LTTE har väl i flera omgångar erövrat tyngre materiel från regeringssidan, alltså pansarfordon och artilleripjäser. Rörelsen har ju vunnit ordentliga segrar ibland, t ex det andra slaget om Elefantpasset år 2000.sonderling skrev:Vilket slut, som tredje riket sista dagar ungefär. Såg mängder med förstörd krigsmateriel och pansarfordon på Rapports inslag. Så jag undrar hur mycket "gerilla" de var egentligen? Och brukar just inte detta vara många gerilla-rörelser fall, att de försöker sig på konvetionell krigföring menar jag?
Jag bara spekulerar kring varför just nu efter 26 år som Singaleserna tar kraft tag och segrar?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bat ... phant_Pass
"On April 22, 2000 the LTTE attacked the twin complexes of Iyakachchi and Elephant Pass, pounding the government positions. LTTE's special forces and commando units stormed into the Iyakkachchi military base in the early hours of the morning in a multi-pronged assault and overran the well-fortified camp after several hours of intense fighting. LTTE commandos who penetrated the central base destroyed several artillery pieces, tanks, armoured vehicles and ammunition dumps. With the fall of Yakachchi and with the collapse of the command structure of its defending troops, the LTTE combat units moved swiftly and stormed into Elephant Pass from different directions. By late in the evening the military was in full retreat from the camps toward the city of Jaffna to fortify their positions.
The LTTE captured: three long-range 152 mm artillery pieces, two 122 mm artillery pieces, twelve 120 mm heavy mortars, one 25 mm canon, several 50 caliber machine guns, hundreds of rocket propelled grenades and thousands of automatic rifles. The Tigers also captured several armoured vehicles, tanks, military trucks, bulldozers and high-tech communication systems. The battle of Elephant Pass will be remembered as the biggest military debacle in the history of the Sri Lankan military. In the end over a 1000 soldiers and 35 Tigers had been killed. Another 357 soldiers were wounded."
Tunga kulsprutor, RPG:s, MANPADS har man väl också kunnat smuggla in.