Equipment of the Border Guard Bangladesh

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

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

Name Image Type Caliber Quantity
RK-3 Corsar Anti-tank guided missile 107mm 500 [2]
Alcotán-100 PLOS based anti-tank rocket launcher 100mm 500

Utility vehicles

Name Image Type Quantity Notes
Polaris ATVs ATV 250 Used for off-road patrolling.[3][4]
KrAZ-Spartan Armoured Personnel Carrier 100
Otokar Cobra Infantry mobility vehicle 100

Aircraft

Name Image Type Quantity Notes
Mi-171E Helicopter 4 4 in active service from 2020.[5][6][7]

Vessels

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

References

  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.