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Equipment of the Border Guard Bangladesh

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The following is a list of the equipment currently in use by the Border Guards Bangladesh. It includes small arms, vehicles, vessels and aircraft.

Border Guards Bangladesh
Monogram of BGB

Small arms

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Name Image Type Caliber Notes
Bersa Thunder 9 Semi-automatic pistol 9×19mm Parabellum
Type 56 carbine Semi-automatic Carbine 7.62×39mm Produced under license by BOF. Standard-issue rifle of BGB. Gradually being replaced by BD-08 and Type-56 assault rifles.[1]
BD-08 Assault rifle 7.62×39mm Produced under license by BOF.[1]
Type 56 assault rifle Assault rifle 7.62×39mm
Type 85 Sniper rifle 7.62×54mmR
BD-15 Light machine gun 7.62×39mm LMG variant of BD-08 assault rifle.
RPD Light machine gun 7.62×39mm

Anti-tank weapons

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Name Image Type Caliber Quantity
RK-3 Corsar Anti-tank guided missile 107mm 14 launcher [2]
Alcotán-100 PLOS based anti-tank rocket launcher 100mm N/A

Utility vehicles

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Name Image Type Quantity Notes
Polaris ATVs ATV 120 Used for off-road patrolling.[3][4]
KrAZ-Spartan Armoured Personnel Carrier 12
Otokar Cobra Infantry mobility vehicle 28

Aircraft

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Name Image Type Quantity Notes
Mi-171E Helicopter 2 2 in active service from 2020.[5][6][7]

Vessels

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Name Image Type Quantity Notes
BGB Shah Jalal Coastal Patrol Vessel 1 [8]
High speed interceptor vessel Interceptor Vessel 4 Received in 2020. The vessels are capable of navigating in inclement weather and are equipped with machine gun, radar, fourth generation GPS, and modern sonar system.[9][10]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Small Arms Factory". Bangladesh Ordnance Factory. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Bangladesh Fortifies Island Near Myanmar With Heavy Weapons, Gunboats". The Irrawady. 2019-01-02. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  3. ^ "BGB acquires all-terrain vehicles to combat cross-border crime". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  4. ^ "BGB equipped with all-terrain vehicles". Somoy News. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  5. ^ "PM declares BGB a three-dimensional force". The Daily Star. UNB. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Russian copters to turn BGB into 3-dimensional force". The Independent. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  7. ^ "Mil Mi-171E, Bangladesh - Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)". Jet Photos. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  8. ^ "BDR-Shahjalal – Patrol Vessel – Details and current position IMO 8106472 MMSI 0 | Vessels". VesselFinder. Retrieved 2017-04-23.
  9. ^ "BGB introduces new high speed interceptor vessels equipped with weapon". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  10. ^ "BGB gets high speed interceptor vessels". Prothom Alo. Retrieved 3 June 2020.