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Bangladesh’s potent and professional air force is increasingly active internationally through participation in UN missions, as Rogier Westerhuis and Ian Carroll discover. 35 Squadron F-7BGI serial 2721 and two-seat FT-7BGI 2703. The BAF maintains a constant air defence alert facility rotated between diff erent squadrons. All photos Dr Andreas Zeitler, unless otherwise stated THE YOUNGEST country in the Indian subcontinent, Bangladesh is often portrayed as being politically turbulent in the face of economic, social and geographic challenges. But its proud