1. Lack of political will to deal with them.tsarkar wrote:A pilot & crew are responsible for their aircraft if it is not completely destroyed completely or they're not completely incapacitated. They’ll lose their jobs, if at first light, when the other IAF helicopter landed & found the IAF pilots having chai at CRPF camp.
As per Vinod’s account, the IAF folks used traditional maps. Hence, they had to return with the CRPF team – one cannot tell someone to go to X location on a map. Only a person who has traversed the route will know the waypoints and approach.
Having said that, it was very brave of the CRPF 150 Battalion to mount an operation to secure Sahu & the helicopter in the middle of the night with minimum planning & no intel. The naxals would have had all the time to mount an ambush.
Where I’m surprised is
1. Motivation of the Naxals, who’re not deterred by helicopters or air power.
2. Coordination in firing on the helicopters – that too without any radio net coordinating their actions.
3. Indian civilian rifles or country made guns or ammunition cannot cause damage shown in MAK’s blog. They were using better weapons.
4. Ability to adapt to captured weapons like SLR, AK-47 & INSAS, or they’ve got weapons suppliers.
5. Where do they get bullets? Assuming they’ve captured the guns but unless they’ve astonishing marksmanship, why don’t they run out of bullets? All three guns have different caliber bullets.
2. Informers embedded deep within the system.
3. 4. and 5. Of course they have got weapons suppliers. Many people are thriving on this illegal weapons business. Whenever they need more bullets, weapons they blow up a police station and loot it. Its that simple for them. Illegal smuggling of weapons from Bangladesh, Nepal , proper trade routes are set up for them. They have a whole damn nexus of people involved at various levels.
ok boss. Seems like I am trying to infer from statements today what I wanted them to mean. 
