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WWW.BDMILITARY.COM EXCLUSIVE BANGLADESH DEFENCE NEWS
23/05/2013 | BMF Staff Reporter
Bangladesh Navy received its first Hamilton class cutters renamed BNS Somudro Joy from the US Coast Guard. Jarvis (725) after a decommissioning ceremony to be held on 23 May, 2013 in Coast Guard Island, Alameda, California. The transfer ceremony was presided over by Vice Adm. Paul F. Zukunft, Commander Coast Guard Pacific Area and Chief of Naval Staff for the Bangladesh Navy, Vice Adm. Muhammad Farid Habib.
A 20-member team from the Bangladesh Navy, led by prospective commanding officer Capt. Mohammad Nazmul Karim, arrived in Alameda in March to begin preparations to accept Jarvis (725). An additional 70 members of the Bangladeshi crew arrived in May. Up to 26 former Jarvis crew members will serve as advisors, assisting the Bangladesh crew until the BNS Somudro Joy's departure from California later this year.
BNS Somudro Joy will receive a further refit after arrival in Bangladesh according to the Bangladesh Navy.
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WWW.BDMILITARY.COM EXCLUSIVE BANGLADESH DEFENCE NEWS
18/04/2013 | BMF Staff Reporter
Russia and Bangladesh are once again rekindling their lost strategic relations with a number of significant military procurement, transfer of technology and military equipment purchase loan deals, which will boost Bangladesh's self-defence and international peacekeeping capabilities to a large extent.
BDMILITARY.COM examines these agreements in-depth. Please visit the appropriate sub-forums to find out more about the growing Bear-Tiger relations.
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