Active 2 Displacement 35,900 tons full load Beam 25 m (82 ft 0 in) | Type Replenishment tanker Length 178 m (584 ft 0 in) | |
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Operators Indian Navy
People's Liberation Army Navy | ||
The Komandarm Fedko class is a class of replenishment tankers operated by the Indian and Chinese navies. Four ships of the Komandarm Fedko class were constructed by the Soviet Union, later Russia, of which one was bought by India, one by China and two are in commercial service. INS Jyoti (meaning "light") is the second largest ship in the Indian Navy after the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya. Likewise Qinghai-Hu is the second largest ship in the People's Liberation Army Navy after the aircraft carrier Liaoning.
History
INS Jyoti was constructed by the Admiralty Shipyard of St. Petersburg, Russia. It was built to be a Project 15966M merchant tanker, but was modified and purchased by the Indian Navy, and got commissioned on 20 July 1996. The ship was based at Bombay, where it arrived in November 2006. It is deployed as a major force multiplier in sustaining the navy's blue water operations. It can increase the range of a naval task force without tanker support from seven days and 2,400 nautical miles (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) to 50 days and 16,800 nautical miles (31,100 km; 19,300 mi). INS Jyoti visited Shanghai in 2003, and participated in exercises by the Indian and Singapore navies in 2010.