INS Kiltan (P30)
Kiltan (P30) at Cam Ranh Bay Port, Vietnam | |
| History | |
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| Name | INS Kiltan |
| Namesake | Kiltan Island |
| Builder | Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers |
| Laid down | 10 August 2010 |
| Launched | 26 March 2013 |
| Acquired | 14 October 2017 |
| Commissioned | 16 October 2017 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Kamorta-class corvette |
| Displacement | 3,000 tonnes (3,307 short tons) |
| Length | 109 m (358 ft) |
| Beam | 12.8 m (42 ft) |
| Propulsion | 4 diesel motors |
| 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 × Ka-28PL or HAL Dhruv |
| Aviation facilities | Rail-less helo traversing system and foldable hangar door |
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INS Kiltan (P30) is an anti-submarine warfare corvette of the Indian Navy built under Project 28. It is the third of four Kamorta-class corvettes. The ship was built by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata, launched on 26 March 2013, and commissioned on 16 October 2017. Kiltan represents a leap forward in the Navy's attempts at localisation with as much as 90% of its content drawn from India itself.