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Which is across the street from Cong HQ... it was a political statement.

Having a single type will reduce costs and logistics footprints. Having an indigenous platform that you can control is far more reliable than the US who can sanction at the drop of a hat. One only needs to look at Turkey whose supply chains are starting to crumble.

Yes but you will need more because helicopters get shot down easily. Case in point for the news today... Houthi rebels shoot down SKA Apache

Yes it is........ Apache is an antiquated design with several technical upgrades to keep it relevant. It is lethal but it is also a helicopter making it vulnerable. It can be shot down just as easily as an LCH which makes having 3-4 LCH instead of one Golden plated Apache a much more cost...

3/4 LCH > 1 Gold plated Apache

Helina? They could integrate Hellfire if it was an emergency, no need for overpriced Apaches. These orders are just taking precious funds from indigenous programmes.

LCH can fly at all altitudes, why do they need Apaches over indigenous attack helos when you can buy 2-3 LCH for one Apache?

They both start with "A" for Attack Helicopter.

It is more like comparing an apple to a different type of apple.

They wasted a tonne of money that could have been spent on it buying Apaches.

I reject this notion, the relatively slow-flying Apaches would be quickly picked up by Chinese or Pakistani surveillance radars and then shot down by their dense defensive network of anti-air missiles, guns and fighter aircraft. The US Army could use Apaches for SEAD only in highly asymmetrical...

The current rotor mount turns at thousands of rpms per minute. You cannot plug anything to it. You have to add a non-moving core and rebuild the rotor shaft around the mount. This would completely derail future production with the massive design changes this would require.

When it comes to HAL, delays are what haunts them continuously. Keeping a common configuration once they are trained to make it is the only way to get numbers on time. It actually isn't so simple for a rotor with no fixed point to mount anything. The entire assembly will have to be redesigned.

Because it is asking for more delays. When dealing with retrofitting requirements from HAL... come on. You know what happens. They need to come to a common config and start pumping them out by the hundreds.

I don't think retrofitting LCH for an MMW radar is a wise idea. You can stick them on a special purpose scout heli and data link the targeting coordinates to LCH. It is just asking for more delays.

You should be getting them for Apache.

The advantage of laser guidance is cost and ability to hit moving targets. Sat guided bombs need INS gyros along with its positioning receiver which raises cost but is all weather. Within visual range IR guided munitions with lock on capability like Helina are best as they are all weather and...

The laser designator is for illuminating targets for laser guided munitions. Helina is not laser guided so it is not needed and actually a risk to the pilot if used on anything with a laser warning receiver (LWR). The range finder is a far less powerful laser, undetectable by LWR. The...

The laser is built into the FLIR used for ranging. It is not a laser designator nor would you want to use one on a target that has a LWR. You would give your position away. A ranging laser is not strong enough to detect but used for targeting for fire-forget missiles.