Bangladesh Armed Forces
| Bangladesh Armed Forces বাংলাদেশ সশস্ত্র বাহিনী Bānglādēśh Saśastra Bāhinī |
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Tri-service Logo of Bangladesh Armed Forces.
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| Motto | "চির উন্নত মম শির" (de facto) "Ever High is My Head" |
| Founded |
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| Current form | 12 January 1972 |
| Service branches |
 Bangladesh Army Bangladesh Navy Bangladesh Air Force
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| Headquarters | Dhaka Cantonment |
| Leadership | |
| Commander-in-Chief | President Abdul Hamid |
| Leader of Armed Forces Division and Minister of Defence | Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina |
| Manpower | |
| Conscription | No |
| Available for military service |
36,520,491, age 19–49 (2010 est.) |
| Fit for military service |
30,486,086 males, age 19–49 (2010 est.), 35,616,093 females, age 19–49 (2010 est.) |
| Reaching military age annually |
1,606,963 males (2010 est.), 1,689,442 females (2010 est.) |
| Active personnel | 157,053 |
| Reserve personnel | 63,900 |
| Deployed personnel | 9,380 |
| Expenditures | |
| Budget | $3.03 billion (Not including Paramilitary Forces) (2016-17) |
| Percent of GDP | 1.2% (2015) |
| Industry | |
| Domestic suppliers |
Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Bangladesh Ordnance Factories Bangabandhu Aeronautical Centre Khulna Shipyard Dockyard and Engineering Works Limited |
| Foreign suppliers |
 China Russia South Korea Ukraine United Kingdom United States Turkey
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| Related articles | |
| History |
Bangladesh Liberation War Chittagong Hill Tracts Insurgency Gulf War Saudi Led Coalition against ISIL |
The Bangladesh Armed Forces (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ সশস্ত্র বাহিনী, Bangladesh Sôshôstrô Bahini) consists of the three uniformed military services of Bangladesh: the Bangladesh Army, the Bangladesh Navy and the Bangladesh Air Force. The para-military organization Bangladesh National Cadet Corps (BNCC) is a reserved force & Directed by Army, Navy, Air Force. It is under the command of Defence Ministry. The para-military Border Guard Bangladesh (formerly Bangladesh Rifles) and Bangladesh Coast Guard are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Home Affairs during peacetime, but during wartime they fall under the command of Bangladesh Army and Bangladesh Navy respectively.
The President of Bangladesh is the Commander-in-chief of the military, the Armed Forces Division (AFD) is the principal administrative organization by which military policy is formulated and executed and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) does not exercise any authority over the Armed Forces and is far less powerful than the AFD. Currently, both AFD and MoD are headed by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. To coordinate military policy with diplomacy both the President and the Prime Minister are advised by a six-member advisory board, three Chiefs of Staff, which includes the head of each of the regular services, Principal Staff Officer of the Armed Forces Division, and Military Secretaries to the President and the Prime Minister. The Director Generals of the NSI, the DGFI and the BGB also serve in an advisory capacity.
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