Indian HAL Rotary wing Development

[RPK]

IMRH wind tunnel test under the Wg Cdr Unni Pillai (Retd), Executive Director (Flight Operations-Rotary Wing), HAL.

 

[RPK]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1311510161937235970

 

[RPK]

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on Tuesday rolled out the 300th Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH)

Read more at: https://www.onmanorama.com/news/nat...ut-300th-advanced-light-helicopter-dhruv.html

 

[Anik101]

Coast Guard ALH Dhruv Old vs Latest varient

Testing GAU21 Machine gun onboard CG Dhruv.

 

[RPK]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1329730127060635652

https://twitter.com/x/status/1329726342804369409

https://twitter.com/x/status/1329726342804369409

 

[Anik101]

Naval Dhruv mk3 fitted with SAR and ISAR capable nose-mounted radar and EO pod.32 were ordered in 2018. First batch will be soon handed over to Indian navy and coast guard.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1331203928059310081

The helicopter is also equipped with GAU21 high power machine gun and low-frequency dunking sonar manufactured by Bharat Electronics Limited.

Indian Army ALH Dhruv mk3 & WSI

 

[The Maverick]

our helicopter industry is huge now .

we will soon have much bigger order for the indengious combat helicopter which will supplement the powerful apache helicopter from.usa

I see around 60 plus light attack helicopters supporting 22 or 28 apache in the army by 2025

and it looks like the long term.replavmcememt for the Russian supplies mi17 will be In house too.

great for self reliance

 

[Zapper]

our helicopter industry is huge now .

we will soon have much bigger order for the indengious combat helicopter which will supplement the powerful apache helicopter from.usa

I see around 60 plus light attack helicopters supporting 22 or 28 apache in the army by 2025

and it looks like the long term.replavmcememt for the Russian supplies mi17 will be In house too.

great for self reliance

Replacement for Mi-17

https://twitter.com/x/status/1314088551479300103

 

[HalfMoon]

Is this the same chopper that crashed in Ecuador

 

[The Maverick]

Is this the same chopper that crashed in Ecuador

no thats the Dhruv we have 300 in service

how many jf17 have crashed to date

is it 4 or 5

you see your getting confused

we now have 3 different indengious helicopters hence my claim.we have a massive in ability to design out own.helicopters thanks to success of dhruv

 

[RPK]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1344847691596005376

 

[Anik101]

HAL Dhruv during a difficult CASEVAC mission. Perfect combinatoin of man and machine.

HAL LUH during high altitude trials in Ladakh.

LUH made its first flight in 2017 and will be replacing Chetaks and cheetals in service with Indian Armed forces.

LUH In Siachen

 

[Anik101]

Dhruv helicopters of sarang aerobatic team

 

[RPK]

RUAV Heli-UAV at AeroIndia 2021.

HAL RUAV is India's First Unmanned Rotary-Wing Aerial Vehicle has immense utility for high altitude areas. As per open sources it has almost same payload capability to those heights as the Cheetah helicopters have which we presently operate.

 

[RPK]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1356922979758665730