Bangladesh Armed Forces buys their equipment from dozens of countries. Among them China is the largest, and Russia is in the second position. Some other major suppliers of Bangladesh Military equipment are from Europe and North America. Just after the independence, Bangladesh sought help from friendly countries to equip her military. Among them, most Muslim countries gifted many defense hardware.
Until 1976 when President Ziaur Rahman came to power, China wasn’t Bangladesh’s ally as it was aligned with Pakistan. Zia sorted out that Bangladesh needs Chinese help in almost all sector to become a developed, self-sufficient country. Hence, he pursued a warm relation with Beijing. After that period China became major weapons supplier for the Bangladesh Armed Forces.
On the other hand Russia also remain a key military equipment supplier to Dhaka. As time passed, Bangladesh acquired defense equipment from many other countries. Currently Italy, Germany, France, UK, USA are also in the long list of Bangladesh’s weapons supplier. But, of them are defensive systems.
In recent history, Turkey and Pakistan also supplied a large amount of Bangladesh’s military equipment. Turkey has a wide variety of defense tools. Bangladesh enhancing defense ties with Ankara keeping regional chaos in mind. Although, China and Russia remains the top weapons supplier to Bangladesh.
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