ATGM in WSI?Just one question arises from this, if IA had inducted ALH-WSI so far back then what took it so long to get an ATGM integrated onto it?
ATGM in WSI?Just one question arises from this, if IA had inducted ALH-WSI so far back then what took it so long to get an ATGM integrated onto it?
BSF is just for border manning not for combat. ITBP is toothless police with no bullet firing agreement with China. CRPF is involved in COIN and govt will never allow aerial combat assests to be used on our own people in our own soilUnpopular opinion, but LCH should also be utilized by BSF, CRPF and ITBP, since the forces operate at an environment, where attack helicopters are of necessity
HAL built 15 airframes with their own funds projected IAF and Army to use it who were fighting for their candy Apache helicopters but Galwan happened and govt took those 3 airframes to Ladhak to do photo ops and now after 5 years LCH hasn’t put on mass production or inducted in numbersSad how GoI has been delaying projects for long. 25 years since Kargil, its not even ordered yet. Not even CCS approval.
Well they'll need customer's placing orders en masse to start mass producing, till then there'll only be LSP!HAL built 15 airframes with their own funds projected IAF and Army to use it who were fighting for their candy Apache helicopters but Galwan happened and govt took those 3 airframes to Ladhak to do photo ops and now after 5 years LCH hasn’t put on mass production or inducted in numbers
These are mere numbers should need more than 156 for sure. Hope they place more orders in future LCH will be great asset and force multiplier and can wreck havoc combined with ApacheWould 156 nos. be required if our military fought jointly?
100+ rudra are already presentThese are mere numbers should need more than 156 for sure. Hope they place more orders in future LCH will be great asset and force multiplier and can wreck havoc combined with Apache
It is almost a 7 to 8 fold jump over the number of gunships that the IAF and IA had throughout the 1980s and 1990s. That number never exceeded 35 at any time.Would 156 nos. be required if our military fought jointly?
My point is why does IAF need attack helicopters? If the army and IAF will perform the same function with them why not have only one military branch induct it?It is almost a 7 to 8 fold jump over the number of gunships that the IAF and IA had throughout the 1980s and 1990s. That number never exceeded 35 at any time.
Now we have nearly 90 Rudra WSI gunships that the IA is using and in addition there are the 22 Apaches in the IAF plus 6 in the IA, and with an additional 156 Prachand LCH for the IAF and IA, the number of gunships is eventually going to be around 280.
In India anything files should come under IAF. IAF even tried to claim Navy aviation assets should be operated by themMy point is why does IAF need attack helicopters? If the army and IAF will perform the same function with them why not have only one military branch induct it?
Western militaries largely keep their attack helicopters under the army. Only Russia is a major military where attack helicopters are under the airforce.In India anything files should come under IAF. IAF even tried to claim Navy aviation assets should be operated by them
It would have been more soothing, if the rockets were ATGMs....Another great shot of the LCH Prachand firing rockets
And IAF sticking to their traditions even crashed an Apache which it can't even recover at such heights.HAL built 15 airframes with their own funds projected IAF and Army to use it who were fighting for their candy Apache helicopters but Galwan happened and govt took those 3 airframes to Ladhak to do photo ops and now after 5 years LCH hasn’t put on mass production or inducted in numbers
You forgot the Mi-35sIt is almost a 7 to 8 fold jump over the number of gunships that the IAF and IA had throughout the 1980s and 1990s. That number never exceeded 35 at any time.
Now we have nearly 90 Rudra WSI gunships that the IA is using and in addition there are the 22 Apaches in the IAF plus 6 in the IA, and with an additional 156 Prachand LCH for the IAF and IA, the number of gunships is eventually going to be around 280.
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