A day-long Air Defence Exercise titled “ADEX 2016” of Bangladesh Air Force held at Dhaka, Chittagong, Jessore, Tangail and Bogra on Sunday. The aim of this exercise is to assess and evaluate the efficiency and capability of BAF Air Defence and identify the
weaknesses and draw lessons for further improvement in air defence aspects. The exercise will help to identify the limitation and draw appropriate lessons for improvement in future.
It may be mentioned that participation of all manpower and material of BAF in the exercise will be more effective in strengthening air defence capability of Bangladesh.
As a part of the exercise, the pilots of BAF fighter aircraft 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, transporting weapons, special operation and search & rescue mission. All types of BAF fighter aircraft, radar squadrons and air defence missile units participated in the exercise.
