Asian Defense News: The Indian Air Force is offering a Bangladesh Biman Bahini (Bangladesh Air Force) use of its facilities to modernize and make maintenance in fighter aircraft MiG-29 and Mi-17 helicopters, said a defense official for the newspaper The Telegraph.Arriving in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, with an offer to help modernize the aircraft fleet, India move to an area in which Bangladesh has been mainly dependent on China and to some extent, Pakistan, Russia and the United States.
MiG-29 in BangladeshSpeaking Indian Air Force, you understand that the offer came from a defense of the public sector Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Bangalore, to help modernize the MiG-29 and Mi-17 helicopters to Bangladesh .
The Indian Air Force flies and made the modernization of two of its own aircraft fleet. HAL is engaged in modernizing the MiG-29 India.
Despite the Bangladesh Air Force aircraft have mostly Chinese and some of North America, it also has a squadron of MiG-29 fighters from Russia.
Approximately 70% of Bangladesh's air fleet is old, with fighter aircraft near 20 years of operation, or even older. Bangladesh received A-5 fighter and A-7, Chinese-made, second-hand in helping shape of China and Pakistan.
But the Indian Air Force said that the aid for helicopters Mi-17 (IAF flies many units of the transport helicopter Mi-17), the MiG-29 fighters and transport aircraft Antonov 32 could be recovered for an Air Force limited in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh fly with three An-32 aircraft and 14 helicopters Mi-17.
Source: The Telegraph - Via: Cavok
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