WATCHOUT Myanmar: Bangladesh Air Force Can See Your Fighter Jets Even Fly In Your Airspace!

Bangladesh Air Force going to install Selex RAT-31DL AESA radar in august. This long-range air search radar will be installed in the Barishal Air Base. Italian defense contractor Leonardo manufactured Selex RAT-31DL active electronically scanned array radar has an instrumented range of 500km and detection range of 470km. Due to this capabilities Bangladesh can detect any hostile aircrafts beyond its border. Hence Bangladesh Air Force will get more time to respond accordingly. 

After installing this radar in Barishal base BD Air Force will establish Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). This ADIZ will be in the southern part of the country, which covers the main portion of the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) in the Bay of Bengal and southern districts of the Chittagong division. By this ADIZ Bangladesh sending a message to myanmar air force not to meddle with Dhaka. If they (burmese) violate Bangladesh’s airspace again they’ll be intercepted by and announced hostile as well. 

As announcing ADIZ doesn’t require any international body’s approval, Bangladesh can easily dominate the skies adjacent to their. This will seriously damage myanmar air force’s operational flexibility. May Burma can complain or deny but Bangladesh has more international acceptance than myanmar. So, an ADIZ by Bangladesh will choke the throat of burmese air force surely.