Bangladesh Air Force evaluating new 'Fighter-Trainer' aircrafts for purchase

[satishkumarcsc]

Stick with Hawk. It is a much more proven platform and is used by the USAF, USN, Royal air force and the Royal navy. It can be a great addition to the strike element of BAF.

And For fighter aircraft I will always prefer the Gripen. Small, Agile, can take-off in unprepared runways and has very high MTBO for most of it's parts...and Gripen-NG comes with the GE 414 engine. Can fire both European and American weapon systems. Its a great deal.

 

[bd_4_ever]

BAF should be careful with czech aircrafts as they have a high rate of accidents.

Really?? Thats news to me.


Cheers!!!

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Stick with Hawk. It is a much more proven platform and is used by the USAF, USN, Royal air force and the Royal navy. It can be a great addition to the strike element of BAF.

And For fighter aircraft I will always prefer the Gripen. Small, Agile, can take-off in unprepared runways and has very high MTBO for most of it's parts...and Gripen-NG comes with the GE 414 engine. Can fire both European and American weapon systems. Its a great deal.

Hawk is a costly aircraft and i doubt our cash-strapped force will go for an expensive trainer. UAE was selling off its Hawks AFAIK, but they charged a lot.

I think L-159 could be better as we have prior experience of operating L-39s.


Cheers!!!

 

[Zabaniyah]

BAF should be careful with czech aircrafts as they have a high rate of accidents.

Really? Actually, they are very reliable. And they never betray.

 

[satishkumarcsc]

Really?? Thats news to me.


Cheers!!!

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Hawk is a costly aircraft and i doubt our cash-strapped force will go for an expensive trainer. UAE was selling off its Hawks AFAIK, but they charged a lot.

I think L-159 could be better as we have prior experience of operating L-39s.


Cheers!!!

But it is a far more capable trainer. And also an attack aircraft. So I thought it would be a better choice.

 

[bdslph]

L39 seems like did not give us any problem So may be BAF will go for the L159 may be but there is still good trainers up there

 

[Major Shaheb]

The probability of going for L-159 Alca is more as BAF already have experience on L-39. Also, considering the future fighter aircraft under consideration and Alca is already been used by Check as Advanced Jet Trainer for JAS-39, I think BAF shall stick to Alca.

 

[CONTINUATOR]

The Chief of the Bangladesh Air force disclosed that BAF is seriously looking into some new aircrafts for fighter-trainer role. The list of the aircrafts being evaluated are:-

* Aero L-159 - Czech Republic

* Aermacchi M-346 - Russia

* BAE Hawk - UK

* KAI T-50 - South Korea

* Hongdu L-15 - China

* Guizhou FTC-2000 - China


What are your thoughts....members please share....

Source:- a PDF file on Bangladesh Air Force, received from FATMAN sir.


Cheers!!!

Old thread... All speculation were wrong.They settled for Yak-130.

 

[kobiraaz]

You can mark Aero L-159 (Czech Republic) as purchased and use me as the source. When the purchase is made public , buy me some sweets !

haha nice to read old threads...