In Pictures

HMS Bulwark pictured with Bangladeshi Navy vessels during exercise Shomudro Torongo in the Bay of Bengal [Picture: LA(Phot) Shaun Barlow]

HMS Bulwark pictured with Bangladeshi Navy vessels during exercise Shomudro Torongo in the Bay of Bengal [Picture: LA(Phot) Shaun Barlow]

Royal Marines from 40 Commando conduct close enemy attacks [Picture: LA(Phot) Shaun Barlow]

Royal Marines from 40 Commando receive orders prior to launching an attack [Picture: LA(Phot) Shaun Barlow]

A Royal Navy Merlin helicopter flies over the BNS Kapatakhaya, an Island Class offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladeshi Navy [Picture: Royal Navy]

40 Commando Royal Marines conducting a beach assault exercise [Picture: LA(Phot) Shaun Barlow]

40 Commando Royal Marines wade through the sea to conduct a beach assault exercise with offshore raiding craft providing fire support in the background [Picture: LA(Phot) Shaun Barlow]

40 Commando Royal Marines and Bangladeshi forces patrol the waterways of the Ganges Delta using offshore raiding craft from 539 Assault Squadron to provide protection for land troops [Picture: LA(Phot) Shaun Barlow]

Bangladeshi children wave at troops from the shores of the Ganges Delta [Picture: Royal Navy]

40 Commando Royal Marines and Bangladeshi forces patrol the waterways of the Ganges Delta using offshore raiding craft from 539 Assault Squadron to provide protection for land troops [Picture: LA(Phot) Shaun Barlow]

Merlin helicopter of 820 Naval Air Squadron pictured with RFA Wave Ruler in the Bay of Bengal [Picture: LA(Phot) Shaun Barlow]

A Royal Navy winchman looks out over urban Bangladesh from a helicopter [Picture: Royal Navy]

A Bangladeshi marine looks along the sights of his rifle [Picture: Royal Navy]

Royal Marines and Bangladeshi forces board a landing craft utility vehicle [Picture: LA(Phot) Shaun Barlow]