Khukri-class corvette

Class overview
INS Kuthar
Name:	Khukri class
Builders:	Mazagon Dock Limited Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
Operators:	Indian Navy
Preceded by:	Veer class
Succeeded by:	Kora class
In commission:	1989-
Planned:	4
Completed:	4
Active:	4
General characteristics
Type:	Corvette
Displacement:	Full load: 1,350 tonnes
Length:	91.1 m (299 ft)
Beam:	10.5 m (34 ft)
Draught:	4.5 m (15 ft)
Speed:	25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range:	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) @ 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement:	79 including 10 officers
Sensors and processing systems:	MR-123 Fire control radar 1 MR 352 Pozitiv-E air radar 1 Garpun-Bal air/surface radar 1 BEL 1245 navigation radar
Electronic warfare & decoys:	1 BEL Ajanta P Mk.II used in the ESM role Decoy 2 PK-10 chaff launchers 1 NPOL designed towed torpedo decoy
Armament:	2 × AK-630 CIWS 1 × AK-176 76mm gun 4 × P-20M missiles 2 × SA-N-5 SAM launchers
Aircraft carried:	1 HAL Dhruv

The Khukri-class corvette were a class of corvettes intended to replace the ageing Petya II-class corvettes of the Indian Navy.

The first two were ordered in December 1984 and the remaining in 1985. The diesel engines were assembled in India, under license by Kirloskar Group. Around 65% of the ship contains indigenous content.

Ships of the class

Name	Builder	Homeport	Commissioned	Status
Khukri (P49)	Mazagon Dock Limited	Kochi	23 August 1989	Active
Kuthar (P46)	Mazagon Dock Limited	Mumbai	7 June 1990	Active
Kirpan (P44)	GRSE	Visakhapatnam	12 January 1991	Active
Khanjar (P47)	GRSE	Visakhapatnam	22 October 1991	Active

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Corvettes of the Indian Navy

Commissioned ships

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

De-commissioned ships

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

Future ships

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

↑ Renamed as INS Bombay post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Bengal post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Madras post republic.

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Khukri-class corvette

Ships of the class

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