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But doesn't the Rudra also uses Shakti engines, that would make 76 WSI version as part of 159 ordered.

Does anyone know which atgm we will see on Rudra? I expected it to be HELINA but LCH is supposed to be equipped with French anti tank missiles till HELINA is ready. That puts HELINA induction date post 2015. If that is true, then why is Rudra being given IOC in two phases specifically to...

There is no confirmation on whether the 159 ordered includes the 132 delivered or not. All HAL ever said was that Order book for Dhruv is of 159 helis.

130 delivered till aero India 2013. About number of orders, not sure, a CAG audit of 2009 showed that original schedule was to produce 296 choppers by 2009, which means this is the minimum number we should be looking at.

Sirji I believe you are wrong. IN intially completely rejected Dhruv because of non-foldable rotor blades, DRDO developed manually foldable rotor blades but IN wanted automatically folding rotor blades. Since then Dhruv has not seen service. If engine was the main issue, then IN should have...

Hi, the final issue with naval Dhruvs was folding of rotor blades and not vibration. Till that issue is solved, Dhruv has very little chance of operating on ships

^^^ Well its a CAG audit, it doesn't occur ever year, so no. But still it tells us number of Dhruvs that were being produced by the year and the fact that 74 Dhruvs are flying without achieving full operational capability. Possibly Dhruv Mk3 is the first version to be fully operational. It also...

About 130 actually, by December 2009, 90 had been delivered. so the rate of production should only be one-third of what is claimed. Still there is wiki link saying that HAL will deliver 20 Rudras to army by mid 2013. Here is a very interesting link I found which highlights the failures in...

Hi, does anyone know the rate of production of Dhruv? Read somewhere that it is 44 helis per annum but if that was the case, the order of 159 helis would have been met a long time ago, isn't it?

Navy keen on weaponised Dhruv LCH, under development, to participate in Air Force firepower demo The Navy, which had earlier turned its back on the Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) built by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) over issues with the dimension of the helicopter blade that ostensibly...

Army gets its first indigenously-made Rudra attack chopper BANGALORE: The first indigenously-developed weaponised helicopter 'Rudra' was on Friday handed over to the Army which has successfully raised an attack chopper fleet on its own. This is the first of the 60 armed helicopters provided to...

Does anyone has any information about the payload of Rudra? If it can carry only 48 70mm rockets, won't its payload be equal to that of LCH?

Then how come Tejas got its first IOC in 2011, and the second IOC will also be given before induction of SP1?

So, IOC is being given after the machine has entered production???? Isn't it odd?? I mean, isn't the whole point of IOC is to certify that the equipment is now ready to be in service with Indian Armed forces?

In that case, why is it that Dhruv-WSI hasn't received IOC yet?? Or has it received IOC and it hasn't been reported?

This is odd. I have already seen pics of flying Rudra on tarmak. They even have pics of HELINA being tested from a helo which seems like ALH. How can there still be doubt about first flight of Rudra?

Rudra was supposed to get its IOC in May. Are there any updates about this??? Any new timeline or rumors???

I don't recall rudra being officially inducted into army anytime......there was news that rudra will be inducted this financial year, but it has not happened so far....and now all of a sudden i hear that the first squadron of rudra would be raised by next year, how is this possible??