{"id":616052,"date":"2023-11-08T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=616052"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T06:33:24","slug":"army-aviation-looking-at-phasing-out-cheetah-chetak-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/army-aviation-looking-at-phasing-out-cheetah-chetak-helicopters\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Aviation looking at phasing out Cheetah, Chetak helicopters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India is set to begin phasing out its ageing Cheetah\/Chetak helicopter fleet with Army Aviation looking to purchase around 80 light utility helicopters from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bengaluru, in the first batch, besides exploring the options of leasing a few from a private vendor.<\/p>\n<p>The Cheetah\/Chetak fleet that serves the forces across landscapes, from icy heights of the Siachen glacier to the Thar desert, is on the last leg of a six decades-long journey in Indian armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe phasing out will start in another 3-4 years when their technical life will be over. By then the LUH should be ready,\u201d said a senior official. It will take about 10-12 years to replace the entire fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India is set to begin phasing out its ageing Cheetah\/Chetak helicopter fleet with Army Aviation looking to purchase around 80 light utility helicopters from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bengaluru, in the first batch, besides exploring the options of leasing a few from a private vendor. The Cheetah\/Chetak fleet that serves the forces across landscapes, from icy heights of the Siachen glacier to the Thar desert, is on the last leg of a six decades-long journey in Indian armed forces. \u201cThe phasing out will start in another 3-4 years when their technical life will be over. By then the LUH [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616052","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=616052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}