{"id":4584,"date":"2022-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/07-10-2022\/light-combat-helicopter-lch-prachand\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T00:00:00","slug":"light-combat-helicopter-lch-prachand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/07-10-2022\/light-combat-helicopter-lch-prachand","title":{"rendered":"Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) \u2018Prachand\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>In Context<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Recently, the indigenously developed Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) \u2018Prachand\u2019, meaning fierce was formally inducted into the 143\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Helicopter Unit \u2018Dhanush\u2019 of the Indian Air Force (IAF) at the Jodhpur Air Force Station. Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) \u2018Prachand\u2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>\u00a0Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) \u2018Prachand\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">About:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">The LCH is the only attack helicopter in the world that can land and take off at an altitude of 5,000 metres (16,400 ft), which makes it ideal to operate in the high altitude areas of the Siachen glacier.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It was officially renamed<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong> &#8220;Prachand&#8221;.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Development:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It is designed and manufactured by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) under project LCH.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It was conceptualised after the 1999 Kargil conflict.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">The multi-role attack helicopter operates both in desert terrains and high-altitude sectors.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Features:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">This twin-engine helicopter is armed with anti-tank guided missile\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left:96px\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>\u00a0\u2018Dhruvastra\u2019 and air-to-air missile \u2018Mistral-2\u2019.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It is multi-role and can perform roles of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR),\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Destruction of Enemy Air Defence (DEAD) and Counter Insurgency (CI) operations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Flight Ceiling<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Its flight ceiling is the highest among all attack helicopters in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left:192px\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/X-76nS_PVHYp7t4B9WgnmvLRd_PbiSKPKOG_DLYpBS4q3gC25wlTeVje2kZsmyUWUU5VSSWm9HvNsKyAxdQBYApa4qzYQEzbSLf2JjjCcde7SuM_-ZTVg6XEn9_tcA0X93RdS5J8p8TBSie7AAda5snwFw38meDMeEq2LmQSWkNJbgVxXsGdkSgaug\" style=\"height:163.0; width:254.0\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/explained-the-indian-made-lch-prachand-and-its-significance\/article65966403.ece\" style=\"text-decoration-line:none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Context Recently, the indigenously developed Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) \u2018Prachand\u2019, meaning fierce was formally inducted into the 143\u00a0 Helicopter Unit \u2018Dhanush\u2019 of the Indian Air Force (IAF) at the Jodhpur Air Force Station. Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) \u2018Prachand\u2019. \u00a0Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) \u2018Prachand\u2019 About:\u00a0 The LCH is the only attack helicopter in the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[40,26],"class_list":["post-4584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-defence","tag-gs-3"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/5237256Screenshot_20221007-123332_Android System.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}