Bharat Rakshak

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ISRO launches brand new equipment every time and has phenomenally higher rate of failure compared to ALH. The total flight time of all vehicles ever launched by ISRO would be a fraction of a single helicopter in a year. Generally, the airframes are over engineered for safety. A failure rate of high ...

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^^^ It is necessary to find how many of the accidents/incidents are actually related to control rods. But at least from available stats until 2016, we can rule out 12 out of 16 of the crashes since 2002. I do not expect the helo to get away with such a failure, so I am not inclined to think that it ...

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Metallurgical Issue In Control Rod Flagged; Are ALH Dhruvs The New Flying Coffins? The team of three armed forces personnel, who have been consulting with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), has recommended that the current control rod be replaced with a stronger material, such as steel. The failu...

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IAF will fight with whatever it has, but wouldn't order for desi products unless it has everything.

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Sir, I have immense respect for Mao sir. My gut feeling is that he is backing his colleagues trusting their gut feeling. However, the reasons behind the previous crashes have been established. It is possible that he suspects something else but is not able to mention. Having said that, the remark is ...

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It's unfortunate to see Mao sir posting unfair comments . The ungrounding was done after the reasons were established, and yet this is what he says: I hope, at least this time, someone learns the lesson that “far more important than how/how often you ground a fleet, what actually matters is how you ...

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News on Twitter that Nigeria buys LCH. FWIW: "Interestingly, Nigeria will be the first country to buy unspecified numbers of indigenously built Light Combat Helicopters from state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd through soft credit. Six officers from the Nigerian Army have already completed trai...

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News on Twitter that Nigeria buys LCH.

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Two rods should not be interchangeable by design (unless they are interchangeable by design). This is not a human failure, this is a design error. There is room for improvement here, evidently. At least in some cases it need not be either considering the extremes the machine has to perform. It migh...

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^^^
The jet is too high. Most likely it is a go-around.

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Sir, can you please throw some more light on the part, "This APL is a monster compared to el/m2032 ,whose antenna can be moved with finger tip"? Sounds fascinating!

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1 ton weight saving would involve significant retesting...300- 400 kg weight reduction via lesser ballast and using newer & lighter LRUs was the figure quoted at AI and it makes more sense. 1 ton reduction was never believed by anyone! One of the earliest news (circa 2015) on it was too ridicul...

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Of course there are going to be issues, that's true with all products including A380. I am very confident that the water ingress was extremely rare, else we would have heard it years ago along with pleas to write off the Desi product.

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I remember reading an article and wondering... Well before we embarked the carrier, we had to contend with many other issues. The strangest one was that whenever it rained, it poured inside the cockpit. Water would come through the overhead CB panel, and pour on the collective pitch where the engine...

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A low quality video here. Can't get its address though. This link may work.

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Admiral alert. SP series trainer is here!

Source: HVT

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This is something I liked that was posted by Kartik A on Twitter. I hope I got all the posts in sequence as some were not numbered. Kartik A @kartachar Lets look into the kind of practices the @IndiannavyMedia can do when it comes to importing helicopters. This thread will give details based on the ...

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Really wish hnair sir shared his views on this topic.

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IMHO opinion LUH autopilot requires only s/w upgrade that could be done retrospectively. But as the trend goes... “All trials on the four LUH prototypes are over. The last set of trials to establish LUH’s extra manoeuvrability concluded in Ladakh this week. The army and IAF wanted some changes and L...

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The new regiments are said to be Akash Prime as per Saurav Jha. He further says that '1S was the designation used for the tech demonstrator seeker enhancement'. Yes, true. But, I thought, that 'Prime' was meant for 'more reliability in high altitudes and low temperatures', whatever that means, apar...

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The new regiments are said to be Akash Prime as per Saurav Jha. He further says that '1S was the designation used for the tech demonstrator seeker enhancement'.

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BDL receives order for Akash Weapon System for 3rd & 4th Regiments of Army Order book of the company crosses Rs 24,000 Cr mark Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) today signed a contract for Rs 8161 Crore with the Ministry of Defence, Govt of India for production and supply of Akash Weapon System to ...

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. . .2 regiments of Akash-1S were placed Great news. This is Akash Prime, an extended performance Akash-1S. In May 2022, IA proposed two regiments of Akash-P. Hope these are over and above that. FWIW : Saurav Jha @SJha1618 And let this be a lesson to a bunch of ***** who kept on pointing to a May 2...

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ALH Dhruv Mark 3 helicopter crashes at Kochi 26 Mar 2023, 04:04 PM IST An Indian Coast Guard helicopter, the ALH Dhruv Mark 3, crashed after making a forced landing during a test flight in Kochi on Friday. The cause of the crash is unknown at this time. The ICG is investigating the incident and the...

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Mission successful!

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Cruise missiles are powered throughout the flight, that is how despite being subsonic they can maintain low height and also follow terrain. It is ballistic missiles that are powered only in the boost phase and then use gravity to cover the trajectory akin to projectiles. I doubt if one can be derive...

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Can glide bombs be derived from cruise missiles?

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Vayu Aerospace Review Maiden successful flight-test of Power Take off (PTO) Shaft was conducted on Light Combat Aircraft Tejas Limited Series Production LSP-3 in Bengaluru today. The PTO shaft is indigenously designed and developed by Combat Vehicles Research & Development Establishment (CVRDE)...

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It's very likely that the amount covers something not stated (as happened earlier with IN).

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Per one defense YouTube channel, an independent overseas analyst has claimed that this was the first test of a near hypersonic speed (Mach 5) Brahmos. He clarified it again to M2.8 Richard Cordaro @rrichcord Replying to @TheRevDoctor I should have said "supersonic" . I think the missile w...

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The capacity is not that small according to some news: 2007 : "BrahMos Aerospace plans to increase the production of its supersonic cruise missile by 300 per cent by 2009. The Indian Russian company is currently upgrading its missile production lines in Orissa and Hydrabad, and expects the comp...

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ramana wrote:Just to be clear what would a successful missile test news release look like?

"missile met all mission parameter during the test"

"all mission objectives were met"

"a complete success"

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Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile Test-Fired From ITR At Chandipur

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight tested the indigenously developed ITCM missile from Launch Complex-III, ITR, Balasore in Odisha, today.

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BenG wrote:Afterburner is important for take-off in stobar configuration.

It is, as well as to accelerate when required. However, the total weight will have to be carried all the time!

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Unlikely, as AMCA too has Uttam.

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Dry thrust is more relevant as afterburner is used only for a very small duration. Here, the difference is around 7 kN only.

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Would be interesting to know why the nose cone was changed given that the front section was inspired from the AMCA. The nose looks similar to that of LCA, and my speculation is that it may be is more aerodynamic or perhaps will help decrease the effort to use existing/available radar and avionics. W...

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A nice view from top

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what happened to the stealthy front fuselage? Seems to be either newer/different concept and looks aweful. However, the 3-D model shows the previous nose cone. https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2023/02/14/550x309/A-mock-up-of-the-TEDBF-at-Aero-India-2023---HT-_1676406147163_1676416099683_16...

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https://twitter.com/RAFIndia_/status/1626860520094711808?s=20 ---> The fabrication work of the LT-5201 is already completed and the airframe will soon carry out its first flight. Photo from the recent visit to HAL factory in Bangalore by Mohd Asghar Khan bin Goriman Khan, Chief of Air Force of Roya...

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