You come up with as many excuses as you like but culpability lies with BAF.
If BD does not have money why bother with floating a tender? Why create a single source tender only to have it fail, what prework was done beforehand. Where does the blame lies.
You probably do not have experience of tendering process so you are making such statements. It’s ok, but let me tell you who does work in this area that a tender only goes out following extensive preparatory work where you examine the market, you examine potential bidders, you assess your own power dynamics vis-a-vis potential sellers etc.
A failed tender comes down to the purchasing company never the sellers. Don’t believe me please go canvass any procurement specialist.
Stop perpetuating excuse for BAF failures to nonsense such as there is going to be delay because of upcoming sham election. Why should this matter, BD is not a democracy with an effective opposition so that political “purdah” comes into effect prior to election. Anyhow military purchases if transparent should be above political calculus.
Disbanding BAF will have great advantage. The resources could be diverted to effective organisation such as BN and BA.
Currently BAF is a force that will fail at every level to defend our skies. Would you disagree with this basic statement?
If you accept that BAF is a failed organisation then it comes down to what to do with it. I propose starting over as it is rotten to the core and it can not be reformed.
At some point you need to cut your losses and face reality. An ineffective Air Force is not in BDs interest, we need to defend our skies and BAF can’t do it as demonstrated during the rohingya debacle. Holding on to this white elephant fundamentally degrades our security.
We need to look to the future and be honest with ourselves. We need to innovatively maximise our defense capacity within our means and in response to our enemies. We are in a situation I believe where we actually do not have an airforce.
It’s a terrible reality but without acceptance of this we can not move forward.
Having accepted this we need to set goals. First denial of our air space via multilayered missile capabilities. Who is best to direct such an initiative, I would say BA.
Second objective extension of missile capacity beyond our borders to restrict operational freedom of the enemy. Again army or a new missile focused defense arm with clear doctrine is necessary.
Third objective develop an effective offensive airforce. look at options and develop as best as possible as quickly as possible with a rebranding and a new purpose that dumps BAF and it’s legacy of utter failure since inception.
