Sunday, April 29, 2007

Got Bombed Thrice


While the Sri Lankan cricket team battled it off with Australians in World Cup finals, woke up to news of the unbeatables of Tamil Tiger Rebels' Air Wing launching another air attack on Colombo in the early hours of today morning. As usual, defense.lk has only a sweeping statement, but Yahoo! News says that the targets were vital oil installations at Kolonnawa and Kerawalapitiya. Although the damages done are still not clear, it seems that there were some damage at Kerawalapitiya.

This Is Pathetic

Indeed. That is the only word. As usual, the aircraft came, bombed, and flew back. The air force didn't even scratch some paint outof their kites. At last now the capabilities of the air force has come into public light. For sure they still can't fight it out in air. The fast jets, unless armed with sophisticated air-to-air weapons systems, cannot 'gun down' slow and low moving propeller driven aircraft, especially at night. Only hope is a helicopter gunship, but last Thursday one of them got crashed when one was scrambled to check on an air attack report. I don't know why we pay taxes.

Now the Tiger Air Wing has totally defeated SLAF in their own skies. Still the AF people issue statements wearing combat pants. The arms procurement has been utterly ineffective. Although it is reported that the US Pacific Command recommended that SLAF acquire night capabilities almost 5 years back, what the air force and the GoSL have paid for were lambchops and 52-member cabinets. Non of the government procurement committee members seem to have any idea about what the AF really need. What happened was AF officials misleading government funds [even the meagre available], and buying obsolete purchases adding a definite zero to air force capability. I'd eat my hat if these aren't millionaires now.

And we still get bombed the shit outof us.

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