B'desh steps up troops deployment on Myanmar border amid row

[eastwatch]

Oops..didn't notice the news was posted before.

I agree with what Professor Imtiaz said.In some ways I feel we should thank the Burmese.Because of their movement,we are now taking steps to strengthen our defences.This incident now forced the govt. to take action.So this might very well be a blessing in disguise for us.

In fact, I personally want a small-scale BD-Burma war even though our stock of weapons is limited. Our BDR and army troops are too strong in their hearts. They were given mental training and they have taken oath on Holy Qu'ran to sacrifice their lives in order to uphold their faith and their country.

The way BDR is talking to the news reporters, it seems that they are not waiting for the army/artillery troops to come to the border and they themselves can handle the situation. I believe they are capable to do that. The present BDR Chief, although from a gentleman GHOTI family, is also a hard man, no less than Gen. Fazlur Rahman.

Am I a warmonger? Certainly the answer is no. I think, a war will be indecisive. But, this will raise the prospect of building a stronger army in BD. The two jealous ladies are always worried about their own positions in a militarily strong BD. But, a war will wipe out their objections in this regard. So, a small-scale war may be more beneficial to BD in the long run.

 

[leonblack08]

In fact, I personally want a small-scale BD-Burma war. Even with a limited stock of wepons we will be winner, solely because our BDR and troops are too strong in heart. They will just sacrifice their lives.

The way BDR is talking to the news reporters, it seems that they are not waiting for the army/artillery troops to come to the border and they themselves can handle the situation. I believe they are capable to do that. The present BDR Chief, although from a gentleman GHOTI family, is also a hard man, no less than Gen. Fazlur Rahman.

Am I a warmonger? Certainly the answer is no. I think, any such war will be indecisive. But, this will raise the prospect of building a stronger army in BD. The two jealous ladies are always worried about their own positions in a militarily strong BD. But, a war will wipe out their objections in this regard. So, a small-scale war may be more beneficial to BD in the long run.

In fact I am quite surprised at the way BDR DG is talking.When the govt. was saying noting wrong,he showed us the ground reality.And said that we are also getting prepared.

About war,be careful what you wish for.The Burmese have all their Mig-29s stationed at Sitwee base,near Bangladesh.So a small scale battle may soon be blown out of proportion.
But I agree with your view.

 

[eastwatch]

In fact I am quite surprised at the way BDR DG is talking.When the govt. was saying noting wrong,he showed us the ground reality.And said that we are also getting prepared.

About war,be careful what you wish for.The Burmese have all their Mig-29s stationed at Sitwee base,near Bangladesh.So a small scale battle may soon be blown out of proportion.

As I understand, Migs are interceptors/fighters and not bombers. Burmese Migs will intercept when BAF bombers pound their army/artillery/tank positions. They will also accompany their own bombers that will pound our positions plus our bridges and other vital installations.

BD also has two squadrons of Mig-29. But, they are placed in Dhaka, not even in Chittagong. It seems one of the Burmese target is to spoil our plan to build a FORWARD AIRBASE in Cox's Bazaar. An airbase like this will tilt the balance of power in favour of BD. at present, Burma is enjoying an advantage due to Sittwe airbase.

BD decision to bulid an airbase in Cox's Bazaar is a little late. It would have been a good strategy to build it during the CTG before the Burmese have built their own in Sittwe. With this advantage, BD could have threatened Burma had they started to build it.

Now, Burma is threatening us because they feel insecure if an airbase is built in Cox's Bazaar. This may be one reason they are for a war. BAF action time is much longer from Dhaka than the Burmese action time from Sittwe. By the time BAF jets arrive to fight, Burmese jets would return to their home base after finishing their limited mission.

In such a situation, BD army can fire its manpods and SAM missiles to stop Burmese jets pounding its artillery positions without BAF flying its jets to do a dogfight.

Anyway, these are all my imaginations. The reality will perhaps be too different from what I am suggesting here. However, a war is needed to see if our two brave ladies hide under their PALANK and also to give good reasons to build a stronger military in the future.

 

[TopCat]

In fact I am quite surprised at the way BDR DG is talking.When the govt. was saying noting wrong,he showed us the ground reality.And said that we are also getting prepared.

About war,be careful what you wish for.The Burmese have all their Mig-29s stationed at Sitwee base,near Bangladesh.So a small scale battle may soon be blown out of proportion.
But I agree with your view.

I saw in the wiki that people have serious doubt about burmese air force's capability as they could not come out in the conflict with Thailand last year.

 

[Patriot]

Burma's Mig29's can be used for ground attacks but they'll most likely use them as escorts for their cheap fighters which will bomb the targets inside BD where as Mig29's will protect them providing escort.They also have Nanchang Q-5 which can carry massive load.So a war is not going to be small.Both countries are very strong in a sense that they can bomb each other military targets but no civilian targets as both have limited ammo unless Burmese generals gets crazy.We can't really comment on air force performance as BDAF has never been in combat.I think BD should buy a squardon of Gripen NG Fighter equipped with AIM120 which if based on Cox's bazar or flying near burma's air space can kill Burma's fighters during take off and recovery.

 

[idune]

The present BDR Chief, although from a gentleman GHOTI family, is also a hard man, no less than Gen. Fazlur Rahman.

BDR may try to do its job but its DG is another story. Here is BDR DG exposed with support to BSF killing Bangladeshis. Its better to know who is who during the crisis time.

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Now back to the topic, from reaction of govt, nothing much will happen as far as right procurement is concern. BD will be lucky if anything significant added other than current regime roadmap for 2020. Distance from Teknaf to Sittwe is around 100km. Which means with long range MBRL like ROKETSAN TR-300/PHL03 (with range upto 120km)can effectively neutralize all Myanmar forces and air bases up to Sittwe. BD can achieve that power projection easily only if govt is willing to go for it.

 

[eastwatch]

BANGLADESH IS READY TO REPULSE BURMESE ADVENTURE: BDR
A report in Bangla in the daily Ittefaq


The Daily Ittefaq - October 18, 2009

 

[TopCat]

Some sort of medial black out is going on. How come after midnight ATN reported of Myanmar Air and Naval exercise. But today nobody including ATN followed that up.
Also there is a difference btn english and bengali dailies and how they are reporting these. Bangla dailies almost overlooked the whole stories.

 

[mijanur]

Some sort of medial black out is going on. How come after midnight ATN reported of Myanmar Air and Naval exercise. But today nobody including ATN followed that up.
Also there is a difference btn english and bengali dailies and how they are reporting these. Bangla dailies almost overlooked the whole stories.

every kind of media are nuts in one mointue they something next mintue they say something else

 

[eastwatch]

St Martin's Island seen vulnerable

Govt advised to strengthen its defence

Someone, probably raihan.iicu, has posted a newspaper report that says two BD naval ships are guarding the Saint Martin island, the pearl of the Bay of Bengal, from any misadventure by the Burmese navy. What has stopped these stupid Burmese to attack BD? They must save face by making a sudden attack. It seems the present crisis will end as it ended in 1991. JOTO GORJAI TOTO BORSHAI NA.

 

[TopCat]

I doubt they have gutts. They could not save their face last year with Thais. They had to ran away after ransacking one of the border post of Thailand and Thailand mobilized. Chinese also keeping them under pressure after they kick all chinese minority from their eastern border.

 

[eastwatch]

I doubt they have gutts. They could not save their face last year with Thais. They had to ran away after ransacking one of the border post of Thailand and Thailand mobilized. Chinese also keeping them under pressure after they kick all chinese minority from their eastern border.

If BD generals are sure of a winning in a limited war, then they should brush aside all our bickering women politicians and seek a war, and then teach the Burmese Junta a lesson so that the Burmese population throw them away. With this Junta in power, BD cannot expect anything positive. They never have reciprocated our goodwill gestures in the past.

Also now, when our little Dipu Moni asked the Burmese FM about the mobilization, he denied everything on her face. What a mannerless pig is this FM. When our BDR DG sent a letter to Burma requesting for a meeting, 10 days have passed, but that Pig Junta has not yet cared to give an answer to that request.

One of their army spokesmen only said that their army is helping NASAKA to erect the fence. By law, army cannot move beyond the 5 km limit. It is an act of aggression. But, the Burmese talk as if their army troops are there for a PICNIC.

 

[leonblack08]

As I understand, Migs are interceptors/fighters and not bombers. Burmese Migs will intercept when BAF bombers pound their army/artillery/tank positions. They will also accompany their own bombers that will pound our positions plus our bridges and other vital installations.

BD also has two squadrons of Mig-29. But, they are placed in Dhaka, not even in Chittagong. It seems one of the Burmese target is to spoil our plan to build a FORWARD AIRBASE in Cox's Bazaar. An airbase like this will tilt the balance of power in favour of BD. at present, Burma is enjoying an advantage due to Sittwe airbase.

BD decision to bulid an airbase in Cox's Bazaar is a little late. It would have been a good strategy to build it during the CTG before the Burmese have built their own in Sittwe. With this advantage, BD could have threatened Burma had they started to build it.

Now, Burma is threatening us because they feel insecure if an airbase is built in Cox's Bazaar. This may be one reason they are for a war. BAF action time is much longer from Dhaka than the Burmese action time from Sittwe. By the time BAF jets arrive to fight, Burmese jets would return to their home base after finishing their limited mission.

In such a situation, BD army can fire its manpods and SAM missiles to stop Burmese jets pounding its artillery positions without BAF flying its jets to do a dogfight.

Anyway, these are all my imaginations. The reality will perhaps be too different from what I am suggesting here. However, a war is needed to see if our two brave ladies hide under their PALANK and also to give good reasons to build a stronger military in the future.

Mig-29s can perform both fighter and bomber role.They are air superiority fighters,not interceptors.

And about BD migs,the number is conflicted.It is widely believed we have 8 not 16.

 

[leonblack08]

NASAKA men threw 8 Bangladeshi fishermen into the sea and captured their boat.just came across this news in Diganta TV.

 

[leonblack08]

Burma's Mig29's can be used for ground attacks but they'll most likely use them as escorts for their cheap fighters which will bomb the targets inside BD where as Mig29's will protect them providing escort.They also have Nanchang Q-5 which can carry massive load.So a war is not going to be small.Both countries are very strong in a sense that they can bomb each other military targets but no civilian targets as both have limited ammo unless Burmese generals gets crazy.We can't really comment on air force performance as BDAF has never been in combat.I think BD should buy a squardon of Gripen NG Fighter equipped with AIM120 which if based on Cox's bazar or flying near burma's air space can kill Burma's fighters during take off and recovery.

BAF and Burmese air force have same fighters,bombers and interceptors in their inventory.We also have 20-30 A-5 III(Q-5).And we have one more thing in common.As far as I know Burmese AF is also as inexperienced in terms of battle as BAF.

If there is really war,I think its going to be small scale land war at best,for now.But the way things are going,we might very well find large scale war in future.