LTTE :The Usage of Light aircrafts effectively
With the Srilankan army advancing further into the tiger heartland their have been the concern how far can the terrorist put on the stiff resistance they manged int he last few weeks. And they have had to turn their eyes and year to new tactics that can boost the moral of their carders.
In last few days much few attacks the LTTE tried failed miserably which contains the attack on cargo ships and the areal attack on Colombo. And in the last few months it was highlighted that the LTTE is turning their attention towards the aerial attacks with their lite aircrafts.
The Lttes air wing is equipped with at least 5 check made zlin 143 aircrafts.
Orginal zlin 143 aircraft
the company have produced over 30000 such aircrafts and sold it in different countries. And the LTTE is not using it for a purpose that the designers never thought it would be used for. The modifications of th flight is as follows.
THe modifications of the Zlin 143 aircraft by the Tamil Tigers
Since this is done the Tamil tigers have carried out few air raids which are unsuccessful with the deployment of Radar systems and anti aircraft guns. The srilankan government was using chines made F7 s effectively against the tigers and initially shot one down int the past few weeks.
But the tigers have placed a great treat for the security of srilanka with these aircrafts as they can easily carry a suicide mission with one of these aircrafts filled with explosives. Some thing similar to September 11 attack on the twin towers.
The following pictures shows the eastern sky of Colombo while the anti aircraft guns started firing to the Ltte aircrafts.
Colombo Skyies1
Colombo Skyies2
Colombo Skyies3
