![]() KD Kasturi (F25)
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Name | KD Kasturi |
Builder | Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft |
Launched | May 1983 |
Commissioned | August 1984 |
Status | In active service |
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Class and type | Kasturi-class corvette |
Displacement | 1,850 long tons (1,880 t) full load |
Length | 98 m (321 ft 6 in) |
Beam | 11.5 m (37 ft 9 in) |
Draught | 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) |
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Speed | 28 knots (32 mph; 52 km/h) |
Range | 5,000 mi (8,000 km) |
Complement | 124 |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Super Lynx 300 helicopter |
Aviation facilities | Helicopter landing platform |
KD Kasturi is the lead ship of Kasturi-class corvette of the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN). She was acquired in the 1980s and served under 22nd Corvette Squadron of RMN and based in Lumut Perak. Kasturi is based on HDW's FS 1500 design.[1][2]