Chinese Defense Minister likely to visit Dhaka on May 28

[Zarvan]

Well my guess is VT4 and Frigates and may be some Air Defence

 

[BDforever]

Well my guess is VT4 and Frigates and may be some Air Defence

nop, T-14 Armata is possible candidate which cost aroun $4 million

 

[Species]

Any possibilities of Type 54A?

 

[UKBengali]

again, wrong. all included in defence budget. you talked about extra $54million spending last year, right ?
well that is from $1billion loan from Russia

No as i explained before there is no way BD can take 500
million dollars a year from the defence budget as 95%
goes on salaries, operations and maintenance.

This has already been proven by me mathematically
and so no need to go over again.

 

[BDforever]

Any possibilities of Type 54A?

i don't think so, I think export versions are in the card:
1. High performance Frigate (with 32 VLS)

2. Multi-purpose frigate
The Langkawi Exhibition, China launched the export-oriented 1500-ton frigate, the captain 97 meters, speed of 30 knots, with deep V-shaped design, overall layout and 056 similar, but more thorough detail stealth, equipped with 24 units vertical launch system, which can take off and land straight -9C type helicopter, and arranging Organic library, which makes the ship has a more lasting and effective coastal anti-submarine capability. The other is equipped with a 76mm caliber gun, two 630 near Artillery seat 2 30mm rapid-fire guns stealth single tube, but on the basis of these indicators, it is better than 056.
(can't find the picture)

 

[Species]

i don't think so, I think export versions are in the card:
1. High performance Frigate (with 32 VLS)
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2. Multi-purpose frigate
The Langkawi Exhibition, China launched the export-oriented 1500-ton frigate, the captain 97 meters, speed of 30 knots, with deep V-shaped design, overall layout and 056 similar, but more thorough detail stealth, equipped with 24 units vertical launch system, which can take off and land straight -9C type helicopter, and arranging Organic library, which makes the ship has a more lasting and effective coastal anti-submarine capability. The other is equipped with a 76mm caliber gun, two 630 near Artillery seat 2 30mm rapid-fire guns stealth single tube, but on the basis of these indicators, it is better than 056.
(can't find the picture)

Then I think it would be better if we go for the Gepard class from Russia if we can't get the type 54As.

 

[BDforever]

Then I think it would be better if we go for the Gepard class from Russia if we can't get the type 54As.

lol did you check the frigate ? that is hell of a frigate
2 Geopard class are coming too

 

[Species]

lol did you check the frigate ? that is hell of a frigate
2 Geopard class are coming too

Okay now I can get it after reading that information, the High Performance Frigate looks quite impressive indeed. But is it ready for export? It looks like still under development as they haven't even given a project name/designation to it, perhaps just a prototype of the project.

 

[BDforever]

Okay now I can get it after reading that information, the High Performance Frigate looks quite impressive indeed. But is it ready for export? It looks like still under development as they haven't even given a project name/designation to it, perhaps just a prototype of the project.

they named it High performance frigate and showed in IDEX exhibition 2013
http://www.navyrecognition.com/inde...e-lhd-and-submarine-designs-at-idex-2013.html

 

[Species]

they named it High performance frigate and showed in IDEX exhibition 2013
http://www.navyrecognition.com/inde...e-lhd-and-submarine-designs-at-idex-2013.html

"High Performance Frigate" is a very unusual title when it comes Chinese defence naming conventions. I think it will be changed.

 

[Allah Akbar]

Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan is likely to be here on a three-day visit from May 28 which is expected to strengthen defense cooperation between the two countries. Though there is no official announcement about the visit, a diplomatic source said Wanquan, also state councilor and member of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Communist Party of China (CPC), will be here along with a high-level 15-member delegation. This will be a first visit of any Chinese Defense Minister in Bangladesh in the last eight years. He is likely to hold meetings with chiefs of three forces to discuss future defense cooperation apart from meeting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said the source. Earlier on May 12, 2014, Bangladesh and China signed four agreements on military cooperation, aimed at improving professionalism and other capacities of Bangladesh armed forces.

source: http://www.daily-sun.com/home/printnews/137462

Another bgi f7 order is coming soon.

 

[BDforever]

Another bgi f7 order is coming soon.

stop the nonsense, if you don't like. go away

Oh,no!!! Not those plane again.Rather they should destroy the air force.

you seriously need help! don't you know F-7 production stopped ? F-7BG1 was last production

 

[Homo Sapiens]

Another bgi f7 order is coming soon.

Oh,no!!! Not those plane again.Rather they should destroy the air force.

 

[bongbang]

So, frigates, SAMs and some land warfare package. What about some attack helis?

 

[UKBengali]

Actually it's a conservative estimation, always better to under-estimate then to over-estimate. Like you said our governments have focused on the economy first and foremost. This meant consistent growth for the last decade and more averaging over 6%. And this with the worst infrastructure in SA, roads,rail, ports, power etc plus on top o fthat having to deal with natural and man made disasters. Now though, things are changing and changing fast, we are investing heavy in building our infra, investing in education, investing in export industry etc.

Our targets are to achieve 8%-9% GDP growth and maintain that for the next decade at least. To do this we looked at various models (South korea mainly) and this is why your seeing our emphasis in driving exports. while other nations including indias exports have fluctuated or declined recently, our exports have continued to grow year on year. We are opening EPZs throughout the country to increase FDI etc....all in the aim to expand our exports from $35bn to $100bn in the next 6-7 years.

The armed services had agreed to maintain a low profile and not make demands, while the government worked on the economy. They accepted the 1.25%, in order to give the government breathing room, but as the economy grows and we are able to afford it they will have to get back to 2%. Which will still be amongst the lowest in the region, Myanmar has a economy 1/3 our's yet their defence budget is more then double ours (they spend 5%+ of their GDP or 4 times we do).

So you see the government will increase the proportion alloted to defence eventually. At the minimum they will have to spend 2% of GDP on defence by 2020.

The official defence spending is only for salaries, operations, maintenance and purchase of arms that BD makes itself. We need to add the roughly 500 million dollars a year on average that the BD government spends on arms imports. When this is taken into account, then total defence expenditure comes to around 1.6-1.7% of GDP.

I would like defence spending to rise to around 2% of GDP but I am not totally confident that this will happen. BD military realistically assesses that it would be very difficult to adequately defend against India unless defence spending is raised to 3-4% of GDP. The current defence expenditure is adequate to catch up and eventually become stronger than Myanmar over the medium-long term, as BD military will always be better led and trained than backward Myanmar.