INS Kavaratti (P31)
INS Kavaratti during trials. | |
| History | |
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| Name | INS Kavaratti |
| Namesake | Kavaratti |
| Builder | Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers |
| Laid down | 20 January 2012 |
| Launched | 19 May 2015 |
| Acquired | 18 February 2020 |
| Commissioned | 22 October 2020 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Kamorta-class corvette |
| Displacement | 3,300 tons |
| Length | 109 m (358 ft) |
| Beam | 12.8 m (42 ft) |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
| Range | 3,450 mi (5,550 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement | 123 (incl 17 officers) |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 Westland Sea King Mk.42B or HAL Dhruv |
| Aviation facilities | Rail-less helo traversing system and foldable hangar door |
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INS Kavaratti (P31) is an anti-submarine warfare corvette of the Indian Navy built under Project 28. It is the last of four Kamorta-class corvettes. The ship was built by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata, and launched on 19 May 2015. Kavaratti represents a leap forward in the Navy's attempts at indigenisation with as much as 90% of its content drawn from India itself. It was commissioned into the Navy on 22 October 2020 in Visakhapatnam.