Windows 7 RC and Critics

Over the past few years, world have asked Microsoft to make changes to Windows. They say that they listened closely. Now the time has to share the early look at how they've used our feedbacks. They say Windows 7 is faster, more reliable, and makes it easier to do what you want. Check it out below...


Windows 7 seven First Official Video

While admiring what Microsoft has done to lift up IT as a whole, I’ve been on many blogs where people keep complaining that this new OS is a rip of of OS X, and that the new Taskbar is like the Dock in OS X, and that it’s going to suck. I also think that the picture viewer on tablet is a direct copy from i-phone. In addition to that early reviewer doubt that Windows 7 will be unstable, slow and full of useless features as it was with Vista..

I my opinion, MSFT will continue to use their new modular approach they used for vista to license this OS too, but some believe that Microsoft could charge users a monthly fee based on usage. That idea seems a bit far-fetched, because it will really put complete control of consumers’ in the hands of Microsoft.

In general, Microsoft, since the introduction of Windows 3.2, have done little to change the core part of the OS, rather they have patched around with multimedia rich features in the name of user friendliness. This approach has vastly reduced the overall performance of the operating system and has become a white elephant that eats up hardware for nothing.

I think it is the right time for Microsoft to think fresh and start over to build a new OS that match the current day requirements.

The World’s Biggest Rescue Operation is on…

The president of Sri Lanka (one and only Mahinda Rajapakse) has just taken Praba (the leader of LTTE) on to his shoulder and is about thrash him down on the ground as the Sri Lankan Army is carrying out the world's biggest the mother of all rescue operations, to rescue an over 100, 000 civilians kept on hostage by the LTTE…

It is the first time ever in the recorded history of this world, an operation was conducted to rescue more than 40, 000 civilians from a ruthless control of an terrorist outfit within a single day… I believe we are lucky to vitness a group of master combatants showing their master skills up against the world's most dangerous terrorist group..

As the battle with LTTE is reaching its peak, Major General Sarath Fonseka(SF) himself steps to the warfront while Sri Lankan Army stand toe-to-toe with so called Prabakaran the Mahaweera. At SF's able hands, many impossible have already become possible. Lots of things happened for the first time as he who loved by the war gods, kept on winning this war. This war is, once said, never winnable. This country with its strong roots leading to many thousand years back, has gifted enough with talents. As it happened many times before (through out in the Sri Lankan history), the right opponent for the LTTE had finally emerged.

Wouldn’t the man who beat the death have remembered the miscalculated suicidal attack LTTE did to kill him once? That day, I know LTTE tuned him perfectly by giving him the right will to end this war for ever.

Today, SF is at the battle front, standing tall waiting for his opponent to face him eye to eye. If the war between Ravana and Rama made all the worlds including heavens stand still, wouldn’t this be the same.

One would have thought that Army is resting with the two day combat break they had to celebrate the Sinhala and Tamil New Year. It was not that case, at around 2.00 A.M. of 20th of April, Sri Lankan Army unpredictably started an operation. They marched under the able leadership of Brigadier Savendra Silva to breaks through the last stretch line to open up another route for civilians to escape. Oh man… isn't that opens the flood gate.. over 40, 000 civilians, let me repeat it again 40, 000 civilians were fled to Army controlled areas in a matter of hours. It is called the great escape from terror…

A human avalanche is detected from the sky, same spy planes of Sri Lanka Air Force detected LTTE was using their fire power against their own people to stop them from fleeing away, but it is also noticed the great avalanche continues…

President has given the final warning to LTTE and also said he has no objection for them to eat the one that dangling from their neck… So it is the last few hours before Sri Lankan Army penitrate through LTTE leaders. Shame on Diasporas for pumping money for LTTE kill their relatives who lived with LTTE for this long... These Tamils who live in abroad wanted the innocent Tamils who live in LTTE controlled areas to fight and get killed to earn them a brand new home land.. These idiots earn enough money, hence did pomp them to LTTE to drag this war this long.. look what the end result really is..... They have gain nothing, but make the weapons sellers rich..

Civilians are running away from LTTE controlled areas..

LTTE is attacking the civilians with their heavy armed cars

Last part of the great escape, civilians are crossing the Pudukuduirippu Lagoon to reach their final destiny to end that heroic journey..

Civilians are coming in massive scale...

One little boy who tried to run away reported to have his both legs cut off in the midst of others being held and while his parents looking at it. Still can LTTE stop the flow..??

While all these things are happening, one news paper amazingly claimed that this operation is almost like the Israel’s Operation Entebbe. Operation Entebbe, also known as the Jonatan Operation or Entebbe Raid or Operation Thunderbolt, was a counter-terrorism hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on the night of 3 July and early morning of 4 July 1976. In the wake of the hijacking of Air France Flight 139 and the hijackers' threats to kill the hostages if their prisoner release demands were not met, a plan was drawn up to airlift the hostages to safety. So the writer, with his good brain, thinks that, this master rescue operation is similar to the one which Israelis did that day. I am just speech less… I am angry, and very angry…. How long these people will take to think that we can do something by ourselves? Why they always try to find something from the west to compare our work. If it was not for Sir Arthur C. Clark, these people wouldn’t dare to say that great kingdom of Seegiriya is like the back yard of White House or something too…. Man, feel shame about what you said (I am so angry, hence cannot find the right words to show my anger).

I personally hate media (uneducated, idiotic, foolish and opportunist), all of them one way or other working toward their own agendas. I know, it is harder for anyone to write something without injecting their political view to that, I am OK with that but showing an unbelievable persuasive attitude toward west like this or changing the truth completely to suite his hidden political agenda will bring us nowhere…

MIA, Protest Rallies and LTTE's Diplomatic Front

For any artist a good or bad the publicity is good. As M.I.A. (Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam), Grammy and Academy award nominee, Sri Lankan Tamil rap singer become a topic for Sri Lankan media, she became known for all of us too. As she is anyway a famous, I think this is a right time to talk a bit about her. M.I.A. is a rap artist known well for her famous song paper planes. Let's not talk about how a Sri Lankan rapper moved up the American music ladder so fast, this quick. But let's talk about US and its culture a bit. USA is, once called the land of opportunity. It is known to welcome the change and are so open and ready to absorb new things faster than any other country. This gives a canny one the opportunity to easily cheat them too. I don't have facts to prove that M.I.A. is cheating American, but she did performed at 2009 Grammy, and the blind folded audience cheered at that expecting woman, who was dressed to look like a deformed beetle. What an embarrassment to all expecting ladies.

Let’s lalso not talk about the black money the world's richest terrorist group (LTTE) has or the hidden agendas they run from behind, but let’s start from accepting that M.I.A. is really nominated for both Grammy and Academy. Let’s also accept that she is truly a talented musician, so as Mohammad Ali is truly a talented Boxer. I am not willing to compare M.I.A. with great Ali but the truth remains hidden that M.I.A. is carefully and cunningly has positioned her in a slot, which once great Mohammad Ali occupied to turn US society upside down. I have heard she claims that she is the only tamil who has a stage to talk about Tamils. She pretend like she wanted to put LTTE aside and help the Tamils. But the truth I believe is that she is trying to find that narrow margin where she can support LTTE while claiming that she supports civilians.

It is amazing at times to see how people like M.I.A positioned them self in a way so that even the most talented media personal cannot identify them. I have seeing how US media whole heartily supporting her not knowing who she really was/ is/ will be. Let me try to explain it here. In nature, there are two types of reptiles, some are venomous and some look like venomous but they truely are not. They just have the look and feel of a venomous creature for survival. In this case, it is hard for one to find which one is venomous and which one is not unless one let it bite to see whether it hurt. I believe M.I.A. is also like that venom less reptile. Mohammad Ali is like a venomous reptile. In this case M.I.A is pretending almost like Mohammad Ali but in reality SHE IS NOT, but tells me, how you going to prove it? If we can prove that, then we should be able to tell Oprah, why she should not have M.I.A. in her talk show..


Let’s break into the core part of the story, LTTE is a Tamil formed terrorist (FBI named them as the most ruthless terrorist group of the world) outfit that has a aim to break apart Sri Lanka and India to form a new homeland. M.I.A.’s father was a member of LTTE and worked full time for quite a long time. M.I.A. was once openly supported LTTE, but as LTTE is losing the recognition they had internationally, she carefully changed her stance and re-positioned her as the only Tamil who has a strong presence in USA musical stage to talk about Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka. Sometime M.I.A. can be an innocent musician, but as LTTE sees the recognition she has internationally, willingly or unwillingly she has to do what LTTE want her to do. That is the way LTTE work. I am sure that many of you have heard that Sonia Gandhi (President - Indian Congress) had become a target of Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists (LTTE). So for an organization that had powers to kill the Indian Prime-Minister, MIA must be just a toy. So I believe MIA is made to work toward a LTTE's plan. These days she does not openly support LTTE, but that can very well be a part of the plan too. In return, I doubt whether LTTE pump black money to assist her do wonders in the American music world. These days for US media, MIA seems to be the Mohammad Ali of the decade. But knowing her legacy with LTTE, can shee be an innocent Tamil who is begging for life of the Tamils who live in the war zone areas?

The LTTE has one goal and it is the only goal they have, that is to form a new country. On their way to achieve it, they have trained (brain washed) carders to suicide them self too. They are getting defeated in the war front now, but are trying to emerge in the diplomatic front with the help of internationally recognized Tamils such as people like VICO, KP and MIA.

In the war front, Sri Lankan Army has open up a whole new paradigm for world’s fight against terror. They have proved that defeating a terrorist group by military mean is not only probable but possible too. As the war is coming to its last part, LTTE has lost all their strongholds. They are using a human shield to protect them self. That tactic obviously can delay the defeat but obviously cannot prevent it. LTTE is doing this to earn time to assist their diplomatic front, so that they can convince international community to get that most wanted cease fire. However the Sri Lanka Army is at the eve of starting the world's largest ever rescue operation now (Already started now).

We all, including M.I.A. knows that Tamil civilians are forcefully used by LTTE as a human shield, but for some unknown reason no one seems to be bothered about that any more. We need to hit the head of the nail. That is, we need to ask LTTE to release the civilians, which will lead to end the fight soon and also will direct to an automatic sees fire later. However the LTTE diplomats are so good at wrestling with this issue to cheat the international community by showing the damage the war caused on civilians. In that sense international community is showing mercy to LTTE but is forcing SL government to give freedom of movement to civilians who got freed from LTTE areas. I doubt whether international community has realized the possible threat of LTTE regrouping and is attacking the Army from behind here. Additionally, I am not sure what method these international communities are using to separate a terrorist from a civilian?

Let’s come back to M.I.A. issue again, so I think US media need to seriously study her before they cry for those on-demand hoaxes she made in every interview she faced. She seems to be having a thick skin, a sexy look and a corrupted mind. She can do anything to assist her coward acts. We all know that she openly supported Obama once too. Obama is the president of United State of America now. If one carefully studies, we can see a series incident linked one after the other in an orderly manner there. I am not saying that US president is supporting LTTE, but when a South Indian Tamil wrote a book about Obama, we just thought that it cannot just be another book but that was written with a purpose behind. It is that common goal that they all are trying to achieve. We all know that South India is fully behind LTTE and is supporting them openly.

While this drama is performing in one part of the world, we see a series of Tamil protest rallies in other parts. It is common to see people comes to road and shout about Tamil genocide in war zone areas of Sri Lanka. International media gives full coverage to these protestors who unsettle the daily life of these countries. However interestingly the same media didn't speak a word, when the similar were happening in Iraq... Sad part of the story is that many of these Tamils have their own goal and they are shedding crocodile tears.

How many of you know that most of these Tamils, who live in war zone areas, are willingly stay with LTTE to support their fight? Most of these Tamils who stay there right now, either have their family members currently working for LTTE or have relatives who got killed while serving for LTTE. They are waiting there willingly and they wanted to get injured/ killed, so then, these so called diaspora can have brand new topics every day for their ongoing protest rallies. Let me tell you the truth, these Tamils who have migrated (largely to countries like Canada, England, Swiss-Land, Australia, Norway etc) as refugees will have to come back, if the war ends. These Tamils wanted to drag the war. But now the war is ending, so these Tamils know that they have to come back soon, as they cannot live as refugees anymore. So these refugees are protesting as they have no other options. They are protesting for them in the name of Tamils civilians who are willingly stay with LTTE.

When Tamils attacked the Sri Lankan embassy in Norway, do you believe that a single face of a attacker was not captured by any media who recorded the scene? Can that just be another incident?? Can that just be something done by a group of innocent Tamils? I think it was very well planned..


Students walking from Toronto to Chicago, to help us drag this war little longer, so then they can stay in Canada little longer with their refugee visa??


Demonstrators display LTTE flags and banners calling for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, so that LTTE can recover, to drag the fight along little longer. That way they can stay in London forever??

In Canada a protester told that “We're urging the Canadian government to press for peaceful negotiations between the Tigers and the Sri Lankan government to bring an end to the war in our homeland", so that a peace talk can give the most wanted break to collect more weapons to start the fight again for LTTE?? Is that what they want?? Isn't that what happened before..

This is same across the world, some Tamils are jumping to rivers, while some others are willing to burn themselves, but all of them are knowingly and willingly supports LTTE to drag this fight as long as they can, so that Tamil Diaspora can continue to have their luxury life as long as they wish in those so called developed countries..

Not a bad plan, isn’t it???

This is a marginal play, where one has a 50% chance of proving either.. You cannot blame anybody or claim anything.. I don't know how long these so called international community will take to realize this..

So you called it Media Freedom...

I am not sure about "FREE" "MEDIA" but those who work in Media as the holly Quran state, I believe are those who bought this life at the cost of their next life.. The Media today is act with no responsibility. They do whatever they want, hiding behind those two heavenly words called "Media Freedom".

In my mind the media's role is significant in a society like ours. It can play the role of development of collective understandings, new concepts, social awareness and the momentous decisions needed for the growth of our society. However the fact remains that the media today knowingly and willingly report falsehoods for commercial reasons, controversy makes them richer.

It is common these days to see Medias report the same incident in many different ways to prove their pre-meditated ideas.

Recentlt we saw how Media act in an unbelievably selfish manner too. The stories given below have ample evidence to this irresponsibility that the Sri Lankan media has shown ..

The picture below evident how media behave, when Lasantha Wickramatunga was rushing to the Kalubowilla hospital after an unidentified gunman shot and injured him. The brutally injured reporter was obviously in a bad shape and he should have been allowed to be taken in to the hospital without the nurses and doctors having to scream at mostly media people who wanted a picture of a person fighting to stay alive.

It got worst as Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Mahinda Wijesekara carrying to the hospital after being air lifted to Colombo for surgery.

It is reported that not just at the outside of the hospital but even inside the operation theater there were battling to get a photo of that injured minister who was fighting with the death. You can clearly see how hard it was for doctor and other medical officers to control the crowd.

We all know that most media personals are just uneducated idiotic and foolish carders, but still how would one bargain a headline photo of their new paper with a life of an individual who is fighting for his/ her last breath.

The images below speaks for all… (These were taken at the recent suicide bomber attack at Matara, Akurassa)











killing is one but this is something else.. So, borthers, just help me to understand...

They called it incredible India

Yesterday, 27th of November 2008, a group of terrorist launched an attack in city of Mumbai, challenging the strength of mighty Indian militant. It was almost two days passed by but still Indian Army is struggling to take control over the scene. The terrorist are still attacking and have already achieved their goals.

The immaturity shown by the Indian defense is highly questionable. That raises many doubts about their readiness for a sudden terrorist attacks of this nature. However India had his long wind habit of pressurize/ advice Sri Lanka about how to deal with terror.

This is a simple comparison that I have done in between Indian Army against a terrorist group and Sri Lankan Army against the most ruthless terrorist group.

You will have the Indian army in the left side while Sri Lankan Army is in the right side..

India	Vs	Sri Lanka
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Peeping vs Aiming

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Waiting vs Exploring/ Chasing

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Standing/ Relaxing vs Expecting/ Vigilent

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Defending vs Attacking

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Searching vs Petroling

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Hiding/ Aiming vs Aiming/ Attacking

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Looking vs Finding

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Women Soldier

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Commando

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Hiding vs Attacking

I am by no mean expecting you to come to any conclusions by looking at this.. However Sri Lanka will not hesitate to provide military aids if India is willing to ask for it..

Gun down TAF with their "Low Flying Aircrafts"

Strong Sri Lankan Air Force

In early 80s an American war veteran wrote about how to protect American Sky from low flying Russian aircraft such MI-24 and Cruise Missiles. Today we are facing a similar threat from TAF.

Remember... realization that a problem exists is the only way we can ever reach a solution. Understanding the problem is the key to the formulation of a good solution. Our present air defense system lacks the ability to detect and engage extremely low- flying (I guess the actual segment of this air-space is between the ground and 100 feet above) attack planes that are currently in used by LTTE. The improvement of LTTE’s air wing has created a leak in our air defense umbrella. As per it stands today we have a threat that requires immediate attentions. We were attack in multiple occasions now. However it is unreasonable and also unrealistic to expect SLAF alone to prevent such future threats from TAF without assisting them by doing significant improvements to their current air defense setup.

We know that our radar coverage is insufficient to provide timely warning and also the existing air defense weapons (we have a range of weapons) are lacking the accuracy, depth and capabilities. As a result of this the ZLINs have evolved to be a serious threat to the ongoing war against terror, to our country, and in general to the whole region. According to the way I see it, this need a “quick fix” as well as a long term solution (with an array of progressive interim solutions).

In my field of expertise (I am not a defense expert) there's been debate about the impact of open source approaches on security. The open source exposes the source code of a software system to everyone, hence both the attackers and defenders get access to it, as per my view point the end result is better security than a close code system. If you apply the same concept to military defense, I thought it would be ideal to have the problem discussed in public to indentify the main defense framework against ZLIN (Zlin-143, which is the aircraft used by TAF). That I hope will produce a good start to a realistic end solution.


The ZLIN or TAF has open up a whole new context to this war. I can remember once Sri Lankan media (foolish, opportunist and greedy) were shouting saying that the final war will be fought on the sea with LTTE. The same was heard from LTTE spoke person too. But what has happened today, the LTTE naval wing has been almost neutralized by our SLN (Sri Lanka Navy). We worked toward what was shown but did not notice the hidden plan. I think sea-based-war was LTTE’s plan A. So then what is their plan B, which no one bothered to find? Even today, I am not sure how many of you have recognized that a war on air has already begun. In that context, LTTE is having the upper hand.

We all need to start analyzing this ponderous issue thoroughly. It has to be through a combined effects of technological and tactical knowhow (we need to combine all forces here), available weaponry (we need to combine all weaponries here), and the desire (which we all have), that we can find an acceptable solution under which we can operate (that mean, be cost effective).

As I have already mentioned, keep the picture in your mind that this flight starts at the ground and rises only enough to avoid impact with low obstacles. It also can use ground obstacles such as high rising buildings, land diversity (such as Mountains Rivers etc) to its own advantage too. Now visualize all these happening in a dark night. Having these in your mind, think that you are deployed on the ground with an anti-aircraft gun to shoot down this aircraft. So how feasible would that be, with a one-shot opportunity to gun this target down. It is not that easy right? Having that in mind let’s now try to find some solutions to this problem more closely.

According to my understanding the first and most important is to accurately identify, where the TAF platforms (airport) poised. As per the media, I am utterly confused, and sometimes it is even said that last attack was carried out by a plane airborne from South of India. In this regards, I heavily favor Long Rangers (LRRP units) to trace down the location of these ZLIN. We need to form a new special unit for this task. We need to train them with the help of our ally countries such as Russia. Today the LTTE activities are limited to killinochchi, which is about 625 square kilometers area. It is just 25 Km wide land area. That is where TAF keep their planes, and that is where we need our LRRP units to focus.

Long Rangers - SLA LRRP Units

Given the money we spent over this tiny aircraft, if we are willing to spend few more dollars to bribe couple of Tamil civilians, who would dare to risk their life for money. We may start receiving some accurate information about the ground location of these planes as well.

Above two, along with increasing the aggressiveness of ground operations (if possible) are the cheapest and also the quickest solutions that we have right now. I know ground operations have its own goals but as the low flying zlin become the primary threat, they all need to be re-adjusted to support the mission against zlin. No matter what other solution we find, above three have to be the mandatory.

The next step of our analysis will be to look at present air defense systems and the problems created by the existence of the evolving low-altitude threat. Let's get started with a discussion of the capabilities of zlin-143 (TAF). The Z-143 is a light aircraft, famous for pilot training. It is easy to manure and can fly at night or (in) low visibility conditions. However the most important but ignored factor here is that it can take a pay load of 1000kg (2200lbs). But have we seen them carrying 1000 KG of explosive in any of the recent attacks? What we have seen is, it only carrying four bombs. So it seems to have a fair bit of unused space to carry more weapons. Now the million dollars question is, was it just the tip of the iceberg? Think about couple of modified zlin-143s storming to Colombo with 12.7mm four-barrel, chin-mounted, rotary gun; four 32-round packs of 57mm or four 20-round packs of 8Omm unguided rockets; and four AT-2 Swatter antitank, guided missiles, four bombs together with decoy flares (or radar jammers) for self-protection (it is like a Mi-24, yes I know it is bit of a work to get a zlin-143 modified like this). What do you think the outcome of it would be? If we have not accurately read the strength of our enemy yet, we must improve our military intelligent wing and find answers to these sprawling questions before it is too late.


If we opted to attack this plane on the air, then we at least need to satisfy the first principle of air defense, early warnings. But the existing infrastructure that we have is incapable of giving it. That is with the obvious fact that LTTE always manure their plane just 100 feet above the ground level.

So then the common problem that we have to deal with is the detection. Today, we simply can't see low-altitude targets with our current equipments. In order to employ our weapons against this enemy, we must first be able to detect their presence. A realistic detection range of an air target at 100 feet below (which is what zlin-143 is flying) is very short and that again depending on the amount of ground clutter present around the radar base. However, let’s assume that we deployed/ configured radar systems to detect air born sources at 100 feet. That will require a set of strategically positioned radar units to track the position of the plane continuously. All these need to happen in a timely manner so that a fast moving attacker like F-7G (with Max Speed ~ 2,175 km/h) can chase down the ZLIN before it reaches its goal. If we are able to detect early and continuously trace its route then we can also deploy a Mi-24 too. In order make this a real we indeed need certain upgrades to the Mig21/ F-7g radar system to effectively detect low flying aircraft while avoiding ground clutters (radar system with Low Altitude Navigation Targeting Infrared for Night). However there is a big cost associate with that.

Again, if we employ our fighter jets for an on-air-attack, that will effectively have us shut down the anti air craft defense system to avoid "confusion" and minimize friendly firing in the overhead airspace at night. In addition to this given the current condition of F-7, it may require continuous assistance from the ground radar units to guide its way to find this low flying aircraft, which mean we may have to deploy many ground radar units to increase our detect-ability. On the other hand when flying low, an F-7 can suck dust, birds and even dead trees damaging its engine. That solution will be costlier and may incur long term additional cost to secure assets.

So there has to have a solution to improve our ability to detect these airborne targets. In this regards we may have to consider a option of some kind of a Lightweight Early Warning Radar Web (let’s called it “Security-Web” hereafter) which can effectively cover the whole island. This newly proposed Security-Web has to be a man-portable, and will have that human touch to make it more accurate. It will be highly mobile, but positioned to effectively cover the whole Island. As per my view point a solution of this nature may answer to some of the needs in our quest of finding a solution to this problem. Think about a cheap GPS panic device that most soldiers can carry. The device is configured to send two signals. One is to a centralized monitoring center to mark its position, and the other signal is to trigger all other devices to an alert mode. In the recent incident the ground soldiers of the FDL noticed these planes well over before it reaches Colombo. If we have enough units deployed to effectively cover the Island. Then the ones with this device can trigger signals immediately after they detect the airplane. As the signals reached the main control center, it will reveal its original position of which the plane last detected (via Global Positioning) on the map of Sri Lanka. As the Security-Web (let’s assume that each device is deployed at 1 km apart) is activated, the soldiers (or whoever the barer will be) will have their eyes on the sky looking for the plane and to effectively track it down. These signals will draw the moving path of this air craft. As this is having that human touch which most systems do not have, the accuracy will be higher. A simple mathematical formula can process the input data and adjust them to get pin point accuracy at the end. This will give accurate location coordinate/ moving path for an F-7 (radar range 30km) or a MI 24(radar rage 10 km), to gun down this enemy in timely manner. However in such an encounter the slower speed and low altitude of the zlin-143 is an advantage to TAF as it forces the fixed-wing (F-7) to constantly concentrate on ground avoidance. So as I said before I iterate and reiterate that my best choice against fixed-wing ZLIN is a Mi-24 helicopters (once we tracked the route we can deploy about 10 helicopters). In addition to this, we can improve our ground attack capabilities too, that is by mean of giving more training to the soldiers. In the end, if we go for a solution like this, the money we spend over a framework (infrastructure) like this will very well be paid back later as there will be many other businesses (related to GPS) that we can run on top of a framework like this in future.

However, it is equally import to realize that new ideas won't become reality until for quite a sometime, so till that we need more and more quick fixes.

In addition to the ones noted above a less expensive alternative include tethered balloons with good look-down radar and/or infra-red and electronic detection devices.

We need to take immediate decisions to determine the weaponries and detection equipments that are required to regain control of our low-altitude air space. I envision three major equipment requirements as necessary to defeat the threat. They are:

1. A high quality anti-aircraft gun
2. An "air-superiority" helicopter
3. A better performing low-altitude missile

Colombo Blackout - AA gun at work

Unfortunately the money we spent here will be an utter waist if LTTE is having a Plan C to back their currently active Plan B as well. In that sense our intelligent eye has more work left to do. Finally whatever systems or combinations of systems we choose, the most critical standards to be met should be the durability and cost.

Reference: Military Library