Floating Weapon Makes a Statement ; It May Be Named After a Mythological Flying Elephant, but the Airavat Is Making a Big Statement On Water.
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Delhi: It may be named after a mythological flying elephant, but the Airavat is making a big statement on water. The Indian Navy's new Landing Ship Tank (Large), Airavat is the fifth in a series of such indigenously-built warships.
When the first ship was acquired in the 1990s, it was purely a 5,655-tonne platform meant for ferrying troops and tanks. But in a measure of the navy's changing role in the decades since, the Airavat, named after Indra's elephant, is a multi-mission ship, quite like a maritime Swiss army knife.See the full content of this document
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Floating Weapon Makes a Statement ; It May Be Named After a Mythological Flying Elephant, but the Airavat Is Making a Big Statement On Water.
It can carry 10 battle tanks and 50...
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