Aug. 27: Central agencies have alerted police officials of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, after a book printed in the US was found with arrested Maoist.
The book explicitly guides fighters on how to bring down helicopters and other small aircraft with the use of assault weapons like the AK-47.
The book, Guerrilla Air Defence: Anti-Aircraft Weapons and Techniques for Guerrilla Forces, has been published by Paladin Press, Colorado (USA,) and deals with the threat posed by the use of air-power by security forces against rebel outfits and the various counter measures to resist and repel such assaults. The latest "VIP security and intelligence digest", dated June 8, a copy of which is with this news paper, gives details of documents recovered from CPI (Maoist), one of which is the book in question.
The book is replete with examples like "asking the rebels to aim their assault rifles and fire at the hub of the rotor blade of a chopper so that the bullets drop into the engine after hitting the chopper and incapacitate it".
The book outlines the technique of turning the light machine-gun, a weapon used considerably by Naxals in Maharashtra and Chhatisgarh, into an effective anti-aircraft weapon for small aircraft. The book also describes techniques of passive air-defence.
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