{"id":88780,"date":"2022-11-16T06:29:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T00:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=88780"},"modified":"2022-11-16T06:29:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T00:59:30","slug":"a-letter-is-signed-for-nine-more-mk-iii-helicopters-for-the-indian-coast-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/a-letter-is-signed-for-nine-more-mk-iii-helicopters-for-the-indian-coast-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"A letter is signed for nine more Mk-III helicopters for the Indian Coast Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indian Coast Guard received the last of 16 Advanced Light Helicopters Mk-III on Tuesday from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HAL design, develops, and manufactures ALH Mk-III in-house. In addition to surveillance radar, electro-optic pods, intensive care units, infrared suppressors, heavy machine guns, and glass cockpits, it is equipped with high-intensity searchlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 3.74 lakh flying hours have been logged by the company&#8217;s ALH helicopters, which have been produced in excess of 330 so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was signed in March 2017 that the Indian Coast Guard would receive 16 ALH Mk-III from HAL. The Coast Guard has inducted 15 choppers so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nine more ALH Mk-III choppers were ordered by the Coast Guard on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Letter of Intent (LoI) for nine more helicopters has been issued by HAL, and we are proud to be associated with it. In spite of Covid-19, HAL delivered all helicopters in the shortest period of time and with seamless production activities, which strengthened Indian maritime security,&#8221; DG Pathania said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the unique features of the contract is HAL&#8217;s performance-based logistics, a one-stop solution for maintenance of these helicopters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that &#8220;this will serve as a benchmark for all our future contracts and strengthen &#8216;Make in India&#8217; activities in the defence ecosystem as we work with private partners to speed up the work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Coast Guard received the last of 16 Advanced Light Helicopters Mk-III on Tuesday from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). HAL design, develops, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,99,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-technology","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88782,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88780\/revisions\/88782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}