Bangladesh to receive 'stop-gap' Chinese F-7s

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The Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) will receive 16 Chinese-built F-7BGI combat aircraft during 2012 as part of an ambitious longer-term drive to modernise and expand its fighter fleet, the Bangladeshi Chief of Air Staff said on 10 November. Speaking at Defence IQ's 2011 International Fighter Conference in London, Air Marshal Shah Mohammad Ziaur Rahman revealed that the Chengdu F-7BGI aircraft will be an updated version of the F-7, itself a derivative of the venerable Russian MiG-21 design.