Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts

September 4, 2017

Bangladesh Air Force deploys air group to border with Myanmar





The Bangladesh military has confirmed to the Dhaka Tribune that an air group has been deployed to Chittagong near the Myanmar border.


July 13, 2017

Bangladesh Air Force Yak-130 crashes




Police said the plane crashed in the remote area of the southeastern district's Lohagara around 2:15pm on Tuesday.

"An air force plane, used for training purposes, crashed in the remote area of Bara Hatia's Faridghona," Lohagara police OC Md Shahjahan told bdnews24.com.

The Inter Services Public Relation Directorate or ISPR confirmed the incident and said the pilots on board were unharmed."It was a training plane of the air force. The two pilots are unharmed," ISPR Director Lt Col Rashidul Hasan told bdnews24.com.
Wing Commander Nazmul and Squadron Leader Quamrul, who were on board, parachuted to safety, a Bangladesh Air Force officer told bdnews24.com, asking not to be named.

The pilots were transported from the crash site in an air force helicopter in the afternoon, locals said.

The plane had taken off from BAF Base Zahurul Haque in Chittagong at 2pm.

It crashed on a lychee farm owned by one Foez Ahmed at Ward -2 of Faridghona.

Local journalist Abu Taher who was in the farm area saw the pilots coming down using parachutes. "One of them was stuck in a tree and had to be rescued."  

ISPR Assistant Director Nur Islam said the aircraft was a Yak-130, which was inducted into the Bangladesh Air Force in 2015.

He, however, could not say what caused the aircraft to crash.The Russian-made Yakovlev Yak-130 is a subsonic two-seat advanced jet trainer and light-attack aircraft or lead-in fighter trainer.
Bangladesh had signed a deal with Russian state arms export agency Rosoboronexport to buy 16 Yak-130 trainers developed by the Irkut Corporation.

The deal was signed in 2013, according to Rosoboronexport head Anatoly Isaikin in an interview with Russia's ‘Kommersant’ newspaper.

January 4, 2017

Bangladesh test-fired FM-90 (HQ-7A)




Bangladesh’s air defense forces carried out a live-fire test of its Chinese FM-90, export variant of HQ-7A, at Inani Beach in Cox’s Bazar on Jan. 3.

Army Chief of Staff General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq was on hand to witness the live-firing.








July 4, 2016

CCTV visual of the Dhaka Attack

A terrorist can be seen holding a gun in the pictures



April 26, 2016

LGBT editor hacked to death in Bangladeshi capital Xulhaz Mannan



A U.S. Embassy worker and editor of Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine was among two men hacked to death Monday evening in Dhaka, officials say.

A statement from the U.S. Embassy identified the man as Xulhaz Mannan, calling him a "dear friend."
"We abhor this senseless act of violence and urge the Government of Bangladesh in the strongest terms to apprehend the criminals behind these murders," Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, the U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh, said in the statement.
Mannan and someone described only as a friend were in a flat in Dhaka when five or six young men posing as couriers arrived at Mannan's building under the guise of delivering a package, said Mohammad Iqbal, officer in charge of the Kalabagan police station.
They entered the second-floor apartment and hacked Mannan and his friend to death with machetes, Iqbal said. Mannan's mother and a maid were also in the flat at the time, he said. Both are alive.

January 8, 2016

Bangladesh fundamentalists gain momemtum


No tolerance to minorities and independent opinion.








January 2, 2016

Bangladesh going Pakistan Way


From Charlie Hebdo to Jagriti






August 25, 2015

Bangladesh to Purchase 7 Combat-Transport Helicopters from Russia






In April of this year, Russia and Bangladesh signed a contract for the purchase of six Russian-made Mil Mi-171Sh combat-transport helicopters as well as one Mi-171E medium-lift transport aircraft, according to Ivan Goncharenko, First Deputy CEO of Rosoboronexport .

“A contract was signed in April 2015 on the delivery of six Mi-171Sh military and transport helicopters, and also one Mi-171E transport helicopter in its Salon option,” he told TASS this Monday in Moscow.  Earlier reports spoke of only five M0-171Sh helicopters.  In June 2015, Rosoboronexport – the major Russian specialized agency responsible for arms export – also stated that delivery of the first aircraft has already started (production of the helicopters has already begun in February of this year).

Both countries signed an $1 billion arms contract in January 2013 – the biggest since Bangladesh’s independence in 1971. Next to the helicopters it  includes armored vehicles, infantry weapons, and air defense systems. Dhaka is allegedly also interested in the purchase of Russian-made diesel-electric submarines. In addition, Moscow announced in February 2015 that it will supply 16 training and combat Fighter Aeroplanes Yak- 130 to Bangladesh.

The Mi-171Sh combat-transport helicopter is produced by Russian Helicopters, a subsidiary of Oboronprom, part of Rostec State Corporation and can be deployed for a wide range of missions including combat search and rescue operations, air-to-surface attacks, carrying assault troops and cargo transportation.

Neither Bangladesh nor Russia have divulged details as to the precise armament of the aircraft but the Mi-171Sh can be equipped with a Shturm-V high-precision guided missile system. According to army-technology.com:

The Shturm-V missile complex launches Ataka supersonic missiles equipped with a hollow-charge warhead for defeating armoured targets. The missile can destroy aerial targets with a fragmentation warhead and lightly armored combat materiel by using a high-explosive warhead.

 The Mi-171Sh is also provided with hardpoints to carry up to 80 S-8 unguided rockets and GSh-23L 23mm cannons, with an ammunition load of 500 rounds.

 Small arms, such as the 7.62mm PKT machine gun, PK machine gun and RPK light machine gun, are mounted in the nose and rear fuselage sections.

The unarmed Mi-171E can also be used for search and rescue operations, cargo transportation (up to 4,000 kg in its cabin or on an external sling) and routine patrolling. One of the main advantages of the Mi-17E is that it can operate under extreme climate conditions. “The helicopter can operate across localities from steppe to foothills to mountains, and can withstand temperatures from plus to minus 50. The Mi-171E can operate in all weathers and difficult navigation conditions,” according to the website of Russian Helicopters.

August 7, 2015

Bangladesh "Secular" Niloy Neel Hacked To Death At His Flat In Dhaka









Escaped buffaloes in Azamgarh spotted



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