BOMBAY: “Ins Kuthar” the second missile corvette class warship, which has been built by Mazagon Docks limited (MDL) here at a cost of Rs. 900 million is ready to be inducted into the Indian navy.
The ship, displacing 1300 tonnes, is equipped with surface to surface and surface to air missiles and antiaircraft guns, and also has aradar known as “positive” which can spot low flying targets at long range from the ship.
INS Kuthar, the second indigenously built ship at MDL, will be commissioned Thursday at a special ceremony at destroyers wharf in the naval dockyard at Maharashtra governor C Subramaniam.
Kuthar will have a crew of eight officers and 74 sailors and it will be part of the western fleet on commissioning. The first Corvette class type, the INS Khukri, was commissioned in August last.
INS Kuthar, which has been renamed after the old Kuthar, a blackwood class frigate that served the Indian navy during the 1962 GOA Operation and the 1965 and 1971 wars with Pakistan, will have an electronic surveillance measure (ESM), known as Ajanta P.
The ship has four surface to surface long range missiles having a range of 120 miles.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 15, 1990
