Hello and welcome. It's a red letter day for the Indian Air Force with the formal induction of this helicopter. It's called the L. C H the light Combat Helicopter. And once it enters the Indian Air Force and the Indian Army in substantial numbers, it's going to redefine the offensive capability of the forces in extremely high altitudes or even at Law Institute along the desert front. I'm at the Indian Air Force Base here in Jodhpur, and it is and extraordinary sight to actually sees his helicopters in the colours of the something that I, firstly been tracking for more than two decades now. The Indian armed forces felt that they needed a helicopter like this after the Kargil war because it was believed that the existing attack helicopters couldn't exactly fly at the altitudes that they needed to to strike targets in very high altitudes. So they actually built on a lot of the experience of the way successful advanced Knight helicopter and the subsequent variant of that called the Rudra to develop this. Now this is far more steam lines, then the other helicopters that I spoke to you about it is actually designed with streamline profile in mind that Means has got a narrow cross section. If someone were to try and take it down from the ground, it becomes more difficult because it's tougher to spot it. Also versatile because of the area of weapons that it carries. It can actually carry air to air missiles as well fired from these boards over here and also rockets, which can be used to strike targets on the ground. Now we can't show you the cockpit inside, but because they're a couple of elements that remain classified, but it's a glass cockpit. In other words, if got large, multi function displaced the pilots. It's in the in the rare, in fact, and you got the gunner who sits in the front, and a lot of the sensors with the gun and actually uses are this. This is an electoral optical sites in the front of the helicopter, and this has made it no see, not just to the rockets and missiles, but also to this gun. And I think one of the key attributes of this helicopter in terms of weapons systems integration is the fact that the gunner and the pilot, for that matter have helmet mounted sites. So if they actually swivel their heads in the direction of what they perceived to be a target, the gun automatically swivels in that directions to You may be flying in one direction, but engaging targets using this gun which are actually located he within your field of view, but in another direction. So that is one of the elementary functions that this helicopter has. As important are is the engine itself. It's the Indian itself is called the Shakti. It has been co developed, and it actually gives the helicopter the power it needs to do a lot of what I mentioned to take it up to those altitudes to give it its agility, which is absolutely key as well. The engine itself has suppressors the black party over here is a suppressor which actually cut down on the heat emissions, which can, which which are a vulnerability of all aircraft and helicopters, you want to cut down on the intermissions to prevent it from being targeted on the grounds of Mr Couple of important features. But again, there is such an important day for the Indian Air Force to finally be getting this
