By matara aiya
b#1
In that exhibition [Deyata Kirulu] you can see Kfirs and MiGs.
Archive for March, 2008
On”Suicide attack kills four civilians – Jaffna” – DN
March 31, 2008On”Suicide attack kills four civilians – Jaffna” – DN
March 31, 2008By moshe dyan
kamals,
Great find.
On”Suicide attack kills four civilians – Jaffna” – DN
March 31, 2008By moshe dyan
Blackarrow,
you have not understood what i say properly although i used colourful language.
my concern is NOT about the withdrwal or consolidation on previous FDLs, etc.
it is about NOT killing the maximum number of tigers. i cannot understand how the destruction of empty bunkers can achieve anything.
these can be rebuild very easily as tigers have done in the past.
the battlefront is not only in Mannar; there are four battlefronts in the north.
the midnight operation should have specifically targetted cadres than infrastructure.
we also need to neutralise tiger arti. positions in Pooneryn.
there is no point in capturing muhamalia, etc. without neutralising tiger mortar positions that are 20-35 km away!
On”Suicide attack kills four civilians – Jaffna” – DN
March 31, 2008By piyadasa
Canadian card scam: Tiger link probed
A routine traffic stop in Toronto has sparked a widening police probe of a debit-card fraud that may have funnelled funds to the LTTE from Canada.
On”Suicide attack kills four civilians – Jaffna” – DN
March 31, 2008By matara aiya
backlightarrow
Yes you may be right. Believe it or not I had a chance to speak personally with this person, fellow soldiers and his junior officer. I believe what they have told me.
On”Suicide attack kills four civilians – Jaffna” – DN
March 31, 2008By
Interesting article here by Dayan Jayatilake:
http://transcurrents.com/tamiliana/archives/516
“I think that image is a fake.
The planes are really there but the soldier in the right hand side of the image looks cropped.”
You’re right, Snake. Also, the hoardings in the background have been added.
Renegade, those are not Hunters. The Hunter sits with its tail lower, and have a wider wingspan.
“If you read any given sniper guns specifications it says maximum range is only 800m-1200m. But this guy is manage to shoot by far as 1.5km. It is very difficult to hit moving targets at windy nights(wind is the biggest problem)”
Matara Aiya, how can the SLAF sniper have hit the Tigers at 1.5km range when the distance from the perimeter fence to the tower is less than a kilometer? Also, even if he could’ve hit ‘em at this range in daylight, there are no rifle-mountable night vision scopes that have that range. A sniper kill at 400m at night is pretty good anyway, so he’s still a hero.
FYI the longest recorded sniper kill is by Cpl Rob Furlong of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in Afghanistan in March 2002, using a MacMillan TAC-50 at 2,430m in daylight. Before that the longest recorded kill was by GSgt Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam, using a scoped .50-in heavy machine-gun at 2,250m in daylight. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Sniper_Weapon_(LRSW))
On”Suicide attack kills four civilians – Jaffna” – DN
March 31, 2008By one spirit
Any chance of using the HISAR as long range artillery spotter for SLA instead of SLAF wasting LGB’s.
For a Air Strike, Cost of mission = (Proportional Cost of Mig/KFir per flying hour x Hours for Mission) + Cost of Bomb + Cost of LG unit + Proportional cost of Training for pilot + Other Costs
For artillery/HISAR combo strike, cost of mission will be significantly less.
BTW, is there anything called Laser Targeted Artillery and does SLA have this?
On”Suicide attack kills four civilians – Jaffna” – DN
March 31, 2008By b#1
Yesterday Navy Com.Wasantha Karannagoda said on Thulawa (ITN)
Soon the Army will target the remaining Sea Tiger Bases in Mulathive using artillery. Is that mean the War will end up soon? and he said Navy will not let VP to escape from the country using Sea.
On”Suicide attack kills four civilians – Jaffna” – DN
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March 31, 2008By black light arrow
“please understand I don’t want to redicule the forces. But most of you will agree that we need a DIFFERENT STRATEGY for the South Jaffna FDLs.”
Moshe, the reason you’re disappointed is because you jumped to the conclusion that this was an offensive to capture EPS. Look at the entire strategic situation before assuming things. Don’t ask for a different strategy when you don’t understand the strategy in the first place. The main pressure on the LTTE is in the Wanni. Why should the security forces waste time pushing south on the Muhamalai-Nagarkovil front? It’ll have no bearing on the Wanni. The fighting on the peninsula is merely to distract the LTTE and destabilize their frontline so that they cannot use it as a start point for their own diversionary push towards Jaffna. We are gonna see many more of these raids by the Army. In fact, I hope they do a few amphibious raids as well against the Pooneryn peninsula so that it can’t be used as a firebase for Tiger arty hitting Palaly.
