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Maybe because Equador returned the helis that they bought from us? LCH maybe a great heli, but there is no point of ordering it till it gets an ATGM, considering the fact that there are already 70 Rudras inducted which are flying without weapons.

How long after you posting? Welcome back anyways

Why do these PSUs depend upon the government funding even for inhouse R&D projects and then complain when they are divested?

LOL this is a joke. HAL 1200 KW engine will be insufficient to power MCH. Apache currently uses 1500 KW engine. A new engine will have to be developed or imported. Most of the avionics on LCH are foreign, so no one of is going to perfect anything. Unless HAL develops critical subsystems, high...

Again, as I said. That wasn't the order. That would have been something else such as DAC approval or CCS approval. You should recheck your sources. Army hasn't placed an order for Nag missiles yet. EDIT: Here it is. It was DAC approval in April 2018...

After new seeker tests. Final trials were completed in July and DRDO had said that they expected production to start before end of 2019. This hasn't happened yet.

That is not an official order. Orders were supposed to be placed in late 2019 but never materialized. That is one thing eating me up. Another is delay in follow on orders of Astra.

They could have gone for spike though, or hellfire. Not pursuing this is something I don't understand. In every other weapon system, we are integrating something foreign and continuing with orders till the local alternative is ready. LCH is kind of an exception.

From what I understand, Mistral was for A2A role right? So it still would be needed since Helina can't fulfill that role.

Because ATAK already has ATGM integrated. LCH doesn't. What DRDO should have done is integrate a foreign ATGM for the time being and continue HELINA development in parallel which would have allowed IAF to accept LCH in service. Don't know why it was never pursued.

Probably yes, they could have spent the money elsewhere. But we are talking here about LCH. Amongst LCH and Apache today, Apache will always be the priority because it can be used in war whereas LCH can't.

No your post is nonsense. First of all you need to understand what concurrent development means. Its about development of different subsystems independently and parallely, which is already happening in case of LCH and Helina. Concurrent development never means that orders can be placed...

The point is prioritization. If you have limited money, which platform should be ordered first? the one which can be used in war immediately, or the one which will just remain a participant in airshows till weapons are integrated on it. One should see that since there are already so many Rudras...

After reduced cost of 39000 crore, the cost will still be around 66 million per plane, not 40.

False equivalence, there is no western helicopter which as been serving for 6 years without weapons like Rudra. Show me one. Rudra's lack of weapons is a genuine problem. Accept it instead of trying to whitewash the issue. Why would they place orders for LCH when they already have so many...

This CAG report is from 2008 right? That was just before Mk3 went into production. Most of the problems of Dhruv were solved in Mk3. Current Dhruv flies with Shakti engine.

Another delay. In the beginning of the year the expected IOC date was January 2015. Anyways, this will give more time to setup production line.

LCH TD-3 Standard Cockpit Mockup The design of third prototype of LCH-TD3 is under final stages incorporating all the feedback from development flight testing of other two prototypes: TD1 and TD2. In order to assess the impact of design changes on cockpit, a mockup has been fabricated and...

LCH weapon configuration. Sorry if posted before.

Do we have any time frame as to about when TD3 will fly? flight testing is scheduled to complete by feb 2013, and TD3 has not even flown