US-Bangladesh joint naval exercise begins at Bay of Bengal

[Bilal9]

Good for BD. IIRC the dorniers NGs have quite a few components made by HAL and then delivered to RUAG

Btw wats with the hate for BD navy? One can always aspire to operate the best in business.

My sentiments exactly. IMHO the P-8 is not at all well suited to patrol the Bangladesh EEZ, too fast and too much range. Bangladesh' EEZ area is minusucle compared to the huge long coastline India needs to patrol. so the P-8 is overkill for Bangladesh.

I have concluded after much thought and research that at maximum something the size of a small turboprop like the CASA IPTN (Nusantara) C-295 is very appropriate for Bangladesh...

(or a much more modern & capable design such as the EMBRAER P-99 MPA - given funds availability)

These have more than sufficient range and capability given the small EEZ area Bangladesh has.

It wasn't very long ago (at all) when the Do-228s and antiquated IL-38s filled India's MPA role. Looks familiar?
Bangladesh' Do-228's have more modern turboprops (longer range) but nothing wrong with playing it safe and testing the waters with an established platform. Eventually - something more modern will be inducted.

Pakistan Navy has operated long range dedicated MPA platforms like P-3s (as seen below) and Dassault Breguet Atlantiques

PN now operates the much smaller ATR-72 to replace the shorter-range Fokker F-27 MPA's that were in service with PN.

The ATR's above are 9 year old passenger platforms from Spain converted to Naval use - and may have been fitted with ASW and electronics after the fact. Maybe @Penguin sahab can shed some light on the reason why the shorter range ATR-72 MPA was picked recently over replacing larger P-3 patrol versions. But Pakistan's patrol area and EEZ maybe larger too.

That follows with the thought that maybe Bangladesh can also convert some 10 year old passenger turboprops like these to ASW and MPA usage at relatively reasonable cost.

 

[Bilal9]

pratham chobitay ki bhadralok half-pant poira ase?? @BDforever Bangalir jodi naam dubaisos to charum na.....!!!

The Half-shorts is an illusion. He is wearing a white tunic with a white pair of pants underneath. Bangladesh Navy senior officers' casual uniforms include a white tunic with a white belt unlike US Navy senior officers who wear white shirts tucked in. Of course for more formal occasions suits and even topcoats are called for. I believe senior Indian officers wear similar tunics with belt.

VADM Scott H. Swift, Commander, Seventh Fleet and Rear Adm. M. Farid Habib, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff for the Bangladesh Navy kicking off EX CARAT 2012.

Where are those turks, persians, afghans & arabians, they all look like typical desis!!

Turks, persians, afghans & arabians are smaller in number and they typically occupy the leadership spots in the armed services, there are better uses for their improved intellect.

Shame shame @BDforever

Btw where are more photos of the event?

Dhirey botsho dhirey. All in good time

 

[FNFAL]

t wasn't very long ago (at all) when the Do-228s and antiquated IL-38s filled India's MPA role. Looks familiar?
Bangladesh' Do-228's have more modern turboprops (longer range) but nothing wrong with playing it safe and testing the waters with an established platform. Eventually - something more modern will be inducted

Correct... The p8s bring a paradigm shift .But dont forget the Tu-142s and Tu-22s

 

[greatone]

Neither India nor China wants US meddling in BoB.
I hope you know what you are doing.

 

[Bilal9]

Correct... The p8s bring a paradigm shift .But dont forget the Tu-142s and Tu-22s

Ah yes the 'albatross', but I think the tu-142's are only used for longer range ASW missions.

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Neither India nor China wants US meddling in BoB.
I hope you know what you are doing.

Dada - US will meddle if they want to. Neither India nor China will want to mess with them. Their Navy operates on a different level compared to either of these countries - recent economic issues notwithstanding.

People in the US came up with drones tinkering in their garages. That takes thousands if not lakhs of dollars in either China or India and years and years to develop. Trying to mess with the US is futile. Their tech is _still_ way ahead of anything Asia has...

 

[greatone]

Dada - US will meddle if they want to. Neither India nor China will want to mess with them. Their Navy operates on a different level compared to either of these countries - recent economic issues notwithstanding.

People in the US came up with drones tinkering in their garages. That takes thousands if not lakhs of dollars in either China or India and years and years to develop. Trying to mess with the US is futile. Their tech is _still_ way ahead of anything Asia has...

American exceptionalism is a myth that yanks love to peddle and fools love to lap up.
Leaving brown nosing aside have a look at this

Us wants it 7th fleet in Chtg to provide air cover and refuelling to its Next Gen Bombers taking off from Diego Garcia for bombing runs into China bypassing the world's densest air defence zone on China's eastern seaboard.

If you want to know what happens when you fight someone else's war in your home, look at Pakistan.

 

[MohammadHaqueCA]

Well, BDs are really over excited for being able to shake hands with US Navy, but there is no flesh in that argument at all whatsoever. Against all the wishful hopes, the reality is other way around. Despite the conventional edge of US Naval forces, its China's expansionism and militaristic discipline that is haunting US for decades. If anyone feels that Dones are going to blow out all the Garages then don't forget that their Daisy Cutters couldn't achieve any result whatsoever in Afghanistan and Iraq even after 10 years. How about Vietnam, Korea, Nicaragua, Iran, Cuba, and the list goes on........Israel has been bludgeoning Palestinians for the last 60 years but every massacre further intensifies the zeal of Palestinian youngsters. They resurrected the struggle for freedom with little pebbles against tanks and missiles! China is not USA indeed, that I give you; but USA is not China either. BD doesn't need any enemy as long as Haseena is the leader. Bangladeshis are worst enemies of their own country and destiny. Pitty eh!

 

[BDforever]

American exceptionalism is a myth that yanks love to peddle and fools love to lap up.
Leaving brown nosing aside have a look at this

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Us wants it 7th fleet in Chtg to provide air cover and refuelling to its Next Gen Bombers taking off from Diego Garcia for bombing runs into China bypassing the world's densest air defence zone on China's eastern seaboard.

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If you want to know what happens when you fight someone else's war in your home, look at Pakistan.

we are very much aware of international politics. our armed forces do exercises with all parties.
our armed forces have balanced relations with foreign countries

Neither India nor China wants US meddling in BoB.
I hope you know what you are doing.

this is not first time USA in this region, if i am not wrong, USA and India do big exercises every year.

and we have this kind of exercise since 2010

 

[MohammadHaqueCA]

we are very much aware of international politics. our armed forces do exercises with all parties.
our armed forces have balanced relations with foreign countries

Whats "Balanced Relationship" when it comes to Armed Forces? Would you enlighten me on this newly minted strategic terminology?

 

[BDforever]

Whats "Balanced Relationship" when it comes to Armed Forces? Would you enlighten me on this newly minted strategic terminology?

we do exercises with India, Pakistan, Britain, China, France, USA etc. buy arms from almost all parties.
we have training facility in Sri lanka for BAF , Vietnam ( new training facility soon)
our arms partners:
USA
China
Pakistan
Belarus
Russia
Serbia
South Korea
Italy
Czech Republic
Britain
and so on

edit: we have base in middle east (kuwait) , it is not under UN. about 4,100 troops stationed there

 

[Narashima]

we are very much aware of international politics. our armed forces do exercises with all parties.
our armed forces have balanced relations with foreign countries

that's necessary for world peace. Without supapowa BD world would become a mess and congratualtion to USA who got an opportunity to do joint exercise with BD

Bangladesh zindabad

 

[BDforever]

that's necessary for world peace. Without supapowa BD world would become a mess and congratualtion to USA who got an opportunity to do joint exercise with BD

Bangladesh zindabad

arpi chaley ja eha sey

 

[Narashima]

arpi chaley ja eha sey

see like a true citizen of a supapowa. No matter how strong you are but you still remain down to earth

that's why i say
Bangladesh Zindabaad

Bangladesh amar rahe

 

[Zabaniyah]

We did exercises with the US often for a long time. This one is nothing special.

 

[Bilal9]

American exceptionalism is a myth that yanks love to peddle and fools love to lap up.

Leaving brown nosing aside have a look at this

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Well Mr. Armchair strategist, do you really think the US would post their China containment strategy so publicly. C'mon now

We've been reading a lot of Tom Clancy lately haven't we? Nice pretty picture...

It's fun to speculate the hell out of all these scenarios - but in the end you are as inconsequential to their ultimate strategy as anyone else.

And the minute you call people names like fool or brown-noser you start losing credibility. This is not being mature...

Us wants it 7th fleet in Chtg to provide air cover and refuelling to its Next Gen Bombers taking off from Diego Garcia for bombing runs into China bypassing the world's densest air defence zone on China's eastern seaboard.

Again - the US administration is not going to come out and tell you why they are being friendly with the Bangladesh Govt. I have met the Ambassador personally. He's a down to earth person and more popular in Dhaka than either of our two leader-ladies. They have given our Navy a couple of older USCG ships. They hold CARAT exercises with us almost every other year to get familiarity with our BofB naval conditions and I believe the reason is probably disaster recovery related. They also do this with the navies of Thailand and India. What is so special or unusual about this??

Bangladesh has strong interests in being friendly with the US. That's where the majority of our manufactured products go. End-of-story.

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If you want to know what happens when you fight someone else's war in your home, look at Pakistan.

Yeah thanks for your concern. Bangladesh is not Pakistan and vice-versa. We don't have Afghanistan next door and there are no Taliban sitting here either. I don't get the logic...