INS Kirch (P62)

History
INS Kirch (left) during SIMBEX 2011

Name:	INS Kirch
Builder:	Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers and Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited
Laid down:	31 January 1992
Launched:	5 October 1995
Commissioned:	22 January 2001
Identification:	Pennant number: P62
Status:	in active service
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Kora-class corvette
Displacement:	1,400 tons full load
Length:	91.1 m (299 ft)
Beam:	10.5 m (34 ft)
Draught:	4.5 m (15 ft)
Propulsion:	2 diesel motors with 14,400 hp 2 shafts
Speed:	25 knots (46 km/h)
Range:	4,000 mi (6,400 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement:	134 (incl 14 officers)
Sensors and processing systems:	1 × MR 352 Pozitiv-E radar Bharat 1245 navigation radar Bharat Vympel IPN-10 combat data system
Armament:	16 × Kh-35 Uran-E SSM 2 × Strela-2M (SA-N-5) SAM 1 × 76.2mm OTO-Melara SRGM gun 2 × 30mm AK-630 guns
Aircraft carried:	1 HAL Chetak or HAL Dhruv helicopter

INS Kirch is a Kora-class corvette, currently in active service with the Indian Navy.^[1]

Service history

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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