Both planes shot down….

No one is blaming the Indian RADARs. AFAIK the RADARs worked fine. Gave adequate warning to cut power to parts of Colombo and activate the Air-Defense systems. You can call this the 1st success for the ground base defenses.

http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090220_10
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/latest.html
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_09/February20190825CH.html

they showed some footage on local TV.

No body knows exactly how many planes the LTTE have. It is estimated between 3 – 5. If it is 3, then the LTTE air-wing is no more…