{"id":81502,"date":"2021-02-09T20:57:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=81502"},"modified":"2021-03-01T12:44:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:14:18","slug":"ka-226t-utility-chopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ka-226t-utility-chopper\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ka-226T utility chopper&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the total indigenous content of the Ka-226T utility helicopters is between 27%-33%. These helicopters are to be locally manufactured with the Transfer of Technology(ToT) from Russia. However, the final deal is held up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>India-Russia Deal on Ka-226T<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2015, India and Russia had concluded an Agreement for at least 200 Ka-226T twin-engine utility helicopters. The estimated cost was over $1 billion. Among them, 60 helicopters to be directly imported and the remaining 140 manufactured locally.<\/li>\n<li>The helicopter is meant to replace the ageing and obsolete Cheetah and Chetak fleet of the Army and Air Force.<\/li>\n<li>However, the final deal is held up as the Russian proposal of 62% indigenous content in assembled helicopters falls short of the tender requirement of 70%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Ka-226T<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ka-226T is a design of Russia&#8217;s famous Kamov design bureau. It is a light helicopter with a maximum take-off weight of over 3.5 tonnes. It can carry a payload of up to 1 tonne.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Features of KA-226T:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It uses coaxial rotors. It means it has two sets of rotors mounted one on top of the other and typically no tail rotor.\n<ul>\n<li>Coaxial rotors give improvements in lifting and payload capacity over conventional choppers.<\/li>\n<li>This is particularly beneficial in high-altitude environments. Because in high altitudes aircraft&#8217;s performance at take-off tends to diminish due to the lower air density.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It also has a unique, detachable &#8216;mission&#8217; compartment instead of a conventional cabin.\n<ul>\n<li>This allows the helicopter to be adapted for different roles such as surveillance, cargo delivery etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/ka-226t-utility-chopper-has-33-indigenous-content-hal\/article33769304.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? According to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the total indigenous content of the Ka-226T utility helicopters is between 27%-33%. These helicopters are to be locally manufactured with the Transfer of Technology(ToT) from Russia. However, the final deal is held up. Facts: \u00a0India-Russia Deal on Ka-226T In 2015, India and Russia had concluded&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ka-226t-utility-chopper\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Ka-226T utility chopper&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,1738,9],"tags":[1434],"class_list":["post-81502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-st_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702458285},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81502","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}