INS Kirpan Indigenously-built missile corvett (small warship) INS Kirpan is a Khukri class missile corvette displacing 1,350 tonnes. It ...
INS Kirpan
Indigenously-built missile corvett (small warship)
INS Kirpan is a Khukri class missile corvette displacing 1,350 tonnes.
It was commissioned into the Navy on January 12, 1991.
It has a displacement of close to 1,400 tonnes, a length of 91 metres, capable of speed in excess of 25 knots.
The ship is fitted with a medium range gun, 30 mm close range guns, chaff launchers and surface-to-surface missiles.
India gifted the INS Kirpan to Vietnam to enhance its naval capabilities.
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