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The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Frontpage | Maoist whirr in chopper race


Delhi, Oct. 24: The counter-Naxalite drive often called Operation Green Hunt has resulted in a huge demand for helicopters that two global majors are vying to capture for the millions of dollars on offer.

The market for choppers has suddenly expanded with state and central police forces asking for more rotary-wing aircraft. There is a spurt in the demand because the Indian Air Force has told the Union home ministry it does not have enough to spare.

The Indian Air Force and the Indian Army are also in the middle of trials to buy hundreds of military helicopters. But global chopper-makers, Bell Textron and Eurocopter, are more enthused by the demand from the police forces because of the tardy process of military procurement.

Bell Textron is best known for the the UH-1 “Huey” – a legendary flying-machine that the US used in the war against the communist guerrillas (role models for the Naxalites) in Vietnam in the early 1970s – and was quicker off the blocks having sold its first helicopter in India nearly 53 years ago.

It has now sold more than 100 of different types of helicopters from its stable, increasingly to private and public sector companies. In 2009 alone, the company sold 22.

This week Eurocopter, part of the European aviation firm EADS, announced that it was setting up an Indian subsidiary. The company estimates that the Indian market will be worth nearly $ 140 million dollars in five years.

Bell Textron has 50 per cent of the Indian market for helicopters. Eurocopter India’s chief executive officer Marie-Agnes Veve said the company currently has 30 per cent of the market and is targeting a share of half the new demand in five years.

The market is estimated to be growing at 20 per cent year on year.

“We are looking only at the civilian and paramilitary markets,” she said. “We think we can sell 25 helicopters each year until 2015 because they are required in the (anti-) Naxalite operations and by private companies and as ambulances,” she added.

Bell and Eurocopter have been rivals for the military market in India too. In 2007, Eurocopter claimed to have won a bid to supply 197 helicopters for high-altitude tasks for the Indian army outracing Bell. Both Eurocopter and Bell also touched down on Mount Everest to demonstrate the power of their machines in the severe environment.

But Antony’s defence ministry cancelled that competition after suspicion that it was not conducted by the book. The companies are competing for the same order again.
 
Why does the indian government have to use helicopter gunships to suppress maoist protestors? All they are doing is protesting against corruption, starvation, environmental degradation, **** of dalits and tribals, no justice, illegal land confiscations and poverty.

The people of India deserve better than this brutality. Long live the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
 
Bell Textron is best known for the the UH-1 “Huey” – a legendary flying-machine that the US used in the war against the communist guerrillas (role models for the Naxalites) in Vietnam in the early 1970s

Despite that they couldn't win Vietnam war!
 
Why does the indian government have to use helicopter gunships to suppress maoist protestors? All they are doing is protesting against corruption, starvation, environmental degradation, **** of dalits and tribals, no justice, illegal land confiscations and poverty.

Why the chinese commies needed brutal force to massacre thousands of un-armed citizens during Tiananmen Square MASSACRE?? Why people of china are not even allowed to protest against govt the govt forget about armed revelation!!! Tiananmen Square protest has became a sign of the free people against brutal chinese govt.

The people of India deserve better than this brutality. Long live the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

The people of China, Tibet and Uighur against brutal oppression against dictatorship of CPC. Long live Tibet freedom movement and Chinese people's struggle for freedom from CPC.

whoever use the helicopter won't win against rebels who fight for freedom and equality. no amount of helicopters can defeat the cry of justice from the poor.

Freedom!!!! :lol::rofl: Now someday North Korea and Burmese junta will advice people for 'freedom'!!! Liu was imprisoned just because he talked about freedom of people.
 
Why does the indian government have to use helicopter gunships to suppress maoist protestors? All they are doing is protesting against corruption, starvation, environmental degradation, **** of dalits and tribals, no justice, illegal land confiscations and poverty.

Blowing up train tracks and attacking police forces are not the way to show protest.:hitwall:
 
the naxalism which started for a reason is a lost cause now. They don't allow the functioning of the government infrastructure in the tribal areas and they expect things to get better!!!

Communism sucks big time. They are outdated .... The lone standing WB govt is going to fall and there won't be any communist party govt in near future.
 
whoever use the helicopter won't win against rebels who fight for freedom and equality. no amount of helicopters can defeat the cry of justice from the poor.

Ahem!
Your talking about people who beheaded a cop.
Killed police constables who were of same poor community.

Mostly importantly,they have lost all intellectual sympathy and public support.

I don't know why you see a parallel between this and what happened in China and Vietnam.
 
Why the chinese commies needed brutal force to massacre thousands of un-armed citizens during Tiananmen Square MASSACRE?? Why people of china are not even allowed to protest against govt the govt forget about armed revelation!!! Tiananmen Square protest has became a sign of the free people against brutal chinese govt.



The people of China, Tibet and Uighur against brutal oppression against dictatorship of CPC. Long live Tibet freedom movement and Chinese people's struggle for freedom from CPC.



Freedom!!!! :lol::rofl: Now someday North Korea and Burmese junta will advice people for 'freedom'!!! Liu was imprisoned just because he talked about freedom of people.

haha, more people die in a single day in India than have been killed by Chinese police in the past 10 years. Give me a break. Maybe if you gave the tribals enough food to survive, they'll stop rebelling.
 
haha, more people die in a single day in India than have been killed by Chinese police in the past 10 years. Give me a break. Maybe if you gave the tribals enough food to survive, they'll stop rebelling.

How do you know that? Do CCP release any information regarding the people the killed?
 
Anyway, I was under the impression that any support to terrorism is strictly prohibited in this forum and people who indulge in that will be banned. Is that rule still valid?

Please dont bring the freedom fighter argument, Maoists are not fighting for freedom.
 
haha, more people die in a single day in India than have been killed by Chinese police in the past 10 years.

lol more people have vanished from China than those died in India in past 20 years. CPC just vanishes people and never return, no one knows where they have gone!!!!

Give me a break.

Why you want a break??? lol Those people on tiananmen square was unarmed, they didn't have even stone in their hand but Chinese govt massacred them just because they were seeking right for freedom and democracy.


Maybe if you gave the tribals enough food to survive, they'll stop rebelling.

You pls give the food to hundred of millions of Chinese those are below the poverty line and what is dangerous is they are not even allowed to tell the CPC what they want, forget protest, because protest against the govt means you are vanished!!!! :rolleyes:
 
lol more people have vanished from China than those died in India in past 20 years. CPC just vanishes people and never return, no one knows where they have gone!!!!



Why you want a break??? lol Those people on tiananmen square was unarmed, they didn't have even stone in their hand but Chinese govt massacred them just because they were seeking right for freedom and democracy. when it comes down to it, if your government can't give 5000 people enough calories to survive to the next day, its quite incompetent.




You pls give the food to hundred of millions of Chinese those are below the poverty line and what is dangerous is they are not even allowed to tell the CPC what they want, forget protest, because protest against the govt means you are vanished!!!! :rolleyes:

yeah the government's not too bad, here, that's why we have 0 armed insurgencies and you have over 20. that's the evidence. if your system is so free, why do people pick up guns to fight it, and if ours is so unfree, why is there no rebellion?
 
yeah the government's not too bad, here, that's why we have 0 armed insurgencies and you have over 20. that's the evidence. if your system is so free, why do people pick up guns to fight it, and if ours is so unfree, why is there no rebellion?

Expect another lengthy reference to the Tianamen Square incident lol.
 

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