Bangladesh Armed Forces

mack8 wrote:More BAF Yak-130s in testing at the factory:

nice

is Bangladesh using the Yak 130 in an armed role? or as trainer only? as the pic above suggests likely to be used armed as well. any info???

Interesting small targeting pod on the last image (Yellow thing on the fuselage side closest to the camera... about the size of the R-73 dummy...)

With thermal imaging, GLONASS, and a laser rangefinder/target marker it should allow the aircraft to detect and attack a range of targets with laser and TV guided weapons on the ground and in the air.

GarryB wrote:Interesting small targeting pod on the last image (Yellow thing on the fuselage side closest to the camera... about the size of the R-73 dummy...)

With thermal imaging, GLONASS, and a laser rangefinder/target marker it should allow the aircraft to detect and attack a range of targets with laser and TV guided weapons on the ground and in the air.

I am quite sure it is a gun pod.

It is the gun pod.

The front of it is very open... is it a twin barrel system where the barrels can be lowered?

It seems rather small to me to be a gun pod.

Of course if it was a targeting pod the large open front lower part would be designed to pivot left and right to maximise field of view and it does not seem to have that capability just looking at the image.

I would think a small targeting pod would be rather more use than a gun pod...

Hi Garry, it's a gun pod with a GSh-23L in it (i can't recall what is called now though). Not sure about the depression capability for the gun pod, but as to targeting systems there have been already tests with such a system mounted both on top of the nose and inside it.

Gun pod:

For some reason looking at the original photo my brain seemed to tell me the pod was offset to the side of the fuselage... but looking there it is centrally mounted.
that looks like a custom fitted pod like the one fitted to the MiG-21 and MiG-23 rather than a wing pylon fitted twin barrel 23mm cannon like the fixed UPK-23-250 or the SPPU-22 where the guns can elevate from 0 degrees to -30 degrees down.

The Bangladesh Naval Forces introduced two former Chinese submarines

On March 12, 2017, at the Issa Khan Naval Base in Chittagong, an official ceremony was held for the introduction into the Bangladesh Navy of two diesel-electric submarines Nabojatra and Joyjatra bought in China (the names are translated roughly as New Way and Victory Road). Boats of Chinese construction project 035G (western designation class Ming) were previously part of the PLA Navy and now became the first submarines in the history of the Bangladeshi fleet. The ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina and members of the government and the country's top military leadership.



http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2491730.html

China and Bangladesh signed a contract for the supply of aviation equipment worth 1 billion $?

According to the user of the Twitter network East Pendulum, a contract worth $ 1 billion was allegedly signed between Bangladesh and the PRC for the supply of 16 J-10B fighters, seven K-8W training aircraft, one Y-20 military transport aircraft (the first known Export contract - bmpd), one KJ-200 aircraft and other types of weapons.

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2643443.html

Yak-130 aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force crashed

According to the Bangladeshi media, on the afternoon of July 11, 2017, in the Lochagor area south of Chittagong, the combat training aircraft Yak-130 crashed (board number 15102, short number 102, serial number 130.12.02-0102) from the 21st Squadron Air Force Bangladesh from the air base Zahur (Zahur) near Chittagong. Both pilots (vangu-commander Nazmul and squadron leader Kvamrul) successfully catapulted.



Recall that the contract for the supply of Bangladesh 16 combat training aircraft Yak-130 (with an option for another eight) was concluded by Rosoboronexport in 2013 in the framework of the loan provided by Moscow to the country for $ 1 billion to purchase military products. The first Yak-130, built by the Irkutsk Aviation Plant (part of the Irkut Corporation Corporation) for Bangladesh under this contract (the aircraft with serial number 130.12.02-0101, Bangladesh airborne number "15101" and "short" number "101" ) Made the first flight in Irkutsk on April 29, 2015, and the second - the now broken board (with serial number 130.12.02-0102, Bangladesh number "15102" and "short" number "102") made its first flight to Irkutsk on May 5, 2015 of the year.

The first six Yak-130 combat training planes built for Bangladesh (factory numbers from 130.12.02-0101 to 130.12.02-0106, Bangladesh airborne numbers from 15101 to 15106) were delivered from Irkutsk to Dhaka airport by An-124-100 transport aircraft Russian airline Volga-Dnepr on September 22-23, 2015, and the Bangladesh Air Force was formally launched on December 6, 2015. Another eight Yak-130 aircraft (factory numbers from 130.12.02-0107 to 130.12.02-0114, Bangladeshi side numbers from 15104 to 15114) were delivered to Bangladesh at the end of 2015, and the last two (factory numbers 130.12.02-0115 And 130.12.02-0116, Bangladeshi side numbers 15115 and 15116) - in 2016.

The Yak-130 aircraft entered the arsenal of the 21st squadron of the "Avengers" Air Force of Bangladesh, which is stationed at the Zahur airbase near Chittagong and until November 2014 was equipped with Chinese A-5S fighter bombers and FT-6 combat training aircraft.

Bangladesh became the third recipient of the Yak-130 outside the Russian Federation after Algeria (which received 16 aircraft in 2011) and Belarus (which received eight aircraft from April 2015 to 2016). In 2016, deliveries of Yak-130 aircraft to Myanmar were also started. The July 11, 2017 accident of the Yak-130 plane of the Bangladesh Air Force was the first loss of a car of this type abroad.

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2724697.html

well, this stuff is insured, so they will probably be getting a new one soon.

wonder what caused it?

miketheterrible wrote:well, this stuff is insured, so they will probably be getting a new one soon.

wonder what caused it?

So far it says, its the problem in fly by wire system. Can't post the link right now as I'm new.

Bangladesh received two more former Italian corvette

According to Italian resources, on October 12, 2017, at the Italian shipbuilding association Fincantieri in Mudgiano (Spice), a ceremony was held for the transfer of the last two Italian corvettes from four ships of the Minerva type, acquired by Bangladesh and upgraded to patrol ships, to the coast guard of Bangladesh. On October 12, the former corvettes F 552 Urania and F 553 Danaide, withdrawn from the BMC of Italy in March 2016, were transferred to the Bangladesh Coast Guard with the new names PL 74 Kamruzzaman and PL 73 Mansoor Ali.



On 4 March 2015, the Government of Bangladesh approved the purchase of four Minerva corvettes from the Italian fleet for the newly formed coast guard of the country, with a purchase price of 105 million euros. Under the terms of the agreement, the ships were transferred to Bangladesh in pairs in 2016 and 2017 after repairs and upgrades at the facilities of the Italian association Fincantieri, which acts as a contractor for the supply of the Corvettes being written off by the Italian fleet to Bangladesh.

The first two corvettes F 551 Minerva and F 558 Sibilla, rebuilt into patrol ships and received the new Bangladeshi names PL 71 Syed Nazrul and PL 72 Tajuddin, were transferred to Bangladesh on August 4, 2016.

All Bangladesh ships of this type are named after the leaders of the struggle for independence of Bangladesh from the Awami League, executed after the coup on August 15, 1975, and, accordingly, are designated in Bangladesh as a type of Leader. These ships have become the largest units of the Coast Guard of Bangladesh.

In total, the Italian Navy had eight corvettes of the Minerva type with a standard displacement of about 1300 tons, built by the Fincantieri association and put into operation in 1987-1991.

Works on the repair and modernization for Bangladesh of the former Italian corvettes were carried out by Fincantieri at a ship repair plant at the Italian naval base Agusta in Genoa, with subsequent upgrading to Mudgiano. During the conversion to patrol ships from the corvettes, all weapons were dismantled, and a 25 mm single-barreled automatic Oerikon KBA was installed on the site of the Oto Melara Compact 76-mm artillery. The service life of the ships has been extended by more than 20 years.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/2893730.html

In Bangladesh, a Mi-171Sh helicopter crashed with the chief of the general staff of the armed forces of Kuwait

As reported by the Kuwaiti media, on January 3, 2018, a helicopter Mi-171Sh (air number "648") of the Bangladesh Air Force crashed near the city of Sylhet in the east of Bangladesh with a high-ranking Kuwaiti military delegation of four men, headed by the chief of the general staff of the armed forces of Kuwait Lieutenant-General Mohammed Khaled al-Khader. Fortunately, none of those who were in the helicopter died, and people got off only with bruises and minor injuries.



It is reported that on approach to Sylhet the helicopter with the Kuwaiti military delegation sent there in the conditions of a strong fog decreased below the maximum permissible altitude of flight, touched the tree and collapsed to the ground, breaking the tail beam.

The Mi-171Sh helicopter (the "648" side number) produced by Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant JSC was delivered to Bangladesh in 2007 among three vehicles under the first contract with the Russian side for the purchase of helicopters of this modification. In 2013-2016, Bangladesh received 16 more Mi-171Sh and one Mi-171E helicopters under the next three contracts, and in June 2017 signed another five Mi-171Sh helicopters.

This incident was the second loss of the Mi-171Sh helicopter in the Bangladesh Air Force. May 13, 2015 Mi-171Sh (board number "410") crashed as a result of forced landing during a training flight in Chittagong, with the death of one of the crew members.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3035032.html

Bangladesh purchased two medium-sized military transport aircraft Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules from the UK Royal Air Force . The purchase was not disclosed in the intergovernmental agreement, but it became known from the information of the British group Marshall Aerospace and Defense Group about its conclusion on May 10, 2018 contract for long-term technical support of these two aircraft in the Air Force of Bangladesh, after which the acquisition of two former British aircraft C-130J was confirmed by the representative of the Bangladesh Air Force in Dhaka.



https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3208806.html

Bangladesh's Navy received two more Chinese-built corvettes

As the Bangladeshi media reported, on April 27, 2019, two corontes F 113 Shongram and F 114 Prottasha of the Chinese export project 13 built for the Bangladesh fleet arrived in the main naval base of the Bangladesh Navy of Chittagong. Earlier, in January 2016, the Bangladesh Navy already received two first-type corvettes of the Chinese construction F 111 Shadhinota and F 112 Prottoy.



In 2012, Bangladesh signed a contract for the construction of the first two corvettes of the Chinese export project 13B with the Chinese foreign trade association China Shipbuilding & Offshore International Company, Ltd. (CSOC), which is part of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC). The F 111 Shadhinota and F 112 Prottoy corvettes were built at the Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Company, part of the CSIC, in Wuhan, and were handed over to the Bangladeshi fleet in late 2015, arriving in Chittagong in January 2016.

Then, by agreement of September 29, 2015, Bangladesh ordered two additional cornets of the S13B project to CSOC. These two ships F 113 Shongram and F 114 Prottasha were also built in Wuhan (the first steel cutting ceremony took place there on August 9, 2016) and formally transferred to the Bangladeshi fleet on March 28, 2019. On April 12, 2019, both corvettes departed from Shanghai and now arrived in Bangladesh on April 27.

The corvettes of the S13B export project are structurally close to the project 056 / 056А corvettes massively under construction for the PLA Navy, having a total displacement of about 1,300 tons and a length of 90 meters.





https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3627072.html

Bangladesh will receive from the UK five military transport aircraft C-130J

The British Ministry of Defense reported that the Government of Bangladesh has entered into an agreement to purchase three more Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules medium-sized military transport aircraft of American production from the Royal British Air Force (British designation Hercules C.Mk 5), in addition to two similar aircraft C -130J acquired by Bangladesh under the 2018 agreement. It is reported that the contract for the three additional aircraft was signed by the parties on June 20, 2019. All five aircraft must be transferred to the Bangladesh Air Force by the end of 2019.


The first Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules (Hercules C.Mk 5) military transport aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force of the United States produced from the Royal British Air Force (US military number 99-5497, Bangladesh registration number S3-AGE). Cambridge (United Kingdom), 07/12/2019 (c) Dobby (@tink_norfolk)

The pre-sale repair of all five aircraft and their technical support to the Bangladesh Air Force are carried out by the British Marshall Aerospace and Defense Group. The head of the first two former British planes C-130J ordered by Bangladesh in 2018 (US military number 99-5497, Bangladesh registration number S3-AGE) was repaired at the Marshall group in Cambridge on July 12, 2019 after completing repairs and repainting. It is reported that work on the second plane (Bangladesh registration number S3-AGF) is close to completion. Marshall, as part of the contract, should also equip both first aircraft with fast-mounted medical evacuation modules.

As part of the Bangladesh Air Force, five acquired C-130J aircraft will replace four old Lockheed C-130B Hercules aircraft manufactured in the 1950s, obtained from storage by the US Air Force in 2001.

The British Air Force had ten C-130Js (British designation Hercules C.Mk 5) and 14 C-130J-30s (Hercules C.Mk 4) with an extended fuselage. Initially, it was planned to replace all these aircraft with new Airbus A400M Atlas aircraft, however, in 2015, the British government’s Strategic Defense and Security Review (Strategic Defense and Security Review of 2015) announced the decision to retain 14 aircraft of this family (in fact, 13 C- 130J-30 and one C-130J - since two C-130J-30 were lost in flight accidents) in operation for the period up to 2030-2035. As a result, only nine British C-130J aircraft were written off and put on sale. In addition to the acquisition of five of these aircraft, Bangladesh, earlier two aircraft acquired Bahrain (the first of them was transferred to the Air Force of Bahrain in December 2018), and one - the US Navy (for use as an escort aircraft for the demonstration and piloting group Blue Angels). Several other countries are showing interest in the one remaining C-130J, including Sri Lanka.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3715840.html

Bangladesh Navy received two former Chinese frigates

On December 18, 2019, a ceremony was held in Shanghai by the Chinese side of the Bangladeshi Navy for two frigates of project 053H3 (western designation type Jiangwei II) - Lianyungang, the lead ship of the project, tail number "522" and Putian - which were removed from the PLA Navy. (Putian, tail number "523"), which received new Bangladeshi names, respectively, F 16 Umar Farooq and F 19 Abu Ubaidah. The ceremony was attended by the Bangladesh Navy commander Admiral Aurangzeb Chowdhury. On December 23, both frigates with Bangladeshi crews departed from Shanghai to Bangladesh, where they should arrive in January 2020.

Project 053H3 frigates with a total displacement of 2400 tons and a length of 112 meters were built for the PLA Navy in the amount of ten units from 1998 to 2005. Both of these frigates, Lianyungang and Putian, were commissioned by the PLA Navy in 1998-1999 and acquired by Bangladesh under a 2017 agreement concluded with Poly Technologies, a Chinese corporation, which mediates the sale of these ships. At the end of 2017, both frigates were withdrawn from the PLA Navy, after which they underwent pre-sale repairs and limited modernization. In Shanghai, the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard, a shipbuilding company of the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group (part of the Shanghai Shipbuilding Company China China Shipbuilding State Corporation - CSSC).

Both frigates were transferred to Bangladesh with missile weapons, including the S-801 anti-ship missile system and the HQ-7 short-range anti-aircraft missile system.

Earlier in 2013, the Bangladesh Navy purchased two frigates Huangshi (tail number 535) and Wuhu (tail number 536) from the older project 053H2 (Jianghu III type) built 1986 -1987 years, introduced on March 1, 2014 into the Bangladeshi fleet as frigates F 15 Abu Bakar and F 17 Ali Haider.
Prior to that, the Bangladeshi Navy had already acquired in 1989 from the PLA Navy the frigate "Xiangtan" (Xiangtan tail number "556") of project 053H1 (type Jianghu II), which became Bangladeshi F 18 Osman.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3884677.html

Is Bangladesh purchasing Su 30s ? Flight Global had reported that Bangladesh Air Force has ordered 12 Su 30s.

https://www.flightglobal.com/download?ac=66025

Bangladesh Air Force to buy Kh-31A supersonic anti-ship missile from Russia for it's upgraded fleet of MiG-29s.

https://twitter.com/TheWolfpackIN/status/1352647594783223809?s=20

A flyby of a MiG-29 fighter of the Bangladesh Air Force after repairs at the 558th Aviation Repair Plant JSC in Baranovichi. April 2, 2021. Earlier it was reported that four Bangladeshi MiG-29 / MiG-29UB fighters should be repaired and modernized in the form of the MiG-29BM in Belarus.




https://dambiev.livejournal.com/2289801.html

Yak-130 of the Bangladesh Air Force with training bombs of 50-100 kg caliber of local production