Name INS Khukri Commissioned 23 August 1989 Status in active service Length 91 m Launched 3 December 1986 Draft 4.5 m Builder Mazagon Dock Limited | Laid down 27 September 1985 Identification Pennant number P49 Class and type Khukri-class corvette Construction started 27 September 1985 Displacement 1.225 million kg Beam 10 m | |
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INS Khukri is the lead vessel of her class of corvettes, currently in service with the Indian Navy. The ship is named after INS Khukri, the only Indian Navy ship ever lost in combat. The previous Khukri was sunk by two homing torpedoes strike by PNS Hangor during the 1971 Indian-Pakistan war. The ship's captain, Mahendra Nath Mulla, who went down with the ship standing on the deck, was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra posthumously.
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