Light Combat Helicopter Limited Series Production

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Context: The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has approved procurement of 15 Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) Limited Series Production from HAL for IAF (10) & IA(05) at the cost of Rs. 3,887 Cr along with Infrastructure sanctions worth Rs. 377 Cr.

Light Combat Helicopter Limited Series Production (LSP)

• It is an indigenously designed, developed and manufactured state of the art modern combat helicopter containing approx. 45% indigenous content by value.
• It is equipped with requisite agility, maneuverability, extended range, high altitude performance and around-the-clock, all-weather combat capability to perform roles of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR), Destruction of Enemy Air Defence (DEAD), Counter Insurgency (CI) operations, against slow moving aircraft and Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs), high altitude bunker busting operations, Counter Insurgency operations in jungle and urban environments.
• The manufacturing of LCH by HAL will give a further push to Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative and boost indigenisation of defence production and the defence industry in the country.
• Production of LCH will reduce import dependence for Combat helicopters in the country.

About LCH by HAL:

• Tejas will only be the second indigenously built fighter aircraft in India’shistory.

Tejas’ history

• 1983: first time when the Government of India cleared a project to build a new Light Combat Aircraft as a replacement for MiG 21s.
• Tejas is 50 per cent indigenous.
• It has a GE American engine, an Israeli Elta radar, and British aerospace, avionics, and other engines.

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