Bangladesh Air Force

[araberuni7]

Again nonsense. As I said only Bahrain paid for the C-130. No money no honey. This idiot's are trolling...

 

[TopCat]

Again nonsense. As I said only Bahrain paid for the C-130. No money no honey. This idiot's are trolling...

Plane spotters are very accurate in their information. They are mostly from dhaka airport. They have a lot of information in their disposal. I hardly seen them b$hitting.

 

[Michael Corleone]

No no - I believe Saiful Azam saheb still lives in Dhaka Cantt. DOHS area with his relatives. Along with the other famous Bengali flying ACE M.M. Alam (who was born in Chittagong and passed away in Pakistan in 2013 and is interred at Masroor AB), he was the recipient of Sitara-e-Jurat. According to the PAF, he scored more kills than any other pilots against the Israeli AF flying for the Jordanian AF. He was decorated with Jordan’s Order of Independence medal as well.

More here,
http://militaryhistorynow.com/2013/08/21/have-jet-will-travel-the-amazing-story-of-saiful-azam/

You don't hear from him much nowadays because he was a BNP supporter/politician back in the day and also because his health is really frail.

Our former president Ziaur Rahman, who was a commissioned military officer by career, was also decorated for gallantry and won the distinguished and prestigious Hilal-e-Jurat medal. Zia served in the Khemkaran sector in Punjab as the commander of a Pakistani company unit of about 500 soldiers, which was the scene of the most intense tank battle between Indian and Pakistani armies.

The Pakistani government awarded Zia's unit with the highest numbers of gallantry awards for heroic performances during the war. Zia's unit won 2 Sitara-e-Jurat medals and 9 Tamgha-e-Jurat medals from the Army for their brave roles in the 1965 War with India.

Well thank god if he’s still alive, seen a post in Facebook a couple of months back that he got sick and then passed away.

 

[Tanveer666]

Gripen E is great on paper and perfect for BAF.
But Saab is best at making brochures and not planes, so never induct them without trials. Let Brazil do it first.

isn't india also considering gripen for their single engine MRCA tender?

 

[KapitaanAli]

isn't india also considering gripen for their single engine MRCA tender?

There's no more SEF tender. It was killed due to pressure and a new tender that includes both SE and TE is in the works, which should ideally be won by Rafale, again.

Very unlikely that F16 or Gripen would win it since IAF will choose on merit.
Very unlikely that F16 or Gripen would be made to win by MoD since Tejas Mk2 is now more or less confirmed.

For all this talk about Gripen E, you won't see FOC before 2025.
Why bother!

 

[Tanveer666]

There's no more SEF tender. It was killed due to pressure and a new tender that includes both SE and TE is in the works, which should ideally be won by Rafale, again.

Very unlikely that F16 or Gripen would win it since IAF will choose on merit.
Very unlikely that F16 or Gripen would be made to win by MoD since Tejas Mk2 is now more or less confirmed.

is the new tender called AMCA? and why go through the time consuming procerss of publishing a new tender, evaluating the bid and such? why not just directly order all of the rafale's via a G2G deal (like the 36 rafale order).

 

[KapitaanAli]

is the new tender called AMCA? and why go through the time consuming procerss of publishing a new tender, evaluating the bid and such? why not just directly order all of the rafale's via a G2G deal (like the 36 rafale order).

AMCA is 5th gen and a domestic project of which the TD construction process has now started. There's no name for new tender yet, but it's basically MMRCA V2.0.

The govt probably wants to make sure there are no more accusations. They've done enough nonsense by bringing up SEF tender out of nowhere and trying to give it to friends which would've killed Mk2. Add to that the accusations on Rafale deal.

So, by the book this time. Probably just a formality. France wanting to announce 36 more Rafale when Macron visited hints at the same. GoI didn't announce to avoid jumping the gun.

Let's go back to BAF.

 

[Bilal9]

Well thank god if he’s still alive, seen a post in Facebook a couple of months back that he got sick and then passed away.

He is barely around, hanging by a thread. Good that we decorated him for our satisfaction.

 

[UKBengali]

There's no more SEF tender. It was killed due to pressure and a new tender that includes both SE and TE is in the works, which should ideally be won by Rafale, again.

Very unlikely that F16 or Gripen would win it since IAF will choose on merit.
Very unlikely that F16 or Gripen would be made to win by MoD since Tejas Mk2 is now more or less confirmed.

For all this talk about Gripen E, you won't see FOC before 2025.
Why bother!

Gripen E is perfect for BD as it will be much better than all Myanmar air-force fighters bar the SU-30SME. It is also Western and so can be used freely against Myanmar.
It also is cheap enough as per total "life-cycle" costs that it is affordable for BAF. Rafale is too expensive for BD.
If BAF has to wait a little while to get it, then so be it.

@Avicenna

 

[Tanveer666]

That being said,

Gripen E is perfect for BD as it will be much better than all Myanmar air-force fighters bar the SU-30SME. It is also Western and so can be used freely against Myanmar.
It also is cheap enough as per total "life-cycle" costs that it is affordable for BAF. Rafale is too expensive for BD.
If BAF has to wait a little while to get it, then so be it.

@Avicenna

lifecycle cost maybe cheaper, but the unit cost of gripen NGs are still expensive. Brazil bought 36 of them at $160 mil a piece (the figure includes 25 years of maintenance cost (?) and weaponry) BD doesn't have that sort of cash lying around, unless the swede's offer us a loan.

However,for this price($5.8B), we could get easily 24-28 SU-35's (+weapons+ToT) if we really wanted to.

 

[UKBengali]

That being said,


lifecycle cost maybe cheaper, but the unit cost of gripen NGs are still expensive. Brazil bought 36 of them at $160 mil a piece (the figure includes 25 years of maintenance cost (?) and weaponry) BD doesn't have that sort of cash lying around, unless the swede's offer us a loan.

However,for this price($5.8B), we could get easily 24-28 SU-35's (+weapons+ToT) if we really wanted to.

Err BD does for 16 Gripen E that will not need to be paid for immediately. If a contract is signed now do not expect first deliveries till 2021. BD will pay around 2 billion US dollars over 5 years. This is just 400 million dollars a year for a country that found 1 billion US dollars a year from 2014 to build Padma Bridge.

BD has a 273 billion US dollar economy growing at more than 7% a year.

 

[Avicenna]

Gripen is a REAL possibility for BAF. I don't know who the hell makes procurement decisions?

 

[Michael Corleone]

Gripen is a REAL possibility for BAF. I don't know who the hell makes procurement decisions?

Not really if the j-10 procurement information/ pilot training in China is anything real.

One squadron worth of pilots had finished training back in December and another began in January.

 

[araberuni7]

Gripen E is great on paper and perfect for BAF.
But Saab is best at making brochures and not planes, so never induct them without trials. Let Brazil do it first.

After having 31+ squadrons of fighter jet, Indian always worried that Bangladesh may induct an advanced fighter jet. Indian made Tejas took 30 years to take off from runway. 80%+ hardware and components of Tejas are made by or originated in Western Countries and Israel.

Gripen is inducted by NATO countries and other countries. Gripen doesn't need brochure.
I hate to say this but truth tells all. Gripen is the most advanced 4.5 fighter jet currently available in market in the following categories.

Advanced Electronics, Information Management, Radar, Networks, Sensor, EW, Software, Engine and Armamanent.

Source http://www.leonardocompany.com/en/-/raven-1
http://www.mbda-systems.com/product/meteor/

The Raven ES-05 radar for the Gripen E is a wide field of regard system optimised for multi-role/swing role operations. The system features a comprehensive mode suite for both A/A and A/G including interleaved operation, and has high availability and reliability. The Gripen E avionics also integrate the Skyward-G IRST, providing full operational search and track functionality with a stealth capability, and the Identification Friend-or-Foe (IFF) delivering the full range of IFF capabilities and IFF data fusion with target data from other aircraft sensors.

If western electronics isn't that advanced then India wouldn't buy Rafale. You guys buy Rafale and lecture us to buy junk yard MiG. We know that f%$king politics dude!

 

[Avicenna]

Not really if the j-10 procurement information/ pilot training in China is anything real.

One squadron worth of pilots had finished training back in December and another began in January.

Why not both? An east west mix.