Name Veer class Preceded by Durg class Planned 15 | Succeeded by Khukri class | |
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Builders Mazagon Dock LimitedGoa Shipyard Limited | ||
The Veer class corvettes of the Indian Navy are a customized Indian variant of the Soviet Tarantul-class. They form the 22nd Killer Missile Vessel Squadron.
Service history
Eight vessels of this class inherit their names from the 25th Killer missile boat squadron, which attacked and sunk 2 destroyers, a minesweeper and various other support vessels off Karachi during Operation Trident and Operation Python of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
The last two vessels of this class were built as the upgraded Tarantul V with 16 SS-N-25 'Switchblade' / URAN E Missiles, 1 OTO Melara 76 mm instead of the AK-176, and MR 352 Positiv-E (NATO: Cross Dome) Radar.
On 28 April 2016, INS Veer and INS Nipat were the first Veer class corvettes to be decommissioned from the Indian Navy.