{"id":69,"date":"2026-06-18T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/?p=69"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:23:15","slug":"coast-guard-gets-indian-hovercraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard gets made-in-India hovercraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first of the six indigenous Air Cushion Vehicles (ACVs), being constructed by Chowgule &amp; Company Private Limited for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG), was inducted into service in Goa on Thursday, the 18<sup>th<\/sup> of June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The hovercraft aims to enhance ICG\u2019s operational effectiveness across a broad spectrum of maritime duties and reinforce its ability to respond to emerging challenges.<\/p>\n<p>This hovercraft is fully made-in-India boat and will serve as a reflection of the growing strength of the maritime industrial base of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The induction ceremony was held in the presence of senior ICG officials and representatives from the shipbuilding industry.<\/p>\n<p>The induction underscores the organisation&#8217;s continued focus on modernisation and capability enhancement in support of its mandate to safeguard the nation&#8217;s maritime interests.<\/p>\n<p>The contract for the acquisition of six ACVs for ICG was signed between the Ministry of Defence and Chowgule &amp; Company Private Limited on October 24, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hovercraft is fully made in India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,46,47],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-para-military-forces","tag-coast-guard","tag-hovercraft","tag-made-in-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}