{"id":527008,"date":"2022-10-04T09:26:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T03:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=527008"},"modified":"2022-10-04T09:57:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T04:27:55","slug":"home-grown-prachanda-light-combat-helicopter-joins-indian-air-force-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/home-grown-prachanda-light-combat-helicopter-joins-indian-air-force-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Home-grown &#8216;Prachanda&#8217; light combat helicopter joins Indian Air Force fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marking a major stepping stone to increasing the military\u2019s combat power, especially on the high-altitude Himalayan battlefield, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh formally inducted a new, powerfully armed, high-altitude-capable helicopter into Indian Air Force (IAF) service on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Designed and developed ground-up by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the defence minister gave the new chopper \u2014 so far eponymously referred to as the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) \u2014 the name of Prachanda.<\/p>\n<p>Inducted into the IAF\u2019s newly raised 143 Helicopter Unit, a statement issued by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) called it a \u201ctestimony to India\u2019s growing prowess in indigenous design, development and manufacturing and a significant milestone towards \u2018atmanirbharta\u2019 (self-reliance) in defence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marking a major stepping stone to increasing the military\u2019s combat power, especially on the high-altitude Himalayan battlefield, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh formally inducted a new, powerfully armed, high-altitude-capable helicopter into Indian Air Force (IAF) service on Monday. Designed and developed ground-up by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the defence minister gave the new chopper \u2014 so far eponymously referred to as the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) \u2014 the name of Prachanda. Inducted into the IAF\u2019s newly raised 143 Helicopter Unit, a statement issued by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) called it a \u201ctestimony to India\u2019s growing prowess in indigenous design, development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}