Air-To-Air Missiles Inventory of Bangladesh Air Force

Bangladesh Air Force has a missile inventory mainly consists of air-to-air missile (AAMs) systems. Most of these AAMs was bought along with the fighter jets BAF bought. The origins of those missiles are Russia and China as Bangladesh operating only Chinese & Russian combat aircrafts. 

Here we showed some available figure of those missile inventory currently Bangladesh Air Force deployed in the line of active duty. There’s no price for peace other than maintaining it. Bangladesh is a peace loving country and always work to uphold the stability of the region. 

All Bangladesh’s weaponry are defensive. There are no any industrial facility to produce such high tech defense equipment in country. Hence Bangladesh relied on foreign sources to acquire air-to-air missile systems. The Mig-29s & Yak-130s of BAF carry Russian made R-27 & R-73 air-to-air missiles. The number of the dogfight weapons are unknown. On the other hand Chinese Chengdu Aerospace Corporation built F-BGIs carry PL-2, PL-5 (some variants), PL-7 and PL-9C AAMs. 

Some of the BAF F-7BGI fighter jets can carry C-704 Anti-Ship missiles, however, it’s not clear that Bangladeshi F-7s are currently deployed with this AShMs. For the coming Russian/Chinese medium range combat aircrafts (MRCA) of Bangladesh will get advanced anti-ship/anti-surface warfare weapon systems as it stated that those MRCAs will be deployed to secure country’s maritime border. 

Bangladesh Air Force will get most advanced beyond visual range air-to-air missiles (BVRAAMs) with the next fighter jet purchase. Current era of aerial warfare gets complex as technological advancement happening continuously in the sector. To fight any modern adversary BAF needs both BVR and WVR capabilities. And, for sure, it’ll get a bunch of air-to-surface missiles too to increase anti-surface warfare capabilities. So, it can be surely assumed that a large number of BVRAAM and WVRAAM are going to come to the BAF missile inventory.