HAL LCH| Updates and Discussions

[Abingdonboy]

^^ man that looks weird, at first I thought it was for refueling. It seems the works is going well with the LCH hopefully we will see it in service early next year.

Purely a sensors for flight trails to gather extra/more accurate information to be transmitted to the ground/downloaded post-flight.

 

[parkland]

definitely one true world class product

 

[praveen007]

that weired looking rod in front is the air refuling probe, not any senser.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

that weired looking rod in front is the air refuling probe, not any senser.

It's not a air refueling pod.......

That rod and that horn looking thing are sensors...

 

[Black Widow]

@wiered looking rod: this is sensors which exist on prototypes. you Google f22 or pak-fa, you can see similar rods. they will not there in production models.

@ dirty yellow color: it is primer, commonly used in fighter planes. above this primer original color is done. testing is done with primer to see structural flaws.

 

[RPK]

@wiered looking rod: is the pitot tube to measure air speed Pitot tube - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

@ dirty yellow color: Electrophoretic deposition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[sancho]

LCH TD-2 modified for further testing.

Changes:

The new stubwings seems to be strong enough for 6 to 8 ATGMs each.

 

[anathema]

that weired looking rod in front is the air refuling probe, not any senser.

It is a sensor to measure airspeed. It sticks out well beyond the dirty air (air from the rotors) and measures the airspeed accurately.
--Courtesy Hari Nair

 

[Abingdonboy]

that weired looking rod in front is the air refuling probe, not any senser.

Have you ever seen an A2A refuelling probe? it looks NOTHING like this. It is an extra sensor fitted during flight tests to gather mora accurate data. This is common in any flight test programmes:

 

[Dalai Lama]

What is the change on the wings? More swept back and stronger armament boom?

 

[Abingdonboy]

What is the change on the wings? More swept back and stronger armament boom?

Could be a number of things from strengthening, slight modifications in design to encourage airflow one way or another or to reduce drag (I heard was an issue initially).

 

[blackops]

Hahaha loved the earlier comments by chinese and pakistani members here a BIG LOL at you guys

 

[Kinetic]

Lots of changes. Specially the armament boom has been changed completely. The landing gear also different.

 

[sancho]

What is the change on the wings? More swept back and stronger armament boom?

As far as I see it...

- angled
- stronger, especially at the tips
- pylons seems to be more attched to the wings to hold more weight

 

[Gessler]

I want LCH to be able to carry 8 x ATGMs as standard config...we need the
19-tube unguided rocket launch pods as well.

I think we would get the 19-tube ones with the Apaches we'll be buying...our guys
could perhaps copy/reverse-engineer them to produce our own such pod.