Navies Turn to a Floating Force

The hovercraft can be deployed in shallow areas or between islands. It can hide in the radar clutter and can't be picked up by other radar systems. It can also move very quickly, operating hundreds of miles down the coast from where it was patrolling a few days earlier.

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  Early hovercraft models were powered by gas-turbine engines but Gifford took...
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  Based in Hythe, Southern England, GHL claims it produces the largest range of...
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  The hovercraft can be deployed in shallow areas or between islands. It can...
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  GHL recently sold four craft to the Pakistan navy as it wants to patrol the...

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