INS Kadmatt
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INS Kadmatt commissioning ceremony
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| Name: | INS Kadmatt |
| Namesake: | Kadmat Island |
| Builder: | Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers |
| Launched: | 25 October 2011 |
| Acquired: | 26 November 2015 |
| Commissioned: | 7 January 2016 |
| Status: | in active service |
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| Class and type: | Kamorta class corvette |
| Displacement: | 3,000 t (3,300 short tons) |
| Length: | 109 m (358 ft) |
| Beam: | 12.8 m (42 ft) |
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| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,450 mi (5,550 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 180 sailors and 13 Officers |
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| Aircraft carried: | 1 Westland Sea King Mk.42B |
INS Kadmatt (P29) is the second of four anti-submarine warfare corvettes built for the Indian Navy by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers of Kolkata under Project 28. She was inducted into the Eastern Naval Command of Indian Navy.
INS Kadmatt has been named after the Kadmat Island of India's Lakshadweep Islands and carries on the legacy of her predecessor INS Kadmatt (P 78), which served the Navy for 24 years from 23 December 1968 to 30 November 1992. The ship was launched on 25 October 2011 by Mamatha Pallam Raju, the wife of the then Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju. The ship was delivered to the Indian Navy on 26 November 2015 and was commissioned on 7 January 2016 by Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral R K Dhowan at naval dockyard in Visakhapatnam.
The primary role of the INS Kadmatt is in anti submarine warfare – to protect ships in convoys and ports from enemy submarine attacks. About 90 per cent of the ship is indigenous and has been designed by the Navy's in-house organization, the Directorate of Naval Design and has been constructed using high grade steel (DMR 249A) produced in India.
It produces low levels of radiated underwater noise which reduces its chances of detection. It is equipped with a host of features including anti-aircraft guns, torpedoes and rocket launchers. The ship also has on-board early warning, navigation and fire control radars besides underwater sensors and integrated communication and electronic warfare systems.
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