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Bangladesh People's Republic of China: 174 Type 59 tanks were upgraded to Type 59G(BD) Durjoy with kits from China in 2014–2019. [24] [28] Type 69-IIG: Main battle tank: 58 People's Republic of China: 58 Type 69-IIA tanks upgraded to Type 69-IIG version with kits from China in 2010–2013. [24] [28] Light tanks (44) VT-5: Light tank: 44
The Type 59G Durjoy, sometimes known as Type 59G, [1] is a highly modernized version of the Chinese Type 59 tank for the Bangladesh Army.The Bangladesh Army's old Type 59 tanks were upgraded similarly to Type 59G standard at 902 Central Workshop of the Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory with Chinese assistance.
In October 2019, US officials said Bangladesh requested to purchase advanced military equipment from the United States, including multi-role combat fighters, attack helicopters and surface-to-air missile systems. [84] The US offered the Bangladesh Air Force two types of attack helicopter,s and the BAF opted for the AH-64 Apache. [84]
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Active Bangladesh military aircraft is a list of military aircraft that are used by the Bangladesh Armed Forces. For aircraft no longer in-service see: List of historic Bangladesh military aircraft. Approximately 80 aircraft and five Mil Mi-17 were destroyed by the devastating 1991 Bangladesh cyclone.
Dhaka, the largest city, with a population of 14.7 million, accounted for 31.8% of the total urban population by 2019. Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) changed from 58.2% to 49.0% by the end of the decade. The influx of Rohingya refugees had impact on the demography of Bangladesh. [12]
There are a number of utility scale solar PV farms proposed in Bangladesh: 28 MW Teknaf Solar Park, 50 MW Sutiakhali, Mymensingh Solar Park and 32 MW Sunamganj Solar Park. US company SunEdison was the sponsor of the 200 MW Teknaf project while Singapore based entities Sinenergy Holdings, Ditrolic and local company IFDC Solar are the sponsors of ...
Given that Bangladesh continued to urbanize during this time, there are now more people living in extreme poverty in urban Bangladesh (3.3 million) than in 2010 (3 million). [17] Since independence the average rate of urbanization in Bangladesh is 5% [ 18 ] (World Bank 2012) & percentage share of urban population has doubled, from 15% in 1974 ...