Colombo: Reports have revealed that India has reached an agreement to buy high speed boats from Sri lanka. The irony is that these boats are said to be an Utter copy of the boats that were used by the LTTE.
If this rumor turns out to be true, India could be the first country to buy weapons and accessories from a country that is much smaller in Technological advances.
The sri lankan websites have reported that the recently created Sagar prahari bal which was created by the Indian Navy with the task of monitoring the Shallow Indian waters. The speed boats are estimated to be purchased by the Indian Navy at a price of 250 crores. Indian Navy has planned to use these ships for chasing and interpreting the ships with suspicious navigation.
Solas Marine, a sri lankan company has been roped in to to get these ships delivered to the Indian Navy in another 36 months.
The speed boats owned by the erst-while LTTE sea wing was said to be the best and had the latest technologies inbuilt in them. The LTTE naval force posed a great challenge to the Lankan Navy during the wars. The Lankan Navy started designing boats based on the very same technology and used them effectively during the last phase of the war.
