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Indian military thinks the public are mushrooms keep them in the dark and feed them sh!t

Yea but 226 is completely dead

The requirements for RSH/LUH are well over 400

Leasing military assets? Not even the most cash starved peace time militaries try this because ultimately the costs are enormous and the actual mission profile is very narrow HAL has recently gotten into the leasing business but why do I feel a foreign company is favoured here? not even a...

what does this mean?

‘Emergency requirement’

Tumkur can make 30 LUH/year in phase 1, 60/year in phase 2 if given enough orders. Total IA+IAF RSH+LUH requirements are ~400. Even at 60/year it’ll take 8 years of flat out production to get all the light helos they need, the way they have ordered ALH (30-40 unit batches at a time) has taken...

They’ll never order 110 in one go, maybe 40-50 in one go despite their requirement being >150. Keeping costs high and production capacity low, just regular Indian military BS, they are only good at buying from foreign brochures

0. No orders placed but they (HAL) are making 6+6 LSP using their own funds like with LCH

My patience has long since run out with these people. Incompetent or compromised makes no difference, their actions speak for themselves when the blood is shed by the low ranks a few of these esteemed generals should be treated to some special justice of their own imagine sitting on piles of...

crux of the issue

300 LUH/RSH won’t cost anywhere near 10-12B, the 197 RSH bid ~10 years ago was for around $1bn, today it’ll probably be over $3-4 but nowhere near 10 and LUH is quite a bit cheaper than the KA-226 in the long term the sad part is in the mid 00s when RSH was first floated the expected price was...

There’s a reason the detachable pod thing hasn’t become a feature on any other helicopter. It’s completely unnecessary

That it’s still in play is a concern. The import lobby always seems to get its way

Just order 400 of them for god’s sake. What are they waiting for? More Chetak/Cheetah crashes? More kickbacks from Russia?

I just want series production of the LCH and LUH to start before an airframe is lost. They’ll try to clip the orders otherwise, the ALH had to go through so much cr@p and so many redesigns just to get to where it is today. 20++ years to get ~350 units in service is pretty pitiful. LUH should be...

I don’t understand why the KA226 hasn’t been officially killed off for india yet, is it really still an option with the LUH in LSP? it’s pathetic that any energy is even being put in that direction, all the effort should be on getting 100s of LUH into service.

Eff yeah! give them an order for 400+ and get the Cheetah/Chetaks retired by 2030 for the love of god. Tumkur can churn out 60 of these beasts a year if they get serious orders ret@ards have only given the green light for 12 LSP airframes though of course

Waiting for CCS sanction like most big projects