Blackwater
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it does, simply. the greater leeway you have with your service ceiling, the more you have reserve power. The power to weight ratio, is quite important for a helicopter working at the limits of it performace stats. More load and range of the Mi-26T2 comes at a cost of nimbleness and maneuverability, what you are not getting is IAF is ok with 10 tons, It is the uptimes, and FOB cannot handle more than 10 tons, it has space premium.
Why do you need more range, when 300-400 kms range will do for IAF and IA
Why do you need more load capacity when 10 tons will do for IAF and IA
Mi-26T2 delievers more these two fronts at the cost of others, which are very important parameters for IAF, ceiling height, power to weight ratio, design and most importantly uptimes and life cycle cost.
Mi-26T2 is a giant, slow, lumbering, unresponsive and design wise not really apt for mountain top delivery. It is not because of its power or ceiling height but rather how it is designed, it will better in the mountains. Chinook doesnt have a conventional tail rotor, it changes the whole dimension of how a helicopter operates in closed space dangerous enviornment, So yes, Maneuverability is of paramount in mountains.
How have you imagined our FOB with their M-777 will look like? They are going to 40cents to 1acre small bases for 15-20 men on mountain tops or on the sides of mountains with dangerous wiggle room, now imagine 100's of such guns all over our mountains over looking the chinese. That is not a mean tasks at all counts, this our main chinese defense strategy, this is why we are raising 2 Mountain divisions especially trained for this kind of combat. This is not going to run along all over the Chinese sector, rather concentrated Ladakh over looking Aksai Chin, Sikkim and Burma. The Chinese threat is serious and a china-pak link up today a real possibility.
Please think, how our planners will look at it, not like fanboys. Please.
Simply put, Chinook is a far better option for our doctrine, strategy and economically than the Mi-26T2
good example of chinnook stability and versatility . MI-26 can noooooooot do this man