Coward China uses mouthpiece to craft shameful propaganda after Gen Rawat's tragic death

China stooped to an all-time low on Thursday as it attempted to play filthy politics on unfortunate and tragic demise of India's first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat. Hiding behind its stooge Global Times' story, China me a very shameful and propagandist comment claiming that death of General Bipin Rawat in Indian Air Force chopper crash 'exposed lack of discipline and combat preparedness' of India. 

"It also dealt a heavy blow to country's military modernization that could linger for a long time," a Global Times story re .

China's insensitive and propagandist remark has caused outrage among Indians who are still grieving loss of country's first CDS and 12 ors who died tragically in IAF chopper crash. Citizens took to social media to criticise China's cowardly approach to attack and target CDS Gen Bipin Rawat and India while or countries condoled demise of visionary Armed Forces leer.  

On Wednesday, a Mi5-V17 chopper flying in from Sulur Air Force Base to Wellington crashed. chopper h onboard, besides CDS Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife Mhulika and 12 or people. While 11 were declared de at site of crash, 3 including General Bipin Rawat was rushed to hospital, where he and one or succumbed to injuries. Group Captain Varun Singh, only survivor, is being treated for severe burns and is on life support.

Mi17V5 is an vanced transport helicopter with IAF since 2012

For unversed like China, Mi17V5 helicopter which crashed is an vanced military transport chopper that has been with Indian Air Force (IAF) since 2012. Manufactured by Russian Helicopters' subsidiary Kazan, helicopter has onboard wear rar and is equipped with latest generation of night vision devices. It also has new PKV-8 autopilot system and a KNEI-8 avionics suite. It can carry a maximum take-off weight of 13,000 kg and a maximum paylo weight of 4,000 kg.

India h in 2008 signed a deal with Russia to induct 80 Mi17V5 medium-lift helicopters for strengning its chopper fleet for humanitarian and disaster relief missions and transport operations.  contract was later expanded for delivery of 151 Mi17V5 helicopters. 

In an exclusive conversation with Republic, Air Commander Shailendra Sood (Retd.), a Defence analyst, said that helicopter was a very reliable machine to fly with. "re is a lot of skill involved in flying a helicopter," said Group Captain Augustine Vinod (Retd.), Defence Analyst, ding that re might have been changing invisibility. 

"I got stuck at same place in same environment in 1971, you lose visibility. cockpit recorder will reveal details," said Major General PK Sehgal (Retd.), Defence Expert. 

re are a number of factors, and an inquiry to ascertain primary factor that led to crash has been initiated. black box of Indian Air Force helicopter along with Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder has been recovered by inquiry team.  A tri-services enquiry heed by Air Marshal Manvendra Singh. He is currently serving as  Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Training Command.