INS Kora
INS Kora entering Trincomalee, Sri Lanka | |
| History | |
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| India | |
| Name | INS Kora |
| Namesake | "Sword" |
| Builder | Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers |
| Laid down | 10 January 1990 |
| Launched | 23 September 1992 |
| Commissioned | 10 August 1998 |
| Identification | Pennant number: P61 |
| Status | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Kora-class corvette |
| Displacement | 1,400 tons full load |
| Length | 91.1 m (298 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 10.5 m (34 ft 5 in) |
| Draught | 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in) |
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| Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
| Range | 4,000 mi (6,400 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Complement | 134 (incl 14 officers) |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 HAL Chetak or HAL Dhruv helicopter |
INS Kora is the lead ship of the Kora-class of 1,350-tonne guided missile corvettes in active service with the Indian Navy. The vessel was built at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) and outfitted at Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL).
She is equipped with 3M-24 anti-ship missiles as a primary weapon, with two Strela-2M anti-air missiles as defensive weapons.