Bangladesh armed forces

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BangladeshBangladesh Bangladesh Armed Forces
বাংলাদেশ সশস্ত্র বাহিনী
বাংলাদেশ সশস্ত্র বাহিনীর প্রতীক. Svg
guide
Commander in Chief : Abdul Hamid
Defense Minister: Sheikh Hasina Wajed
Headquarters: Dhaka
Military strength
Active soldiers: 450,000
Conscription: no
Resilient population: 30,486,086
Eligibility for military service: 16
household
Military budget: $ 1.33 billion (2010)
Share of gross domestic product : 1.3% (2009)
history
Founding: April 4th 1971

The armed forces of Bangladesh (official name: "Bangladesh Armed Force"; Bengali : বাংলাদেশ সশস্ত্র বাহিনী , bāṃlādeś saśastra bāhinī ) are the military of Bangladesh .

Organization and leadership

The Commander-in-Chief is the President of Bangladesh . In addition to the commander-in-chief, each branch of the armed forces (see section Armed Forces ) has its own commander-in-chief.

Armed forces Commander in chief designation
army General Aziz Ahmed Chief of Army Staff
air force Air Chief Marshal Masihuzzaman Serniabat Chief of Air Staff
marine Vice Admiral Zahir Uddin Ahmed Chief of the Naval Staff

Armed forces

The armed forces of Bangladesh are divided into three branches: the army , the air force and the navy .

army

Type 69 IIM tank of the Army

The army currently comprises around 280,000 men, making it the largest branch of the Bangladeshi armed forces. The army is currently being supplied by China , France , Germany , Russia , South Korea , the United Kingdom , the USA and Malaysia .

Air Force

Air Force MiG-29

The air force in Bangladesh currently comprises 22,000 men (including 600 pilots) and 215 fighter planes , the transport planes use, among other things, some older C-130 Hercules .

marine

The Bangabandhu of the Navy

The Bangladeshi Navy comprises 19,000 men, 4,000 of whom are civilian employees. Among other things also approx. 80 combat ships and 4 naval aviators (2 of them from a German manufacturer).

Calls

Since it was founded in 1971, the Bangladeshi armed forces have been involved in the following military conflicts:

Peace missions

Women soldiers of the UN peacekeeping force in the Congo

Around 10,498 soldiers are deployed as United Nations peacekeeping troops, which puts Bangladesh in first place. On several occasions, Bangladeshi leaders have been appointed as commanders of peace missions.

Participation of Bangladesh in UN missions in July 2008
UN mission soldiers Military observer police officers
BINUB ( Burundi ) - 1 -
MINURCAT ( Central African Rep. , Chad ) - 1 -
MINURSO ( Western Sahara ) - 8th -
MONUC ( Dem. Rep. Congo ) 1,331 25th 248
UNAMA ( Afghanistan ) - 1 -
UNAMID ( Darfur , Sudan ) 5 - 162
UNIOSIL ( Sierra Leone ) - 65 -
UNMEE ( Ethiopia , Eritrea ) 2 2 -
UNMIK ( Kosovo ) - 2 150
UNMIL ( Liberia ) 2,392 18th 17th
UNMIS ( Sudan ) 1,542 9 35
UNMIT ( East Timor ) - 4th 193
UNOCI ( Ivory Coast ) 2,717 11 252
UNOMIG ( Georgia ) - 7th -

Web links

Commons : Bangladeshi Armed Forces  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.army.mil.bd/
  2. ↑ a b c d The World Fact Book
  3. ↑ http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/contributors/2011/oct11_2.pdf