Hal's Light Combat Helicopter

President Murmu flies sortie in LCH 'Prachand' in Jaisalmer near Pak border

President Droupadi Murmu on Friday took a sortie as co-pilot in Light Combat Helicopter 'Prachand' near the India-Pakistan border in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer district. The LCH took off from the Jaisalmer Indian Air Force (IAF) station. Before the sortie, the captain briefed the president. Dressed in an olive green uniform and helmet, she waved from the cockpit before departing. LCH 'Prachand' is India's first indigenously designed and developed combat helicopter, built by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.

Home-grown 'Prachanda' light combat helicopter joins Indian Air Force fleet

The military has already projected to HAL an eventual requirement of 65 Prachandas for the IAF and 97 for the army

Made-in-India light combat helicopters 'Prachand' inducted into IAF

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh during a sortie in the newly inducted indigenously built Light Combat Helicopter 'Prachand', in Jodhpur

IAF to formally induct indigenously-built Light Combat Helicopter on Monday

The LCH, developed by state-run aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, has been primarily designed for deployment in high-altitude regions

Light combat helicopters being built for Rs 125 crore each, says HAL

HAL's high-altitude attack helicopter is one-third the cost of the Apache

Hindustan Aeronautics' light combat chopper cutting its teeth in Ladakh

Operational capability at altitudes higher than any other attack helicopter in the world

Arun Jaitley inaugurates manufacture of light combat helicopter at HAL

Also, launches upgrade of Hawk jet trainers into combat aircraft