INS Abhay (P33)

History


Name:	INS Abhay
Commissioned:	10 March 1989
Status:	in active service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Abhay class corvette
Displacement:	485 tons full load
Length:	56.0 m (183.7 ft)
Beam:	10.2 m (33 ft)
Draft:	3.3 m (11 ft)
Propulsion:	2 diesel motors with 16,184 hp and 2 shafts (Another report says 4 engines)
Speed:	28 knots (52 km/h), (32 knots according to Jane's)
Range:	2,400 mi (3,900 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement:	97 (incl. 7 officers), (Jane's lists 32, with 6 officers)
Sensors and processing systems:	1 × MR 352 Pozitiv-E search radar 1 × Pechora navigation radar 1 × Rat Tail VDS sonar
Armament:	1 × quad Strela-2M (SA-N-5) SAM 1 × AK-76/60 76mm gun 4 × 533mm torpedo tubes, SET-65E anti-submarine torpedoes 2 × RBU 1200 five-tubed

INS Abhay (P33) is the lead ship of her class of anti-submarine warfare corvettes, currently in service with the Indian Navy.

Abhay is Sanskrit for fearless. The ship was commissioned on 10 March 1989.^[1]

References

Ship classes of the Indian Navy

Corvettes of the Indian Navy

Kamorta class	Kamorta (P28) Kadmatt (P29)

Kora class	Kora Kirch Kulish Karmuk

Khukri class	Khukri Kuthar Kirpan Khanjar

Abhay class	Abhay Ajay Akshay Agray

Veer class	Nirbhik Nishank Nirghat Vibhuti Vipul Vinash Vidyut Nashak Prabal Pralaya

Corvettes

Flower class	HMIS Gondwana HMIS Sind HMIS Mahratta HMIS Assam

Bathurst class	HMIS Punjab HMIS Bombay^{[lower-alpha 1]} HMIS Bengal^{[lower-alpha 2]} HMIS Madras^{[lower-alpha 3]}

Arnala class	Arnala Androth Anjadip Andaman Amini Kamorta (P77) Kadmatt (P78) Kiltan (P79) Kavaratti (P80) Katchall Amindivi

Durg class	Vijaydurg Sindhudurg Prahar

Veer class	Veer Nipat

Anti-Submarine Naval Trawlers
(aka corvettes)

Basset class	HMIS Agra HMIS Ahmedabad HMIS Amritsar HMIS Baroda HMIS Berar HMIS Calcutta HMIS Cochin HMIS Cuttack HMIS Karachi HMIS Lahore HMIS Lucknow HMIS Madura HMIS Multan HMIS Nagpur HMIS Nasik HMIS Patna HMIS Peshawar HMIS Poona HMIS Quetta HMIS Rampur HMIS Shillong HMIS Travancore

Kamorta class	Kiltan (P30) Kavaratti (P31)

Anti Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC) corvettes	16 vessels are ordered for the Indian Navy from Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata. They are in the 700 ton range and will replace the Abhay-class vessels currently in service.

Next Generation Missile Vessels (NGMVs)	6 vessels planned with about 2000-2500 ton range.

Footnotes

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