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[Water Car Engineer]

At Farnborough Airshow

 

[Echo_419]

At Farnborough Airshow

were there any mockups

 

[C130]

I'm quite interested in the LCH.
i'm curious about the 20mm cannon the M621 how does it fare against the three barrel M197, is it more accurate???

I wonder if anyone has thought about using the LAHAT in a 3x2 config, for a loadout of 12 LAHAT, two rocket pods.

 

[GORKHALI]

LCH TD 3?

@Oscar @Chak Bamu Can you make this thread a stick thread ? And also colate all the posts from other LCH thread into one .

 

[Abingdonboy]

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LCH TD 3?

@Oscar @Chak Bamu Can you make this thread a stick thread ? And also colate all the posts from other LCH thread into one .

Depends on when this pic is dated but if it's from late 2013/early 2014 then yes it is the TD 3.

 

[Hareeshu IA MBT]

When will we get both rudra and LCH ... ? And what about developing heavy helicopters ?

 

[sancho]

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LCH TD 3?

Must be, check the changes at the windows:

Livefist: Up Close With India's Light Combat Helicopter (Prototype 2)

 

[Abingdonboy]

Must be, check the changes at the windows:

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Livefist: Up Close With India's Light Combat Helicopter (Prototype 2)

Nice catch! The new design of the windows on the TD 3 (and thus on the production standard LCHs) is much better as the pilots are not as exposed, I always thought this was one of the biggest issues with the past design (TD 1 and 2).

 

[GORKHALI]

Must be, check the changes at the windows:

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Livefist: Up Close With India's Light Combat Helicopter (Prototype 2)

Yea they covered the Windows with armour plates and also I see the wings are more angled upwards.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Changes we can see.

 

[HariPrasad]

Changes we can see.

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Hey @Water Car Engineer ,

Any detail about TD3? Why it took so long time to come? What are the changes made? Weight reduction?

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Hey @Water Car Engineer ,

Any detail about TD3? Why it took so long time to come? What are the changes made? Weight reduction?

You know as much as I do. It was supposed to cut weight and be redesigned slightly. It's supposed to be the closest to the production version.

The thing we cant see from that picture is the landing gear's cover design. The weapons boom looks the same.

 

[HariPrasad]

You know as much as I do. It was supposed to cut weight and be redesigned slightly. It's supposed to be the closest to the production version.

The thing we cant see from that picture is the landing gear's cover design. The weapons boom looks the same.

I had read somewhere that it had some problem with antilogarithm and aerodynamic which prevented it from delivering the desired performance which took so long time for TD3 to come in. Let us hope that issues are resolved and it is mass produced and enters service as soon as possible

 

[Dash]

Fortunately, or unfortunately I met an HAL official who works on the final assembly line for ALH and Rudra. He said Shakti engine is not being used anymore as it failed. So its only Turbomecha getting fitted to all choppers as is.

 

[sathya]

Fortunately, or unfortunately I met an HAL official who works on the final assembly line for ALH and Rudra. He said Shakti engine is not being used anymore as it failed. So its only Turbomecha getting fitted to all choppers as is.

Why this issue has not been raised ?