bdnews24.com :
The US and Bangladesh Air Forces have started their week-long joint annual exercise at Bangabandhu Air Base in Dhaka on Saturday.
Styled ‘Cope South-2015’, it is the fourth of its kind of bilateral exercise that mostly focus on conducting tactical airlift operations to ensure better disaster response which is “crucial” for Bangladesh.
This is a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored exercise in which 80 US airmen from the 36th Airlift Squadron and 374th Airlift Wing, of the US air base in
Japan’s Yokota joined along with three C-130H Hercules aircraft.
C-130 is regarded as the best transport aircraft in the world.
Bangladesh has also deployed one of its four C-130 for the exercise with 200 airmen.
Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) Group Captain MA Awal Hossain said this was a rigorous exercise to perfect and augment airlift capabilities and enhancement of operation and maintenance capability for them.
The US and Bangladesh Air Forces have started their week-long joint annual exercise at Bangabandhu Air Base in Dhaka on Saturday.
Styled ‘Cope South-2015’, it is the fourth of its kind of bilateral exercise that mostly focus on conducting tactical airlift operations to ensure better disaster response which is “crucial” for Bangladesh.
This is a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored exercise in which 80 US airmen from the 36th Airlift Squadron and 374th Airlift Wing, of the US air base in
Japan’s Yokota joined along with three C-130H Hercules aircraft.
C-130 is regarded as the best transport aircraft in the world.
Bangladesh has also deployed one of its four C-130 for the exercise with 200 airmen.
Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) Group Captain MA Awal Hossain said this was a rigorous exercise to perfect and augment airlift capabilities and enhancement of operation and maintenance capability for them.
