Harsha Abeywickrama

Harsha Abeywickrama
Commander of the Air Force (en) 27 ga Faburairu, 2011 - 27 ga Faburairu, 2014
Rayuwa
Karatu
Makaranta	Royal College, Colombo (en) King's College London (en)
Sana'a
Sana'a	fighter pilot (en)
Aikin soja
Digiri	air chief marshal (en)
Ya faɗaci	Sri Lankan civil war (en)

Babban hafsan sojan sama na Sri Lanka Harsha Abeywickrema, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP, rcds, psc, qfi (an haife shi a ranar 28 ga Nuwamba 1960) babban jami'in sojan sama ne na Sri Lanka kuma matukin jirgi, wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin Kwamandan Sojan Sama na Sri Lanka daga 2012 zuwa 2014 kuma daga baya ya ci gaba da aiki a matsayin Shugaban (ofishin) na Bankin Ceylon .

Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi

An haifi AbeywickreMA a ranar 28 ga Nuwamba 1960. Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Royal, Colombo . Daga baya ya sami digiri na MA a cikin dangantakar kasa da kasa daga King's College London, da kuma digiri na Master of Science a cikin Gudanarwa daga Jami'ar Tsaro ta Janar Sir John Kotelawala .

Ayyukan SLAF

Abeywickrema ya shiga rundunar sojin saman Sri Lanka a matsayin Jami'in cadet a cikin Janar Duties Pilot Branch a cikin 1980. Bayan nasarar kammala Flying Training an ba shi izini a matsayin Jami'in matukin jirgi a shekarar 1982. A farkon shekarun 1980s Sojojin Sama na Sri Lanka suna da ƙungiyoyin iska guda biyu kawai, ƙungiyar reshe mai ɗorewa da ƙungiyar reshe masu juyawa, an yi ritaya daga jirgin saman yaƙi. Tare da karuwar Yaƙin basasar Sri Lanka, ayyukan rundunar sojan sama sun karu. Jami'in jirgin sama Abeywickrema wanda ya tashi jirgin sufuri an canja shi zuwa tashi jirgin sama mai suna SIAI-Marchetti SF.260. Ya kuma cancanci zama Kwararren Mai Koyarwa (QFI).

A ƙarshen shekarun 1980s Sojojin Sama na Sri Lanka sun ji bukatar sake gabatar da mayaƙa jet zuwa rundunonin su bayan sun yi ritaya da mayakan jirgin sama na ƙarshe a ƙarshen shekarun 1970. Rashin ƙwararrun matukan jirgi, an zaɓi shugaban Squadron Abeywickrema wanda ke da ƙwarewa a kan jirgin sama mai sauƙi a matsayin kwamandan farko na No. 5 "Jet" Squadron, lokacin da aka kafa shi a 1991 a ƙarƙashin umurninsa bayan sayen mayakan F-7 da F-5 daga China, shi ne ƙungiyar mayakan farko na ƙasar. Ya kasance daya daga cikin matukan jirgi na farko da ya cancanci shiga F-7s a 1991 kuma ya zama matukin jirgi na SLAF na farko da zai tashi supersonic. Ya jagoranci hare-hare na farko a kan yankunan da ake sarrafawa na Liberation Tigers na Tamil Eelam ba da daɗewa ba bayan sun gabatar da tsarin kare iska na Man-portable da kuma harbi biyu daga cikin Hawker Siddeley HS 748 guda biyu da suka kashe sama da ma'aikatan soja 100 ciki har da Kwamandan SLAF na Arewa, Kwamandan Wing Roger Weerasinghe da Kwamandan Wing Shirantha Goonatilake a watan Afrilun 1995.