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Sri Lanka wants US help as Indian radars insufficient

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India gave us failed radars & failed Anti-aircraft guns, when LTTE Terrorists attacking us.

Anyway all those Indian failed radars & failed Anti-aircraft guns now replaced by Modern Chinese Radars & Modern Israeli Anti-aircraft guns………

Israeli ??? wow. howcome they provided SL with radars ?


its good Sri Lanka should join hands with China for defence deals and if US is willing its a good chance for both US and Sri Lanka to form good strong defence ties which is going to benefit US in the long term.
 
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This guy/girl is stamped Indian hater, and some people go to any length.
 
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Sri Lanka should buy the required systems from which ever country that is ready to provide.

India will have domestic implications on providing high level tech to Srilanka
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what are these implications ? other than angering LTTE supporter politicians ?
 
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This guy/girl is stamped Indian hater, and some people go to any length.

:what: ok so ? he posted the news and btw keeping in view Indian support for LTTE terrorists he has all the rights to be Indian hater.
anyway focus on the topic
 
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Srilankans want 2D radars to do the 3D radars .
Now u will say pistols supplied by India are bad and Ak 47s r better .
India duped us .

I still dont understand how on earth it is possible tht government is helping LTTE .
We alrdy lost our PM who was killed by LTTE .
Indians have no problem with Srilankans then I still dont understand why u have probs with us
 
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Indians have no problem with Srilankans then I still dont understand why u have probs with us

srilankans too have no problem with india, it is his/her individual views. he/she do no represent whole sri lanka.
 
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Its hard to accept that the Sri Lankan military officials never evaluated the radars before inducting them in their arsenal. Now they are trying to hide their incompetency by blaming it on the Indian radars. :disagree:
 
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The plane was thought to be a Morovan Otrokovice Z 142, a single-engine piston aircraft commonly used for flight training. It appears to be outfitted with some old-school 50lb “iron” bombs.

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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), those tigerstripe-wearing, bike-riding, bomb-chucking terrorists dedicated to creating a separate Tamil homeland in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.

Apparently they constructed an airstrip in Jaffna a few years back (in violation of the then-ceasefire), which was subsequently rendered inoperable by the Sri Lankan Air Force. Yet this morning the LTTE managed to conduct an aerial bombing raid on Katunayake Air Base (co-located with Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo).

Tamil Tiger rebels launched their first ever air strike early this morning, attacking Sri Lanka’s main military airbase.

At least three people were killed and 16 were wounded in the attack.

The Sri Lankan military said the bombs hit a barracks and that none of its aircraft had been damaged. The government said the raid did not cause any damage to the adjacent civilian airport, which is 23 miles (37 km) north of the capital, Colombo.

– Staff and wire services, “Tamil Tiger ‘air force’ bombs airbase“. Daily Telegraph, 27 March 2007.

The Liberation Tigers, of course, are positively full of piss and vinegar. The reality of the deed is a little more mundane and ordinary
A spokesman for the Tamil Tigers warned of further attacks from their new air wing, threatening to intensify the renewed conflict.

“A light aircraft flew over the base and dropped explosives. There have been two explosions. At the same time our air defences activated and there is a search operation going on,” said Grp Capt Ajantha de Silva, a [Sri Lankan] air force spokesman.

– Staff and wire services, “Tamil Tiger ‘air force’ bombs airbase“. Daily Telegraph, 27 March 2007.

Right then. An “air wing” comprised of a single aircraft. Just for reference’s sake, fellas, an operational air wing in any other air force is comprised of at least one squadron, and each squadron has somewhere between eighteen and twenty aircraft. What you’ve got is a more dangerous and comical form of Air Cadets or Civil Air Patrol. Nonetheless, it has managed to disrupt airside operations for commercial carriers.

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific airline announced the immediate suspension of its daily service to Bandaranaike international airport and declared a “careful assessment” was needed before the flight was resumed whilst at least seven other intercontinental flights were redirected to neighbouring India and Thailand.

Cathay said 119 of its passengers were stranded in Colombo after their flight was cancelled following the bombing of the Katunayaka air base. “It will take another 24-36 hours for us to get fully back together,” Sri Lankan Airlines’ chief executive Peter Hill said even as officials declared the airport open to air traffic later in the day.

– Rahul Behdi, “Flights alert after Tamil Tigers launch air raid“. Daily Telegraph, 27 March 2007.

I seriously doubt that the LTTE have managed to give their little puddle-jumper any air-to-air capability. An unarmed 747 could suck that little lawn mower into one of the outboard nacelles and still make its scheduled gate time on three engines.

The military authorities seem to have a sense of humour about it, at least.

“That is what the Air Force is still trying to find out, where they have come from,” said military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe. “You can come along the beach side or over water without being detected.”

Samarasinghe laughed at the Tigers’ claim of a new Tamil Eelam Air Force, named after the independent state they are trying to carve out in the island’s north and east.

“There won’t be any Tamil Eelam. Small aircraft coming and dropping one or two bombs, it’s not an air force.”

– “S.Lanka rebel DIY “air force” a minnow but a threat“. Reuters | India, 26 March 2007.

Bingo.

Here’s hoping the Sri Lankan Air Force gets a bead on them and puts the impromptu Jaffna Flying Club out of business soon.
 
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Srilankans want 2D radars to do the 3D radars .
Now u will say pistols supplied by India are bad and Ak 47s r better .
India duped us .

I still dont understand how on earth it is possible tht government is helping LTTE .
We alrdy lost our PM who was killed by LTTE .
Indians have no problem with Srilankans then I still dont understand why u have probs with us

Sri Lanka time and again asked India for quality and modern equipment and weapons to tackle LTTE terrorism but India always refused on pretext of offensive weapons.

anyway SL surely need advanced equipment which is needed whats so strange about it?
 
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Y in the world will India ever support LTTE??....they assasinated one of our prime ministers, they have killed many of our soldiers....just cause some one or two nutjobs support the LTTE doesn't mean all Indian tamils are like that or the whole country supports them...hel!! i know many tamils myself who dont support LTTE!! And i ve never seen a single Indian hate a sri lankan or vice versa....y is this poster so ANTI-INDIAN??

On topic - Sri lankans were provided with 2d radars which worked fine....how can u allege that India gave you useless junk??
 
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