| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | KD Indera Sakti |
| Commissioned: | 1983 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Support ship |
| Displacement: | 4,300 long tons (4,369 t) full load |
| Length: | 100 m (328 ft 1 in) |
| Beam: | 15 m (49 ft 3 in) |
| Draught: | 4.75 m (15 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 diesels, 2 shafts, 5,986 bhp (4,464 kW) |
| Speed: | 16.8 knots (19.3 mph; 31.1 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 600 troops 1,000 m³ cargo space 10 × 20-foot containers 680 m² vehicle space |
| Complement: | 136 + 75 passengers |
| Armament: | • 2 × 57 mm DP guns • 2 × 20 mm anti-aircraft guns |
| Aviation facilities: | Aft helicopter platform |
KD Sri Indera Sakti is 4,300-ton, 100-meter multi-role support ship of the Royal Malaysian Navy based in the Lumut Naval Base in Perak, Malaysia.
The ship was sent to the Somalian water to take over the role of the similar KD Mahawangsa to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden in December 2008. In the same month, it successfully came to the aid of Chinese crane ship MV Zhenhua 4.[1]