INS Kiltan
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| Name: | INS Kiltan |
| Namesake: | Kiltan Island |
| Builder: | Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers |
| Laid down: | 10 August 2010 |
| Launched: | 26 March 2013 |
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| Class and type: | Kamorta-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 3,000 tonnes (3,307 short tons) |
| Length: | 109 m (358 ft) |
| Beam: | 12.8 m (42 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 diesel motors |
| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,450 mi (5,550 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 123 (incl 17 officers) |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
DESEAVER MK |
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INS Kiltan (P30) is an anti-submarine warfare corvette of the Indian Navy built under Project 28. It is the third of four Kamorta-class corvettes under various stages of induction with the Indian Navy. The ship was built by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata, and launched on 26 March 2013. Kiltan represents a leap forward in the Navy's attempts at indigenisation with as much as 90% of its content drawn from India itself.
The keel of Kiltan was laid in August 2010 and it was launched in Kolkata on 26 March 2013 by Chitra Joshi, wife of Admiral D. K. Joshi, the Chief of Naval Staff. The ship cost an estimated ₹1,700 crores. The ship takes its name from the Kiltan Island, a coral island that is part of India's archipelagic Union Territory of Lakshadweep. It is the successor ship to the INS Kiltan, which was an Arnala-class corvette which participated in Operation Trident, and was later decommissioned in 1987.
Kiltan has been designed by the Indian Navy’s Directorate of Naval Design as part of Project 28. It is capable of fighting under nuclear, biological and chemical environments. It will be a frontline warship of the Indian Navy with advanced stealth features and a low radar signature that enhances its anti-submarine warfare capability. The ship will have a complement of 17 officers and 106 sailors.
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