Army gets its first indigenously-made Rudra attack chopper
Bangalore, Feb 8: The first ndigenously-developed weaponised helicopter ‘Rudra' was today handed over to the Army which has successfully raised an attack chopper fleet on its own.This is the first of the 60 armed helicopters
Bharali said a total of 60 Rudras would be inducted into the Army and the machines will be part of six squadrons.
The chopper is armed with air-to-air missiles such as the ‘Mistral', rocket pods and heavy machine guns to help the ground forces with close air support. T
he Army is also planning to procure the under-development Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) being produced by the HAL.