Some people have serious problem with BAF and go bonkers if military miss a deadline.
BAF recovered and tackled Russia, Rohingya issue, budget and geopolitics quickly and went for 16 MRCA within three years which lot quicker than some other countries and now the only issue is COVID-19.
These were discussed numerous times that it's not that easy for BAF to select a fighter jet which will be operated for at least 30 years. You can't just expect an air force to switch to western jet from Russian-Chinese fighter overnight.
There are only three less problematic options left for BAF which are UK, France and China even though we heard govt is interested to buy MRCA from USA. No air force went through this much trouble to buy a single squadron of fighter jets i believe.
Even after seeing that BAF is on the final stage of MRCA procurement, some impatient guys are still suffering from serious "MRCA" trauma. Instead of thumping your chest about "MRCA" and insulting BAF's leadership on PDF every now and then how about you take charge of BAF and buy fighter jet on wholesale price in one year?
Otherwise keep your mouth shut and let BAF do their work. MRCA will come when it's time. We Bangladeshis have one serious problem. মুখে মুখে চাপার জোরেই সব কইরা ফেলতে পারি অন্যের সমালোচনা করার সময়, কাজের বেলায় ঠনঠন। And it’s most Bangladeshis addiction to criticize or give their ignorant/half-assed “X-part” opinion when they are not the professional or working on that project. এইসব মোল্লাদের দৌড় মসজিদ পর্যন্তই। PDF এ "মহাপন্ডিতরা" troll আর bash করা ছাড়া আর কোন বালও ফালানোর ক্ষমতা রাখে না। আবার BAF এর বাল ফালানো নিয়া চিন্তা করে।
No one's going to let you manufacture spare parts for buying 16/32 fighter jets nor you will get assembly line for buying just four aircraft. Also it's foolish to compare American and Bangladeshi people in manufacturing aircraft. Not every Bangladeshi has garage in our house nor we have that kinda education-equipment-money and necessity to make aircraft in our backyard.
Think about where our country was 10 years ago before comparing BD with USA, India and Indonesia which are 100/50+ years ahead of us. Maybe we are behind those countries but at least we are taking initiatives to be self-sufficient. You are comparing BD with other countries and saying that it's not easy to manufacture aircraft at the same time.
Do you even listen to yourself? Further stop finding Indian/RAW involvement in everything like a paranoid person. Land is scarce in BD. Lalmonirhat already have an airstrip and under BAF control so it won't need to be built from scratch. Unless we have proper SAM and counter-artillery coverage nothing can be done about Indian artillery attack.
How's MRCA procurement relevant to building aircraft locally? One is for air superiority/defense and other for self-dependency. If Bangladesh can manufacture even a small UAV (which they kinda do actually) then what is your problem? BAF is trying to be self-dependent to reduce the cost since they started overhauling PT-6 and Bell-212 locally.
Now we have four MRO plants for our mainstay fighters, helicopters and trainers. These plants can be used for aircraft production too in future. In a video about 216 MRO plant an officer hoped that will build helicopter which is not impossible. So why do we need to stop progressing towards self-dependency just because MRCA procurement is getting delayed? Who said two project can't progress parallelly?
Another thing I noticed that people cry about trainers often. How many trainers did we actually buy? 16 Yak-130 AJT which was for future Russian MRCA (before situation got fucked up), ground attack role and to replace A-5. 9 K-8W were order to supplement the L-39Z fleet, now 7 more are coming to replace them. And now 24 basic trainers to supplement those obsolete PT-6 which we call “flying coffin”, “sixth generation stealth fighter” etc. So tell me how buying those trainers is wrong?
And what's wrong with manufacturing trainers? According to wiki BAF operates 50 PT-6, according to Defseca it’s 60+ but according to President’s speech in 2016, the 210 MRO plant for PT-6 overhauled 122 PT-6 trainer till then. So suppose we have requirement for 74 basic trainers minimum including the 24 trainers we are looking to buy currently.
Manufacturing and MRO them locally will obviously save up lot of money and time (Considering a KT-1 cost $7 million). It can open more job opportunities, provide more experienced personnel and increase possibilities to build different types of aircraft in future.
To do that I think BAC and 210 MRO plant is enough as it’s overhauling PT-6 for at least decades. They are also doing some assembly and parts manufacturing like MAF does for their PT-6 locally AFAIK. We need to do some changes, buy some necessary equipments and train our guys.
FYI Bangladesh doesn’t need to build every component of Nasimon or manufacture needle. We don’t need to build train first before making plane either or manufacture every components of aircraft. Also Bangladesh already set-up sub-sonic wind tunnels in BAFA, BMA, Jessore Air Base and MIST with assistance from Tecquipment, a UK based company .
I understand people’s frustration, anger over some issue but immaturely saying the same stuff every time makes you sound like nothing but an irritating idiot and retard. That officer is a VC of a Aviation University talking in to teachers, principal and at least 100 students of one of the best colleges in Dhaka. There were facts in those officers statement. You think they were telling BS in front all those people or when talking about Boeing-Airbus, UK based company?
Did Boeing-Airbus refute his statement? Did you forget about Saudi-French interest in our aviation sector? Did it even occur to you what those student would think about those officers if their statements doesn’t become reality within 2021-22?
Watch the video carefully. VC clearly said that it might delay a bit due to COVID-19 but BAF MIGHT start working on aircraft production in 2021.
Based on what information you labeled such positive news as propaganda? If we can progress in shipbuilding, automobile industry why won’t we able to do the same in aviation/aerospace sector? Delay or not, if Allah and govt wills it, we will manufacture aircraft in our soil Insh-Allah!! Screw all these negative mindsets!!
Bangladesh Military Academy invests heavily in new equipment for teaching engineering students.
www.tecquipment.com
www.ayva.ca
President Md Abdul Hamid has asked Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) to be more sagacious in using munition bought with public money.
bdnews24.com
JESSORE, Apr 6: President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday stressed the need for bringing changes in the education and training programmes of Bangladesh Air Forces (BAF) keeping pace with the world.
www.observerbd.com
No one said anything about assembling anything. We are jumping to an conclusion too early without much info. Please don't post that ugly bird's photo, make me nauseous. Also i don't see any chance for CJ-7 or it's Russian variant as we are noticing they are interested to work with Western parties. I hope i am right.
DUP is shitty channel as well as all the Youtube channels reporting about military. Better stick to local, international defense websites, DGDP, ISPR and websites, social media profile of defense companies and MoD of different countries.
Oy-hoy music to my ear.
I would love to see your embarrassed bald head on PDF.
It's not like everyday we see one PDF member's face here. But unfortunately nobody talked about rolling out aircraft from production line in 2021 except commencing the project. So chill. But if you still say that you will do it even if they start that project in 2021 then i am very much interested.
Is the bet still on?
You shiny bald head on PDF of course.
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