About this stamp
The Super Hercules
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 6 October 2016 on the induction of the C-130J Super Hercules into the Indian Air Force. Inducted in January 2011, the C-130J is an advanced transport aircraft for special operations, with a payload of 20 tonnes, built to fly from advanced landing grounds high in the mountains in bad weather.
What It Can Do
It carries modern avionics, an electro-optical infra-red pod, a glass cockpit with head-up displays, an in-flight refuelling probe and a defensive suite, and its station-keeping equipment lets 36 aircraft fly in automated formation. It is used for special operations, mass troop deployment, air-to-air refuelling, precise low-level airdrops of troops and supplies, night landings with night-vision devices, and humanitarian and disaster relief. On 20 August 2013 a C-130J landed at Daulat Beg Oldie, at 16,614 feet, earning a place in the Limca Book of Records as the heaviest aircraft to land at the highest airfield.
The stamp was designed by Nenu Gupta; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 401,590.
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