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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kosandpol" data-source="post: 3274417" data-attributes="member: 105851">Aside from the usual UNP whining, the LTTE air craft antics remains a major embarrassment to the SLAF.  We have to agree on that point. The chief of the Air force keeps sayings it is for the last time the LTTE are able to fly their planes and the LTTE keeps making him eat his words.General Douglas McArthur said it best when asked about the effectiveness of the first bomb attack they carried out in Tokyo after Perl harbor: "Its only a pin prick but its pin prick right through the heart"Last night's attack can be summed up by that quite well. Even if the actual damage is as light as the govt claims it to be, the psychological effect of it and their message is loud and clear. This episode is "one up" for the LTTE and we will have to accept it even if we don't like it. This once again shows our unwillingness to learn from mistakes. Even after so many similar incidents, our forces are still unable to shoot down a low flying aircraft from the ground. We know fully well the type of aircraft they use and we also know its flying capabilities (a search in the wiki pages gives all the info). Why this information is not used to turn their low flying technique against them remains a mystery. When their flight is low enough that people can see the planes clearly from their roof tops, that flight is then well within the range of automatic weapons and even shotguns.Give the troops training in firing at low flying  objects and this menace will cease to exist.Why that is not being done is the question that must be addressed.</blockquote>

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