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| Name | INS Kirpan |
| Namesake | Ceremonial dagger worn by Khalsa Sikhs |
| Builder | Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers |
| Laid down | 15 November 1985 |
| Launched | 16 August 1988 |
| Commissioned | 12 January 1991 |
| Decommissioned | 22 July 2023[1] |
| Identification | Pennant number: P44 |
| Status | Decommissioned & handed over to the Vietnamese Navy |
| History | |
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 Vietnam | |
| Acquired | 22 July 2023 |
| Identification | Ship 26[2] |
| 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 |
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| Speed | 25 knots (50 km/h) |
| Range | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Complement | 79 (incl. 10 officers) |
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| Armament | |
| Aircraft carried | 1 helicopter (HAL Chetak) |
INS Kirpan is the name of a Khukri-class corvette formerly commissioned by the Indian Navy.[3] It was recently decommissioned and handed over to Vietnam People's Navy in a ceremony presided over by Adm. R. Hari Kumar and Rear Adm. Pham Manh Hung, Deputy Commander-in-Chief and Chief of Staff, Vietnam People's Navy.[4]
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PIB-210723was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Hải quân Việt Nam tiếp nhận chiến hạm 26, mong bạn nốt cho 27, 28". YouTube. 23 July 2023.
- ^ "Navy Gifts Active Warship To Vietnam, First By India To Any Country".
- ^ on%20Wednesday%2C%20the%20navy%20said. "Missile boat Kirpan decommissioned from Indian Navy, handed over to Vietnam as gift".
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