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Lockheed Martin is proposing Hellfire on LCH. Lets see how situation proceeds.

Still in mechanical design/review stage.

All EO pods have daylight image sensor (even full color depending on the pod). Other sensor (night-time image sensor) can be turned off if not needed. IR and UV sensors have appropriate band pass filters.

Two reasons To protect the EO pod from damage and regular wear and tear to increase their operational life Sometimes dummy pods are used especially during photo-ops or testing when EO pods are not needed

Cabinet Committee On Security Clears Purchase Of 15 Made-In-India Light Combat Helicopters For Army And Air Force The Cabinet Committee on Security, the highest decision making body on national security affairs, has approved the purchase of 15 indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCH) for the...

India To Procure 15 Light Combat Helicopters At Rs 3,887 Crore The defence ministry said 10 helicopters will be for the Indian Air Force and five will be for the Indian Army. In a significant move, the prime minister-led Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Wednesday approved the...

Air Force, Army to soon fly indigenous Light Combat Helicopters! Govt approves procurement of 15 LCH Limited Series Production The meeting which met under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi has approved the procurement of the “Limited Series Production (LSP) at the...

What changed in production version to enable weight reduction?

Indian Army Must Downsize — But Here’s What It Needs To Do First Before cutting down on manpower, the Army must adopt compensatory technology-intensive precision systems/platforms. he 20th standing committee report (released in March 2021) indicates that the Indian Army is aiming at reducing...

Indian Army set to cut 1.5 lakh jobs, money to be used to buy modern weapons In a massive overhaul, the Indian Army plans to cut around 1.5 lakh jobs, latest media reports said on Monday. The money saved will be used to buy modern weapons as the focus shifts on ‘lean and mean’ force. ‘Merging...

Indian Army to cut 150,000 jobs as force plans to go ‘lean and mean’ https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/indian-army-to-cut-150-000-jobs-as-force-plans-to-go-lean-and-mean/story-GePcnuBveaGh6V8eqPY7KL.html

Why Indian Army plans a reduction of 1,00,000 men? The Army is also focusing on the infantry soldier manning the border There's a strong possibility of you getting a forward on social media these days, criticising Indian Army's proposed move of reduction in manpower. What it probably won't...

This is the typical world war 2 mentality we need to get out of. It is not army's job to guard border, its to fight and win wars. If you need need army to guard border theirs is something wrong with your security apparatus. Modern wars are won and lost by air-force. You need personal only to...

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Our defense budget is adequate percentage wise. What needs to be done is increase increase the budget of IAF and IN. We also need to reduce IA man-power bellow 1 million. War fought in today's era are high tech wars. You don't need so much man-power. I would prefer if we send Unmanned Vehicles...

I hope so. Technically it should be possible.

QRSAM was a JV? This is new. With whom did we JV for QRSAM.

Any ideas on crew protection/safety feature in case the chopper is shot down. What is the missile like thing in the front on the refueling probe? I am still finding FLIR on the top side less efficient, are there any chance that it may be moved to bottom side. Any idea about the azimuth of the...

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It uses FLIR to track tank targets. As Nag uses IIR guidence, FLIR makes more sence. I believe LCH doesn't yet possess a radar. Things might change when Nag gets a might get millimetric wave seeker.