{"id":14905,"date":"2025-05-19T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=14905"},"modified":"2025-05-19T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:23:42","slug":"indias-prachand-combat-helicopter-unable-to-compete-with-chinas-z-10-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/analysis\/defense\/indias-prachand-combat-helicopter-unable-to-compete-with-chinas-z-10-report\/2025\/05\/19\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Prachand combat helicopter \u2018unable to compete\u2019 with China\u2019s Z-10: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Indian defence ministry approved order for 156 helicopters while eyeing high-altitude operations where it has issues with China and Pakistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">BEIJING,China.May 19 (SCMP) &#8211; India\u2019s new Prachand combat helicopter would be \u201ca walkover\u201d for China\u2019s Z-10 attack counterpart, a Chinese military magazine has claimed, dismissing the aircraft New Delhi might use in high-altitude operations against its neighbours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">In March, the Indian Ministry of Defence approved an order for 156 of the helicopters in a contract worth more than US$7.3 billion, with an eye to operations at 5,000 metres (16,400 feet) and above.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Those altitudes would cover areas along the\u00a0<a class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/china-india-border-dispute?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" target=\"_self\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\" data-qa=\"Component-Text\">unresolved Himalayan border with China<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and the Kashmir region with Pakistan.<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-reading-20-percent-completion-tracker css-19icq8a ekyy9du0\" data-qa=\"useTrackViewedPercentageRender-trackViewedPercentageRenders-TrackPercentageBlock\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian defence ministry approved order for 156 helicopters while eyeing high-altitude operations where it has issues with China and Pakistan BEIJING,China.May 19 (SCMP) &#8211; India\u2019s new Prachand combat helicopter would be \u201ca walkover\u201d for China\u2019s Z-10 attack counterpart, a Chinese military magazine has claimed, dismissing the aircraft New Delhi might use in high-altitude operations against [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[26,2407,2425],"tags":[6401,9597,56,57,152],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/China-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14907,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905\/revisions\/14907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}