INS Kiltan

Nirmala Sitharaman Commissions INS kiltan ASW stealth corvette

Question: Submarine warship ‘INS Kiltan’, recently inducted in the Indian Navy belongs to which category?
(a) Kadmatt Class
(b) Kamorta Class
(c) Sagarika Class
(d) Arihant Class
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:

  • On October 16, 2017, INS Kiltan (P30), third Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) was commissioned into the Indian Navy by Defense minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam.
  • This is the third warship under the project 28 of the 4 anti-submarine warship of Kamorta Class.
  • It indigenously designed by the Indian Navy’s in-house organization, Directorate of Naval Design and constructed by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited, Kolkata.
  • The ship gets her name from old INS Kiltan (P79), a Petya class ASW ship that served the nation for 18 years before being decommissioned in June 1987.
  • Named after the coral island belonging to the Lakshadweep group of islands in India.
  • The sleek and magnificent ship spans 109 meters in length, 14 meters in breadth with a displacement of 3,300 tonnes.
  • It is ‘Combination of Diesel and Diesel (CODAD)’ propulsion system of four diesel engines to achieve speeds in excess of 25 knots and has an endurance of around 3,500 Nautical Miles.
  • More than 80 % of the ship is indigenous with state of the art equipment & systems to fight in Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) warfare conditions.
  • ‘INS Kiltan’ is equipped with many state-of-the-art technologies and it could not be detected by the radar.
  • Anti-submarine rockets and torpedoes have been installed on this vessel, with the help of which the enemy submarines can be detected and destroyed off.
  • It will be an integral part of Eastern Fleet under the Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy.
  • Under Project 28, in four anti-submarine warships the first warship of Kamorta Class, INS Kamorta, was inducted in the Indian Navy on August 23, 2014 and ‘INS Kadmatt’ on January 7, 2016.
  • While this category’s fourth anti-submarine warship ‘INS Kavaratti’ will soon join the Indian Navy.

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