HAL Advanced Light Helicopter Dhruv

^^^^ Media is completely corporatist and corrupt, they would write anything for their masters and corporations (foreign)who are funding them, so that these corporates can sell their junk and indigenous programs are not taken forward. It has been time and again proved that immature, dysfunctional and obtuse media-men are given projects to malign Indian efforts so that these MNC's are able to sell material with zillion restrictions to India and they make a cheap buck, however this does not stop here; up-gradations or new area of opportunity is taken as a chance for bashing DRDO/HAL again to justify foreign purchases. This media blitzkrieg is only to sell foreign products and destroy indigenous defense industry, nothing more can be expected from cheap media of India.

Most new products are bound to have problems and they are to be sorted out. Sometimes, pressing demands force the users to use them despite their flaws.

For example, Bell UH-1 "Huey" and Piasecki H-21 "Flying Banana" we vulnerable to ground fire even from small arms (particularly the latter), yet, these machines were always modified to suit the particular requirements. The Mi-24 "Krokodil/Hind" solved the problem of small arms fire and made it into a virtual flying tank from which even RPG rounds would bounce off without causing any significant damage, yet it had it's weakness in high thermal signature and often were used a pure gunships in high altitude warfare (Afghanistan), although these helicopters were not designed to be gunships, but as gunship-cum-troop-transport helicopters. modifications were also done to reduce the heat signature in the Hinds. Similarly, the HAL ALH "Dhurv" will obviously have had some initial problems but they have been or are in the process of being sorted out (like taking help from Turbomeca).

90 percent of Components for HAL Advanced Light Helicopter Dhruv Sourced Internally

Around 69 percent of the material used in manufacture of Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) is procured from foreign sources. In terms of number of components involved, around 90 percent of the components are made in India.

The development and production of ALH has benefited the country immensely by providing a versatile domestic helicopter and enhancing our knowledge base in designing, developing and manufacturing a rotary wing aircraft of this category.

This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Shri MM Pallam Raju in a written reply to Shri T M Selvaganapathi in Rajya Sabha today.





http://www.india-defence.com/reports-4889

Some Ecuadorian Dhruvs!

:special3:

Although I do not know what that means, but I still hope to learn from learning

As and when time will progress, we will see lot more of DHRUV components indigenously made, we will also get better with experience. Another 5 years and we will not remain novice in areonotics. We have got good start, now we just need to build the experince.

awesome images kunal
they have painted it so good..

No To Israel, HAL Wants First Indian Glass Cockpit On LUH

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2011/01...st-indian.html






HAL is breaking (thankfully) with tradition and wants an Indian-made glass cockpit (smart cockpit display system -- SCDS) on its in-development 3-ton Light Utility Helicopter (LUH). The move is a welcome move away from what it did with the flagship ALH Dhruv helicopter programme, where IAI was roped in to provide glass cockpits and market that version of the helicopter. HAL and Israel were in talks for a similar arrangement on the LUH as well, but the fresh tender floated today [.pdf] puts it all to rest. HAL wants Indian kit.

According to the tender document, "the Main Instrument Panel (image above) incorporates three Smart Multi Function Displays (SMFDs), and standby instruments, clock and a glare shield. The inter-seat console incorporates the avionic and system controls. An Over Head Panel between the pilots incorporates switches, Circuit Breakers, Rotor Brake control unit, cockpit light and two wander lights." The document indicates that the cockpit will be compatible with operation with Gen 3 and Gen 2++ NVGs.

HAL has invited proposals from prospective Indian firms capable of "indigenous design, development, manufacture and supply of requisite hardware based on COTS standard modules/ boards/ components or specifically developed modules /boards /components for the SCDS LRUs proposed for LUH." HAL, however, stipulates that "if required, the vendor may opt for a foreign collaborator to provide technical support under Transfer of Technology for development and manufacture."

The document also talks about the LUH's intended mission profile: "The military roles to be performed by LUH are primarily utility roles with future variants for armed roles. The utility roles include Armed Reconnaissance, Aerial photography, Scout Role in conjunction with attack helicopter, Platform for Electronic Support Measure (ESM), Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) and Electronic Counter Counter Measures (ECCM). LUH will be initially integrated with systems and equipment required for basic and military utility roles. Subsequently integration and certification of the helicopter for armed roles as well as civil/commercial variant would be taken up."

Can anyone provide me the info how many dhruvs are operated & have been ordered by the IAF???

You know I think the LUH Dhruv will sell big time to various police forces more than the 12 seater one that is more for military and evacuation emergency agencies. I hope that there is a strong pitch for the smaller single engine LUH variant of Dhruv which would be a good cost-effective and rugged choice for the world's police forces and even patrol services.

I got to admit; the Ecuadorian ground forces seem to be pretty state of the art eh? Look at their gear. The Dhruv painting scheme for EAF is AMAZING! The cobra head gives it such a mean look.