Recently, after a long tussle between the Army and the Air Force, the Defence Ministry decided to give control of all the future acquisitions of attack choppers to the land force.
The Army has plans of having a squadron-each of weaponised choppers in each of the pivot corps and a full-fledged attack chopper squadron with each of the three Strike Corps.
Rudra is the Mk-IV variant of Advanced Light Helicopter designed and manufactured by HAL. Besides the weapons, the helicopter is fitted with warning and counter measure systems and survivability features.
