The annual winter exercise “WINTEX-2016” of Bangladesh Air Force is going to be concluded today [Monday], says an ISPR release. The main objective of the exercise is to assess and evaluate the operational capability of Bangladesh Air Force to safeguard her own air space including support to land and military forces in wartime scenario, said a press release issued by Inter-Service Public Relations [ISPR] on Sunday. The exercise also will help to identify the limitation and draw appropriate lessons for improvement in future. Mentionable that participation of all manpower and material of BAF in the exercise will be more effective in strengthening air defence capability of Bangladesh. The exercise will be completed through three steps- Logistic exercise [LOGEX], Communication exercise [COMEX] & Live exercise [LIVEX]. As a part of the exercise, the pilots of BAF fighter aircraft, transport aircraft and helicopters practiced different air combat maneuvers and tactics including attack and interception by the fighter aircraft, surveillance from the air to the enemy attacking area, protecting Air Bases, providing logistic support, troops rotation, transporting weapons, special operation and search & rescue mission. Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Abu Esrar, BBP, ndc, acsc visited various BAF installations including BAF Base Bangabandhu and BAF Base Bashar to witness different activities of WINTEX-2016. It is to be noted that the exercise was conducted from Barisal, Shamshernagar and all Bangladesh including all Air Force Bases, Stations and Units from 03 March 2016. All types of BAF fighter aircraft, transport aircraft, helicopters, radar squadrons, Missile unit including all BAF personnel took part in the exercise. To make the exercise more effective, realistic and to co-ordinate with other forces Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy, Civil Defence and BNCC [Air Wing] participated in the exercise in limited scale.
