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The Bangladesh Air Force ( BAF) ( Bengali: বাংলাদেশ বিমান বাহিনী, romanized : Bangladesh Biman Bahini) is the aerial warfare branch of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The air force is primarily responsible for air defence of Bangladesh's sovereign territory as well as providing air support to the Bangladesh ...
Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman BS (29 October 1941 – 20 August 1971) was a Bengali officer of the Pakistan Air Force from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and a recipient of Bir Sreshtho, Bangladesh's highest military gallantry award for his actions during the Liberation War of Bangladesh . He attempted to escape from West Pakistan and join ...
Shamsul Alam (Bir Uttam) Shamsul Alam (18 August 1947 – 8 December 2022) was a veteran of Bangladesh Liberation war. For his bravery during Operation Kilo Flight the Government of Bangladesh awarded him the title of Bir Uttom. He was awarded the Independence Day Award in 2017.
Political party. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Saiful Azam ( Bengali: সাইফুল আজম; ( Urdu: سیف العظم; 11 September 1941 – 14 June 2020) was a Bangladeshi fighter pilot, (after 1971 Pakistan-India war) ace, and politician who first served as a fighter pilot for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (1960–1971) and later ...
Bangladesh Air Force. Bangladesh Air Force MIG-29UB fly over. BAF Chengdu F-7BG fly over. BAF Yak-130. A BAF AW139 Maritime search and rescue helicopter. BAF Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules. BAF Antonov An-32. Aircraft. Origin.
The Indian Air Force carried out several sorties against Pakistan, and within a week, IAF aircraft dominated the skies of East Pakistan. It achieved near-total air supremacy by the end of the first week, as the entire Pakistani air contingent in the east, PAF No.14 Squadron, was grounded because of Indian and Bangladeshi airstrikes at Tejgaon ...
20 killed. 60 captured [1] 10 killed [1] The 1977 Bangladesh Air Force mutiny was an attempted coup [2] staged on 2 October 1977 by members of Bangladesh Air Force and the Signal Corps of Bangladesh Army. [3] The mutiny was led by Sergeant Afsar Ali Khan of the air force, who was a member of the Communist Party of East Bengal.
Mukti Bahini. The Mukti Bahini, [a] also known as the Bangladesh Forces, was the guerrilla resistance movement consisting of the Bangladeshi military, paramilitary and civilians during the Bangladesh Liberation War that transformed East Pakistan into Bangladesh in 1971. [2] They were initially called the Mukti Fauj.