INS Kora (P61)
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| History |
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| 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 |
| Badge: |
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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
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| 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
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| Armament: |
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| 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]
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