INS Kora (P61)

History


Name:	INS Kora
Builder:	Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
Laid down:	10 January 1990
Launched:	23 September 1992
Commissioned:	10 August 1998
Identification:	Pennant number: P61
Status:	in active service
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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 × MR 352 Pozitiv-E radar Bharat 1245 navigation radar Bharat Vympel IPN-10 combat data system
Armament:	16 × Kh-35 Uran-E SSM 2 × Strela-2M (SA-N-5) SAM 1 × 76.2mm AK–176M gun 2 × 30mm AK-630 guns
Aircraft carried:	1 HAL Chetak or HAL Dhruv helicopter

INS Kora 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. On 31 October 2014, Kora was in collision with the cargo ship MV Madeleine Rickmers in the Bay of Bengal off Vishakhapatnam.^[2]

References

↑ http://indiannavy.nic.in/corvettes_kora.htm
↑ Hancock, Paul (31 October 2014). "INS KORA DAMAGED". Shipwrecklog. Retrieved 3 November 2014.

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Corvettes of the Indian Navy

Commissioned ships

Kamorta class	Kamorta (P28) Kadmatt (P29)

Kora class	Kora Kirch Kulish Karmuk

Khukri class	Khukri Kuthar Kirpan Khanjar

Abhay class	Abhay Ajay Akshay Agray

Veer class	Nirbhik Nishank Nirghat Vibhuti Vipul Vinash Vidyut Nashak Prabal Pralaya

De-commissioned ships

Corvettes

Flower class	HMIS Gondwana HMIS Sind HMIS Mahratta HMIS Assam

Bathurst class	HMIS Punjab HMIS Bombay^{[lower-alpha 1]} HMIS Bengal^{[lower-alpha 2]} HMIS Madras^{[lower-alpha 3]}

Arnala class	Arnala Androth Anjadip Andaman Amini Kamorta (P77) Kadmatt (P78) Kiltan (P79) Kavaratti (P80) Katchall Amindivi

Durg class	Vijaydurg Sindhudurg Prahar

Veer class	Veer Nipat

Anti-Submarine Naval Trawlers
(aka corvettes)

Basset class	HMIS Agra HMIS Ahmedabad HMIS Amritsar HMIS Baroda HMIS Berar HMIS Calcutta HMIS Cochin HMIS Cuttack HMIS Karachi HMIS Lahore HMIS Lucknow HMIS Madura HMIS Multan HMIS Nagpur HMIS Nasik HMIS Patna HMIS Peshawar HMIS Poona HMIS Quetta HMIS Rampur HMIS Shillong HMIS Travancore

Future ships

Kamorta class	Kiltan (P30) Kavaratti (P31)

Anti Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC) corvettes	16 vessels are ordered for the Indian Navy from Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata. They are in the 700 ton range and will replace the Abhay-class vessels currently in service.

Next Generation Missile Vessels (NGMVs)	6 vessels planned with about 2000-2500 ton range.

Footnotes

↑ Renamed as INS Bombay post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Bengal post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Madras post republic.

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