Sri Lanka Military Aviation

The SF 260 were retired/not operational since early 2000's

The Wiki article states the SLAF used to operate SF 360!

Just more proof of how corrupt things have become.

Agreed or they could have purchased SF.260 from Italy





..where they do have previous expertise on the aircraft or MFI 17 Mushshak from Pakistan or the Swiss Pilatus PC 7

Good point actually. But what's worse with the country is that everyone sits back and complains about corruption and points things out but never actually want to do something about it themselves.

Aside from that whoever thought that's a good paint scheme for the air force trainers should be shot.

You think U$ 5 million for 6 of these pieces of Chinese junk is a good deal?

That's U$ 850,000 per aircraft. You think that's fair value?

You can buy a good used Beech Baron for this price or a brand new C-172 for U$ 307,000. You could buy 16 new C-172 and still have money left over.

Of course there are no kickbacks possible when buying from the US so that's why this never happened.

I wish some of you wouldn't be so naive - that's one of the reasons your country in in its present state.

I stand behind my earlier post - this is an obvious Corrupt deal.

What makes you think that this was a corrupt deal? I've seen no indication of that.

The only issue here I think is that the new paint scheme is ghastly.

An obvious Corrupt deal that has still not been investigated.

Anyone from the Air Force involved in this Corruption is a disgrace to the uniform!

Commander Accepts Six Brand New PT-6 Aircraft at Katunayake

The Commander of the Air Force, Air Marshal Kapila Jayampathy signed the formal final acceptance of Six brand new PT-6 aircraft after they were assembled at the Aircraft Engineering Wing (AEW) at Sri Lanka Air Force Base, Katunayake this morning at a simple ceremony at Katunayake. The event was also attended by the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Sumangala Dias, members of the Air Force Board of Management and other officers as well as representatives of the Aviation Engineering Division of the M/S CATIC of China, the manufacturer and vendor of the Aircraft.

The Commander of the Air Force, Air Marshal Kapila Jayampathy initially signed the acceptance of 6 Brand New PT-6 Aircraft on 15 May 2018 at AVIC Hongdu in Nanchang, China.

The aircraft, painted in the recently introduced colour scheme of the SLAF, were inspected and flight tested by SLAF Engineers and Pilots, after which they were deemed to be in conformance with the specifications prior to being inducted into the SLAF Fleet.

The aircraft will be utilized at the No1 Flying Training Wing at the SLAF Academy, China Bay for the ab initio training of newly enlisted pilots. The aircraft will also form the nucleus of an aerobatic display team to be formed in the SLAF.

Source:slaf

Not confirmed,but recently they conducted ASW training in mattala to SL air force nad Navy personell with JSDF P 3c

This was planned back in last year. Seems to be Japan is providing loan facility to Sri Lanka to buy P3-C maritime patrol aircraft. Has it been confirmed that P3-C are coming to Sri Lanka?

http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Ja...ft-127555.html

Japan might be trying to sell/donate a few p -3c maritime patrol aircraft to SL.

For the PACANGEL exercise.

DFN:KC-135 Arrives in Sri Lanka for PAC ANGEL 18-4 SRI LANKA 10.AUG.2018



wow! any reason for the visit?

Good to hear AN-32B is to be overhauled. One of the best working aircraft in the no.2 squadron with the C-130K.

The Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) has awarded a contract to a Russia firm, MFG to overhaul three Ukrainian-origin Antonov AN-32B aircraft in Russia.

According to a recommendation of the SLAF, the tender was won by a Russian company called MFG. But Antonov brand is from Ukraine. It is well known the prevailing diplomatic rift between these two countries. Ukraine has never given any authorization to Russian entity to overhaul their defence production,” the Sri Lankan Guardian newspaper quoted a SLAF source as saying.

“Who is the local agent of this Russian MFG, and what is his/her motivations and involvements with the Sri Lankan Air Force? is the million dollar question,” the source added alluding that could be graft involved in awarding the contract.

Defenseworld.net adds: While the Antonov brand is currently with Ukraine, it was part of the bouquet of aircraft manufacturers in the erstwhile Soviet Union. There are hundreds of Antonov aircraft flying all over the world including Russia which has a well-developed infrastructure to conduct deep overhaul of aircraft such as the popular AN-32.

Both Ukraine and Russia position themselves as being able to conduct repair and overhaul of aviation and defence equipment of the former Soviet Union and cry foul when the rival country gets a contract for equipment whose factories are currently based in their country.

defenseworld.net