I actually asked for pictures of a flying Indian engine testbed and an Indian plane powered by an Indian engine.
By HTFE 25kN engine, SEPCAT Jaguar can be powered. It could even power a twin engined LCA. Now, practical depends upon what we need and want to do. Nobody will do mindlessly of what they are capable of.
Yes, currently there's no Indian Plane in service or testing which uses Indian engine. There can be one twin engined but it's a waste of time to make it instead of further research. You can stop here.
But to the outside world, the LCH is a very irrelevant and weak system. It, like its Dhruv parent, is mainly an off-the-shelf Eurocopter helo.
Wrong, LCH has way better durability and adaptability against extreme environment. It's further a modified Rudra to reduce cross section and not any Euro design.
Indian "design" is really nothing more than picking the western components on the European market and then screwdriving it together.
Now, I can say same.
LOL, Z-10 itself was designed by Kamov.
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...z-10-attack-helicopter-based-on-kamov-383147/
Be careful because if you say, I can prove with pictures madam.
From China's first helicopter:
Z-5
A copy of
Mi-4
To latest:
Chinese 312E:
And Europcopter MH65C:
And so are Chinese attack helicopters derivated from here. India only initially took German assistance in Dhruv and doing entire designing itself since then unlike PRC.
HAL's claim that the Dhruv is indigenous has been challenged by
Comptroller and Auditor General of India, who reported that "...90% of the value of material used in each ALH is still imported from foreign suppliers".
Depends on production line capacity (Industry), not technology because sometimes requirement goes beyond factories can produce and 6 years have passed since then.
The Dhruv also has a very, very, very poor record where nearly all of the exported aircraft were grounded in the handful of foreign nations it was sold/gifted after 4 out of just 7 Dhruvs failed in Ecuador!
Now, this is going beyond the joke. Why anybody else is not retiring their helo?
I can post pictures of these "unsafe" Indian machines being used in disasters and war zones. Peru has even ordered.
As far as Ecuador is concerned, they even crash American and European choppers, a perfect crash record. Will I start calling those obsolete too?
India had offered training to their pilots and maintenance which they denied but others didn't.
As a result, crashed.
Dhruv is used to fly President of some countries which is enough to say about it's quality.:biggrin2:
The LCH has pretty much the same level of foreign components and the same faulty base as the Dhruv.
Care to explain those faults from Dhruv. Then, care to explain in LCH which has highest durability, range, power etc., it's way way powerful than any other light helo in world.
For protection etc., LCH is not even complete yet. Comment when it will be.
But even if its outside partners like Germany's MBB (air frame), France's Turbomeca (engines) and Israel (the sensor suite) have stabilize the helo, the LCH is a singularly unambitious design as a lightweight attack copter that lacked armour and protection. In the rest of the world, the LCH would be considered a scout.
LOL,
China getting direct Transfer of Technology (ToT) from Eurocopter and Airbus is it's industrial power but India's Joint Ventures somehow are foreign paintjobs.
You yourself are confused lady.
