Bilal9
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Air Exercise ‘Cope South 15’ in Bangladesh, part two:
U.S. Air Force and Bangladesh Air Force jointly exercised the ‘Cope South 15’. This tactical airlift exercise held to enhance operational capabilities between these two parties. The aim of the exercise was focused on bilateral tactical airlift exercise held at BAF Base Bangabandhu, Bangladesh. Aircraft participated in the air drill was one of the Bangladeshi C-130B and three C-130H Hercules aircraft from the USAF and 200 Bangladeshi airmen & 80 U.S. Airmen took part.
These USAF Hercs are based at Yokota AB in Japan. 374th Airlift Wing and 36th Airlift Squadron.
The 36th AS conducts theater airlift, special operations, aeromedical evacuation, search and rescue, repatriation and humanitarian relief missions with a C-130H Hercules mission-ready aircrew while being the only forward-based tactical airlift squadron in the Pacific.
I don't think at this point a lot of countries operate the tiny but lethal YAKs.
Myanmar will become the fourth export customer for the Yak-130 after Algeria(16), Bangladesh(16), and Belarus(4) when they get three later this year along with a simulator.
I read someplace that Bangladesh was also considering a new armored ground-attack variant (YAK-131) which is being bought by the Russian Air Force. This was meant to replace the SU-25 which was an A-10 Warthog analog i.e. tank-buster.
However there are more modern SU-25 variants from Sukhoi as well which offer much better performance (load carrying as well as better armor) than this converted trainer and have been refined over decades of actual combat experience.