Class overview | |
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Name | Vidyut class |
Operators | Indian Navy |
Succeeded by | Chamak class |
Planned | 8 |
Completed | 8 |
Retired | 8 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Fast attack craft |
Displacement | 245 tons (full load)[1] |
Length | 38.6 m (127 ft) |
Beam | 7.6 m (25 ft) |
Speed | 37 knots (69 km/h)+ |
Complement | 30 |
Armament |
The Vidyut-class missile boats (Sanskrit; Devanagari: विद्युत्, lightning) of the Indian Navy were an Indian variant of the Soviet Osa I class.[2][3]
These vessels formed the 25th "Killer" Missile Boat Squadron, which sunk 2 destroyers, a minesweeper and various other vessels of the Pakistan Navy during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.