{"id":151924,"date":"2021-12-09T20:53:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=151924"},"modified":"2021-12-09T20:53:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:23:12","slug":"explained-the-helicopter-cds-general-bipin-rawat-was-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-the-helicopter-cds-general-bipin-rawat-was-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: The helicopter CDS General Bipin Rawat was in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others died after the Mi-17V5 helicopter crashed in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>What is a Mi-17V5 helicopter?<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152085\" style=\"width: 511px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-152085 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mi-17-v5.jpg?resize=511%2C741&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mi-17-v5.jpg?w=1333&amp;ssl=1 1333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mi-17-v5.jpg?resize=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1 207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mi-17-v5.jpg?resize=706%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 706w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mi-17-v5.jpg?resize=768%2C1114&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mi-17-v5.jpg?resize=1059%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1059w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: MoneyControl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mi-17V5 is a Russian-made helicopter which is produced by Kazan Helicopters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was inducted into the Indian Air Force on 17 February 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Helicopter <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can carry equipment inside the cargo cabin or an external sling, drop tactical air assault teams and carry the wounded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Speed:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The helicopter can achieve a maximum speed of 250 km per hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Weight: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The helicopter has a maximum takeoff weight of 13,000 kg. It can transport either 36 armed soldiers internally or 4,500 kg of load on a sling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has a digital flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder onboard to monitor flight parameters and cockpit conversations respectively. The helicopter also has the capability to land on unprepared sites at night and in adverse weather conditions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Apart from India, this helicopter is also used by the air forces of nearly 60 countries,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including Russia and Iraq, and is also part of the erstwhile Afghan Air Force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the latest data, the <\/span><b>Indian Air Force(IAF) currently has over 200 of these helicopters <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><b>Explained: The helicopter CDS General Bipin Rawat was in<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> Indian Express on 9th December 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others died after the Mi-17V5 helicopter crashed in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. What is a Mi-17V5 helicopter? Mi-17V5 is a Russian-made helicopter which is produced by Kazan Helicopters. It was inducted into the Indian Air Force on 17&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-the-helicopter-cds-general-bipin-rawat-was-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: The helicopter CDS General Bipin Rawat was in<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-151924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704883978},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}