Indian Army Aviation Wing

[Kunal Biswas]

I mentioned commando operations only to highlight the versatility of the aircraft. The Chinook can be regularly used for a host of regular military operations, personnel and equipment transport, special ops, SAR while the Mi26 will have a much more limited role of almost purely heavy lift ops.

Read my previous post i am not asking abt heavy lifting but, What i asked is " what type of commando operations ? "

And Also why Chinook ? Why not CH-53 ? for required operations..

 

[Kunal Biswas]

 

[pmaitra]

These are the aircrafts that the IA must have to on the top league...
Reconaissance and light attack:

For heavy duty attack:
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/apache/images/apache1111.jpg

What is exactly heavy duty attacks ?

What Apache gives compare to LCH..

Good question Kunal.

HAL-LCH is deliberately intended to be light for high-altitude operation.
Mil-24/35, Mil-28N and to a lesser extend AH-64D are great for lower altitudes and can afford to be heavy, both in armour as well as weapons load (or troop transport for Mil-24/35).

 

[pmaitra]

This baby here is offered to India and I personally think would be an excellent addition to the tactical airlift capability. It has proven itself in numerous battles from the jungle of Vietnam to the rugged mountains of Afghanistan.

Compare with MI-26...........

Some information on this for all:

 

[asianobserve]

The size of the Mi26 in some of these Boeing presentations is not actually accurate although I think it still can give us a general idea on the nature of the choppers under consideration by the IAF:

http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt220/varun22/5-714726.jpg
http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt220/varun22/7-716559.jpg

 

[asianobserve]

Another of the presentations:

 

[asianobserve]

On landing parameters:

 

[asianobserve]

The biggest advantage of the Mi26T2, aside from its brute lifting capacity (well the fuel consumption is also proportional), is its ease of intigration into the IAF as it already operates older Mi26s.

 

[pmaitra]

Tandem rotor NOTAR does have some advantages over single rotor with tail rotor.

Both these helicopters better the other in different fields.

However, the downwash will be a problem when unloading like this:

Here is the downwash:

 

[asianobserve]

As to general altitude characterstics (of Chinnok):

 

[asianobserve]

And Chinook can do this for Special Ops:

 

[Kunal Biswas]

And Chinook can do this for Special Ops:

Almost all Helicopters can do this, Its call floating..

 

[asianobserve]

"Almost all Helicopters can do this, Its call floating.."

I see. Even the Mi26T2?

 

[Kunal Biswas]

"Almost all Helicopters can do this, Its call floating.."

I see. Even the Mi26T2?

Yes..

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[asianobserve]

Something like this?

 

[pmaitra]

Something like this?

Yes, and also something like this:

 

[asianobserve]

If an Mi14 needs additional inflatable flotation devices to float how about Mi26? ("Yes")

 

[asianobserve]

BTW, another amazing footage of Chinook water extraction ops capability...

This could be very useful in covertly inserting and extracting Spec Operatives deep inside Pakistan...

 

[asianobserve]

Sorry, not deep inside but off Pakistani shores...

 

[asianobserve]

Another excellent contender for heavy lift: