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Finding Dvora Tuesday, 5 February 2008 - 10:31 PM SL Time |  | |
A Sri Lanka Navy Dvora Fast Attack Craft (FAC), with seven navy personnel on board, has been reported missing in the seas north of Mannaar, according to informed military sources.
The last contact with the FAC was made at 6:30 p.m. Monday.
However, official sources of the SLN said an Indian trawler had opened fire at the SLN Dvora when it went to help Indian fishermen who were seeking help from the attack craft.
Recently, the SLN has planted underwater mines between Kachchatheevu and Neduntheevu (Delft Island), along the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL), according to media reports in India.
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alwaysalion
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 5 Feb 2008 16:41:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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mission impossible,,
Like finding peelam! LTMA!
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 5 Feb 2008 16:43:26 GMT Report for Abuse
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| LOL. Nice one Sri. However, all my thoughts are upon how to put bombs on the carpet. |
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Like finding peelam
peelame is there, you just have to kindly vacate from there,, |
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 5 Feb 2008 16:47:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sea mines.. Impossible to deactivate ?
It could be easy implementing a wireless receptor inside the sea bomb..
Anyway these mines planted by the Sri Lankan army will be a threat for India's security, fishermen and other commercial and military ships.. That could lead to India changing himself his mind.
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5 Feb 2008 16:51:39 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sri,
A Sri Lanka Navy Dvora Fast Attack Craft (FAC), with seven navy personnel on board, has been reported missing in the seas north of Mannaar, according to informed military sources.
Apart from Tamilnet, did SLAN confirm this?........wonder which type of mines they laid, whether they are contact acoustic, magnetic or pressure type, surely laying mines is not not a childs play and normally people who lay them keep coordinates of them to avoid own vessels straiying on to them!!!
Is it possible for a Dvora to stray in to its own minefield??
I doubt it! |
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 5 Feb 2008 16:52:35 GMT Report for Abuse
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It could be easy implementing a wireless receptor inside the sea bomb.
That is true, Kural!
Modern sea mines have artificial intelligence to recognize a certain signature of enemy vessels. Those are most expensive mines. At present situation, failed lanka can't afford them. They only can buy very cheap copy of Second World War contact mines - They are dump mines!
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5 Feb 2008 16:57:25 GMT Report for Abuse
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ML,
Is it possible for a Dvora to stray in to its own minefield??
No! Nobody should do that!
But, it is very new to SLN personnel and they could have misread their mine-field map.
Further, these floating mines are moored mines - that means anchored to sea bottom permanently. A clever enemy could remove one or two those mines and planted SLN path.
It is like, LTTE captures SLA's land mines and plants them their path.
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5 Feb 2008 16:58:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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OMG
Podihamy didn't think he would be killed by his own mine. What else you could expect from podi muttah. Poor soul.
Some Hindians praised that mining that area. In one article I read one stone and two birds ie LTTE or Indian Tamil fishermen.
Now after years of harassment TN fishermen decided to take their own defence.
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5 Feb 2008 17:09:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sri,
Further, these floating mines are moored mines - that means anchored to sea bottom permanently.
How did you find that out?........I was trying to find the type they laid but couldnt......do you have a link!
A clever enemy could remove one or two those mines and planted SLN path.
Its difficult to move a moored mine as they are normally booby trapped and its very difficult to predict a path which would taken by a vessel responding to a distress signal!
It is like, LTTE captures SLA's land mines and plants them their path.
Its more like LTTE sent a fake distress signal and blew it once its got near a suicide boat acting like a Trawler.....in case its really missing!
Then again who knows whats actually going on there when all the news providers lie! |
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