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If everything goes right, Spike/Pars 3 will not be integrated with Rudra/LCH and they will start off directly with Helina.

Mk-1 and Mk-2 don't have much juice left at those altitudes, it's Mk-3 which can fly safely at those altitude. Most Dhruv in service are M-1 and Mk-2. Last AERO India, the IAF dignitaries were complaining Mk-1 and Mk-2 had a major fault which used to cause category-1 crashes and HAL in all it's...

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IAF's Rotarywing Assets - SP's Aviation

It adds to weight and cost without adding much to the performance. It's a good thing to have on civilian helicopters reducing the noise and vibration, but of not much use on a military helicopter. A 100 Kgs in redesigned tail is a 100Kgs off payload.

MBB were design consultants on the Dhruv project from 1984 to 1994. They were supposed to provide a multitude of technologies for the Dhruv project, however their performance as consultants was considered unsatisfactory and their contract was not renewed due to the economic conditions in early...

Correction, its a design by MBB based off their highly successful MBB Kawasaki Bk 117. MBB were the original consultants to the Dhruv project till they were let go due to a multitude of reasons. If they would have failed we would have known.

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Thais did not visit India, the HAL team paid a visit to U-Tapao, Royal Thai Navy Airfield. You can see HAL's test pilot Wg Cdr (retd) Unni Pillai, GM (Rotary wing) in the second video.

Rudra Demo at AI 2013.

You should, in that case, watch the presentation of Group Captain Hari Nair's paper at Aero India Seminar (Skip to 01:31:00). It contains footage of Rudra targeting targets as far as 8km away with unguided rockets. Also contains footage from EO sensors, gun camera footage and some good (but low...

Schematic of ALH Mk-IV Dhruv-WSI (Rudra) Launching NAG ATGM from Rudra:- High-speed Motion Capture of NAG ATGM Launched from HAL-Rudra at t=200ms High-speed Motion Capture of NAG ATGM Launched from HAL-Rudra at t=220ms High-speed Motion Capture of NAG ATGM Launched from HAL-Rudra at t=242.67ms

The year 2004 called. They want you back.