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I feel the choice will be made keeping in mind india's plans to have a dedicated expeditionary force.
MI-26---44,000 lb
CH-53K--35,000 lb
CH-47--30,000 lb
Useful Load: 24,000 lbs. (10, 886 kg)
Useful Load: 25,000 lbs. (11,340 kg)
I have a question.
can it be said that this helicopter has something to do with Indian navy IAC2.
I mean if India selects any one of these, only CH53K has ever operated from an AC.
Which one will we use from IAC1 and IAC2. ??
I was just wondering that we eventually gonna be needing one and thought we could club it togather. Dont you think so?Hi Dash, they are meant as replacements for IAF helicopters, so the navy has nothing to do with it.
The K is the new version, that is in development only, but the CH 53E is on offer for us now and some of its varients are carrier capable, but so were older versions of the CH 47.
This competition should be about heavy lift and in this regard the CH53 and Mi 26 are the best, but I don't think we will by a helicopter that is co-developed by China, which leaves CH 53.
I was just wondering that we eventually gonna be needing one and thought we could club it togather. Dont you think so?
looks like when we want to operate a heli from these IACs, we will open another competittion.
I know what you are saying. That would make sense.Actually I don't think so, because these are heavy lift helicopters and carriers normally use medium lift helicopters like Sikorsky Sea Hawks, or AW Merlins for example. Such heavy helicopters are normally in use only with LPDs, or LHDs, so they could be useful for our INS Jalashwa, but less useful for our carriers.
But as I said before, personally I would just try to lease, or buy used heavy lift helicopters as a stop gap and go for new developed heavy lift helicopters later. The CH 53 K is meant to be available in 2015 and now it seems that Boeing and Eurocopter teams up for a new and bigger version of the Chinnok:
Boeing and Eurocopter To Build a Bigger Chinook? : AINonline
So a later competition between the new versions of Ch 47, Ch 53 and maybe even Mi 26, should make more sense than now taking the older once, or?