INS Kora (P61)


INS Kora
Career  Indian Navy
Name: INS Kora
Builder: Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
Laid down: 10 January 1990
Launched: 23 September 1992
Commissioned: 10 August 1998
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class and type: Kora class corvette
Displacement: 1,400 tons full load
Length: 91.1 m (299 ft)
Beam: 10.5 m (34 ft)
Draught: 4.5 m (15 ft)
Propulsion: 2 diesel motors with 14,400 hp
2 shafts
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h)
Range: 4,000 mi (6,400 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement: 134 (incl 14 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems:
1 x MR 352 Pozitiv-E radar
Bharat 1245 navigation radar
Bharat Vympel IPN-10 combat data system
Armament: 16 x Kh-35 Uran-E SSM
2 x Strela-2M (SA-N-5) SAM
1 x 76.2mm AK–176M gun
2 x 30mm AK-630 guns
Aircraft carried: 1 HAL Chetak or HAL Dhruv helicopter

INS Kora (P61) is the lead ship of her class of corvettes, currently in active service with the Indian Navy.[1]

INS Kora was on a goodwill visit to Singapore in 2001.

References

  1. ^ http://indiannavy.nic.in/corvettes_kora.htm