Bangladesh Air Force

[UKBengali]

It is a harsh indictment but is true.

BN in the last decade has acquired lot more ships, introduced submarines, sourced longer range missiles and radars. But the question is have these changed our defense equation vis-a-vis our neighbours.

Unfortunately i do not believe it has. True offensive capacity that we have acquired are the mings....that is all. It is too little.

And as you have said without adequate air support navies efficacy is seriously hampered.

BN has been on a tranformative journey, this absolutely should be acknowledged because it has been a result of a lot of hard work. However we are in a race and in that BN lags far behind our enemy. Can we keep the bay open against IN....yes now we can for a couple of weeks perhaps....this we could not before.

We need to be better...

Without those 6 air-defence frigates and 6-8 modern diesel electric submarines, BN cannot hope to keep the sea lanes open for even a few days against the Indian Navy.

As well as air-defence frigates and subs, BN needs a dedicated naval squadron of strike fighters that can carry long-range anti-ship missiles in order to put some more fear into the Indians if they want to impose a naval blockade on Bangladesh.

 

[mb444]

These will take time. Immediate urgency is land based missiles whilst more substantial assets are aquired. Good to see there are some talks on that from BA and BN.

We need truck based mobile missiles to secure the bay. Tracking even a ming is not easy if we can deny IN operational freedom. Missile tec is cheap, easy and effective against surface fleet.

As the IN donkey chief says its all about ships we can make them worship our missiles...

 

[Bilal9]

Bangabandhu Military Museum, Tejgaon (Not too bad, huh?)

 

[Avicenna]

Bangabandhu Military Museum, Tejgaon (Not too bad, huh?)

Looks nice.

But I wish they would give equal effort to actually giving the armed forces teeth.

MRCA?

 

[mb444]

Looks nice.

But I wish they would give equal effort to actually giving the armed forces teeth.

MRCA?

You are missing the big picture..... the museum was not created to showcase the armed forces....the armed forces was created to showcase this museum hence the universal "antique" arsenal across our forces....

 

[Destranator]

Bangabandhu Military Museum, Tejgaon (Not too bad, huh?)

Looks great. I think BAF should relocate its HQ here and free up the current site for something more productive.

 

[Bilal9]

Looks great. I think BAF should relocate its HQ here and free up the current site for something more productive.

Desh getting washed away with "development" - and you are focusing on narrow things....

BAF HQ will be built new to rival the Pentagon !! This museum will look like a village primary school in comparison.

Ashitecchey....Just watch. ;-)

In other more serious news, look at this. This guy is saying Bangladesh will be better off buying the used/surplus Mirage 2000N from UAE air-force which will be superb bang-for-the-buck...UAE air-force is getting new higher spec Rafales by 2026 and they will let go of the Mirage 2000s cheap.

While a bit far out as an idea, the value proposition can't be beat, especially if the French can give us a good price on engine overhauls and at least partial teardown overhaul for the avionics and flying surfaces maintenance for the Mirage bodies (C/D checks). Great for interim measure in my opinion. Whatever we order as MRCA is not getting anywhere near BAF bases until say 2028. These Mirage 2000N's could be good stopgap measure...

 

[Destranator]

Desh getting washed away with "development" - and you are focusing on narrow things....

BAF HQ will be built new to rival the Pentagon !! This museum will look like a village primary school in comparison.

Ashitecchey....Just watch. ;-)

In other more serious news, look at this. This guy is saying Bangladesh will be better off buying the used/surplus Mirage 2000N from UAE air-force which will be superb bang-for-the-buck...UAE air-force is getting new higher spec Rafales by 2026 and they will let go of the Mirage 2000s cheap.

While a bit far out as an idea, the value proposition can't be beat, especially if the French can give us a good price on engine overhauls and at least partial teardown overhaul for the avionics and flying surfaces maintenance for the Mirage bodies (C/D checks). Great for interim measure in my opinion. Whatever we order as MRC is not getting anywhere near BAF bases until say 2028.

I am not very comfortable dealing with French. They are notorious for delays and price gouging. BAF should put their two bit brains together and go for Gripen and KF-21 with ToT.

 

[F-6 enthusiast]

Bangabandhu Military Museum, Tejgaon (Not too bad, huh?)

huge respect to the BAF for keeping their entire fleet of museum pieces in flying condition for historical value and re-enactment purposes .

this guy is a shill for french made weapons.

 

[Indos]

Bangabandhu Military Museum, Tejgaon (Not too bad, huh?)

Looks very good.

While we have one in Jakarta, mostly kids who visit this place wether with their school or parents

This is one for Air Force Museum in Yogyakarta, Central Java

 

[F-6 enthusiast]

UAE air-force is getting new higher spec Rafales by 2026 and they will let go of the Mirage

UAE-AF will probably retire them. Not much life left in them. IAF may buy these for spare parts since the M2000 production line closed.
Maybe @Philip the Arab knows.

 

[Philip the Arab]

UAE-AF will probably retire them. Not much life left in them. IAF may buy these for spare parts since the M2000 production line closed.
Maybe @Philip the Arab knows.

Egypt or Morocco probably.

 

[F-6 enthusiast]

sneak peek into the BM cockpit
the right CRT screen displaying the radar MAY have been replaced by a Multi Functional Display.

See bottom left corner of screen in video

this is an SMT cockpit for reference (the old A/B cockpit is attached above)

 

[ghost250]

sneak peek into the BM cockpit
the right CRT screen displaying the radar MAY have been replaced by a Multi Functional Display.

See bottom left corner of screen in video

this is an SMT cockpit for reference (the old A/B cockpit is attached above)
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Our "ottadhunik" mig 29 have been upgraded into BM standard atlast...that air force pilot clearly mentioned about "upgradation"...they now can carry air to ground ,air to ship(maritime) munitions

 

[F-6 enthusiast]

Our "ottadhunik" mig 29 have been upgraded into BM standard atlast...that air force pilot clearly mentioned about "upgradation"...they now can carry air to ground ,air to ship(maritime) munitions

faithfully served BAF however, i don't know how long we can keep flying these
Should get R-77-1 as interim solution until MRCA arrive.

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