Bangladesh Air Force

Afif said:
The establishment of an Air Wargame Centre (AWC) is under the consideration of Air HQ. However, the concept papers for developing and accessing BAF doctrine and advocating employment of airpower strategy in joint and multinational arenas have already been prepared by Air Force Command and Staff Training Institute (CSTI). The Centre will provide the BAF a unique opportunity to visualise tactical, operational and strategic sceneries well in advance and lead to important lessons learned. These lessons learned and doctrinal concepts can further be integrated into the BAF Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures. The Wargame proposal is also considered for educating war fighters through resident and distance learning courses. CSTI has also planned to develop research and gaming collaboration with its sister institutions at home and abroad and work to improve the general level of air and space research and analysis.

https://csti.baf.mil.bd/at-a-glance/awc-36

Looks like some of the much needed work has been done recently. @Oscar @Michael Corleone @Avicenna @LeonBlack08 @AbuShalehRumi et al.
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so the information about Bangladesh pilots possibly to go and train in Pakistan on air combat tactics has some truth to it... nice find brother!
 
Afif said:
I am cautiously optimistic. New doctrinal development must translate into procurement policy changes. MRCA must be cancelled.
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is MRCA programmed specifically to procure twin engined jets from a specified supplier?.... afaik the procurement plans and tenders are separate, don't see why it needs to be cancelled.
 
Afif said:
The establishment of an Air Wargame Centre (AWC) is under the consideration of Air HQ. However, the concept papers for developing and accessing BAF doctrine and advocating employment of airpower strategy in joint and multinational arenas have already been prepared by Air Force Command and Staff Training Institute (CSTI). The Centre will provide the BAF a unique opportunity to visualise tactical, operational and strategic sceneries well in advance and lead to important lessons learned. These lessons learned and doctrinal concepts can further be integrated into the BAF Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures. The Wargame proposal is also considered for educating war fighters through resident and distance learning courses. CSTI has also planned to develop research and gaming collaboration with its sister institutions at home and abroad and work to improve the general level of air and space research and analysis.

https://csti.baf.mil.bd/at-a-glance/awc-36

Looks like some of the much needed work has been done recently. @Oscar @Michael Corleone @Avicenna @LeonBlack08 @AbuShalehRumi et al.
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Probably a case of putting the cart before the horse but this could involve working out a contract with an regional established training range (can be either India or Pakistan or China) to allow exercises to be carried out with proper simulated threats.
 
Oscar said:
Probably a case of putting the cart before the horse but this could involve working out a contract with an regional established training range (can be either India or Pakistan or China) to allow exercises to be carried out with proper simulated threats.
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Yeah. Though I am pretty sure it won't be India. See how we dropped out of tarang Shakti few weeks after Hassina's ouster. I mean, there will still be formal exchanges, but not something on strategic level.
 
Afif said:
The establishment of an Air Wargame Centre (AWC) is under the consideration of Air HQ. However, the concept papers for developing and accessing BAF doctrine and advocating employment of airpower strategy in joint and multinational arenas have already been prepared by Air Force Command and Staff Training Institute (CSTI). The Centre will provide the BAF a unique opportunity to visualise tactical, operational and strategic sceneries well in advance and lead to important lessons learned. These lessons learned and doctrinal concepts can further be integrated into the BAF Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures. The Wargame proposal is also considered for educating war fighters through resident and distance learning courses. CSTI has also planned to develop research and gaming collaboration with its sister institutions at home and abroad and work to improve the general level of air and space research and analysis.

https://csti.baf.mil.bd/at-a-glance/awc-36

Looks like some of the much needed work has been done recently. @Oscar @Michael Corleone @Avicenna @LeonBlack08 @AbuShalehRumi et al.
Click to expand...
May add little value without supervision by a Joint Chief's office and integration with Army and Navy.

Let us say India decides to disable Bangladeshi KPI's through artillery (including missile) strikes followed by air strikes.
What would BAF do to survive Indian artillery strikes and get off the ground while Bangladesh Army artillery retaliates?
For effective deterrance in this scenario, Bangladesh armed forces would have to retaliate hard to disable closest Indian military bases and inflict enough damage to the Indian economy to lead a collapse of the Indian rulling regime.

SRBMs would be a must in this scenario. Which force would operate them and how quickly can we launch them to disrupt Indian artillery strikes? How many of our air bases and fighters can survive till then?
Can BAF store some fighter jets and radars in underground bunkers that can survive the first wave of Indian attacks? Can these fighter jets take off from damaged/makeshift runways?
Can they take off and repulse IAF attacks and strike any active Indian artillery positions? How does BAF plan on integrating their operations with BA's missile, field artillery and air defence artillery?

How many fighter jets and redundant air strips do they need to survive an initial wave of Indian attacks?

Have the star-plated muppets thought any of this through?
 
Oscar said:
Probably a case of putting the cart before the horse but this could involve working out a contract with an regional established training range (can be either India or Pakistan or China) to allow exercises to be carried out with proper simulated threats.
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high chance of PAF teaching BD
 
Air Force Command and Staff Training Institute (CSTI) has planned to conduct Joint Air Warfare Course (JAWC) for the military officers of the armed forces at home and abroad. This course is a study of the air component of joint warfare in the modern age. Students will address the air component's strengths and weaknesses in working in interagency and inter-service environments as seen through analysis of several modern military operations. The course will apply important historical perspective to case studies for analysis of the difficulties and successes of command and control (C2) of air power in joint operations, doctrinal issues of air power in joint operations, the decision-making apportionment of air assets to Air-Land operations (CAS & BAI), Maritime Air Operations (MAO), Air Interdiction and strategic strikes and the move to effects-based thought as the measurement of air power in joint air operations. Particular attention will be paid to efforts to overcome problems in C2 created by Service-specific air power doctrine and practices.


@Destranator albeit very slowly, they are probably moving toward right direction. They now seems to understand the significance of jointnes and inter-service integration, at least on paper. Which is a progress. It starts with the change of mindset. It would be sometimes before we see changes on the ground and formation level.
 
Michael Corleone said:
so the information about Bangladesh pilots possibly to go and train in Pakistan on air combat tactics has some truth to it... nice find brother!
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Pakistan has some of the best pilots on earth. Their exploits are the stuff of legend. Most importantly, they have experience against the IAF. We can learn valuable insights from them along with learning about their strengths and weaknesses.

Michael Corleone said:
is MRCA programmed specifically to procure twin engined jets from a specified supplier?.... afaik the procurement plans and tenders are separate, don't see why it needs to be cancelled.
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Twin engine aircraft may be preferred for maritime missions.

Snake said:
No no...buy the Tejas it's even better than F-35.
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lol.
 
Destranator said:
May add little value without supervision by a Joint Chief's office and integration with Army and Navy.

Let us say India decides to disable Bangladeshi KPI's through artillery (including missile) strikes followed by air strikes.
What would BAF do to survive Indian artillery strikes and get off the ground while Bangladesh Army artillery retaliates?
For effective deterrance in this scenario, Bangladesh armed forces would have to retaliate hard to disable closest Indian military bases and inflict enough damage to the Indian economy to lead a collapse of the Indian rulling regime.

SRBMs would be a must in this scenario. Which force would operate them and how quickly can we launch them to disrupt Indian artillery strikes? How many of our air bases and fighters can survive till then?
Can BAF store some fighter jets and radars in underground bunkers that can survive the first wave of Indian attacks? Can these fighter jets take off from damaged/makeshift runways?
Can they take off and repulse IAF attacks and strike any active Indian artillery positions? How does BAF plan on integrating their operations with BA's missile, field artillery and air defence artillery?

How many fighter jets and redundant air strips do they need to survive an initial wave of Indian attacks?

Have the star-plated muppets thought any of this through?
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Inter-service Air defense integration is ongoing. I posted some materials here before.

As for BAF air bases being survivable, they are not. Even if we buy long range BMD capable systems. Building bankers for hiding aircrafts are not realistic for us either. Only way BAF can fight this, is through ACE (Agile Combat Employment) like CONOP which extensively leverage sortie generation from highways and random contingency locations. (I remember there was a news last year about airforce planning to practice landing on highways or something.) For that Baykar KE Kızılelma UCAVS are perfect. IMO, we should replace our 2x squadrons (32x) of F7s with Baykar KE.

As for offensives coutnerair, I think it is obvious we will depend on Army's operational and strategic fires. For that there needs to be joint strategic ISR and targeting processes between services.
 
Strider said:
Pakistan has some of the best pilots on earth. Their exploits are the stuff of legend. Most importantly, they have experience against the IAF. We can learn valuable insights from them along with learning about their strengths and weaknesses.
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They really live upto their motto “second to none” which coincidentally is my favorite armed forces motto, besides “gott mit uns” of the Wehrmacht.
 
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