Airavat

Airavat

Airavat may refer to:

*INS Airavat, a Landing Ship Tank of the Indian Navy
*The code name for the Airborne Surveillance Platform, a prototype/experimental Indian early warning aircraft design.

ee also

*Airavata, the mythical elephant king and the mount of Indra in Hinduism.


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