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Via the wiki article for this heli: > The impetus for the development of the LCH Prachand came in the form of the Kargil War, a conflict fought between India a
by blamazon 4y ago
Via the wiki article for this heli:
> The impetus for the development of the LCH Prachand came in the form of the Kargil War, a conflict fought between India and neighbouring Pakistan in 1999, which revealed the Indian armed forces lacked a suitable armed rotorcraft capable of operating unrestricted in the high-altitude theatre.
In that conflict, Pakistan downed more than one Indian MiG with a man-pad, so I presume this scenario is not lost on India w.r.t. development of this aircraft.