BANGLADESH AIR FORCE'S F-7:POOR MAN'S F-16

[khaled_m_ali]

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[leonblack08]

@Khaled M Ali

Thank you brother for your informative posts.
Welcome to PDF.

 

[HK-47]

what's the big deal anyways?Both the Bison and the F-7B are equally worthless against the F-16s.isn't MiG-29 a lightweight close support fighter?

 

[leonblack08]

what's the big deal anyways?Both the Bison and the F-7B are equally worthless against the F-16s.isn't MiG-29 a lightweight close support fighter?

Mig 29s are medium weight air superiority fighters.
F-7BG are the primary interceptors.

 

[s90]

Dont underestimate it its a very fast Interceptor

 

[khaled_m_ali]

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[khaled_m_ali]

Reasons why the Chengdu F-7BG Skybolt is superior to the Mikoyan MiG-21-93 “Bison” Fishbed:

1. F-7BG (2200km) has over twice the range than the Bison (around 1000km).
2. F-7BG has an aerodynamically superior design.
3. F-7BG has a strengthened airframe, it is built with the latest technology while Bison still dwells on the 1970s era MiG-21bis design.
4. F-7BG has superior cannon armament; F-7BG has 2x 30mm cannon while Bison has 1x 23mm cannon.
5. F-7BG has more hardpoints; F-7BG - 5 and Bison - 4.
6. F-7BG has superior HMS with +/-90° while Bison has +/-45°.
7. F-7BG has more efficient and reliable engine.
8. F-7BG has better cockpit and man machine interface.
9. F-7BG has full night time operations capability, with night vision goggles compatibility there is yet to see prove of this on the Bison.
10. Multimode radar with BVR capability. F-7BG (BAF), F-7PG (PAF) and F-7G (PLAAF) can fire the advanced PL-12 MRAAM with range of 70+km.
11. F-7BG has almost twice as more fuel.
12. F-7BG has greater strike capability with the capability to deliver 2x LS-6 PGMs which are comparable to US JDAM and have range of 60km, additionally it can carry 250/500kg low-drag general-purpose or anti-runway bombs, BL755 600lb cluster bomb, 200kg anti-runway bomb as well as 57/90/130mm unguided rockets. F-7BG has night strike capability with Stand off Raptor 1 (H2) and LGB capability.
13. F-7BG has greater AAM options; AIM-9, PL-2/2A, PL-5B, PL-7, PL-9C, PL-11 PL-12, R.550 and Russian R-series AAMs.
14. F-7BG has greater climb rate.
15. F-7BG has a greater maximum speed; F-7BG (Mach 2.35) while the Bison (Mach 2.10).
16. F-7BG does not have any stalling issues due to the merged double-delta wing design. The strong vortex of the inner wing re-energises the boundary layer of the outer wing, preventing span-wise flow towards the tips. This allows even more carefree manoeuvring at ultra-low speeds.
17. F-7BG has better RWR.
18. F-7BG has MAW sensors on rear, starboard and port sides.
19. F-7BG is more manoeuvrable than the Bison with a G-Limit of around +8.5.
20. F-7BG can operate from shorter runways; it has lower take-off and landing speeds and distances.
21. F-7BG has a greater turning rate; with maximum instantaneous turn rate of 25.2 degrees/sec while the maximum sustained turn rate is around 16 degrees/sec.
22. F-7BG has 84% combat effectiveness.
23. F-7BG is 43% better in close combat.
24. F-7BG has twice more time interval between overhauls compared to the MiG-21 Bison.
25. The trainer version of the F-7BG; the tandem twin-seat FT-7BG is also combat fully capable; it has 1x 30mm cannon and 4 hardpoints which can fire PL-7 and PL-9C AAMs as well as PGMs, LGBs, unguided bombs and rockets.

I have fully listed why the F-7BG is superior to the Bison. The F-7BG s almost a new aircraft from the aging the MiG-21 series; it features improvements over the MiG-21 Bison in all aspects.

With advanced BVRAAM capability, strike capability, night-time operations capability and better in a turn, dive and climb the F-7BG outclasses the MiG-21 Bison.

The F-7BG is mostly a new airframe design with advanced radar, engine, avionics, etc. while the MiG-21 Bison is in fact the same old MiG-21bis of the early 1970s (which in turn is mostly based on the 1960s era MiG-21MF) with just some new avionics, radar, engine, weapons capability and a new canopy.

 

[khaled_m_ali]

BAF Mikoyan MiG-29SE and MiG-29UB Fulcrum

 

[khaled_m_ali]

BAF Chengdu F-7BG Skybolt and Mikoyan MiG-29SE and MiG-29UB Fulcrum

 

[khaled_m_ali]

Russia offered Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker to BAF
Su-27/30 series is better than any inferior F-16A/C and JF-17

Russia offered Bangladesh Air Force Su-27 instead we purchased F-7BGs

Govt accused of corruption in F-7 procurement deal
Syed Iskandar walks out of JS panel meeting over defence deal row
Ofiul Hasnat Ruhin

A lawmaker of the ruling BNP stormed out of the meeting of a parliamentary standing committee on Monday, as opposition legislators accused the government of corruption in a defence purchase deal and alleged that a third party had taken ‘undue commission’ from the deal.
Syed Iskandar, who happens to be the younger brother of the prime minister, was enraged when the chairman of the committee, Mahbubur Rahman, allowed Shawkat Ali of the Awami League to raise questions about the purchase of 16 Chinese F-7 fighters for the Bangladesh Air Force at a cost of $117.9 million, meeting sources said.
He told Mahbub that he had violated the meeting procedures by allowing discussion on the deal, which was not on the agenda.
‘We can have discussion on every matter,’ Mahbub was quoted by the sources as telling Iskandar.
Iskandar left the meeting as soon as the discussion on the deal ended, although the meeting had the proposed defence policy and the budget for the armed forces in the next fiscal year on the agenda.
Mahbub confirmed that a member of the committee had asked him why an unscheduled issue was raised for discussion. He wouldn’t, however, name the lawmaker.
‘I told him the issue could be discussed although it had not been included in the agenda,’ he said when talking to New Age. ‘The issue was raised following a clarification by the air chief about the purchase.’
Shawkat Ali demanded that a parliamentary subcommittee should be formed to investigate allegations of corruption against the government in the purchase of the F-7s.
Mahbub did not form any committee but assured AL members that a committee would be formed if there was any specific allegation about the purchase, the sources said.
Shawkat Ali also raised questions about transparency in the state-to-state agreement on the purchase and alleged that a lawmaker, indicating Iskandar, had been provided with the opportunity to receive commission from both the Bangladesh and Chinese sides as the third party in the deal.
‘The fighters could have been purchased at a lower price had the government floated an international tender,’ he was quoted by the sources as saying. ‘It is not clear why the authorities did not invite international tender despite floating a budgetary tender earlier.’
Shawkat Ali confirmed later that he had ‘requested the chairman to form a parliamentary subcommittee to investigate the alleged irregularities and go to China for investigation, if necessary’.
He added that the strong protest by the BNP lawmaker hinted at his involvement in the irregularities.
If the committee is serious about tracing the ‘invisible third party’ in the deal, the involvement of the lawmaker would become clear, Shawkat Ali claimed.
Altaf Hossain Chowdhury dismissed the allegation about the involvement of a third party but fellow BNP lawmaker, Quamrul Islam, also the state minister for expatriates welfare and overseas employment, wondered why the fighters had been bought from China instead of any European country, the sources said.
The debate began after the chief of air staff, Air-vice-marshal Fakrul Azam, sought apology for providing inconsistent information about the procurement procedure at the previous meeting of the committee and attempted to clarify the inconsistencies.
He claimed that the government had to undertake the purchase scheme as 16 fighters of the Bangladesh Air Force had overshot their longevity in 1990.
He said the government had taken the decision to procure the F-7s after comparing the offer with an offer for Russian Su-27.
The price of the Russian fighters was four times that of the Chinese fighters, he said.
The F-7s are also fit for the infrastructure establishment and training experience of the Bangladesh Air Force, the air chief argued.
The meeting endorsed the government decision to form a three-dimensional navy through procuring submarine and other equipment and recommended immediate enactment of a national defence policy, reduction of misuse of defence fund, increase in budgetary allocation for development of defence and protection of the maritime boundary at any cost.
The authorities concerned informed that committee that the government would purchase a submarine soon and the navy had already started training in this regard.
They also informed that the preparation of a draft defence policy was in final stage, the meeting sources said.

http://www.newagebd.com/2006/may/16/front.html

 

[khaled_m_ali]

 

[HK-47]

does any of our aircraft in the air force have maritime strike/surveillance capabilities?

 

[khaled_m_ali]

Bangladesh Navy operates 2x Beech King Air 350 "Beechcraft" MPAs (Maritime Patrol Aircraft). Some more such aircraft will be ordered.

 

[nick]

does any of our aircraft in the air force have maritime strike/surveillance capabilities?

Migs and F-7s can do the job.