IAF to retrieve Apache AH-64E from Ladakh using truck.

Now Apache fleet will be back to 22.
 
Now Apache fleet will be back to 22.
Yes if you call damaged un-assembled pieces of junk a flyable helicopter. This was was an exercise ordered by the US to prevent the Chinese getting hold of the attack helicopter. This helicopter is not fly again. Most probably canablized for parts. IAF damaged another one also, so the flyable fleet is 20. The biggest issue with Indian attack helicopter fleet is that it is operated by the IAF and not IA.
 
IAF and their fetish of putting things on trucks
 
Also if a PA Mi-17 can lift a Cobra, I am surprised why a Chinook cannot lift a weighed down Apache I.e remove the engine and the blade. In this case the engine was not removed just the blades. BTW this sling lift was in Waziristan, a mountainous area albeit not as high as Indian occupied Ladakh.

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But the Americans did it. Weight is not an issue, the altitude could be. But I think the argument about carrying over it 18K is BS because the Apache could not have flown at that altitude to get to the place, where it crashed in the first place. Chopper flying is done in the valIeys. I think they are just incompetent. The article is just another Indian chest thumping, self-aggrandizement exercise.
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Yes if you call damaged un-assembled pieces of junk a flyable helicopter. This was was an exercise ordered by the US to prevent the Chinese getting hold of the attack helicopter. This helicopter is not fly again. Most probably canablized for parts. IAF damaged another one also, so the flyable fleet is 20. The biggest issue with Indian attack helicopter fleet is that it is operated by the IAF and not IA.
Boeing already contacted for repairs.


It is being brought back to base for repairs.
 
Yes if you call damaged un-assembled pieces of junk a flyable helicopter. This was was an exercise ordered by the US to prevent the Chinese getting hold of the attack helicopter. This helicopter is not fly again. Most probably canablized for parts. IAF damaged another one also, so the flyable fleet is 20. The biggest issue with Indian attack helicopter fleet is that it is operated by the IAF and not IA.
No other Apache ever got damaged.
You are just trying to cope and making stuff up. Chines don't even have the b@lls to cross Galwan junction and you expect them to come 200 km deep inside Ladakh. 🤣🫣
Fact is IAF has now retrieved this Apache and it will be flying within a couple of months.

If you have proof to the contrary provide or skiddle away.
 
Yes if you call damaged un-assembled pieces of junk a flyable helicopter. This was was an exercise ordered by the US to prevent the Chinese getting hold of the attack helicopter. This helicopter is not fly again. Most probably canablized for parts. IAF damaged another one also, so the flyable fleet is 20. The biggest issue with Indian attack helicopter fleet is that it is operated by the IAF and not IA.

I believe Indian AIr Force purchased 22 Apaches. The Indian Army purchased 6 Apaches. Not sure how much got delivered
 
An Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter that had carried out a precautionary landing during an operational sortie in Ladakh in April was retrieved by the IAF.

The copter will be repaired at either the home base of Pathankot or at a base repair depot of the IAF. Sources said the copter was brought to Leh by road for further airlift.

The retrieval included engineering and ingenuity to get back the copter from an altitude of 12,000 feet. The Boeing Apache helicopter had made an emergency landing on April 4 at a location north of the Khardung La — a 18,380-feet high pass. Both pilots had been airlifted the same day.

The Tribune had reported about the plan to use a truck to get the copter back on September 9. Since airlifting the copter was impossible from that altitude, an IAF technical team climbed to the site where the copter had made an emergency landing.

An assessment was done and all the parts — some 400 of them —were taken out one-by-one and physically carried by men to the nearest road head and transported to Leh.

The airframe and the engine remained at the site. A specialised crane was readied at the site, and the copter was dismantled and ‘carried’ part-by-part by trained mountaineers to the site. The crane with specialised steel wires lowered the copter onto a truck for further journey to Leh.
 
I believe Indian AIr Force purchased 22 Apaches. The Indian Army purchased 6 Apaches. Not sure how much got delivered

None of the IA's 6 Apaches have been delivered as yet. Boeing has informed them of a 1 year delay. I hope there were some sort of contractual penalties or reparations involved in case of contractual delays on the part of the OEM.
 

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