{"id":5100,"date":"2022-12-01T03:01:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2025-03-27T04:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:46:34","slug":"alh-mk-iii-helicopters-commissioned-at-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/alh-mk-iii-helicopters-commissioned-at-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"ALH Mk-III Helicopters commissioned at Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Features of ALH MK III helicopters:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The ALH MK III helicopters have been indigenously manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).<\/li>\n<li>They feature state-of-the-art equipment including advanced RADAR as well as Electro optical sensors, Shakti engines, full glass cockpit, high-intensity searchlight, advanced communication systems, automatic identification system as well as search-and-rescue homer.<\/li>\n<li>The features enable them to undertake maritime reconnaissance as well as carry out SAR at extended ranges even while operating from ships during both day and night.<\/li>\n<li>The aircraft has the ability to switch roles from an offensive platform with a heavy machine gun to that of a benign one carrying a Medical Intensive Care Unit to facilitate the transfer of critically ill patients.<\/li>\n<li>A total of 16 ALH Mk-III aircraft have been inducted into the Indian Coast Guard in a phased manner and four of these aircraft are positioned in Chennai.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is HAL?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) is an aerospace and defence company, owned by the government of India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Indian-Coast-Guard-commissions-Advanced-Light-Helicopter-Mk-III-squadron%3b-Reflects-self-reliance-in-field-of-helicopter-manufacturing&amp;id=451632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>All India Radio<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equipped with advanced features ALH Mk-III Helicopters further strengthen the coast guard region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}