<story><title>Indian Air Force inducts natively developed light combat helicopter ‘Prachanda’</title><url>https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/spotlight-of-the-week-detail.htm?163</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Existenceblinks</author><text>As a thai whose nation adopted lots of Pali&amp;#x2F;Sanskrit words, I have to look up the word origin &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wisdomlib.org&amp;#x2F;definition&amp;#x2F;pracanda&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wisdomlib.org&amp;#x2F;definition&amp;#x2F;pracanda&lt;/a&gt; because I suddenly understand the meaning of &amp;quot;Prachan&amp;quot;, in thai it means &amp;quot;confront&amp;quot;. Indian naming always gives sci-fi kind of vibe.</text></comment>
<story><title>Indian Air Force inducts natively developed light combat helicopter ‘Prachanda’</title><url>https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/spotlight-of-the-week-detail.htm?163</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>Where do attack helicopters fit into modern war, out of curiosity? From my very uninformed point of view -- seems like in a world where man-portable weapons are getting more and more capable, being in a relatively (compared to jets) slowly moving, lightly (?) armored flying vehicle would be pretty terrifying.</text></comment>