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INS Kamorta the first indigenous stealth corvette of Indian Navy

New Delhi: INS Kamorta is the first indigenous anti-submarine corvette as well as the first indigenous stealth corvette built by India and commissioned into the Navy on 23 August 2014. It is designed and manufactured




Indian Navy
 
Name: INS Kamorta (P28)
 
Namesake: Kamorta Islands
 
Operator: Indian Navy
 
Builder: GRSE
 
Cost: 28 billion (US$465 million)
 
Laid down: 20 November 2006
 
Launched: 19 April 2010
 
Acquired: 12 July 2014
 
Commissioned:
23 August 2014
 
General characteristics

 
Class & type: Kamorta-class ASW corvette
 
Displacement: 3,100 tonnes
 
Length: 109.1 m
 
Beam: 13.7 m
 
Propulsion: 4 x Pielstick 12 PA6 STC Diesel engines

CODAD, DCNS raft mounted gearbox

 
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
 


Sensors and  processing systems:

Revati Central Acquisition Radar
EL/M-2221 STGR fire-control radar
BEL Shikari
BEL RAWL02 (Signaal LW08) antenna communication grid - Gigabit Ethernet-based integrated ship borne data network, with a fiber optic cable backbone running through the vessel
HUMSA (Hull Mounted Sonar Array)

Bomber Electronic warfare (EW) suites - BEL Ajanta
 
Electronic warfare & decoys:

DESEAVER MK
Kavach
Sanket
 
Armament:

1 X 76.2 mm Oto SRGM
2 x AK-630M CIWS
2 X RBU-6000 (IRL) anti-submarine rocket launcher
16x Barak SAM
8x 3M54 Klub
2x3 Torpedo tubes
 
Aircraft carried:

1 Westland Sea King Mk.42B

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