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Biggles
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 9 Dec 2006 04:20:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hello Chaps,
I say looking at the discussion, it is very good that you are onto tactics. You know in my days, we took care of the problem differently. When the bad eggs were up to no good we hit 'em where it hurt.
I was thinking maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to knock off those tubs the bad eggs have. How difficult is it find them? Wouldn't someone have to be in the know about them?
Look here, it seems to me this is an op that is primed for my boys. Algy should be brought in...
You see Algy will find the ships--he is sort of in the know. All hush, hush and all that. He has a connection in Panama and his cousin's uncle's best chum runs the Liberian end. Between them it will not be hard to get the full list of all the ruddy ships out there, with all the details, I mean the markings and all.
Then... it is keeping a lookout you know... sort of getting on the piers around the place. Well a wad of dough can help too.
Once Algy gets me the where abouts of the tubs, I can get them. You see, I have this sea plane, and it would not be hard to use some... you know, some methods, to send them to the bottom. With all the goods in them, you know. I will throw a few dingy's to the poor blighters, and then radio you their last position.
Anyway, I thought that this method would not strain Her your Majesty's govt. Oh, that's right, you chaps are by yourself now, so it your Public's Govt, right?
Well, I think I have said enough. Seems like many here don't like us old blighters.
Cheerio and all that.
Biggles
Edited By - Biggles - 9 Dec 2006 04:23:22 GMT |
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9 Dec 2006 04:24:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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Biggles
You aren't the oaf you are trying to sound like.
There's something about your writing style that's distinct and familiar..... |
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9 Dec 2006 04:38:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sena M,
Hello old boy! I am sure there are good soldiers over there. In my book, the flyer has the goods.
Sandman, old chum! I have written a few things, but don't get too testy on me now. Just having a crack solving this problem of bag eggs you chaps have.
Cherio!
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9 Dec 2006 04:41:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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Panzer
More than anything, we need 24/7 all weather aerial survaillance ability and an airborne platform that can deliver ordnance at a high rate over a long period of time.
I think the SLAF will eventually opt for something like the C-130 Super Spectre for this role. |
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9 Dec 2006 04:42:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sandman, old boy! Now fancy that, you sending a word, just as I was. Small world, old boy, small world! So we have met someone where? Cheers then. Biggles.
Edited By - Biggles - 9 Dec 2006 04:42:57 GMT |
Biggles
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9 Dec 2006 05:14:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Snaky, old bean, any idea where Erich von Stalhein is? I was thinking maybe he has something to do with your problem... |
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 9 Dec 2006 05:40:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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Useful to bear in mind .. always .. Wars are Won (and for that matter, Lost - when it is ignored), by holding fast to this Principle: Consistency, and Maintenance of Aim.
That is what these 'hacks' like Kumar (Rupasinghe), and others profiting from generous NGO hand-outs, are trying to do .. deflect GOSL aim (or putting it another way - dissolve/dilute MR's resolution). |
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9 Dec 2006 06:05:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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Have you guys seen the news 'Lanka to buy four more MiG-27s'?
Anybody knows whether these are the ones that we discussed in this thread or are those gonna be additional 4 Migs? |
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 9 Dec 2006 06:48:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sandman,
I think the SLAF will eventually opt for something like the C-130 Super Spectre for this role.
Probably not going to happen mate... Mig-29C is probably the person to comment on this, but even assuming that the US agrees to supply us with lethal equipment, a (new) AC-130H costs around $130 million. Also I don't think either 105mm or 20mm type weaponry are used by any of the Forces at present so it would add to our logistics problems.
Biggles,
Your right about the Pan-Ho-Lib connection, the key is intelligence, DMI (Algy if you will) would have to get the details of the ltte front companies from them and sneak some operatives into them (more Algy). I'm no fan of the series, but as far as i know E. von Stalhein is your friend postwar. Maybe though, you could keep your posts a little more historically relevant, unless you actually are W.E. Johns reincarnated of course. |
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9 Dec 2006 12:56:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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Splashing on expensive weaponry is not the answer .. I do believe we must learn to fight this war .. and fight it to a finish .. putting as much trust as we can in 'native ingenuity'.
For instance before thinking of getting down some C-130 Spectres, we could re- activate the hangared PUCARAs. These are deadly machines, designed by the German master designer Prof Kurt Tank .. same man who designed the Focke Wulf 190 - outstanding German fighter aircraft of WWII. After the war, he left Germany and worked for some time for FMA - Fabrica Militar de Aviones, Argentina .. the PUCARA is from this 'stable' .. mounts four (04) FN Browning 7.62 mm machine Guns, two (02) 20mm cannon, and a 3,000 lb bomb load ! If we had two (02) of these machines over-head at Muhamalai when the LTTE managed to trap the Army column, they could have reversed the verdict .. excellent CAS (Close Air Support) aircraft.
Believe, a former SLAF Commander made a 'bad' decision - probably due to sentimental reasons - when he decided to withdraw remaining five (05) PUCARAs from service, after one was lost due to a shoulder-fired missile, whilst providing close air support in the North, some-time ago. (The pilot who was killed, I believe was a close friend, and in ordering him to fly that mission, he may have felt a 'personal' responsibility, allowing his judgement to be 'clouded').
I dis-agree with an earlier writer, who was trying to say, this is a time for jet-aircraft, only .. and prop-type a'cft are 'out'; fact of the matter is that the LTTE is still 'backward' when it comes to weaponry, and capability - a good propeller driven a'cft can still perform with devastating effect in the CAS role. To put it in a nut-shell, if the SLAF thinks the Mi-24 can provide effective CAS, then the PUCARA can do as well, and probably better. (Certinly more survivable, than the Mi-24; the PUCARA has a zero-zero ejection seat !). It will be a good exercise for the SLAF, to try to re- engine with another more modern engine (PT6A-68, or Garrett TPE 331 ..), and re- commission these excellent fighting machines.
Edited By - SenaM - 9 Dec 2006 15:26:28 GMT |
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