INS Abhay (P33)

History
Name	INS Abhay
Commissioned	10 March 1989
Status	In Active Service
General characteristics
Class and type	Abhay class corvette
Displacement	485 tons full load
Length	56.0 m (183.7 ft)
Beam	10.2 m (33 ft)
Draft	3.3 m (11 ft)
Propulsion	2 diesel motors with 16,184 hp and 2 shafts (Another report says 4 engines)
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h), (32 knots according to Jane's)
Range	2,400 mi (3,900 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	97 (incl. 7 officers), (Jane's lists 32, with 6 officers)
Sensors and ; processing systems	1 × MR 352 Pozitiv-E search radar; 1 × Pechora navigation radar; 1 × Rat Tail VDS sonar;
Armament	1 × quad Strela-2M (SA-N-5) SAM; 1 × AK-176 76mm gun; 4 × 533mm torpedo tubes, SET-65E anti-submarine torpedoes; 2 × RBU-1200 five-tubed Anti-submarine warfare rocket launchers;

INS Abhay (P33) ("Fearless")^[1] is the lead ship of her class of anti-submarine warfare corvettes, which are in service with the Indian Navy.

Abhay is Sanskrit for fearless. The ship was commissioned on 10 March 1989.^[2]

References[edit]

^ "अभय". 29 March 2023 – via Wiktionary.
^ Abhay (Pauk II) class Archived 2009-07-03 at the Wayback Machine – Bharat-Rakshak. Retrieved on 2009-04-18