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Those gunships where never used for the purpose you quoted. They made an appearance most likely used on the border not in Indian Kashmir.
As far as the Naxalites are concerned the Indian army has said it before, the issue is law and order so therefore they do not fight Naxalites but have trained the CRPF on behalf of the GOI to fight them. And on multiple occasions refused GOI requests to use air power other than transport.
But you really sidelining and cherry picking 1 offs compared to what you really have in Pakistan. I haven't read any source claiming Mi-35 have killed terrorists. Infact anotherfact , the IA uses Dhruvs now and they use these to transport troops, and I suspect the Mi-35 was used for the same purpose.
Simply put you don't have credible evidence to say India uses heavy equipment or artty against terrorists. They perform COIN. Unlike Pakistan which says the do COIN but its LIC whichc is why millions have been dislocated.
Please educate yourself CRPF is not trained by Army. And it does many times more COIN ops than entire Army.
ARMY had asked for APFSA in entire naxal states for ops, which will malignate India's global image, for declaring AFPSA in so many regions. That is why Army was not deployed in naxal area by GOI.
According to PDF intellectuals, if naxals are Indian and thats why army won't fight against them, then who the fcuk are North East people, where Army is operating since decades.
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