We assess 3 keys to winning today’s battles as Prachand, first Made in India helicopter is unveiled
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
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On IAF Day eve, as HAL hands over first Made in India combat helicopter Prachand, 3 Ukraine learnings on winning in the modern battlefield, Shekhar Gupta explains. #CutTheClutter Episode 1088
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THANK YOU SIR 😊 FOR EVERYDAY DOSE OF KNOWLEDGE
Glory to..
...Russia
Beautiful, smart move, boss this is not for attack , but defence in border, ship etc.
Light means 5 Ton cat
बूढ्ढा defence exfart 😂🤣
Light weight gives higer service celling
And lch fullfill indias need very well in siachin
And india has Indiginous ATGM called druvastr
That Birthday introduction given to Air Force Is very Heart Touching ❤🛫🛰🚀🚁
🇮🇳👏
yes agreed
Amazing that you did not mention the 21000 ft service ceiling of the Prachanda !!! It is the highest in the world and even the U.S. or Chinese have nothing comparable ... Given our northern and western border geography this is truly made FOR India... This addresses the acute gap we had during Kargil .... On Missiles - BVR Helina [Nag] ATGM are well on their way and will be integrated much earlier than 2 years
on paper.
@@kevinp9110 in india what is on paper, in reality it is more not like China.
@@kevinp9110 already extensively tested in ladakh and even in siachen..get educated and stop spamming
@@avishekbhattacharjee812 looking forward.
@@Atom00.1 completely agree. typing from a chinese made phone are we?
Aarambh hai PRACHAND!!❤️
Dushman ke g*nd mein danda
The third point is my biggest concern. HAL cannot fulfil the demand without public private partnership(PPP).
We should build our capacity with the ambition of exports. This will also allow them to focus more on research.
On IAF day, THANK YOU IAF for protecting us.
bhai 40 log agar ek saath paade ge Tu pora defence ho jawe ga
Actually HAL was not expecting that much focous from all ever because they always suffer from lack of funds and if they get, that's too much late. But if you want to see it's capacity then they also produced su30, see how much they produced in a year. So, now they are focousing to increase capacity and that will obviously take few years.
Ppp is already happening. Rnd increased to 15 percent of revenue and export ms are up target to reach 2500 crore in a year. Please read the annual report.
Exports are a double edged sword. If the weapons system falls into enemy hands due to a former ally changing loyalties, we will be in trouble. It is easy for an enemy to develop counter weapons and counter measures, or even copy your weapon once they know the inside and out of your weapon.
For me, making new equipment in India is always a great beginning because over a period we can catch up with world's best available equipment. And so we can achieve self reliance and of course substitute very expensive import of military machines. The real achievement is that then their is a possibility to export and make money also.
Our Soldiers protects Us ,Itz also our Responsibility to protect them with
Better Equipments
Now Indian Armed Forces are Carried With modern Day Weapons, technology, suits , bulletproof Helmets , especially F-INSAS
Project.
new armoured vehicles ,modified drones,missiles, etc
So that Casualties Should Be Negligible
Kuddos To Govt .
Jai hind 🇮🇳
Well the insas is the worst rifle Indian army have had
@@mikeydmz1588 Talking about
Future Infantry Soldier As A System F-INSAS
ruclips.net/video/j4sKlMsNpb8/видео.html
@@mikeydmz1588 it's the worst rifle world ever seen
Even NCC stopped using it and that’s saying something 😂
@@mikeydmz1588 dumbo he said F-INSAS, not INSAS rifle F-INSAS is a program for IA to modernize an average infantry soldier into a complete system itself(much like western counterparts) with modern comms, rifle, BP vests, and other modern equipment. (F-INSAS-> Future Infantry Soldier As System).
India Bought 5 regiments S400 For 5.2 $ billion,
It was nearly Free Of Cost After India Saved Money From Russian Oil.
Well Now We Can Invest billions In
Drones Especially like B2 stealth Bomber
Jai hind 🇮🇳
What stupid logic is this? You and me are still paying high cost, maybe its a good thing for Reliance Industries
@@mailmeabhilash that's dur to inflation and disruption in supply chain ....
Look around the globe brother
We are making stealth drone
India dosent need bombers.. R u diffence advisor of indiain government 😀😀🇮🇳🇮🇳
@@India-or2so dosent ,diffence, Indiain ???
English Hum Sharminda Hai Tere Qaatil Zinda Hai 🤣
Well Real Threat Is China Not Pakistan
So Yess We need it.😉
Congrats India on the deadly looking helicopter from the midwest USA, and happy anniversary IAF...👍stronger the Indian military I believe the the world is better for it in peace and freedom...also I am pretty sure our beautiful M1A2-3 Abrams MBT has a German cannon on it, it might be built in the states but it is a licensed version that is on the Leopard 2...
Kudos for bringing in LCH, it's proud moment for India and a great push for Made in India initiative. Nevertheless how reliable the chopper would be at high altitudes as we can see in ongoing Russia-Ukraine war that far more advanced combat helicopters are being shot down if flown at high heights and also if a stinger shot from any of the two sides other than the back of the helicopter tail the chopper would go kaboom since Anti-missile flares are shot from the tail of the chopper.
I would suggest DRDO to innovate more high altitude flying combat drones where a bomb can de dropped on a pin point target and can also help in giving clear direction to our artillery units at high heights as we can learn from Ukraine fighting techniques. Drone Units can be assigned to highly skilled SFF at borders.
I am glad this article is aimed at introduction of a newly manufactured machine rather than the dry jingoism. Glad to see South Asia advance and hope these machines are used in peacetime rather than wartime. Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰
Shardhapeet aur Nankhana sahib baki hai
Ok that was unexpected. But hey, thank you. Hope the flood affected parts of your country recover soon.
Obviously SG enjoys talking about military hardaware. The passion and in-depth knowledge is palpabe. Enjoyed listening to him so much.
I just loved the start. Our armed forces are our pride. The Air Force has done so much in war and in peace. Kudos to SG for felicitating the AF.
There is a visible impetus to make in india in the defence sector. While many of our systems started decades ago, most languished because there was a default look outside in quest of the best possible match to very stringent GSQR. Perhaps it also distracted development in make in india efforts.
Prachand is a platform of pride. It will allow defence budget to get more bang for the buck. It will soon add to exports revenue and help in balance of payments. Sale of weapons system is a long term gain. Soon missiles will be added to the platform. There will be opportunity to bundle more too.
So, kudos to all those who have enabled Prachand. 👏👏
❤🇮🇳
e pd ke humre dil ma bahot josh bar gawa aj sab ko uta ke patak du ga
Don't expect it to be cheap. It is as expensive as any other combat helicopter because most of the equipment like engines, communation and navigation equipments, targetting equipments like Electro optical pods and wepon systems like Guns and rockets are all imported which constitute about 90% of the cost of the helicopter. Importantly it does not have a synthetic aperture radar which is required for locating the enemy targets during night because of which it is highly ineffective during night time combat.
This helicopter is a major achievement by HAL. The key will be in operations and maintenance. Developing these vehicles gives designers a platform to hone their skills
Our army keeps moving the goal post and our defence manufacturing keeps missing existing deadlines. Match made in heaven. I hope the army realizes this time if a conflict occurs no emergency procurement will be possible from Russia and we are on our own for a lot of our existing equipment
They do it intentionally... So that they can buy foreign system and get huge commi$$ion. 😭
Sadly this edition leaves a lot to be desired, LCH is now in limited series production, full orders will be given afterwards, heli launched version is named Dhruvastra . Small distinctions like these are missing all over the video.
The anti tank missiles, Dhruvastra (IAF Versions) and Helina (Army version), for the LCH are both integrated into it but have not been ordered yet due to lack of funds!
We are not as rich as western countries and China. We have limited resources and a huuuuuuge population to feed. But be assured modi govt will arrange funds for these also unlike previous congress governments whose only aim was to LOOT via scams.
Modi 2024
sir agar amit shah paade ga Tu continent hil jawe ga
Brother those missiles are in production in BHEL already. All things are not in public domain.
@@thomasjason5806 hahaha
@@ankurpandey4759 how do you know all of this?
Guptaji has to be commended for covering a complex technical product and making it easy to understand for the layperson!
He has brought out the three essential things a military hardware like the complex LCH/Prachand has to deliver. It should also be noted that now that the Indian armed forces will be using these machines albeit without the beyond visual range (BVR) missiles ( which will be integrated in due time when they are available) the forces can continue to offer feedback to HAL for on-going modifications and improvements. This is how all advanced countries also progress. Kudos to Shekhar Gupta !
Let's not take the WRONG lessons from the Russo-Ukraine war. With friends in high places, one can completely isolate even a militarily powerful nation. Rome wasn't built in ONE DAY. Let's not kid ourselves. "Prachand" is no Boeing AH 64 Apache. Nevertheless, it is the first step to building something on par with (or even better than) Apache AH 64. It's a Celebratory moment with the realization that we have a long way to go.
Precisely.
Let's take say 1 billion dollars. Lets assume a war where 1 side uses all the money to buy prachanda and the other side apaches. Now one side will have about twice the number of helis. Now let them fight. Are you sure the apaches will win? It's not bucks, it's more bang for bucks.
I concede apaches maybe much better at the moment, but continuous improvement, aka kaizen has a near magical effect. Who knows what we will have on our hands in 10 years?
Agree
It's a step in the right direction. We just got to build up on it. It's taken us so long , because we didn't have the infrastructure n tecnicals. Our country's economy in the past had to support so many projects then to catch up. We faced so many problems in the cold war Era. The sanctions etc.
Happy today we are getting the fruits of those desperate attempts.
From now on the pace will only pick up as the technical base is getting in place. Congratulations.
@@desibigfoot3874 lch is 3 Or 4 times cheaper than apache and one thing to keep in mind is that USA is not our enemy, we have china and Pakistan and they don't have apache Or apache like powerful helicopter.
@@Atom00.1 For the moment, the US is not our enemy but let's be very clear, the US is nobody's friend. As per its own admission, the US has "NO permanent friends, only INTERESTS". The sale of US weaponry is just a matter of dollars and a political nod for the US.
LCH already has rockets and air-to-air missiles already integrated. Helina (anti-tan/anti-armoroured missiles) already integrated on Rudra (on which LCH is based on) and its ready for for induction. Its pending orders for LCH and Helina
"Dekha beta main tereko dekh liya" @ 7:18 is OP 🤣🤣
The Gandhi family has suffered the most due to India's indigenous (LCH) Light Combat Helicopter "Prachanda". Now India itself has started making helicopters, so the Gandhi family will no longer get commission (Brokerage).
In 1988 Bofors Guns Scandal Also ...
@@MUMBAIKAR_ADITYA You should also remember 9 years old Gandhi family's AgustaWestland helicopter scam.
Caste is still the biggest threat to Indian peace and stability, perhaps bigger than China or Pakistan..... Meanwhile proud of our IAF... Jai Hind
Meanwhile our neighbours try to figure out how to make a two wheeler without the help of our other neighbours🌝🌚
Not To Forget PNS ghazi, Which Was Given by USA after Begging
🤣
Actually they never have to...US, West is inclined too much to assist them in everything. Pak just had to develop the capability to beg, and they are now masters in that.
They milked Chinese when US - Trump imposed curb on them, now when Chinese are hesitant, US is showering them with funds.
@@MUMBAIKAR_ADITYA India unfortunately can't get anyone to make subs . All it's 4 wheelers are made by MNCs just like its mobiles and tall statues which are imported from China. Clearly we require non-atmanirbhar help.
Very good and informative episode. Many thanks for your efforts.👌👍
I have always found it rather distressing that when it comes to design and manufacture of combat aircrafts and weapons systems, entire might of the central government and the PSUs can’t do what private sector manufacturers in smaller countries do better and faster than us - be it Sweden, France, Spain. I wonder where is India going wrong in managing its defence production?
The Germans and Japanese have been building sophisticated submarines much before WW2 while India can't even dream of a basic conventional model after 75 years. Simple fact is India is still not technologically advanced inspite of all the slogans and jingoism. Even our automobiles are manufactured by foreign firms while the much celebrated tallest statue has been made and installed by the Chinese . Poetic justice for the leaders who don't loose any opportunity to bash our antagonists and praise our capabilities.
Lch has the highest service ceiling in its category infact no one comes close the helicopter is specially designed to operate in high mountains , and also helina is been already integrated with the LCH ........all it lacks is protection suits which will be integrated soon as it's still in development
Your data & analysis of defence equipment is as good as the best in the field 👏
A master class by Prof Shekar Gupta. Very nicely structured, emphasizing ' must know ' points and with a lot of AVs. This can be used by colleges to train Students of B.Ed courses.
Coming to the content, a very balanced coverage. A good beginning has been made by Govt of the day towards developing defence equipments locally. Hope more and more private firms get to come in. Best way forward is for ADE /HAL to develop prototypes. Mass production could be done by private companies like Tata Advanced Systems etc.
One of the best episodes in recent times. Congrats.
He was Editor of Indian Express for long time
Dear friend,
Thank you for your kind words..
Good luck if the plan is to expect public sector to run a manufacturing unit for these things.. The only way I see this working out is if manufacturing is opened up to private sector..
DRDO the design and research, manufacturing contracted to private sector companies. It should do the trick. And I assume that's the way govt is moving towards.
A story about Atma Nirbhar Bharat and Kanpur Cantt. HAL
Strictly speaking this is not an MHS story. I have just too many of those. But it is a story of Kanpur Cantt and what happened a long time ago. It is a story of Atma Nirbhar Bharat and clever people with indomitable spirit, who worked to give India some teeth when it was needed. Their names are long forgotten.
The story begins in 1948 during the Kashmir operations. During those desperate days the IAF was in operations to assist 160 Brigade in repelling the Pakistani invaders. India had no heavy bombers except the Tempest a fighter bomber with very low payload in bombs. Improvisation was used and transport Dakotas converted to bombers with bombs literally rolled off the aircraft esp. in assisting the besieged garrisons in Poonch and Uri. After the cease fire in late 1948, there was a serious rethink at Air HQ in Delhi and a strong need was felt for the young country to acquire a heavy bomber in light of the Kashmir operations. But where was this young country to find such an aircraft, it was poor. The British and American aircraft manufacturers demanded a lot of money. Then someone remembered that in Kanpur Cantt. opposite the Traffic Police lines in Mirpur, just before Mirpur Rd. joined GT road in front of the Loco colony there was a large ground that had been converted to an aircraft grave yard. What had happened was that the Royal Air Force and the US Air Force during WW2 had operated the iconic B-24 Liberator heavy bomber out of airfields in India at Ranchi, Panagarh, Dum Dum, Kalaikunda(Kharagpur), Salua(WB) to bomb Japanese military installations in China, Japan, Myanmar and Malaysia. At Indian Independence they could not haul this equipment away, so they broke the cockpit windows, poured sand in the engines and disabled the aircraft so they could never be flown again and dumped all these planes in that big ground in Kanpur Cantt. The ground does not exist anymore, but it was fun to crawl around even in the early 1960s. So Air HQ decided to send a team to refurbish the aircraft. The team came back and reported that some aircraft could be refurbished but since production had ceased on this aircraft by late 1949, no foreign aircraft company was willing to supply spares and if they did so the cost would be enormous for India. No manuals were available and Kanpur had no facilities for making the aircraft airworthy. The aircraft had to be taken to HAL Bangalore for massive overhauling. But the railways had no mechanism to transport the aircraft to Bangalore from Kanpur. The aircraft would have to be patched up to make them flyworthy a bit and flown to Bangalore. Chances were with such a long distance to fly maybe about 10% of the aircraft would make it rest crashing and killing pilots and who would undertake this suicide mission. Foreign pilots were contacted and the price they charged for each ferry flight was atrocious. India would become bankrupt. At this stage two Parsi brothers and a dedicated HAL team stepped in. HAL sent a team to Kanpur under a Mr. Yellappa to patch the aircraft as best as one could. Cockpit windows were taped up, some rough maintenance done on the engines so that the massive 4 engined plane would start up and yes the CTP(Chief Test Pilot) HAL one Jamshed (Jimmy)Kaikobad Munshi and his brother agreed to fly the aircraft out from Kanpur non-stop to Bangalore on these suicide missions. I will not talk much about Shri Munshi, there is an excellent book, Flying in the Hyderabad Dominions read it if you get a chance. The younger Munshi brother died in an air crash. The temporarily refurbished aircraft were taken by truck on the GT road from Kanpur Cantt to Chakeri. Yellapa and his men would patch the plane up as best as they could.
The heating system was inoperative on the B-24 at that time. Mrs. Munshi would wear a heavy fur coat, get into the plane with her husband.
Then Jimmy already had some familiarity with the Pratt & Whitney 1800-43 engines of the Liberators, as they came from the same family as engines of the DC-3s he had flown before. It is said that he would open full power on the four engines, and if nothing blew up, do some fast taxying to check that engines were delivering adequate power and that the brakes functioned properly. He was then off on a direct flight from Chakeri to Bangalore with undercarriage left down throughout. Only one flight is known to have been scary. There was a small fire in the fuselage just behind the pilot's seat. Fortunately the HAL crew was serving coffee at the time. The entire contents of the flasks were poured on the fire, to successfully put it out. A flight was described by two IAF flight cadets who hitched a ride in one of the B-24s, with no understanding of what they were getting into. Their first surprise was that the co-pilot's seat was occupied by Jimmy's wife in a fur coat. She was well prepared for the draughty and cold cabin of the B-24. As the aircraft taxied out a front windshield glass cracked. Jimmy taxied back for quick repairs. HAL's engineers put some dope on the glass, stuck fabric on it and declared the aircraft flyable. Fortunately nothing worse happened and the cadets slept all the way through to Bangalore.
Rest is history. India fully refurbished at least two squadrons of B-24s, a beautiful heavy bomber. 5 squadron Tuskers and 6 squadron Sea Dragons operated B-24s right until 1969 when they were retired. So India got teeth.
Jimmy ferried a total of 42 B-24s patched-up for flying by Yelappa and his men. All the ferried B-24s were overhauled and refurbished to long-term flyable standard. Jimmy then tested and cleared them for service. According to some HAL engineers, a visiting American pilot once flew one of these aircraft and complimented HAL on the quality of work done on it. He said that the refurbished aircraft was even better than some he had flown earlier. All this was done by Munshi on his regular salary. Nothing extra was asked by him and nothing extra given. Possibly Rs 100 a month.
When the American's discovered that India had acquired serviceable Liberators there was consternation, and a suspicion that they had been bought clandestinely. They were unhappy that they had no logistic or other control on these fairly potent bombers No one could figure out who had sold them to India. An American team was invited to see what IAF and HAL were up to. The team went away satisfied that there were no underhanded dealings. Soon afterwards, very graciously, the RAF offered any help that India might need in handling the refurbished aircraft. Two experienced teams came to Poona to help convert and train IAF crews in operations on B-24s.
The first 6 refurbished B-24s from the Kanpur graveyard was handed over to Tuskers 5 squadron on 5th Nov 1948.
India owes a debt to Shri Yellappa and his men and Jamshed Mistry. It is rather strange that such a mass produced bomber that took part in the Black Sunday Raid Benghazi(Libya) to Ploesti Rumania with almost 60% aircrew lost to bomb and disrupt Hitler's oil and petrol production a famous USAF raid not many planes were left to put in museums or even in flying condition after the war except what the IAF had. So soon after the IAF started to deinduct these aircraft, many air museums clamoured to get them. All flying B-24s in the world today (there are only 3 of them in flying condition) are from the Kanpur graveyard.
In case you are interested in seeing these planes. Here is a small list.
In India Air Force Museum Palam, closed on Monday. B-24 is there.
2. In the US, Pima Air Museum, Tucson, Arizona. It bears the emblem of 6 squadron IAF, Sea Dragons on one side and USAF emblem on the other side. Flew a ferry flight from IAF station Lohegaon Pune to Tucson. Gift of the Government of India.
3. Collings Foundation, USA, owns a flying B-24 from the Kanpur graveyard. Bought from the IAF. About 20 years ago, I took my small children inside it and told them that they were standing inside history connected to Kanpur. Later we watched it fly. I remember the deep roar of the B-24 engines that would be heard over school lessons in MHS as they would sometimes come to Chakeri for overhaul and maintenance.
4. United Kingdom, RAF Museum. I am attaching a picture of the hand off ceremony of the B-24 to the RAF museum. Air Vice Marshal Rikhye MD, HAL seen in the photo had a son, Paramraj Singh Rikhye, finished ISC Class XI in 1966 from MHS, do you people remember him?
Look at US Propaganda, take a plane that IAF refurbished and not say a word about its amazing history, this is what the Collings Foundation has done,
www.collingsfoundation.org/aircrafts/consolidated-b-24
Our R&D and Procurement process is a quagmire. I don't even know where to begin.
Sir, plz also made video on Iran current situation (protest)
Why do we in India call it an Indian helicopter. We should say it's ours. Indian is by default.
If you make a car then it is "your car"
If you bought a car then also it is "your car"
An attack helicopter is as beautiful and attractive as a cobra. Good see from a distance, but deadly.
I would like to refer to point raised@2:43, I remembered reading on the internet, some time ago, that a Chinese delegation at an airshow requested to buy one, just one of the South African attack helicopter Rooivalk. The South Africans were bemused as to why would anyone buy just one of their attack helicopter. Then after many years, emerged the Chinese made attack helicopter which had some features that were similar to what the South African attack helicopter had. Not sure how far this story is true.
This helicopter is based on the platform of HAL's Rudra, which is again a version of DHRUV so its a part of a family of helicopters which shares lots of things in common. So the point is helicopter based version of NAG (HELINA) has been successfully integrated with Rudra helicopters, so I think it might not be a problem. As Nag is well tested, so will be integrated soon.
So it may not be as formidable as it should be but but I believe it can be used in CAS mission where u have air superiority
Rudhra is a just an armed version of dhurv, its not a combat chopper. Rudhra and Dhurv are single engined whereas LCH is twin engined. Please dont get confused
@@raanand3025 all ALH variants have 2 engines (turbomeca shakti) having 1068kw power.
Hal LCH also share same engines powering 1032kw.
Ur analysis are so good that i scroll RUclips for this show
V good. War/Military is Guptaji's true calling. You can see and feel his excitement.
These large slow moving drones are going obsolete, so great to see Indians to come to that realisation AFTER the fact :)
The rumor is that Russian tank turrets have clocked more flying hours than their Air Force.
I'm surprised the masterstroke by Putin crowd hasn't discovered this comment yet.
India needs to make ,,make in India initiative scheme ways by building New attack helicopter,,,(more fire powered i.e:at least 25 millimetre gun...more(all critical and vulnerable) Armor i.e;Bullet proof windshield.... Armored engine covered....
By the way.... we've already has prachand attack helicopter LCH....and it's time to make Apache like,, More of the components should be Armored like Apache....to carry more helina anti tank weapons (at least 8 helina or at least 8 strategic partner American Hellfire missiles....India should at least has to have two types of attack helicopter....not light helicopter,,like Apache helicopter system and components....India needs this,what I'm saying........Long live Bharat India.
Your defense analysis is one of the best
Shekar sir review of LCH IS SIMILAR WHAT PEOPLE said about LCA, you are under estimating, it’s work in progress, apache to is of gulf war time , it too needed time to perfect its design n capabilities
Mujhe laga Machhar sirf hamare ghar mein hi hain, such a relief to see SG scratching his arm as if he got a mosquito bite😁
Excellent CTC!
Happy birthday to IAF; a proud moment. It would be good to know what components are being imported for LCH. For example, Tejas relies on an imported engine, so basically, we cannot call it Indian because the core part of the platform is imported.
Emgine is license manufactured, not imported..shakti engine has been attuned according to Indian requirements
Don't hurts the feelings of the patriots ; they survive on daydreams . As far as Tejas is concerned almost the entire aircraft is foreign, assembled in India under license.
@@jkardez4794 Majority of the line replaceable units in Tejas are developed and manufactured in India. Radar and Engine are the only two 'critical' components which we are still importing. But as per reports Uttam radar will be utilised in upcoming production models.
Each Indian soldier is now being Equipped with Ballistic Helmets and Goggles, Bullet proof Vests, Knee and Elbow pads, Modern As*ault AK-203 Rif*es, Night Vision sights, And Advanced Satellite Comms, these equipment is at par with American Soldiers, And The Chinese don't even have half of these equipment to their avg. soldier,and forget po*r paxtanis, And India is the 4th country in the world to develop it's own Anti-satellite Weapons, And 5.5 Gen Steatly Fighters, Stealth Attack Drones, attack and transport Helicopters, And They are in discussion to buy 3000+ Made-in-India155MM powerful ATAGS Artillery Guns, 1800+ armoured and Amphibious vehicles , Light Tanks , And It is building it's own Stealth Corvettes, Frigates, Destroyers, Nucl*ar Subs, and Aircraft Carriers
Thanks for analysis Shekhar however these are not meant for intennse combat roles on a busy battle field.These are nore specific to cater for high to very high altitude areas for light combat operations, search and rescue roles. The airforce and army would be wise not to send them in plain or low altitude intense battlefields.
Its really nice that you pointed the fact, even I was wondering why are these launchers empty.
I belive that we will soon make our own beyond visual range rockets for prachanda LCH.
👌👍thank you SGSir
When defence enthusiasts know more than what actually goopta knows.
What was the purpose of this video ? I don’t understand the thesis.
22:06 we do have a good number of Rudra helicopters I think army operates more than 70 of them!! Not a small number I would say!
make in india 👌👌👌👌🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Dekh Reha hai na Binod..
Aaj bhi skip ker diya topic...
Arial superiority including drone warfare, artillery superiority, anti-tank measures and information warfare is key to any victory as seen in Armenia-Azerbaijan and now in Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Sir please make a video on five private companies which done tremendous job in the field of defence. in INDIA
Thank you saved me a lot of time trying to browse videos for an actual working one
May be this is the helicopter or next will be...I am excited about the attitude change it will bring in Indian defense manufacturing industry.
True analysis....
I generally appreciate this platform for being very clear and unbiased in reporting. However, please mind when you use certain words which indicates communalisation. The speaker mentioned about Gen. Vaidya where he said “Sikhs” killed him to take revenge of the military operation at the Golden temple.
Please don’t criminalise the entire community. The selection of words should have been taken care of.
No Indian is ignorant enough to link the whole community to the few troublesome groups. But you're right, he should be careful with his words, more so since he is a senior journalist.
Pakistan has acquired Bayraktar today. We need to improve our drone warfare. Our brightest minds can develop good systems. After all we launch rockets to space in an economical manner
Does it fly Mach 20? Does it have stealth capabilities? Can it get stealth against electeostatic voltage potential radars? Does it use tralphium as fuel? What about tritium then?
It is assembled in India most of the equipment imported....only designed by HAL..
Delhi A/C Room , Arm Chair , "so called" critic. ...... when Rome was burning , Nero played " Fiddle" .
Very scholarly information and analysis , as usual , by Gupta Sahib
Jai Hind
5th generation fighter aircraft is immediate need for Indian Air force but it is not taking it seriously .
I have loved watching the Print, your country and politics are very interesting and vibrant, which is a must in a democracy I believe, being American. I have a question, what percentage of people in your country speak English? Excuse my question...thank you.
@@animesh_tiwary no brother that's too much
but maybe 100 million people are good with English
@@nameall2808 Yes, probably you are right. Atleast that's the estimated figure who can speak a pretty good English. But I think people who can understand English and speak rudimentary English is more than that figure.
@@animesh_tiwary maybe more people can understand some basic English
but they cannot communicate with others
You choose best news channel of india. Here particularly this reporter is best product india have.
Aside him, Most news reporter are pro government or anti government (leftist).
@@Ram6669 I also watch wion channel now and then, but really enjoy the print. Politics and geopolitics even of the US is covered great, and I've learned so much about the largest democracy in the world which I think is important, counter to that I have also been learning and paying a lot of attention to CCP China as I believe they could be big problems in the near future. Anyway thank you for the response 👍
Good attempt to explain the LCH…for details better explanations are available elsewhere.
Excellent..just the right amount of detail..thanks
Thank you Anuradha.
Happy 90th birthday IAF 🚁🚀🛰🛫
Always Fly High & Give Sleepless Nights To Our Mischievous Neighbors.😉❤🇮🇳
Was it during the same time, swimsuit-clad Sonia took a ride on INS Virat to Andamans!
It can be integrated with AG114 Hellfire too! Lockheed already offered it.
So u r saying that Indian new helicopter is invisible?
Time has Come to make new sections(Groups) of Drones which contain different type of drones with the self distructive abilities in case cought or hit by the enemy with the timer in it to blow away the enemy .
Even Number of Drones for petrolling be in increased for daily petrols.
Some Ambulance Drones should be introduced to decrease the engagement of troops in battlefield in taking care of injured and to provide faster medical approach than the conventional ones.
Not only Bombs Drones should be equipped with Guns to attack the enemy.
Operations like in Kargil will become Casualty free and be far less expensive. These can be completed in a very short time.
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Thanks for pointing that out.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Don't think this is not era of helicopter.. India should make good stealthy drones to be a winner in the battles.... Helicopters can be brought down by even simpler techniques.
90 Years of Indian Air Force What Is The Future ( After Learning From Good / Bad Experience Of The Past )
Shekhar Ji should write a book .. my favorite
Centre did the essential.. Proud.
I am a great admirer of Mr Shekhar Gupta ; would be great to hear his opinion on Liz Truss’s resignation and what consequences would India face as labor party is set to make a return ?
HELINA missile I do believe was test fired this last April with an effective range of 7 -10 kms. The next generation SANT (smart standoff anti tank missile ) being developed and tested last December has a beyond 10 km range. Need to see when that missile might be integrated with LCH. I was reading up about our immediate competition on attack helicopters. The ATAK T-129 turkish helicopters being considered by Pakistan and the Z-10 of China. If China has been able to create a more powerful engine (WZ-16) for the Z-10, then it can carry twice the missiles as LCH. Also millimeter wavelength radar if incorporated to any of Z-10 or T-129 will add an advantage to these helicopters vis-a-vis the LCH. The LCH has some roads to travel to make it a potent force but a great start in this direction 👌. I read an article by a retired General of the indian army who detailed all three helicopters and by his comparison the T-129 based on the Mangusta A-129 comes out on top amongst the three. We need to be better than both those soon. We will and should get there. Thank you for the information
Chinese engines and equipments always dissappoint, no matter what they would make you belive
Congratulations
HAL management has to scale up manufacturing and increase speed, efficiency and produce more units of all Air force requirements be it fighter planes , helicopters and many more ....
13:32 Well said Shekarji! 'Don't be embarassed about the systems you make have a lot of components imported from outside'
The message is that the govt be cautious in balancing it's policies and not compromise National security for nationalism in indigenous manufacturing in the armed forces.
The Govt's restrictive policy in defense acquisition and indigenous push has started create some issues. India’s air force, army, and navy can no longer import some critical weapons systems to replace aging ones. That risks leaving India critically short of helicopters by 2026 and with a shortfall of hundreds of fighter jets by 2030.
The situation with the air force is particularly dire. By 2030, the Indian Air Force maybe left with less than 30 fighter squadrons, well below the 42 the military says it needs to adequately protect borders with both China and Pakistan. Between now and then, the air force will be forced to ground about half-a-dozen squadrons each including 16 to 18 fighter jets, that will reach the end of their flying life.
Helicopters are another problem. The air force, army and navy still depend on light helicopters designed and developed in France more than half a century ago and inducted in the 1970s.. and yet another unfortunate mishap in Tawang yesterday when a Cheetah Helicopter crashed. Almost 80% of India’s fleet of choppers has already outlived their lifespan of 30 years. Most of the army’s fleet of single-engine choppers will have to be grounded by 2026 even though domestically made light helicopters aren’t likely to be ready before the end of 2030. A plan to manufacture Russian Kamov-226T helicopters hasn’t materialized yet because of disagreements over costs and the amount of indigenous components to be included, which the Russians don't resonate with.
'Modi’s import substitution plans don’t take into account the fact that developing world-class weapon systems requires billions of dollars in investment and years of research', as quoted by Rahuo Bedi, a Delhi-based independent defense analyst. Moreover, even Indian defense platforms such as the light combat aircraft (LCA) or tanks have roughly 50% imported components 🙄 The Defence Analyst further went on to say "Make in India for defense isn’t thought through properly. It is a good slogan, beyond that there isn’t much to show as yet.”
Amazing episode very well researched and explained.
Thank you Ajay.
Errr no , French don’t make any weapon system entirely by themselves, Rafale has American actuators and even the Meteor missile has a British seeker head and it’s propulsion is heavily manufactured in Germany. U.S.A on the other hand does make the entire weapon system in US unless their has been a breakdown/mistake in the supply chain
Where is Snehesh Alex Philip, last time I checked he used to do the defense news?
Excellent CTC
02:29 helmet mounted guns! I want one 😀
Happy Birthday to Indian Air Force and its air warriors
You are confusing AHL & Rudra_WSI with LUH. Also, the Prachand has no self-defence electronics till date, due to DRDO/ HAL. Please correct the same.
bhai takka is now warfare expert
Indigenous is because we buy and we don't have technology
US also buys products but they know how to manufacture if required
Don't ignore the Rudra Helicopter System.
Very nice and factual analysis.
Really nice review......
Seems like SG stole this episode for himself from Snehesh Philip
Helicopters don't need BVR weaponry. They are primarily used for close air support and enemy suppression. Not air to air combat. They will always be in visual range ideally along with infantry.
Starting is good sir jai hind🇮🇳🇮🇳
Brilliant analysis in black & white