Bangladesh Air-Force MRCA Program

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What is the current state of this program?

Stuck. (Lack of Funding and political turmoil)


Note- India seriously needs to consider threatening Bangladesh from time to time. That may up our defence projects/procurement to a necessary rate.
 
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Even chat gpt agrees with you. I prodded it a lot to figure out the best platform for BAF and gripen came out on top with cost and technology advantage over rafale and euro fighter
If I'm the chief of BAF. Any adequate 4th gen fighter (1 squadron)+ AWACS+MRTT if possible is enough.
 

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If I'm the chief of BAF. Any adequate 4th gen fighter (1 squadron)+ AWACS+MRTT if possible is enough.

Let me explain in details once and for all.

First and foremost, Russia is out of option.

Secondly, if we want to buy from J-10C from PRC, then we have to buy at least two squadron (32x) to match Myanmar AF fire power. (They have 50+ 4th gen fighter)

But then there is that sufficient possibility of PRC double crossing us in any future conflcit with Myanmar.

And this is based on previous experience.

And then of course, there is that Rohinga crisis, in which they are in bed with Myanmar.

China was the front runner for Navy's ongoing frigate program.

But Rohinga Crisis was one of the reason Bangladesh started to looking at other options. (Along with the plan to move toward NATO standard as much possible)

But most important of all, the immediate consequence of such purchase from China is likely to be that our Big neighbor India would be extremely irritated if we buy such advanced Chinese platforms in that numbers. It will have geopolitical consequences that Bangladesh does not want to avoid. (For understanble reason)

Hence our only logical option is West.

That is the geopolitical aspect of this.

From a technical point of view, for now even Just one squadron will Eurofighter trench 4 will give us qualitative overmatch against Myanmar air force.

Also, it will be the first step in developing credible deterrence against our big neighbor.

Becuase otherwise Chinese J-10 does not have qualitative match for Rafale that India will soon induct in numbers under MRFA program.

About AWACS, it is doubtful if we need one. And when it comes to tanker, we definitely don't need that.
 
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Let me explain in details.

First and foremost, Russia is out of option.

Secondly, if we want to buy from J-10C from PRC, then we have to buy at least two squadron (32x) to match Myanmar AF fire power. (They have 50+ 4th gen fighter)
That's why there's the AWACS as a force multiplier.

reason)

Hence our only logical option is West.
That is the geopolitical aspect of this.

From a technical point of view, for now even Just one squadron will Eurofighter trench 4 will give us qualitative overmatch against Myanmar air force.

Also, it will be the first step in developing credible deterrence against our big neighbor.


About AWACS, it is doubtful if we need one. And when it comes to tanker, we definitely don't need that.

Money in the end torpedo this kind of hope, if it's not for China + Prabowo. We would not likely have Rafale and F-15EX. The reason why we have those nice things is because of national urgency and luck, yes we are lucky to have Prabowo as DefMin. Had other people been selected by Jokowi as DefMin, it's a completely different story altogether

From what I see and understand Bangladesh doesn't really care about the urgency and there's no DefMin the like of Prabowo who understands the need for modern weapons and actually lobbied the Ministry of Finance to finance those projects.

Any 4th gen jet, even second-hand old block refurbished F-16 like @Isa Khan said, when it comes equipped with the correct force multiplier and correct pilot training is more than enough, especially against air force the likes of Myanmar (lol).
 

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Note- India seriously needs to consider threatening Bangladesh from time to time. That may up our defence projects/procurement to a necessary rate.

Nothing of the sort will be done. India desires as friendly relationship as possible with BD.

BD has all it needs to ramp up its game stemming from Burma anyway.

It is BD intelligentsa job to question why the GDP estimates by the BBS under the SHW regime have not materialised into commensurate forex and tax base....which are crucial to propel the defence sector in the end.
 

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