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[blazejos]

Two news about Helicopters

Indian HAL Parchanda indigenous Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) starts to be modernized with new electronics and first are expected in 2027-28

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India...785f3cbc&ei=13



Here Photos of AW-149
Polish https://zoom.mon.gov.pl/galeria/729/
They are already in use by Air Cavalery with MG's and 70mm Laser Guided rockets new type in Polish Army



Also photos AW-149 but in Thailand similarl armed
https://thaimilitaryandasianregion.w...le-helicopter/

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

Please revisit my Post 192.

Using the ref. below go past the second "page break" 3rd photo down will show the HELLFIRE II weapons package that Italy already has and Poland should be getting (Post 192).

That picture taken from an airshow in Poland about the time or just after Poland signed the contracts for the AW-149.

You'll also in the gallery see the Egyptian version of the AW-149 as well. All those taken I believe in 2022, might be from the same airshow as mentioned above.
https://www.jetphotos.com/aircraft/A...tland%20AW-149
(It is IMPORTANT to note the tagline "Airline" this denotes difference between Airforce and Manufacturer.)

This is still "sucking" with this small page issue all after Shrapnel lead page. Even the "Smilies" page is small.

Regards,
Pat

[WilliamB]

The October issue of Airforces magazine reports that Pakistan received an initial batch of Z-10ME attack helicpoters in early July. According to this article from Asian Military Review the induction ceremony was held in August.

https://www.asianmilitaryreview.com/...licopters-foc/

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[blazejos]

Now another change in polish Navy helicopters fleet


Poland in November 2025 retried their SH-2G Super Seaspirite. They were in usage more than 20 years on two ex-usn frigates used by Poland. So there is no info which helicopters will replace them but interesting is that polish helicopters since 2007/2008 similar to variant used by New Zeeland has fixed forward MG from PK family so they were not only used to antisubmarine missions.




This helicopter in last variant SH-2G were used by
USN -> 1993 to may 2001
Australia SH-2G(A) -> October 2003 to march 2008 send back to Kaman factory
Egypt SH-2G(E) -> 1998 still in usage
New Zeeland SH-2G(NZ) -> 2001 to still in usage in 2005 FN MAG-58M foward firing MG
Peru SH-2G(NZ) -> since 2014 five New Zeeland variant helicopters
Poland SH-2G(P) -> 2002 until now retried since 2007 foward firing MG from polish PK like in New Zeeland variant




There was also previous variant Kaman SH-2 Seasprite used during could-war.

USN used this helicopter in vietnam-war since 1962 in single engine variant UH-2 since 1970 we have two engine variant SH-2 all helicopters were created by rebuilding of single engine variant to new modern machines. And they were in usage until 1994 when last variant SH-2F was retried.

New Zeeland also used shortly this older variant helicopters as i nterim SH-2F before delivery of SH-2G