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The self-styled Tamileelam Air Force has intruded and bombed targets in government controlled areas including the capital Colombo at least three times, though authorities seem to be getting better at detecting the aircraft with each succeeding raid.
Borrowed Time
Military analysts say that Sri Lanka needs to equip its aircraft with air-to-air missiles and airborne target acquisition radar with a suitable fire control system and perhaps other facilities such as forward looking infra-red (FLIR) sensor systems to tackle the Flying Tigers.
"I do not know whether we have target acquisition radar in all our jets, but given time and money we can fill the gaps," former Sri Lanka Air Force commander Air Marshall Harry Goonetilleke told LBO.
"I am sure an assessment has