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Rosoboronexport team left BD in September after negotiations..... but haven't heard of anything concrete regarding the $1bn deal since then..... anyone has any update?

I'm not going into its purchase procedure, about which everyone can have justifiable doubt.... a submarine is a submarine, whether its old junk or a brand new state-of-the-art thingy.... and thats why the Indian Navy publicly expressed their concern.... why do we have to think that there's...

India's interventions are at a level that is difficult to talk about in an open forum.... and even if there's a great effort to hide that intervention, BD ppl are already aware of it.... you have to see how a large majority of the pro-AL, pro-BNP, pro-Left, pro-nobody ppl openly talked about...

this LAV looks like this one...... so..... this is an Otokar Cobra I.... the earlier version.... not the new version that we discussed at the top of this post.... does anyone have any idea how many of the Cobars been bought by BA?

a bit of correction - we already have the Pak-made HJ-8, the Baktar Shikan.... Bangladesh bought 200 Baktar Shikan missiles in 2003....

well, obviously we would love to get a couple of those!!.... yet to know (if ever) the real reason behind ordering old Type 035G subs.... the publicly available info would always indicate towards funding and priority... but its true that BN even approached Italy and Germany for second-hand...

well, budget may be the issue.... but that still doesn't properly describe why an off-the-shelf submarine would require 5 years to deliver.... training would obviously require a submarine... and justifies the earliest delivery.... so, that the training can start!..... if you say, its more...

thanks for the explanation..... well, that training period explains some of it, but not all of it.... our navy guys are being trained in more than one country in submarine warfare for quite a few years now.... and if I'm not wrong these two subs would be for training purpose more than anything...

I thought this thread was all about BN sub purchase!! well, what I'm not getting clear about is that if we're getting old Ming-class subs, there's no point in getting them by 2019, which is still 5+ years from now!!.... so, either the reported date is wrong, or the report of second-hand subs is...

our history tells us that there is a profound inclination towards second-hand ships.... HMS Roebuck (launched 1985) - BN commission 2010 (25 years) Castle-class vessels (built 1979-1981) - BN commission 2010 (29 years) USCGS Jarvis (launched 1971) - BN transfer 2013 (42 years) Type 053H2...

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by January 2014, BN should have the following 'key' units in its flotilla: Frigates: 1 Modified Ulsan-class (BNS Bangabandhu, F25) 1 Type 053H1 (BNS Osman, F18) 1 Modified Secretary-class (BNS Somudra Joy, F28) 2 Type 053H2 arriving in Jan 2014 (1 more Secretary-class on order 3 old British...

and I hope its known to everyone by now that BNS Somudra Joy (F28) is not gonna be alone.... its sister ship is coming soon from the USCG.... "Mozena announced that another ship, just like of Somudra Joy, will be inducted in the navy and those could work together to ensure security of...

and thats why I said, you can never guarantee 100% success against submarines... seems very much like it... read about Mach 6 aircraft regularly flying over the US and the UK many years ago... that is, after the retirement of the SR-71, when no hypersonic aircraft was available.... many...

you have a point here regarding choke-points, but merchant convoys have to cross open oceans before they can go through guarded choke-points.... however you think, you can never underestimate a submarine... remember that in wartime, most subs are not likely to operate against heavily defended...

ha ha.... technically a lotta things are possible.... and thats exactly where the problem lies.... submarines can use noise, water temperature and the sea floor to their advantage.... especially if they're in the right hands.... if only submarine size stuff could be detected by sonars, it...

never underestimate a submarine whatever design it is.... there's no equipment on earth that can detect a submarine (whatever the tech) with 100% success.... you'll need a lotta ships and aircraft (with proper training and experience) to find a single sub within an area of the size of the Bay...

see, if we start an ethnic cleansing in our country and push several hundred thousand people across the border into India, you may not like it.... and after that, if we refuse to get the refugees back for 15 years (and regularly push more refugees), you may not like that too.... isn't it? in...

its right-hand driven!

well spotted! :)