Light Combat Helicopter Prachand and Boeing AH-64 Apache Gunship to guard LAC #indianarmy #iaf

Prachand to be inducted in Missamari on 15th November

The Indian Army has three Aviation Brigades at Leh, Missamari and Jodhpur. The Missamari Aviation Brigade in Assam was raised in March 2021 to ramp up the Army's air capabilities to support ground forces in the eastern sector in the wake of growing Chinese military infrastructure.

Through this aviation brigade, the army is conducting all the operations in the Northeast region. The brigade has already deployed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles which includes Heron MK1 UAVs, ALH Dhruv & ALH WSI Rudra helicopters along with various other surveillance assets in the region.

The Army raised the 351 AA Squadron on June 01, 2022, in Bengaluru which will move to Missamari.

Recently, five LCHs have been handed over to the Aviation Wing of the Indian Army, though the Indian Army wants to induct about 95 more Prachand helicopters in the coming years.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will formally induct LCH Prachand into the Indian Army around November 15 at Missamari, Assam and the first squadron of LCH will also be formally declared raised. Earlier on October 3, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had inducted Prachand in the Indian Air Force in Jodhpur and on this occasion he himself flew in Prachand. 10 LCH helicopters have been handed over to the Indian Air Force.

6 + 11 Apache AH-64

Apart from LCH, 6 Apache helicopters are also going to be included in the Indian Army soon.

As we know that the Cabinet Committee had initially sanctioned the procurement of 39 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the U.S. Following this, the IAF procured 22 Apaches in September 2015. India and the US signed another contract for the acquisition of six Apaches for the Indian Army during US President Donald Trump’s visit to New Delhi. There has been delay in the deliveries of these due to the COVID pandemic and are now scheduled to begin deliveries in early 2024. These six Apache attack helicopters will have indigenous fuselages manufactured by Tata Advanced Systems.

In addition, the Army is pushing the case for the remaining 11 Apaches of the 39 sanctioned. A senior Boeing official had recently confirmed that they were in talks with the Indian Army for additional Apaches.

25 ALH MK-III

In September 2021, the DAC has accorded the approval for the procurement of 25 ALH Mark III helicopters. HAL will start the production and deliveries of these helicopters also from this year onwards and will be inducted into Army in phased manner in next two years.

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[MOHDSHAHID-fyig]

200+ LCH, 80+ Apache deadly combination

[datoolz]

22 AH-64E Apache helicopters in 2015 cost $2.1 billion, or Rs 14, 910 crore, and six of these in 2020 cost Rs 6, 600 crore. In just five years, the cost of one helicopter jumped by 62 per cent. 1 100 crore per chopper.

15 indigenously developed Limited Series Production (LSP) LCH cost only Rs 3, 887 crore. Rs 260 crore per Prachand. Can buy 4.5 Prachand for cost of 1 Apache.The Prachand is the only attack helicopter in the world that can land and take off at an altitude of 5, 000 metres, which makes it ideal to operate in the high altitude areas of the Siachen glacier. It is best for the Vayu Sena to standardize on one attack helicopter, the Prachand, and order hundreds of it. HAL is looking for an eventual order of 160 helicopters.

The armed forces’ 15-year Long Term Integrated Perspective Plans (LTIPP) — the mainstay of their modernisation programme must mandate purchase of the Prachand.

[FraudProfit]

Should set a fire on HAL tail. Then it will fast track the production

[snowkol]

Even if we produce at home, we still have to buy them from other countries, like the Apache. The inefficiency of our products?

[ankitk]

HAL is very very slow.... If we see the overall bottleneck, HAL is a bag part of it wherein they are having an orderbook of more than 1lakh crore but still their MD is predicting a revnue growth of just 7% clearly indicating a big lack in scaling up the HAL sucks