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JF-17 a downgrade from BDAF mig-29?really?lol.Russian and Chinese jets cost of maintenance is lower than American counterparts. For ex
A f-16 can take upto 26k $ per hour of flight maintenance. Mig 29 takes around 5500$.
I don't think jf-17 from mig is an upgrade. More downgrade tbh. However j-10 is a good deal and Bangladesh most probably will get those along with Russian jets... given we bought k-8 and yak-130 for training.
JF-17 a downgrade from BDAF mig-29?really?lol.
The F-7BGI is better than mig-29SE/SMT.
JF-17BLK-2 is better than anything BDAF currently fields,BLK-3 would be an overkill.
But are your blk 2 planes for sale? Is block 3 actually in production?
Beautiful pics! However unguided rockets fired from a Mig-29 doing air to ground isnt what i hope for.
Beautiful pics! However unguided rockets fired from a Mig-29 doing air to ground isnt what i hope for.
Reloading Vehicles.
What is this? Truck version of Fm90?
Oh I remember back when Bangladesh ordered 16 and then cancelled orders of 8 of them after Khaleda came to power... Russia increased the spare parts and maintenance cost. It was affordable else we wouldn't be requesting US for f-16 prior to mig purchase.
Khaleda just had to steal money nothing more nothing less. Wouldn't say hasina haven't done the same.
My guess is riyaj either quit Air Force when we decided to get mig 29 after f-16 request was rejected by USA or that he might have had done some kind of argument with his seniors about something and got dismissed? Who knows. There are many pictures of him training in f-16 in turkey.
Riyaj currently is a Bangladeshi actor making some meh to weird films for decades now.
I consider myself a nationalist and anti-BAL.... But I would strongly state that does not somehow makes me pro-BNP.
Nationalist first.....support of political party is situational on past record and policy position.
Party affiliation has nothing to do with being a nationalist.
Well, I have put in my observation about this whole fiasco before.
1. The planes were bought rather cheap, that's for sure.
2.But the operational & maintainance cost was away above the level of BAF budget.
3. Our economy was weak. No where near the boom we are seeing now. We were almost verge of defaulting on our import bills. The reserve was very low, just a mere $ 1 billion. Gov. had to stop paying import bills, cuz if foreign reserve goes below $ 1 billion your credit rating will be negative & no one will give you easy, soft loans for infrastructure or any other purposes.
4. In that regard it wasn't a practical decision to keep the planes on air & keep carrying maintainance bills.
5. And to my true knowledge BAF high command wasn't very pleased with the situation either. They didn't liked how only eight aircraft was eating up the budget of the whole fleet. So they grounded the fighters till proper funds can be managed & allocated.
Khaleda couldn't have done anything in that regard.
The plan of selling was just a stupid idea from the useless cronies of Khaleda, who wanted some piece from the cake but of course military top bruss taught them their place.
6. And Seikh Hasina was indeed found liable, proved in the court that she indeed had made a wrong decision & caused the state economic & monetary losses through this deal. And that was during the Military supported Care Taker government.
So you people can really easy down from you political bashing band wagon. It seems kids nowadays take it as fashion trend, bashing people for useless reasons, without knowing or understanding the facts & context of things.
I have seen Pics with BAF mig-29 carrying the aa-10. In fact one of those pics is my avatar. I am assuming they are real and not photoshopped. Moving forward I think it is prudent for BAF to embrace new capabilities and master them. in strictly air to air terms the most modern missiles BAF has are the archer and Alamo. Maybe get a platform that can mount sd-10? Or the newer Chinese missiles. Basically I know cash is short but for the future I hope capability, modern tactics and training are embraced. How about a stand off air to ground weapon? Or PGM capability? Things of that nature to give us an edge over Myanmar and some capability against India.
Yes they are and also block 111 are in production.But are your blk 2 planes for sale? Is block 3 actually in production?
BAF will buy Chinese.... I think the current BAL government won't entertain JF17 and there is no appetite for it in BAF having been evaluated. It's the J10 that BAF ideally wants..... Second and last option is russian jets.
Even though F-7 BG & BGIs are the latest of the series, still lack true capability of firing SD-10 as a BVR missile but it could be housed by adding new pylon under the belly. Having good/nearly BVR capable radars in F-7s would help firing it far and that's enough for BD's defensive posturing IMO. BRO, BAF's MIGs aren't SMTs but are updated UPGs. Those were bought as 2nd hands and until former Finance minister released over $100 millions, Ruskies refuse to upgrade'em to make flyable.If our new F7s are fitted with sd-10 which I read were near BVR capable missiles and these migs have been upgraded the SMT level surely they are also BVR capable. Can anyone with more technical knowledge regarding such thing comment.
These pics maybe just for show.... does not mean they lack the capacity.
Those are rare photos.
Thanks for sharing them...