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INS Vikramaditya
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 4 December 2013, Navy Day, on INS Vikramaditya, the aircraft carrier commissioned into the Indian Navy at Severodvinsk in Russia on 16 November 2013. Built as the Soviet Baku and later the Russian Admiral Gorshkov, the modified Kiev-class ship was bought by India in 2004 and rebuilt as a STOBAR carrier. Her name means “valour comparable to the sun”.
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