Hello and welcome to away Special Programme. They're looking at the Indigenous Light Combat Helicopter. It is a masterpiece of Indian engineering and no two ways about it. This is, in fact, one of the finest examples of Indian engineering at Manila Bata of weapon system that's designed to make a rail difference in the years ahead. It's been ordered to the Air Force. It's been ordered for the Indian army as well, and it is meant to hit targets on the ground that's on the desert or at extremely high altitude as well. It can be employed in altitude in excess of 16,000 ft in the Ladakh area, it can fire air to air missiles. The mist runs from this particular pilot, and over here it can fire rockets, which can take out tanks and other hardened targets as well. If he moved to the front of the helicopter itself. There a lot of key sensors there are actually employed. Over here. There is a large electro optical sensor which in many ways is made it to this gun now because of a helmet mounted site, the direction in which a pilot or Gunnar actually look two man crew over here. That is the direction in which the gun automatically swivels. So there is a great deal of versatility Sze in taking out targets across a large area. But I think what is extremely impressive is the engineering of this particular helicopter, which enables it to operate at all tattooed, which no helicopter of its class in the world can actually do. That means our forces deployed on the Ladakh front actually have an offensive weapons capability, which they have not had in still recently. With this induction actually taking place, the Air Force is going to be getting this the Army as well. And over a period of time, it's going to be upgraded spectacularly. It's gonna have many more sensors. It's gotta have missile approach and warning sensors. It could have extensive jammers as well, and perhaps more weapons systems in the future. The basic goal is this. This is going to be very much the mainstay of attack helicopter formations for the Air Force and the Army in the years ahead.
