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Five SoKo G-4 Super Galeb jet trainers operate out of Pathein AFB, a sixth jet crashed in Oct 2017. Myanmar is looking to employ the JF-17's against the RTAF which means they will most certainly employ Su-30 in the Bay of Bengal. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/two-pilots-missing-military-training-jet-confirmed-dead.html

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Thanks for the photos. This is not the first time the Bangladesh Navy warships visited Malaysia. They do it each time when they are ferrying warships from China and also regularly participate in LIMA Exhibitions.

Bangladesh should take the opportunity to acquire a good number of military surplus hardware from the US. In this regard the Bangladesh Navy could benefit most from warships the Americans are decommissioning much earlier than their service life expediencies. US Navy proposes decommissioning first 4 LCS more than a decade early ELMER, N.J. — The U.S. Navy has put forward a proposal to decommission the first four littoral combat ships in 2021 as part of a cost-savings measure, according to a memorandum from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget to the Defense Department. The memo obtained by Defense News outlines plans to decommission the littoral combat ships Freedom, Independence, Fort Worth and Coronado, part of an overall plan to shrink the size of the force to deal with a flat budget. The ships all have between 12 and 17 years of planned hull life remaining. The memo also outlines plans to decommission three dock landing ships — Whidbey Island, Germantown and Gunston Hall — between eight and 14 years early, as well as accelerating the decommissioning of four cruisers. In the same document, the Department of Defense outlined plans to slash construction of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, cutting five out of 12 of the Burkes planned over the five-year Future Years Defense Program. The memo amounts to a back-and-forth between the DoD and OMB on areas of disagreement inside the Pentagon’s 2021 budget request, which has yet to be finalized. Bloomberg News and Breaking Defense previously reported on aspects of the memo. The plan, which an administration source told Defense News was driven by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, was not greeted warmly by OMB, which directed the DoD to come back with a plan that would get the Navy to 355 ships as per the original program. The Pentagon’s plan shrinks the size of the fleet from today’s fleet of 293 ships to 287 ships. The 355-ship goal was also made national policy in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act. But the plan to decommission the first four LCS will upset the Navy’s plan to use them as test ships for the still-to-be-fielded mission modules, a key part of the 2016 reorganization of the program prompted by a string of major casualties caused by system failures and operator errors. The Navy upended the program’s signature modularity, a concept that would have seen crews attached to specific mission modules such as anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare or mine warfare, and could be switched out rapidly pierside depending on the mission. But the reorganization assigned each ship a permanent mission module, with the crews training and testing on the first four LCS. Decommissioning the ships will send the Navy back to the drawing board on how to get the new modules tested. Bryan McGrath, a retired destroyer captain and analyst with defense consultancy The Ferrybridge Group, said the plan to reduce the size of the fleet is a sign that the Defense Department isn’t willing to put the resources required toward growing the fleet. “If what you are reporting is true, this is a sign of the tension between the grand desires for a much larger fleet and the modest resources being applied to the problem,” McGrath said. “There simply is no way to grow the fleet as it is currently architected while maintaining the current fleet at a high state of readiness with the given resources." McGrath said if 355 is still the goal, the Pentagon has to either dramatically restructure the fleet to switch out large surface combatants such as cruisers and destroyers with smaller, less expensive ships, or it has to change what’s counted as a ship — both moves that have been signaled by the Navy in recent years. “This is why it’s so hard to grow a Navy,” McGrath said. “You have to decide it’s a national priority, you have to devote a lot of resources and you have to do it over a period of years. None of that has happened.”

Govt to set up 16 power plants having 19,100MW capacity Independent Online /BSS In a major boost to power sector, thegovernment has undertaken a scheme for setting up 16 power plants having19,100 megawatt (MW) electricity generation capacity in the country. “Plan is underway to install 16 power plants having 19,100 MW generation capacity …Construction of the plants will start in phases,” State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid told BSS here on Wednesday. Currently, the country’s power generation capacity reaches 22,787 MW while private sector installed power plants having 8,730MW electricity generation capacity, he said, adding, “We are working for sustainable and uninterrupted power supply with affordable price.” Nasrul said since assuming to power in 2009, the Awami League led government has constructed 124 new power plants having capacity of 14,986 MW after taking time-befitting, realistic and sustainable steps. “Currently about 95 percent people of the country were brought under power coverage. And this has been possible due to bold and dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” Nasrul said. According to the power ministry officials, the government is importing electricity from India since 2013 and 1,160 MW electricity is being importeddaily. The government augmented generation of power, expanded transmission lines, distribution lines and improved capacity of other sectors to further raise the economic growth up to Bangladesh’s becoming a middle income country by 2021. He said the government has been implementing a master-plan to generate 24,000-MW electricity by 2021, 40,000-MW by 2030 and 60,000-MW by 2041, to improve the livelihood of all sections of the people, particularly the poor and vulnerable communities. “The power and energy ministry has been working relentlessly for building “Sonar Bangla” as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is pledge-bound to make “Digital Bangladesh” by ensuring access to power for all citizens by 2021,” the state minister said. Earlier, only 27 power plants with a mere 4,942 MW capacity were in the country when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took office in 2009. Currently the number of power consumers rose to 3.60 crore and per capita electricity generation is now 510 kWh and the annual development programme allocation Taka 28,862 crore in 2019-20 for power sector development. The government successfully brought down system loss to 9.35 percent from 14.33 percent.

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E-passport era begins in Bangladesh Published: 22 Jan 2020 01:29 PM BdST Updated: 22 Jan 2020 01:29 PM BdST Bangladesh has taken another significant step in its digital transformation with the much-anticipated launch of electronic passports or e-passports. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the distribution of e-passports at an event in the capital’s Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on Wednesday. Maj Gen Shakil Ahmed, director general of the Department of Immigration and Passports or DIP, handed over an e-passport to Hasina at the inauguration ceremony. Bangladesh is the first country in South Asia and 119th in the world to introduce the e-passport, the home ministry said in a statement. The delivery of e-passports will start in regional offices by the end of 2020. The services will expand in phases. Machine-readable passports will remain valid as well. DIP will initially distribute e-passports form its Agargaon, Uttara and Jatrabari offices in Dhaka, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan had previously said at a press briefing on Sunday. It will issue 48-page and 64-page e-passports with the validity of five years and ten years respectively. The decision on introducing digital passport comes less than a decade after Bangladesh switched from manual passport to the machine-readable passport or MRP. The government took the initiative to introduce e-passports in the wake of more than one passport being illegally issued against one person in the absence of database of fingerprints of citizens. In July last year, DIP sealed a more than Tk 30 billion contract with the world-leading identity solutions provider Veridos, a German joint venture, to introduce e-passports in Bangladesh. Under the agreement, the firm will deliver two million e-passport booklets, equipment with the capacity of producing 28 million passports, hardware, software and 10-year maintenance service.

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