INS Kora (P61)

INS Kora is the lead ship of the Kora-Class of Corvettes in active service with the Indian Navy.[1]

INS Kora entering Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
History
India
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:
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

She is equipped with 3M-24 Anti-Ship Missiles as a primary weapon, with two Strela-2M Anti-Air Missiles as defensive weapons.[2]

History

Kora was on a goodwill visit to Singapore in 2001.[2]

On 31 October 2014, Kora was in collision with the cargo ship MV Madeleine Rickmers in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Vishakhapatnam.[3]

Kora took part in the 2015 SLINEX training exercises from 27 October to 1 November.[4]

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. "Project 25A Kora Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
3. Hancock, Paul (31 October 2014). "INS KORA DAMAGED". Shipwrecklog. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
4. "Exercise SLINEX-15 - Navy Ships enter Trincomalee | Indian Navy". www.indiannavy.nic.in. Retrieved 6 July 2019.