India’s $1B Deal for Light Helos Faces Cancellation

[Abingdonboy]

you people have really nice brains if deal sign you guys dance for deal if cancel you congs for cancel

Use YOUR brain- every deal is different. For Apaches Indians will be very happy as this is the best such system on the planet and nothing else even comes close. But in this case HAL is working on a comparable product that will be as good as the fennec or Kamov so Indians would prefer to see HAl get the order over a foreign firm. I can see the logic.

 

[sancho]

Yes because we are in the middle of a shift from foreign to Indian.

No we are not, we are still at the begining! Dhruv was not developed by us alone, but with credible help from foreign countries, which we used to learn and gain experience. That was then used upgrade Dhruv with more Indian content and now even to re-design it into LCH, which is a major step ahead. HALs LUH is meant to be the first helicopter they develop and build alone from the scratch and that will be the next milestone for us, but need to to it with the needed time to fully develop and test it, before we can mass produce it and integrate it into our forces in such huge numbers. In the mean time we need a foreign helicopter in the same class, that is ready and proven, ideally that can even offer commonality to HALs LUH to provide our forces and the nations security a safe alternative.

 

[Imran Khan]

Use YOUR brain- every deal is different. For Apaches Indians will be very happy as this is the best such system on the planet and nothing else even comes close. But in this case HAL is working on a comparable product that will be as good as the fennec or Kamov so Indians would prefer to see HAl get the order over a foreign firm. I can see the logic.

tu to bakwaas hi na ker main indians se baat ker raha hoon tum se nhi

 

[Gessler]

@ Imran Khan

you got to become a PDF Veteran and your name appears in green letters with that?
I can't believe it.

 

[acetophenol]

don't worry pals,let the deal and LUH development take all the time it needs,because,


1.HAL Chetaks and HAL Cheetahs are superb helis and its varients are still under production in India.HAL has given amy superb spare parts supplies and not to mention the fantastic work of Maintenence team of Indian Army.

2.HAL has developed new generation varients of Cheetah and Chetak which are HAL Cheetal and HAL Chetan respectively. These babes have advanced avionics,full glass cockpits,powerfull engines etc.
Army has already ordered them.

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^^HAL Chetan.

The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL) re-engined and upgraded Chetak helicopter -- Chetan created history when it successfully completed hot and high altitude tests in the Siachen Glacier recently. With this performance, Chetan has proved that it can conquer the Himalayan heights up to its service ceiling of 21,300 feet. Till now, the operations of the Chetak were restricted to 10,000 feet, due to a number of limitations.


HAL CHEETAL

The Cheetal is the re-engined Cheetah helicopter, with replacement of Artouste IIIB with the TM333-2M2 engine. The reduced weight of the TM 333-2M2 engine with better specific fuel consumption has resulted in increased range, endurance and payload. This makes the helicopter more versatile in various roles including search & rescue and missions in high altitude. The Cheetal has been designed to incorporate upgraded features such as light weight modern technology cockpit instruments like electrically driven Artificial Horizon, Directional Gyro, and light weight modern avionics - accurate navigation and homing through GPS, VHF HOMER, Flight Monitoring System (FMS), Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Emergency Locator Transmitter.

My point is that there's no doubt in replacing these choppers,but no point in getting worried in the delays