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The development also underscores the growing international interest in a Chinese fighter that has gained considerable attention since seeing combat in Pakistani service last year.\n\n\n\nBangladesh\u2019s Prime Minister\u2019s Information and Broadcasting Adviser Zahed Ur Rahman said Tuesday that a government panel is preparing a draft agreement that could pave the way for negotiations with Beijing. The government has not disclosed how many aircraft it intends to acquire, the potential value of the deal, or a delivery schedule, with those details expected to be determined during negotiations.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBangladesh is advancing plans to purchase Chinese J-10CE fighter jets, with a government official pointing to the aircraft\u2019s performance in the recent India-Pakistan conflict https://t.co/EypP8oci6C\u2014 Bloomberg (@business) August 25, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\nLocal reporting has previously pointed to a potential requirement for as many as 24 J-10CEs.\n\n\n\nIf ultimately contracted and delivered, Bangladesh would become only the second confirmed foreign customer of the export version of the J-10C, after Pakistan. However, there has been growing speculation about other potential customers, too, fueled by imagery showing apparent export-standard J-10s being tested in China.\n\n\n\nA Pakistan Air Force J-10CE. Pakistan Air Force \n\n\n\nThe potential acquisition comes as Bangladesh seeks to modernize its aging combat aircraft fleet. Dhaka already maintains a long-standing defense relationship with Beijing, which has supplied Bangladesh with combat aircraft, naval vessels, tanks, missile systems, and other military equipment over the past two decades.\n\n\n\nThe J-10CE is a much more capable proposition than many of the older fighters still operated by air forces that have historically relied on Chinese or Soviet-designed equipment, of which Bangladesh is a prime example. Currently, the Bangladesh Air Force\u2019s fighter fleet is made up of different versions of the Chengdu F-7 (an updated Chinese version of the MiG-21 Fishbed) and much smaller numbers of MiG-29 Fulcrums.\n\n\n\nThree Bangladesh Air Force F-7s perform during celebrations to mark Bangladesh\u2019s 54th Victory Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on December 16, 2025. Photo by Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury/NurPhoto Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury\n\n\n\nMaintaining aging Soviet-designed fleets increasingly presents challenges in terms of airframe life, avionics, spare parts, weapons, and overall readiness. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine and accompanying sanctions serve to make Russia an even less reliable source of military aircraft and other arms.\n\n\n\nThe J-10C is a single-engine multirole fighter equipped with an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, modern avionics, electronic warfare capabilities, and the ability to employ a growing range of Chinese precision-guided weapons. The export J-10CE also provides access to weapons such as the much-vaunted PL-15 beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile.\n\n\n\nA Chinese J-10C fighter during a training exercise. Xinhua/Xi Bobo/Getty Images Xinhua News Agency\n\n\n\nThe aircraft\u2019s growing reputation has been helped considerably by Pakistan.\n\n\n\nPakistan became the first foreign operator of the J-10CE, and the aircraft received intense international attention during the May 2025 conflict between Pakistan and India. Pakistan said its Chinese-made fighters were involved in shooting down several Indian aircraft, while the precise circumstances, numbers, and tactics involved remain the subject of competing claims and outside analysis.\n\n\n\nA Pakistan Air Force J-10CE after its arrival at PAF Base Minhas, where it first arrived in 2022.\u00a0Pakistan Air Force \n\n\n\nNevertheless, the conflict provided the J-10CE with an unusual degree of combat visibility for a Chinese export fighter. Now, Bangladeshi officials have explicitly acknowledged that the aircraft\u2019s reported performance during that conflict has attracted attention in Dhaka.\n\n\n\nThe J-10CE is also particularly well positioned within China\u2019s emerging fighter-export portfolio.\n\n\n\nChina is developing more advanced stealth aircraft, including the FC-31/J-35 family, but that program represents a different proposition for prospective customers, coming with greater cost and potential uncertainty attached. The J-10C is a much more mature design already in operational foreign service, giving China an aircraft that can be offered today rather than relying entirely on future capabilities.\n\n\n\nA full-scale mockup of an FC-31 fighter is showcased at Airshow China 2022 on November 6, 2022 in Zhuhai, China. Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images YANG SHUGUANG\n\n\n\nThat combination of modern systems and an established production line could prove attractive to countries that need to replace aging fighters without taking on the financial, political, or industrial commitments associated with acquiring a Western combat aircraft.\n\n\n\nAs well as the potential Bangladesh deal, Uzbekistan has been linked to the J-10CE.\n\n\n\nFor months, Chinese military aviation observers have speculated that Tashkent could become another customer for the fighter. More recently, imagery of an aircraft carrying the serial number 1020 has generated renewed interest, with low-visibility markings on its tailfin appearing to resemble the Uzbek flag.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile unconfirmed, serial numbers in the 101X and 102X ranges have been associated by some observers with a possible Uzbek order. \n\n\n\nIn the past, reports have circulated that Uzbekistan also intends to acquire 24 J-10CEs. There have also been unverified accounts that J-10s have already been seen at Karshi Khanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan.\n\n\n\nUzbekistan operates a combat fleet heavily reliant on Soviet-era designs, including MiG-29 fighters and Su-25 Frogfoot attack jets. Replacing at least some of those aircraft with modern Chinese fighters would represent a notable expansion of Beijing\u2019s role in a defense market historically dominated by Russian equipment.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChina has increasingly demonstrated an ability to offer modern military equipment across almost every major category. This includes drones, air defense systems, warships, missiles, armored vehicles, transports, and combat aircraft.\n\n\n\nChinese equipment provides a way to acquire increasingly sophisticated military capabilities without making the same political choices that can accompany major Western defense purchases. 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