The Pucará at war

By the late 1980s, the insurgency in Sri Lanka’s north was taking on aspects of a significant conflict. The Liberation Tigers…

SLAF Helicopters at war

The Royal Ceylon Air Force (RCyAF) was formed in 1951 with a small fleet of de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunks. The…

MiGs over Ceylon

In response to an urgent request for assistance from the Ceylon government in 1971, the USSR gifted five MiG-17F fighters and a…

SLAF Choppers at War — Part 3

A token military

SLAF Choppers at War -Part 2

Mi-17s in the tropics

The Battle of the Somme — a new perspective. Part 1

The Great War

№5 Squadron reborn — Part 2

Selected to be the first Commanding Officer of №5 Jet Squadron and ordered to get his unit active as soon as…

T-55 in the Tropics

This series of articles about combat in the T-55 main battle tank with the Sri Lanka Army, takes place as a conversation…

Flying the A4 Skyhawk with the Royal Australian Navy

Guest column by Peter (‘Purps’) Greenfield

The Batle of the Somme — Part 2

Sometime in late 1914 the four boys from Trinity College embarked on a ship to Britain. We do not know…