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The third of five C-130J jets bought in the UK landed at the Bangladesh Air Force Base in Bangabandhu on Thursday.
It has been put under the Air Force’s own administration. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the mission was led by the Captain of the Air Force Group. Ahsanur Rahman. The plane landed in Cairo (Egypt) and Muscat (Oman) en route.
ISPR further said that the government is trying to modernize the Air Force under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Following this, five US-made C-130J transport aircraft will be added to the Air Force through purchase agreements with the UK Royal Air Force and maintenance agreements with the Marshall Aerospace and Defense Group.
The aircraft was received at Bangabandhu Air Force Base in the traditional way. Present on the occasion were Air Chief of Staff, Air Chief Marshal Masihuzzaman Serniabat and the United Kingdom High Commissioner in Bangladesh, Robert Chatterton Dixon.
Air Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations) Air Deputy Marshal M Abul Bashar then briefed reporters on the matter. The C-130J is a state-of-the-art avionics and a state-of-the-art transport aircraft, to be used in humanitarian assistance activities at home and abroad, including cargo, military transport, and peacekeeping missions. from the ONU.
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