Destranator
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It is widely believed(IN bdmillitary forum/fb group) that we actually ordered 16 migs in 1999 and after receiving the first 8, the newly formed BNP gov decided not to accept the delivery of the remaining 8 migs (some claim that we even had to pay the russians demurrage for not honoring the original agreement of 16 migs ). And these 8 migs were later sold to MM.
Edit: regarding the 'demurrage' BAF supposedly paid to the russains, the fella i was chatting with claimed thay we apparently paid the russians full price of the 8 migs. Im not aure how probable this 'situation' would be, (paying the price of 8 migs but not receiving them)
The above is quite possibly true except for the bold part.
The Russians had a good number of Fulcrums in storage so it is not necessary that they supplied those exact same undelivered units to MM.
Ashiq as usual might have made that bit up to berate MM and minimise the reality of UMAF operating a four times as large a fleet of Fulcrum conpared to BAF.