INS Kora (P61)

	INS Kora entering Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
History
India
Name	INS Kora
Namesake	"Sword"
Builder	Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
Laid down	10 January 1990
Launched	23 September 1992
Commissioned	10 August 1998
Identification	Pennant number: P61
Status	in active service
General characteristics
Class and type	Kora-class corvette
Displacement	1,400 tons full load
Length	91.1 m (299 ft)
Beam	10.5 m (34 ft)
Draught	4.5 m (15 ft)
Propulsion	2 diesel motors with 14,400 hp; 2 shafts;
Speed	25 knots (46 km/h)
Range	4,000 mi (6,400 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement	134 (incl 14 officers)
Sensors and ; processing systems	1 × MR 352 Pozitiv-E radar; Bharat 1245 navigation radar; Bharat Vympel IPN-10 combat data system;
Armament	16 × Kh-35 Uran-E SSM; 2 × Strela-2M (SA-N-5) SAM; 1 × 76.2mm AK–176M gun; 2 × 30mm AK-630 guns;
Aircraft carried	1 HAL Chetak or HAL Dhruv helicopter

INS Kora is the lead ship of the Kora-Class of 1,350-tonne guided missile Corvettes in active service with the Indian Navy.^[1] The vessel was built at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) and outfitted at Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL).

She is equipped with 3M-24 Anti-Ship Missiles as a primary weapon, with two Strela-2M Anti-Air Missiles as defensive weapons.^[2]

^ "Surface Ships of Indian Navy". Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
^ "Project 25A Kora Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 6 July 2019.