INS Khanjar (P47)

History
Name: INS Khanjar
Builder: Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
Laid down: 15 November 1985
Launched: 16 August 1988
Commissioned: 22 October 1991
Identification: Pennant number: P47
Status: in active service, as of 2016
Badge:
General characteristics
Class & type: Khukri-class corvette
Displacement: 1350 tons (full load)
Length: 91.1 metres
Beam: 10.5 metres
Draught: 4.5 metres
Propulsion:
  • 2 diesel engines with 14,400hp
  • 2 shafts
Speed: 25 knots (50 km/h)
Range: 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement: 79 (incl. 10 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • MR 352 Pozitiv-E radar
  • Garpun-Bal radar
  • Bharat 1245 navigation radar
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 helicopter (HAL Chetak)

INS Khanjar is a Khukri-class corvette, currently in service with the Indian Navy.[1]

Mock drill

On 30 November 2002 on the high seas off the coast of Vizhinjam. Mock attack drill was being staged such as Khanjar was targeting INS Jamuna, a hydrographic survey vessel carrying media persons and VIPs, including Air Vice Marshal R. D. Limaye of the Southern Air Command. This was part of the Navy Week celebrations.[2]

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