Bangladesh Navy is to get two Jianghu III class Guided Missile Frigates

[eastwatch]

Dada india didn't like the test fire of C-801/2 missiles but we did it...didn't we? I read an indian strategist article on our missile test where that stupid told that BD didn't even ask india before launching missile program (actually it was launched with direct presence of Chinese experts and BD didn't care at all). One funny opinion of that fat head was that BN missile test fire was targeted for india.

Note the time when the missiles were tested in the sea. It was during the CTG backed by the military. Only the greedy politicians do not want to irritate India.

 

[Major Shaheb]

please forgive me for asking, why really you need military spending at that level? since your liberation you are free from the Indian obsession we Pakistanis have.
secondly Indians are your liberators and guardians.

do you expect an attack from Sri Lanka or Maldives?

Dear Mod Irfan,

I’m sorry I have to put it this way but you don’t really get it, do you? You see, a couple of years ago, USA was your best friend and now they are like your worst enemy (more like a pain in a.s as you can do almost nothing as they bomb your cities, kill your people, nor you can officially get them out of your country and you cann't even declare them as your enemy as you are heavily dependent on them for military hardware supply. We are just preparing for something like that if ever happen.... so that we can at least defend ourselves. We have won a war against you when we even did not have a military force. So, we think we can win again with whoever it is with the kind of weapons we are buying...

And for your information, India is neither our liberator nor our guardian. But we do convey our thanks to them for training our people in '71 and for supplying the infantry weapons.

Not Sri Lanka or Maldives, India is already attacking us with the distribution of river water and Myanmar have intruded into Chittagong multiple times in the past and intruded in an effort to drill sea base recently.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Dear Mod Irfan,

I’m sorry I have to put it this way but you don’t really get it, do you? You see, a couple of years ago, USA was your best friend and now they are like your worst enemy (more like a pain in a.s as you can do almost nothing as they bomb your cities, kill your people, nor you can officially get them out of your country and you cann't even declare them as your enemy as you are heavily dependent on them for military hardware supply. We are just preparing for something like that if ever happen.... so that we can at least defend ourselves..

thanks for your reply

I hope India doesn't do to you what the USA is doing to us

by the way, the super powers never have friends. I guess you will say India is not a super power so your military should be able to handle it.

but come on you are openly declaring that your weapons are against India?
even after more than 10 years of WoT and thousands of losses of life we dont say that about America because there is simply no military contest. doesnt India enjoy the same disparity in its favour viz a viz Bangladesh like USA does with the whole world? (let alone Pakistan)

 

[Bhairava]

please forgive me for asking, why really you need military spending at that level? since your liberation you are free from the Indian obsession we Pakistanis have.
secondly Indians are your liberators and guardians.

do you expect an attack from Sri Lanka or Maldives?

Are mods allowed to flame ? lol...

Anyway that bait was almost imperciptible...almost....and I also think you got the reply you were waiting for...about evil water stealing India....

 

[Avisheik]

thanks for your reply

I hope India doesn't do to you what the USA is doing to us

by the way, the super powers never have friends. I guess you will say India is not a super power so your military should be able to handle it.

but come on you are openly declaring that your weapons are against India?
even after more than 10 years of WoT and thousands of losses of life we dont say that about America because there is simply no military contest. doesnt India enjoy the same disparity in its favour viz a viz Bangladesh like USA does with the whole world? (let alone Pakistan)

Well it may seem that our weapons are against india ,but it isnt. Bangladesh military defence doctorine isnt india centred(neither is burma).

The weapons we bought in are mostly to replace our aging ones and project power in the bay of bengal, so that Oil and gas companies who might drill into he bay feel assured that they are safe.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Are mods allowed to flame ? lol...

Anyway that bait was almost imperciptible...almost....and I also think you got the reply you were waiting for.

why do you all pick on my colors?

can i not ask a simple question?

why so negative?

its like Nepal building up its airforce and aritllery when it doesnt need to. hence I asked because Bangla leaders love India and are really close so this military expenditure looked completely in stark contrast.

e.g. we have very small number of force deployed along the western borders because we dont consider Afghanistan and Iran as our potential enemies that would invade us. that fact also aided in the undetected flight of the US copters that came to pop a certain multiwife man living in Abbotabad.

some gun boats would have done but spending money on Missile frigates? I am totally lost. the only possible risk is from pirates not the navies of the region.

yea I got the response with the explanation regarding the need for these capital ships but hey I leave it at that.
by the way I dont think I am in a position to comment on your water dispute with Bangladesh. I dont want to be part of your flame baiting with a smiley.

 

[PlanetSoldier]

It is customary to let your neighbor know before test fire long range missiles. But I dont think C-802 has the range to warrant that action
By the way most myanmar frigates are fitted with C-803. So C-803 can be fitted in our new frigates as well i guess.

That report said about permission from them not the customary that generally rival states share among them.

 

[Bamboo Castle]

Are these new babes? They look very sexxy

Why do some pictures of this frigate look small and others look big?

Because of Angle of picture taken and the upgraded camera technology.

 

[Bamboo Castle]

Seems like we can just take the rear gun off and make that a helipad and equip the missile frigate with anti submarine warefare. It will be a great boat if we do so. We also need to equip it with SAM.

I do not know man! Everytime Bangladeshi govt. takes a lot of time to do the upgrades. I have a doubt, even if it is introduced, there is a high chance that we may keep it as it is.....

 

[Bamboo Castle]

Why banhladesh need it? As long as India is here, no one's going to attack you.

Myanmar did intrude and attack the hilly parts of Bangladesh before. And who know, if India attack us what will we do then? Its just precaution.

 

[Bamboo Castle]

Posted in New Age on May 20, 2012

New Age | Newspaper

Dhaka to talk frigate purchase with Beijing

The government has formed a committee to negotiate with a Chinese team on purchase of two frigates to enhance Bangladesh’s naval strength in the resourceful Bay of Bengal, officials said.
Commodore Khandokar Tawfiquzzaman of Bangladesh Navy is heading the 10-member local negotiating committee and commander Kazi Mehdi Masud will act as its member- secretary.
Other members of the committee are: captain M Ziauddin Alamgir, captain M Jahangir Alam and commander SM Riazul Rasdid of the navy, commander Sayeed Mahmud Hasan of the armed forced division and one member each from the ministries of finance, defence and law and senior finance controller of the navy.
Officials said the Chinese delegation of PLA navy is scheduled to visit Bangladesh in the current month and will stay here until the middle of June.
The delegation will also include officials of Bometec, a leading Chinese electric company, and Poly Tech, a subsidiary of China Poly Group Corporation manufacturing defence equipment.
Both the sides will work out details of the state-to-state frigate purchase agreement the groundwork of which was laid during the visit of prime minister Sheikh Hasina to China in March 2010.
Beijing had offered two of its old 053H2 frigates at a very lower rate on conditions that Dhaka would bear refurbishment and defence equipment costs for the off-the-shelf ships. Officials said the armed forced division had planned to utilise budgetary allocations of Tk 6.55 billion to be given for 2012-13 to 2016-17 fiscals for the purchase of the proposed frigates.
China had built the frigates in early 1990s which are capable of carrying eight anti-ship missiles.
At present, Bangladesh Navy has six frigates – BNS Bangabandhu, formerly known as BNS Khalid bin Walid of South Korea, BNS Osman of China and BNS Umar Farooq, BNS Abu Bakar and BNS Ali Haider of the UK.
But half of the frigates will be decommissioned in near future or are in the process of decommissioning.
Officials said commissioning of the 053H2-type frigates would help the navy to bolster coastal patrol in the bay, the dimension of which had changed a lot in the last one decade amid growing interest of India, China and the US in the area.
Bangladesh and its neighbour Myanmar were on the edge of a war in the bay in 2009 over oil and gas exploration by the latter in the disputed areas.
Both the countries had engaged in legal battle over the disputed areas in an international court that gave verdict a couple of a month ago. Besides, Bangladesh is still running a legal battle against another neighbour, India, over maritime boundary in the same international court.
Officials said Myanmar also plans to acquire two old frigates from China. The type- 53H1frigates, built in the 1980s, can carry four anti-ship missiles, they said.
Associated Press reported from New Delhi on February 9, 2012 that India had decided to buy 126 multi-role fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier in recent weeks to increase its strength in the Bay of Bengal as well as the Indian Ocean.
The US struck a deal called the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement with Sri Lanka in 2007. ACSA, a military cooperation deal, aims at enhancing the rapid deployment capability of the US forces far away from their bases.
Officials said Dhaka is under pressure from Washington to sign a similar military cooperation deal.

Source: New Age | Newspaper

China Defense Blog: Jianghu class FFG535 Huangshi and 536 Wuhu decommissioned today.

Two Jianghu III class FFG completed their refit while being decommissioned at the same day -- this odd pattern adds credence to the rumor that they are being sold off to the Bangladeshi navy. We will know soon enough

 

[BDforever]

Why banhladesh need it? As long as India is here, no one's going to attack you.

Bangladesh needs it because Bangladesh wants strong armed forces as much as it can have, India has nothing to do with this issue. Why should we depend on India ?

 

[neehar]

Why banhladesh need it? As long as India is here, no one's going to attack you.

they have the right to protect themselves with out anybodies help.

 

[eastwatch]

Why bangladesh need it? As long as India is here, no one's going to attack you.

A friend remains a friend until it acts like an enemy. Do you guys remember the slogan, 'Indo-China Bhai Bhai?' Now, it is bye bye. Thing is, India is no other country's friend. We have good reasons to believe India is no friend of us. We do not trust India of all the countries. So, we must become stronger, remain vigilant and depend only upon our own strength to withstand attacks, be it India or Burma.

We have many other war boats and we are also building ourselves many new smaller boats. These two Chinese boats will enhance our strength to defend ourselves from enemy attacks. These are very competent missile boats.

 

[Fuego]

Okay okay I understand that you have the right to protect yourself without anybody;s help and all that. But what I said is also true; No body... and i mean no body will attack you as long as we are here.

Though you do whatever you wanna do... i just said that it was not required anyways.