INS Kuthar (P46)

History
INS Kuthar

Name:	INS Kuthar
Builder:	Mazagon Dock Limited
Laid down:	13 September 1986
Launched:	15 April 1989
Commissioned:	7 June 1990
Identification:	Pennant number: P46
Status:	in active service
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General characteristics
Class and 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:	4 × P-20M (SS-N-2D) AShMs 2 × Strela-2M (SA-N-5) SAM 1 × AK–176 76mm gun 2 × 30mm AK-630 guns
Aircraft carried:	1 helicopter (HAL Chetak)

INS Kuthar is a Khukri-class corvette, currently in service with the Indian Navy. It was designed by Indian naval architects and built at Mazagon Dock in Mumbai. INS Kuthar was part of Western Naval Command till 1998 later it moved to be part of Eastern Naval Command.^[1] It was damaged in a mishap that occurred on 15 July 2014. The mishap occurred after the naval ship returned to the port after completing a mission.

Maritime exercise

Kuthar was one of the six ships of Eastern Naval Command which was part of naval exercise in Bay of Bengal on the eve of Navy week celebrations in the year 2005.^[2]
Missile corvette Kuthar along with INS Satpura and INS Ranvijay represented the Indian Navy in the first ever Japan-India maritime exercise (JIMEX) which was held in the Bay of Bengal from 19 December to 22 December 2013.^[3]

Incidents

Sub Lieutenant Tejveer Singh died on Tuesday October 11, 2016 onboard INS Kuthar after he accidentally fired his 9mm pistol. Singh fired the round accidentally at around 1430 hours and was injured. He was then shifted to Naval Hospital INHS Kalyani in Visakhapatnam wherein he succumbed to his injuries.^[4]

References

↑ "Navy welcomes students aboard INS Kuthar". The Hindu. 10 Nov 2013.
↑ "Eastern Naval Command exercises thrill children to the core". The Hindu. 24 Nov 2005.
↑ "First Maritime Exercise between Japan and India Set for Today". Naval Today.
↑ "Indian Navy officer dies in INS Kuthar due to accidental firing". The Indian Express.

Corvettes of the Indian Navy

Commissioned ships

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

De-commissioned ships

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

Future ships

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

↑ Renamed as INS Bombay post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Bengal post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Madras post republic.

Ship classes of the Indian Navy

Attack	Charlie ⁺ Akula-II Indian SSN ^*

Ballistic Missile	Arihant ^*

Conventional submarines

Midget submarines

Indian Navy Swimmer Delivery Vehicle ^*

Amphibious warfare ships

Research and survey vessels

Patrol craft

Minesweeper

Pondicherry

⁺ Decommissioned
^* Under construction/procurement
^** Proposed/Design phase
List of active Indian Navy ships
Submarines of the Indian Navy
List of ships of the Indian Navy

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