Between September 14 and 18, a joint air force exercise involving Bangladesh and the United States was held in Bangladesh’s strategically salient Chattogram Division. The exercise, named Pacific Angel 25-3, involved 90 personnel of the Bangladesh Air Force and 92 personnel of the Pacific Air Forces of the U.S. Air Force, along with personnel from the Bangladesh Army, the Bangladesh Navy, and the Oregon Air National Guard as well as two Sri Lanka Air Force medical personnel. The exercise involved a C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft and a Mi-17 helicopter of the Bangladesh Air Force and two C-130J Super Hercules transport aircrafts of the U.S. Air Force. The Pacific Angel 25-3 exercise was preceded by the Tiger Shark 2025 exercise held in August 2025 and the Tiger Lightning 2025 exercise held in July 2025. Moreover, just as the Bangladesh Air Force was taking part in a joint exercise in Chattogram with the U.S. Air Force, a Bangladesh Army contingent of 37 personnel participated in the Russian-Belarusian joint exercise Zapad 2025 in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod.