you really read "Sepoy and the Raj." but it exists only till 1857. Bengalis lost the chance to join the presidency army because of the fact that the great rebellion started in Bengal. So the trust on Bengalis was obviously questioned. The famous Marathis lost their status as martial race when they joined the 1857 rebellion. Plus how many times that martial race myth has been debunked by the Brits themselves? Plenty of times
Nope .. Sepoy and the Raj gives details of British recruitment policies down to company level .... The Bengalis were never recruited and the Bengal presidency itself was composed of troops from Awadh state ... Mostly Biharis,Brahmins,Rajputs,Panjabis,Nepalis and Pashtun soldiers of the Sultan.
There were many other ethnic groups that were not part of the rebellion and even before them whose recruitment was stopped because of lack of discipline,Unwarlike qualities etc .. People like Coorgs or Nairs from south India whose recruitment was stopped because they werent considered good soldiers..
The British implemented the same martial theory among themselves aswell.. The scots were recruited because of their warlike nature etc.
Meanwhile you will find several examples of Panjabi & Pashtun mutinees even during 1857 aswell as during WWI at Singapore where the FF & Panjabi regiments mutineed and massacred their British officers when they were ordered to fight Ottomans and yet the recruitment never stop and rather it as boosted.
The symbol you're showing obviously has commonwealth influence, even if you argue that
Bangladesh military has only Pakistani influence but no commonwealth traditional values, may I remind you that Pakistani military itself is a mirage of commonwealth military, thus at the end of the day it's commonwealth.
Don't get it wrong .. I'm not denying the commonwealth "influence" on Pak military because at the end of the day Pak military itself was formed of British military.. Although the we changed a lot of stuff with time be it the olive green uniform or many other traditions .. The traditions that we changed or created find their way in today's Bangladeshi military which itself was formed from Pak military .. Your officers who raised your military were all trained at Pak military institutions and its natural that they formed or copied the same style when raising the modern Bangladeshi military.
There was a Bengali regiment under British army in WW1, it was called "49th Bengalees Regiment." In WW2, Bengali pioneer units served under 14th army of Britain. There were also three thousand sailors and aviators in the Royal Indian navy and Royal flying corps. So none of the claim you're making about Bengalis didn't serve British army doesn't make any sense. 1 lakh 80 thousand Bengali soldiers and officers in WW2 isn't a joking figure.
Again you think that those regiments had bangalis because of their names ?
Do you know Sepoy Khudadad Khan (he was a Panjabi from modern day Pak) was the first VC recipient from South Asia ? Which unit he belonged to ? He belonged to a "Baluch regiment" which comprised of not even 5% Baluch rather was composed of Panjabis and Pashtuns .. Despite Baloch being encouraged for recruitment not many turned up .. The local states of Balochistan retained the right to keep armies and recruitment for th British was frowned upon.
I can post compositions of the so called "bengalee" regiments and the tall claims of 1 lac 80,000 Bengalis serving in British army... (With British sources and data).. Can you prove otherwise?
From head to toe, Bangladeshi military is a commonwealth military.
Which in reality has no link to the real commonwealth army.
There's no issue with MBT-2000. Problems with MBT-2000 is a rumor which is not willing to die, it was spreaded by someone online and has been repeated again and again.
However MBT-2000 was not selected with proper procedures. It was tested in Chinese ground, that too was a few days trials. Not an evaluation. We should have brought the tank to Bangladesh and tested it here. It was bought purely from economic prospective, otherwise who would want to get a downgraded Type 90II?
Our K-8W IJTs also have parts made of PAC. BAF still buys drop tanks from PAC for BG & BG1, so Pakistani originated equipments really isn't an issue for Awami League. In fact the data system of MBT-2000 (Rahbar) was bought from Pakistan, that too under PM's notice.
Back in 2010 during the 4th armour corps reunion and national standard awarding ceremony of 9th Bengal Lancers, it was mentioned in the invited speech released from Gonovobon that the government is planning to create two new tank regiments for armour corps, this is now 2016 and that plan is still going on. At the end of the day budget is the main problem.
Rahbar isn't a data system it's an IMBS - integrated battle management system .. Com system among other units/tanks & command and control system ,real time data transmission,topography & geographical awareness,real time UAV connectivity etc are its main features.
As for Type-90II.. You seem to have no knowledge about the MBT-2000.
MBT-2000 is the export version of AK.. It was born after the Chinese offered Type-90IIM venture to Pakistan in the 90s which failed short of our requirement .. However the under development tank became the basis of the AK.
Several variants were tested and produced at HIT.. Including one one powered by Condor engine,RM gun etc and others with Chinese subsystems...
AK was chosen for production featuring a mix of Pak systems like gun,era,NBC,NERA,Laser warning and detection systems,fire suppression and detection systems,laser disruption system,EMP for blinding enemy tanks,Rahbar IBMS,Sagem and Catherine sights,Hunter Killer (the same used on Lecrec),SESSM transmission,RCS and a 1200 HP Ukrainian Engine,upgraded Varta I APS etc.
Meanwhile it later gave birth to a more affordable system lacking several important features like the IMBS,Hunter Killer etc and other systems replaced by Chinese systems .. Marketed jointly by HIT & Norinco.. The high end was the MBT-2000 and the lower end became the VT-1A.
P.S; Today AK-II is in service (which is an upgrade of AK-- its claimed to be the most weaponised per ton tank in the world).. While AK-III is under development featuring a 1500 Ho engine,new turret and other major upgrades.
About Khaki, I still like the British one. It has a unique class, can make anyone a gentleman.
The khaki itself originated in modern day Pak .. First used by Guides - which today is Guides Cavalry of Pakistan Army.
33rd Panjab Regiment (again part of Pak army)
Today it is a ceremonial uniform replaced by the Multicam in field;
Meanwhile the Olive Green itself is used only
For ceremonial purposes lik Guard of Honor;
Northern Light Infantry -- that Beret is unique only to the NLI and worn by other other military unit in the world.
Khaki was first worn in the
Corps of Guides that was raised in December 1846 as the brain-child of Sir Henry Lawrence (1806–1857) Resident at Lahore, and Agent to the Governor-General for the North-West Frontier. Lawrence chose as its commandant
Sir Harry Lumsden supported by
William Stephen Raikes Hodson as Second-in-Command to begin the process of raising the
Corps of Guides for frontier service from British Indian recruits at
Peshawar, Punjab.
Initially the border troops were dressed in their native costume, which consisted of a smock and white pajama trousers made of a coarse home-spun cotton, and a cotton turban, supplemented by a leather or padded cotton jacket for cold weather. For the first year (1847) no attempt was made at uniformity. Subsequently in 1848 Lumsden and Hodson decided to introduce a drab (khaki) uniform
[4]which Hodson commissioned his brother in England to send them – as recorded in Hodson's book of published letters,
Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India.
[2]
It was only at a later date, when supplies of drab (khaki) material was unavailable, did they improvise by dying material locally with a dye prepared from the native
mazari palm. Some believe the gray drab/khaki color it produced was used historically by Afghan tribals for camouflaging themselves. The mazari could not, however, dye leather jackets and an alternative was sought: Cloth was dyed in
mulberry juice which gave a yellowish drab shade.
[5]:537–539 Subsequently all regiments, whether British or Indian, serving in the region had adopted khaki uniforms for active service and summer dress. The original khaki fabric was a closely twilled cloth of
linen or
cotton.
