Rafale For Bangladesh? 1st Time In 33 Years, French President Visits Dhaka As Dassault & Eurofighter Compete For BAF Deal

[White and Green with M/S]

France is anti-Muslim.

So why they sell rafale to Egypt and Qatar??? If they are anti-muslim???

 

[saif]

So why they sell rafale to Egypt and Qatar??? If they are anti-muslim???

........and UAE. France has sold 80 RAFALE to UAE in a defense deal signed recently.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

So why they sell rafale to Egypt and Qatar??? If they are anti-muslim???

French will sell their mothers for money.

The question is where is the Imaan of BD to buy from France.

 

[White and Green with M/S]

French will sell their mothers for money.

The question is where is the Imaan of BD to buy from France.

Oh where comes Imaan here rafale is one of the best fighter out there and you refer BD should buy J-10C from China and China is more anti Muslim than France forget ughair concentration camps

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

Oh where comes Imaan here rafale is one of the best fighter out there and you refer BD should buy J-10C from China and China is more anti Muslim than France forget ughair concentration camps

Uyghurs are terrorists.

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is an UN designated terrorist organization.

EASTERN TURKISTAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT | United Nations Security Council

www.un.org

 

[White and Green with M/S]

Uyghurs are terrorists.

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is an UN designated terrorist organization.

EASTERN TURKISTAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT | United Nations Security Council

www.un.org

Oh bhai but they are Muslims also just like Taliban

 

[Falcon26]

Bangladesh is in such a situation that leading European defense consortiums are competing to sell them their lead products. This is what political stability and uninterrupted economic growth does.

Ps

The meltdown by the Hindu nationalists, fueled by religious bigotry, is expected as it pains them to see any nation progress in South Asia.

 

[leonblack08]

Rafale For Bangladesh? 1st Time In 33 Years, French President Visits Dhaka As Dassault & Eurofighter Compete For BAF Deal​

By
Ritu Sharma
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September 11, 2023
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With Eurofighter Typhoon and Dassault Rafale locked in a competition to win the contract to supply fighter jets for Bangladesh Air Force (BAF), French President Emmanuel Macron quickly dashed to Dhaka. The visit from a French President to Bangladesh has come after 33 years.

Bangladesh plans to modernize its armed forces under the Forces Goals 2030. Under the plan, the BAF already inducted 16 Chengdu J-7 fighter jets from China. Apart from this, Bangladesh floated a tender for eight Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA) in the financial year 2017-2018. The tender can order four more aircraft in the second tranche.

The BAF was actively scouring the contenders when COVID-19 threw a spanner in its modernization plans. India has also put its indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) in the fray and is trying to leverage its geographical contiguity. Bangladesh, however, is leaning towards a European fighter jet.

“Bangladesh will likely opt for a European aircraft – Eurofighter Typhoon or French Rafale. But nothing is final before the next elections,” the Bangladeshi official told the EurAsian Times. “With Rafale being operated by the Indian Air Force, the odds of a Eurofighter Typhoon have increased,” the official added.

India has inducted 36 Rafales in its air force and is purchasing 26 Rafale M for its navy for aircraft-based operations. The induction into the IAF has changed the fortune of Rafale, manufactured by the French airspace major Dassault.

The hope that the fighter jet deal for BAF will not be finalized until next year could have been one of the factors in bringing the French President’s visit to Bangladesh to fruition at the 11th hour. President Macron was in India attending the G-20 summit when it was decided that he would be in Dhaka for the historic two-day visit to further the bilateral ties between the two countries.

France-Bangladesh relations have witnessed a significant boost over the last several years, and the bilateral trade between the two countries is worth over three billion Euros. Bangladesh’s first-ever satellite, Bangabandhu-1, was made by the French company Thales.

Dassault Rafale Vs. Eurofighter Typhoon Dogfight​

Rafale and Eurofighter are two contemporaries of military aviation, which have been locked in fierce competition several times. Both medium-weight aircraft have European origins.

Five European countries initially came together to build a European fighter jet. There would have been no Rafale had France not parted ways from the consortium because of disagreements over the features and capabilities of the fighter jet.


The UK, Germany, Spain, and Italy wanted an air superiority fighter, drawing their lessons from the Cold War. France, on the other hand, wanted a lightweight fighter jet with more navy-capable weapons.

Professor Justin Bronk, Senior Research Fellow for Airpower and Military Technology at Royal United Services Institute, while enunciating the difference between the two fighter jets, said: “With common DNA in terms of initial development and requirements setting work before France split away from what became the Eurofighter consortium to develop the Rafale, it is unsurprising that both aircraft have relatively similar design philosophies compared to their competitors globally.”

“The biggest source of differences comes from the French requirement that the basic airframe design be suitable for CATOBAR carrier operations, which carries particular requirements in relatively high-alpha, low-speed handling, especially with external stores still attached,” Prof. Bronk adds.

Dassault’s Rafale is a twin-engine fighter jet capable of carrying out long- and short-range missions. True to its categorization of ‘omni-role,’ the aircraft can be deployed for surveillance, air-to-ground strikes, and air-to-air dogfights and can even carry tactical nuclear weapons. The aircraft operates in the French Navy and French Air Force.

The aircraft is also battle-proven, having participated in Afghanistan, Mali, Libya, Syria, and Iraq.

The French Air and Space Force (FASF) operates the F3-R standard version of Rafale. It was developed and launched at the end of 2013 and was inducted into the FASF in 2018. This fighter jet version is an upgraded version of the Rafale F3 standard. The F3-R version carries the Meteor long-range-air-to-air missile produced by MBDA.

It is equipped with the Thales Talios new-generation laser designator pod that gives it high precision in air-to-ground strikes. It also has a laser-homing version of the Safran Air-to-Ground Modular Weapon, from which comes its capability to destroy targets at ranges of several tens of kilometers with metric precision. It is also adapted to strike mobile targets. The sensors in this version have also been upgraded to ensure interoperability.

When it comes to weapons, the Indian Rafale is a beast. The Indian Rafale has 14 hard points, allowing it to carry a payload of over nine tons. The Indian-specific enhancements include Air-Air Surface Missiles Hammer, SCALP ‘Storm Shadow’ long-range air-ground cruise missile, and Meteor air-air missiles with more range and accuracy. Meteor gives Indian Rafales the capability to shoot down enemy aircraft over 100 kilometers without crossing the border.

Rafale emerged as the preferred aircraft among various contenders in the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) competition for the Indian Air Force in what was then called the biggest military aviation contract in the world. Its closest contender was Eurofighter’s Typhoon. The tender was canceled, and the Indian government purchased 36 Rafales directly from the French government.

Eurofighter Typhoon is a delta-winged, beyond-visual-range, close-air fighter aircraft with surface attack capability. The Eurofighter can ‘supercruise’ or fly at sustained speeds over Mach 1 without needing an afterburner.

File Image: Rafale Fighter
French pilot Pierre-Henri Chuet, who took Dassault Rafale M into combat in Iraq, while talking about Eurofighter Typhoon, said in an interview with Hush-Kit Aviation: “I don’t know why they are compared so often – it’s not the same design, ideas or philosophy. We’re a truly omni-role platform.

“Typhoons are great; they use their big engines at 40,000 feet. I can’t count how many times I’ve shot down Typhoons at 45,000 feet in the contrails. And my radar was off, everything off; I was coming from 100 feet below, supersonic in the climb from below. Absolutely undetected. So, I have absolutely no fear of the Typhoons.”

He says that the Typhoon’s performance at high altitudes is exemplary. “But as a Rafale pilot, I’m stupid if I take him on like that, so I’m going to move the combat a bit. I’ll fake combat at 50,000 feet, and I’m going to send a guy sneakily low level to surprise the Typhoon; it’s easier than you think!”

The two aircraft are highly unlikely to face each other in combat. Talking about formidable air defenses against Rafale, Chuet said: “I am not sure an aircraft’s stealth is going to make much difference anyway against very modern stuff. We are not afraid of low-level penetrations in the French Air Force.” “So come and get me with your (Russian) S-400 if I’m at 200 feet above the ground — that’s not going to happen anytime soon,” he said.

• Ritu Sharma has been a journalist for over a decade, writing on defense, foreign affairs, and nuclear technology.
• She can be reached at ritu.sharma (at) mail.com

Rafale For Bangladesh? 1st Time In 33 Years, French President Visits Dhaka As Dassault & Eurofighter Compete For BAF Deal

With Eurofighter Typhoon and Dassault Rafale locked in a competition to win the contract to supply fighter jets for Bangladesh Air Force (BAF), French President Emmanuel Macron quickly dashed to Dhaka. The visit from a French President to Bangladesh has come after 33 years. Bangladesh plans to...

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Eurasian Times is one of those Indian sites which has a history of peddling fake news.

I will reserve my comments until there is an official announcement. It always starts with a story from an untrustworthy source, few days of hype and then years of silence. We have been through this cycle far too many times in the last decade to fall for it again.

 

[pikkuboss]

French will sell their mothers for money.

The question is where is the Imaan of BD to buy from France.

Where is your imaan selling JF to Myanmar prompting Bangladesh to spend hard earned dollars on fighter planes?

 

[saif]

The question is where is the Imaan of BD to buy from France.

Firstly, I am 90% suren that BAF won't buy RAFALE from France because these birds are prohibitively expensive. BAF would rather go for Chinese J-10D.
Secondly, PAF bought dozens of MIRAGE fighter planes from France in the past. So, please don't bring the imaan issue here.

 

[Hellfire2006]

Didn’t those mighty warriors kneel down and beg for mercy from the Chinese soldiers

I hope you know that sikkim was taken by india under chinese nose in 1975

Kuch bhi huh.........kuch bhi.......

Entire Bangladesh army has 10 infantry divisons with 1 armoured brigade equipped with weak light tanks and 1960s era type 59s. Bangladeshi divisions are smaller in terms of manpower and equipment than indian divisions. Indian Eastern command alone has 12 infantry and mountain divisions with 4 corps including one strike corps and 12 assam rifles sector brigades under them. They also have an armoured division in reserve as well as multiple indepdenent armoured brigades.

 

[@blue Ocean]

I hope you know that sikkim was taken by india under chinese nose in 1975


Entire Bangladesh army has 10 infantry divisons with 1 armoured brigade equipped with weak light tanks and 1960s era type 59s. Bangladeshi divisions are smaller in terms of manpower and equipment than indian divisions. Indian Eastern command alone has 12 infantry and mountain divisions with 4 corps including one strike corps and 12 assam rifles sector brigades under them. They also have an armoured division in reserve as well as multiple indepdenent armoured brigades.

Yes, BD has only 10 divisions. But, that little @saif thinks with his power BA is capable of annihilating both Burma and India together.

By the way, do not brag about Indian troop mobilization in the NE. They will be annihilated without food and arms. Read the geography and try to understand why India makes no trouble with BD, and why China chose not to part with BD.

 

[leonblack08]

Entire Bangladesh army has 10 infantry divisons with 1 armoured brigade equipped with weak light tanks and 1960s era type 59s. Bangladeshi divisions are smaller in terms of manpower and equipment than indian divisions. Indian Eastern command alone has 12 infantry and mountain divisions with 4 corps including one strike corps and 12 assam rifles sector brigades under them. They also have an armoured division in reserve as well as multiple indepdenent armoured brigades.

What a fanboy comment. Comparing tanks and infantry divisions

You do realize that in case of any war between Bangladesh and India, it won't be a conventional one? Everyone is well aware of India's superiority against Bangladesh. There won't be any large scale head to head tank battle, nor will there be dog fights in the air. India will dominate the airspace and invade land within 24-48 hours.

If there is ever a war, it will be a war of attrition. Bangladesh army and civilians will immediately resort to guerilla warfare and insurgency against the occupying Indian force. Good luck fighting with 170 million people.

 

[Hellfire2006]

Yes, BD has only 10 divisions. But, that little @saif thinks with his power BA is capable of annihilating both Burma and India together.

not surprised that's bound to happen when one eats radical propaganda 24/7

By the way, do not brag about Indian troop mobilization in the NE. They will be annihilated without food and arms

They will not be annihilated in the wildest of dreams, Despite all the talk the fact remains that siliguri corridor is impregnable for china. The chinese would have to navigate through 150kms of high himalayan Mountains just to even reach the tip of the siliguri Plain. It's impossible for the PLA to target siliguri corridor physically with large force concentration. Those who have studied geography know this.
BD is no threat militarily

Read the geography and try to understand why India makes no trouble with BD, and why China chose not to part with BD.

india has no reason to be hostile to BD. Indian govt views BD as a good friend. Although if india wants it can easily annex a few sq kms of land in the north of BD easily to widen the siliguri corridor.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

Where is your imaan selling JF to Myanmar prompting Bangladesh to spend hard earned dollars on fighter planes?

Myanmar is not anti-Muslim.

Rohingya issue is about illegal immigrants just like illegal Afghans in Pakistan.

Rohingyas are BD people.