then why are we having load sheedings for 2-3 hours a day? I admit, things were fine for the last couple of years, but FROM this YEAR load sheddings are getting much more frequent; i wonder why.
I have to agree with you; my general perception with BAL government was that it was something of a necessary evil; but now after some recent "debacles" i no longer believe that.
Kinda ironic that AL chose to antagonize themselves by opposing this;
if they peacefully gave in to the demands of the general students and reformed the quota structure to acceptable levels (if 10% was too low, 15-20% would've been acceptable to the majority) , then they were guaranteed 3-4...
we all agree on the importance of procuring these fighters. I am simply pointing out, it is not financially practical for BD to purchase them without any loans. If sweden offers us a loan, then fine. But if they don't (and there is a good chance that they won't) GoB wont spend $2B dollars...
We may have a $56B budget this year, but our foreign reserve is just $33B. that maybe further reduced due to increased imports and lower remittance being sent from abroad.
EDIT: @UKBengali our last major defense procurement of $1Billion was due to a loan by russia Do you really think we can...
"Just" 400 million is still quite a lot. We would be paying just over 1% of our *foreign reserve* for 5 years. I don't think Finance ministry will approve. And like I said, we could procure 12 Su-35s for the same price.
That being said,
lifecycle cost maybe cheaper, but the unit cost of gripen NGs are still expensive. Brazil bought 36 of them at $160 mil a piece (the figure includes 25 years of maintenance cost (?) and weaponry) BD doesn't have that sort of cash lying around, unless the swede's offer us a...