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Sri Lanka: 52~56 tonnes 22: P410 - P424 P450 - P451 P490 - P492 P497 - P497 Built by Colombo Dockyard for the Sri Lanka Navy. Arrow speed boats Sri Lanka: 154+ [17] Small fast patrol/assault speed boat constructed by the Sri Lanka Navy for use by its littoral warfare units, the Special Boat Squadron (Sri Lanka) and the Rapid Action Boat ...
Special Boat Squadron troops, during the independence day Parade. The SBS was modeled after the Special Boat Service of the Royal Navy.In its role as a naval special forces unit it takes up a wide variety of operations such as amphibious raids, maritime counter-terrorism, reconnaissance and target indication, combat swimmer missions and small boat operations.
The Sri Lanka Army is the oldest and largest of Sri Lanka's three armed services. Established as the Royal Ceylon Army in 1949, it was renamed when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. The Army of approximately 255,000 regular and reserve personnel including 90,000 National Guardsmen and is responsible for overseeing land-based military and ...
A. HMCyS Aliya - “Empire” Class Seagoing Tug (ex-HMS ADEPT) commissioned on 18 November 1957 and was de-commissioned on 31 March 1963; SLNS Abeetha (A 516) - former merchant vessel converted to a surveillance and command ship, sunk on 16 August 1994 at Kankesanthurai.
The CDRD has also developed numerous simulators for training including realistic flight simulator, flight control simulator, field artillery simulator, simulators for jungle lane firing etc. CDRD also developed civilian use technologies such as a Train Tracking and Operating Information System for Sri Lankan Railways, Braille to Sinhala ...
Sri Lanka Air Force: 117 Disaster Management Call Centre Disaster Management Centre [2] 118 National Help Desk Ministry of Public Security: 119 Police Emergency Service Sri Lanka Police Department: 1990 Emergency Pre–Hospital Care Ambulance Service Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Defence (Sinhala: රාජ්ය ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යාංශය Rājya ārakshaka amāthyanshaya; Tamil: பாதுகாப்பு அமைச்சகம்) is the cabinet ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka responsible for implementation of government defence policy and acts as the overall headquarters of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.
The following tables present the ranks and insignia of the Sri Lanka Navy.These ranks are similar to Royal Naval officer ranks and the ratings ranks. Sri Lanka does have an Admiral rank, but it is usually only awarded to the Commander of the Navy on the day of his retirement; Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda was the only Sri Lankan naval officer to hold a full admiral rank while in active service.