Bangladesh Navy hunts for new attack drones
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Naval Aviation wing of the Bangladesh Navy is seeking to purchase armed multirole unmanned aerial vehicles to bolster its surveillance capabilities over the Bay of Bengal and maintain a capacity to eliminate surface threats at sea or land. Buoyed by the success of the Baykar Bayraktar TB2 UAVs of Continue Reading
BOF making 40mm SAGL munitions
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Bangladesh Ordnance Factories (BOF) is to manufacture the 40mm grenades indigenously for the first time in the country for use with the Milkor SAGLs acquired from South Africa. The six-shot grenade launcher was developed in 1981 to meet the requirements of global defence export market. While branded as the Continue Reading
Bangladesh Army to upgrade existing Type 59 and Type 69 tanks
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Bangladesh Army is set to upgrade its Type 59 and Type 69 tanks with a new specification that will enable them to maintain similar performance characteristics as the newly obtained VT-5 light tanks from NORINCO. A RFI notice was published by the Directorate General of Defence Purchase (DGDP) outlining Continue Reading
BMTF to build tanks and combat vehicles in Bangladesh
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory (BMTF) has disclosed it is collaborating with a foreign partner to assemble advanced tanks and armoured combat vehicles for the first time in Bangladesh’s history. It has also shown interest in jointly manufacturing military trucks in Bangladesh with the cooperation foreign companies. The projects were Continue Reading
Bangladesh Police acquires Qatari-made APCs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Bangladesh Police has recently received Qatar-based Stark Motors ‘Storm 4×4 LAMPVs’ for the first time. Unofficial social media accounts shared photos of dozens of Storm 4×4 APCs alongside armoured Toyota Land Cruiser 79 series 5-door station wagons inside a warehouse at Chattogram Port. The Storm 4×4 APCs are designed Continue Reading