HAL to add more prototypes to LCH Published: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 12:27

[rickshaw driver]

HAL should team up with Airbus and produce tails for tejas mk-II before the next Security Council meeting...russians would support ISRO but China would object to NSG's recent purchase of aircraft tyres from russia.....Best option would be to cut our expenses on arjun and divert those funds to ISRO...that will make tejas mk-II's airframe more aerodynamic and hence it could rival rafale in the long run

 

[koushik]

HAL should team up with Airbus and produce tails for tejas mk-II before the next Security Council meeting...russians would support ISRO but China would object to NSG's recent purchase of aircraft tyres from russia.....Best option would be to cut our expenses on arjun and divert those funds to ISRO...that will make tejas mk-II's airframe more aerodynamic and hence it could rival rafale in the long run

There is no need for HAL to make tail fins for Tejas Mk-II as HAL alone has a magnificient expertise in working with composites and in fact HAL is the only known company to make an aircraft tail out of a single honeycomb piece of Carbon Fibre.Secondly Tejas Mk-2 will only be a little heavier than Tejas Mk-I possibly with a Max.takeoff weight of around 39000 pounds whereas Rafale has a max. Takeoff weight of around 52000 pounds.so its useless for Tejas MK-II to compete against Rafale in future.

 

[rickshaw driver]

There is no need for HAL to make tail fins for Tejas Mk-II as HAL alone has a magnificient expertise in working with composites and in fact HAL is the only known company to make an aircraft tail out of a single honeycomb piece of Carbon Fibre.Secondly Tejas Mk-2 will only be a little heavier than Tejas Mk-I possibly with a Max.takeoff weight of around 39000 pounds whereas Rafale has a max. Takeoff weight of around 52000 pounds.so its useless for Tejas MK-II to compete against Rafale in future.

yes i agree with u

 

[Firemaster]

HAL should team up with Airbus and produce tails for tejas mk-II before the next Security Council meeting...russians would support ISRO but China would object to NSG's recent purchase of aircraft tyres from russia.....Best option would be to cut our expenses on arjun and divert those funds to ISRO...that will make tejas mk-II's airframe more aerodynamic and hence it could rival rafale in the long run

tere ko pata bhi hai tu kya keh raha hai

 

[kriish]

HAL should team up with Airbus and produce tails for tejas mk-II before the next Security Council meeting...russians would support ISRO but China would object to NSG's recent purchase of aircraft tyres from russia.....Best option would be to cut our expenses on arjun and divert those funds to ISRO...that will make tejas mk-II's airframe more aerodynamic and hence it could rival rafale in the long run

y dont u answer u say u are from TN speak something in tamil then i will agree u that u are an indian............ or better answer to my question in the Karwar thread then i will agree................... porambooku

 

[Royan]

y dont u answer u say u are from TN speak something in tamil then i will agree u that u are an indian............ or better answer to my question in the Karwar thread then i will agree................... porambooku

porambooku-nice name for him!!

 

[RPK]

Hindustan Aeronautics Light Combat Helicopter to come out with its third prototype

Hindustan Aeronautics Light Combat Helicopter to come out with its third prototype - The Economic Times


BANGALORE: Hindustan Aeronautics' Light Combat Helicopter programme will soon come out with its third prototype after incorporating a host of design and production improvements. This is less than a year after the much-anticipated chopper had to abort its flying display at the country's premier air show, Aero India 2011.

The first two prototypes of the helicopter gunship , which has been designed, developed and manufactured by state-owned defence undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd , will be undergoing their sea-level trials by the end of the year, and an improved version is expected to take to the skies early next year.

"The third prototype will be made after some more flying of the first two, which are currently undergoing improvements and are expected to fly shortly. The prototype we flew during Aero India did show some deviation from the intended parameters, so that is why we had to take it out and do a re-study " P. Soundara Rajan, managing director of HAL's Helicopter Complex said.

The latest prototype will be lighter, have higher load limits and better camouflage. The Bangalore-based aeronautics company is currently working on the breakaway fuselage of the chopper, and expects to conduct the ground test for the same soon.

"The entire load spectrum is simulated on the ground, and the aircraft is then taken apart to see whether the intended design parameters are behaving exactly the way they should. We have completed the manufacturing of the breakaway fuselage, and it is getting instrumented now," Soundara Rajan said.

The 5.5-tonne LCH is expected to be the answer to the country's armed forces' desperate need for attack choppers , even as the government phases out its largely-obsolete helicopter fleets that have been acquired almost forty years back, and are now operationally unfit, especially in high-altitude battlefields.

The urgent need for modern-day rotor-wing gunships, which could be operated at high altitudes, was first felt during the Kargil conflict of 1999-00, which was fought in the Himalayan region, the world's highest mountain range.

HAL, the country's largest aeronautics company, has hit the ground running with the LCH, and expects to produce more than 100 of the choppers by 2015.

 

[kingdurgaking]

5.5 tonne or 2.5 tonne??.. 5.5 tonne almost equal to LCA

 

[Abingdonboy]

Hindustan Aeronautics Light Combat Helicopter to come out with its third prototype

Hindustan Aeronautics Light Combat Helicopter to come out with its third prototype - The Economic Times


BANGALORE: Hindustan Aeronautics' Light Combat Helicopter programme will soon come out with its third prototype after incorporating a host of design and production improvements. This is less than a year after the much-anticipated chopper had to abort its flying display at the country's premier air show, Aero India 2011.

The first two prototypes of the helicopter gunship , which has been designed, developed and manufactured by state-owned defence undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd , will be undergoing their sea-level trials by the end of the year, and an improved version is expected to take to the skies early next year.

"The third prototype will be made after some more flying of the first two, which are currently undergoing improvements and are expected to fly shortly. The prototype we flew during Aero India did show some deviation from the intended parameters, so that is why we had to take it out and do a re-study " P. Soundara Rajan, managing director of HAL's Helicopter Complex said.

The latest prototype will be lighter, have higher load limits and better camouflage. The Bangalore-based aeronautics company is currently working on the breakaway fuselage of the chopper, and expects to conduct the ground test for the same soon.

"The entire load spectrum is simulated on the ground, and the aircraft is then taken apart to see whether the intended design parameters are behaving exactly the way they should. We have completed the manufacturing of the breakaway fuselage, and it is getting instrumented now," Soundara Rajan said.

The 5.5-tonne LCH is expected to be the answer to the country's armed forces' desperate need for attack choppers , even as the government phases out its largely-obsolete helicopter fleets that have been acquired almost forty years back, and are now operationally unfit, especially in high-altitude battlefields.

The urgent need for modern-day rotor-wing gunships, which could be operated at high altitudes, was first felt during the Kargil conflict of 1999-00, which was fought in the Himalayan region, the world's highest mountain range.

HAL, the country's largest aeronautics company, has hit the ground running with the LCH, and expects to produce more than 100 of the choppers by 2015.

^^ ALL testing (weapons and flight) designing, refining achieved IOC AND FOC to be completed by 2015 AND built 100 units? This is ambitious to say the least, I'll believe it when I see it- WSI Dhruv has been going on for years and it still isn't in service!

 

[angeldemon_007]

^^^
Agreed....lCH will enter into production by 2012-2013....and in 2-3 years duration they are thinking of producing 100 of these....how many of these they are thinking of producing ?/

 

[Abingdonboy]

^^^
Agreed....lCH will enter into production by 2012-2013....and in 2-3 years duration they are thinking of producing 100 of these....how many of these they are thinking of producing ?/

Currently HAL are producing ~25-8 Dhruvs whilst there are "talks" to increase this number. I don't know how HAL plans to improve this in regards to ALH and if they can really beat this number right off the bat with LCH at over 30/year +. Any info in regards of HAL production of helos/fighters (LCA) ie more facilities/ engineers etc.

 

[luckyyy]

the engine issue still hanging , how they going to fly this..

 

[killingfrenzy]

porambooku-nice name for him!!

Neche cammine kothiay gallu

I dont see many north India on these forums... South INDIA!!! TAMIL & Telugu FTW

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Neche cammine kothiay gallu

I dont see many north India on these forums... South INDIA!!! TAMIL & Telugu FTW

porambookulu ,what does it mean

 

[killingfrenzy]

porambookulu ,what does it mean

Useless or and an noncontributing member of society