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gorgeous chopper well done HAL

Is it so difficult to understand? You said the chopper is a flying tank & not to compare it with the LCH yeah? I wasn't comparing..they are both in different categories..what I was implying was that the pilot area of the LCH is designed to take 12.7mm AP rounds while the MI-35 certainly can't &...

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Light Combat Helicopter Makes Six Flights By Anantha Krishnan BANGALORE, India India's new Light Combat Helicopter (LCH), which had its first unofficial flight on March 29, has made five more test flights ahead of its first official outing in May. Its makers at the Bangalore-based...

shouldn't we merge the threads? http://www.defenceforum.in/forum/showthread.php?3167-HAL-Light-Combat-Helicopter-%28LCH%29-First-test-flight-successful

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India's Light Combat copter makes first flight Ajai Shukla / New Delhi March 31, 2010, 0:55 IST As the helicopter taxied slowly along the airstrip, a little knot of designers and executives from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) watched silently, the sweat beads on their foreheads from more...

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The black c/s is so much better

Here's what Col. Shukla has to say about it

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It's made for the battlefield, not beauty pageants.

That's because it's a wooden mockup (Aero India 07). The real thing looks like this

HAL to flight test LCH prototype next month Bangalore: State-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) would fly the first prototype of Light Combat Helicopter (LCH), in February, its chairman Ashok Nayak said today. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function, he said the first flight...

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Okay 29th of December is almost over now, should we expect something in tomorrow's newspapers? :)

Attack choppers don't receive data from AEW&C..they don't need to. They usually communicate between themselves (a group of choppers on a mission) or with scout choppers & you need data-link for that so yes, the LCH should have network centric features.

^^ some MFDs yes, but that is temporary!! The following is from Ajai Shukla's BROADSWORD

The following is from Ajai Shukla's BROADSWORD