Which type of sub BD navy gonna induct? I think BD navy need at least 6 subs to reinforce its existence in the region. India has pathetic number of subs which means they are just watching. P8A might be a trouble, but the number is also very limited. India will get used to it in the future when BD is getting more and more stronger and closer to China. 054A frigate is also open for BD navy if you guys love it.
Bangladesh is one of China's most trusted friend in the sub-continent.
India shall never try to intervene BD's decision to buy subs as BD is a independant country.
Thank you for your support
The problem right with BD is that the country is still a bit too poor to be putting in orders for modern Chinese weapons across the board.
BD's defence spending is only 3 billion dollars a year. This is a very tiny amount.
With money like this you can only focus on one real area at a time and currently the Navy is being prioritised. That is why you are seeing heavy purchases from China of both corvettes and frigates. After the BD Navy has started training on the Type-035G submarine that will be leased(?) from China then you will see an order for more modern submarines.
With an economy at 150 billion dollars, and even if it grows at the expected 7% a year for next 5 years, money will still be tight and so orders for a frigate like the Type-054A may not be forthcoming till the end of the decade as BD may want to focus on it's air-force in year or two.
Currently the only decent aircraft in the air-force are the 8 Mig-29 and they need to be modernised. After the 24 YAK-130 and 8-9 Chinese trainer are inducted, it would be logical to put in an order for 3-4 squadrons of 4th generation aircraft - my personal favourite is J-10B if China would sell it to BD.
If the economy keeps improving at current rates, then expect much more substantial purchases of modern weapons from China in the next decade.
With China's help, BD will finally build a decent military.
they don't have to..the detection is more than enough.what do you think,in case of any hostilities,any CBG that is heading towards IOR via any path will go unnoticed???do you even know about security co-op level between various countries??and do you think our country is as blind as BD is??we have dozens,if not more "Eye in the Sky"..listning stations aren't for ship detection.its for SIGINT.and our Navy Base???our Naval and Airforce aircrafts has range to go to Australia and back without breaking any sweat.Game will be over far from Indian shore in case of War.you should study how aircrafts ,ships and sats are going to be used than posting gibberish here..
The point is not whether India will know the route of the CBG but what on earth is India going to do to defeat it?!
My point is that Indian posters are banging on about their bases in the Indian Ocean being able to stop the Chinese CBGs from being able to enter in the first place, when in fact the Chinese can just go to the IOR in-between Australia and Antarctica.