{"id":540268,"date":"2022-12-02T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T05:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=540268"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:35:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T08:05:51","slug":"advanced-light-helicopter-mk-iii-commissioned-in-coast-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/advanced-light-helicopter-mk-iii-commissioned-in-coast-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Light Helicopter Mk-III commissioned in Coast Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to further strengthen the Coast Guard, an Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Mk-III squadron has been inducted in the service in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>It will provide a major boost to the security of coastal areas, specially in Tamil Nadu and Andhra region.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Defence Ministry official, the aircraft has the ability to switch roles from an offensive platform with heavy machine gun to that of a benign one carrying a Medical Intensive Care Unit to facilitate transfer of critically ill patients.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 16 ALH Mk-III aircraft have been inducted in the Indian Coast Guard in a phased manner and four of these aircraft are positioned in Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to further strengthen the Coast Guard, an Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Mk-III squadron has been inducted in the service in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. It will provide a major boost to the security of coastal areas, specially in Tamil Nadu and Andhra region. According to a Defence Ministry official, the aircraft has the ability to switch roles from an offensive platform with heavy machine gun to that of a benign one carrying a Medical Intensive Care Unit to facilitate transfer of critically ill patients. A total of 16 ALH Mk-III aircraft have been inducted in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}