Bangladesh Air Force to build two air bases

Bangladesh is building two new air bases for its air force, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said during a graduation ceremony on Dec. 31.

Bangladesh Air Force lost two Yak-130s in mid-air collision

Bangladesh receives refurbished An-32 transport aircraft

Bangladesh receives refurbished An-32 transport aircrafthttps://t.co/yHeKBTIlCk pic.twitter.com/VX0FOLZUy5

— Defence blog (@Defence_blog) September 26, 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.

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.

Bangladesh Air Force BAF Promo

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.

CCTV visual of the Dhaka Attack

A terrorist can be seen holding a gun in the pictures

CNN-News18 accesses exclusive CCTV visual of the #DhakaAttack. A terrorist can be seen holding a gun in the pictureshttps://t.co/Kd508DJezY

— News18 (@CNNnews18) July 4, 2016

Kill the Bloggers

Blogger is Bisbeliever

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.

Bangladesh F-7BGI

GIMF Bangla Team Released Video Threatens More Attack

#BANGLADESH#UPDATE
GIMF Bangla Team Released Video Threatens More Attack. #TerrorMonitor pic.twitter.com/q2D4F3TY03

— Terrormonitor.org (@Terror_Monitor) February 10, 2016

Bangladesh - Islamic State Releases Bengali Subtitle Of Its Paris Attackers Featured VDO "Kill Them Wherever You Find Them"

"Kill Them Wherever You Find Them" 

Bangladesh fundamentalists gain momemtum

No tolerance to minorities and independent opinion.

#BANGLADESH Bangla Team INFOGRAPH Of Timeline Of The Assassinations Of Secularist Writers, Bloggers & Publishers pic.twitter.com/CwWaqYyr93

— Terrormonitor.org (@Terror_Monitor) January 8, 2016

Bangladesh going Pakistan Way

From Charlie Hebdo to Jagriti

#BANGLADESH #AlQaeda Affiliated #Bangla Team Set To Released Video Entitled "From Charlie Hebdo to Jagriti" pic.twitter.com/2vlYP1x7ll

— Terrormonitor.org (@Terror_Monitor) January 1, 2016

Bangladesh Titumir Media AQIS Published New Video Entitled "সুন্নাহই সমাধান" (Sunnah Solution)

Bangladesh also going down the drain

#Bangladesh Titumir Media #AQIS Published New Video Entitled "সুন্নাহই সমাধান" (Sunnah Solution) pic.twitter.com/obPC83RbIw

— Terrormonitor.org (@Terror_Monitor) December 15, 2015

Russian Helicopters delivers five Mi-171Sh helicopters to Bangladesh

Russian Helicopters says it has delivered five Mi-171Sh helicopters to Bangladesh’s Ministry of Defense.

First Yak-130 Advanced trainer / Light fighter delivered to Bangladesh

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

#Bangladesh Secular Blogger Niloy Neel Hacked To Death At His Flat In #Dhaka, 4th Secular Blogger Murdered This Year pic.twitter.com/3UbZTALAYG

— Terrormonitor.org (@Terror_Monitor) August 7, 2015

Escaped buffaloes in Azamgarh spotted

#INDIA- UttarPradesh Police rejected the reports that youths of #Agamgarh have links to #ISIS. FP pic.twitter.com/pqTHhmKSLH

— Terrormonitor.org (@Terror_Monitor) August 6, 2015

ISIS Britani Brigade Bangladeshi Bad Boys in Syria

#ISIS #British Militant Assad Uzzaman, 1 Of 5 Men Calling Themselves ‘Britani Brigade Bangladeshi Bad Boys’ Killed pic.twitter.com/98mOZBKeE3

— Terrormonitor.org (@Terror_Monitor) July 27, 2015