New Delhi, Friday, PTI: The LTTE, which has raised security concerns by becoming the world's first insurgent group to use air power, might be working on acquiring underwater vessels that could pose a threat to merchant shipping in regional waters.
Reports have suggested that the LTTE, which possess a naval wing called the Sea Tigers, is building a mini-submarine as part of its new arsenal.
A top Indian Navy official, who was asked about this issue yesterday, did not discount it entirely and said the LTTE could be "trying its hand" at building "submerged vessels".
To questions about the possibility of the LTTE acquiring a submarine and how big a threat this would pose to India and its neighbourhood, Rear Admiral Pradeep Chuahan said the threat would be as good or bad as threats posed by any terrorist group operating on land.
Rear Admiral Chauhan, the assistant chief of naval staff at naval headquarters here, however, noted that submarine building and operating such vessels are very complicated matters.
"You cannot make or operate submarines by opening manuals," he said, asserting that surveillance and patrolling had been intensified in the Palk Strait and adjoining seas.
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