The first flight of the Light Combat Helicopter already a year late happened at the HAL airport Bengaluru (Bangalore) , India. The LCH is facing a lot of criticism for being over weight.
The LCH has got one of the most complex aeronautical stealth sensor and weapon technology. It is aimed at crashing the other light attack copters like the Eurocopters' Tiger and the China's ultra secret Zhisheng-10 (Z-10).
It is capable of high altitude performance like taking off from altitudes of 10,000 ft, operating guns and rockets upto 16,000 ft and launching missiles at over 21,000 ft. It is also capable of flying 20-30 ft AGL to escape the radar.
It is expected that LCH might enter service by 2015-2016, and HAL is gearing up to deliver 65 of these to the Indian Air Force (IAF) and 114 to the Indian Army.
HAL remains confident that the LCH will not let them down, as the key technologies used in this have already proven in the Dhurv Light Helicopter, of which 160 are already being build for the IAF and Indian Army.
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