INS Kamorta

INS Kamorta during sea trials before commissioning
History
Indian NavyIndia
Name:	INS Kamorta (P28)
Namesake:	Kamorta Islands
Operator:	Indian Navy
Builder:	GRSE
Cost:	₹28 billion (US$435 million)
Laid down:	20 November 2006
Launched:	19 April 2010
Acquired:	12 July 2014
Commissioned:	23 August 2014
Homeport:	Visakhapatnam
Identification:	Pennant number: P28
Status:	in active service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Kamorta-class ASW corvette
Displacement:	3,500 tonnes.
Length:	109.1 m
Beam:	13.7 m
Propulsion:	4 × Pielstick 12 PA6 STC Diesel engines CODAD, DCNS raft mounted gearbox
Speed:	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement:	13 Officers and 180 Sailors
Sensors and processing systems:	Revati Central Acquisition Radar EL/M-2221 STGR fire-control radar BEL Shikari BEL RAWL02 (Signaal LW08) antenna communication grid - Gigabit Ethernet-based integrated ship borne data network, with a fiber optic cable backbone running through the vessel HUMSA (Hull Mounted Sonar Array) Bomber Electronic warfare (EW) suites - BEL Ajanta
Electronic warfare & decoys:	DESEAVER MK Kavach Sanket
Armament:	1 × 76.2 mm Oto SRGM 2 × AK-630M CIWS 2 × RBU-6000 (IRL) anti-submarine rocket launcher 4 x 533 mm Torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried:	1 Westland Sea King Mk.42B

INS Kamorta is the first of four anti-submarine Kamorta-class stealth corvettes which has been built for the Indian Navy. It is a significant step towards India's pursuit for self-reliance in indigenous warship building, bringing closer home Indian Navy's quest to be a true Blue-Water Navy with ships and submarines designed and built within the country. She was designed and manufactured by GRSE, launched on 19 April 2010, as part of Project 28, approved in 2003. As in INS Shivalik, high-grade steel produced in India was utilized for its construction. She was delivered to Navy on 12 July 2014. She is the first indigenous anti-submarine corvette as well as the first indigenous stealth corvette built by India. She has enhanced stealth features such as an X Form Hull and inclined sides for low Radar cross-section, Infra-red suppression, and Acoustic quieting systems. Union minister of defense, Arun Jaitley commissioned the ship on 23 August 2014. It was named after Kamorta island in Andaman and Nicobar, India .

The INS Kamorta was originally expected to be built using high-tensile imported steel. But lapses in imports lead it to be built by indigenously developed special grade high-tensile steel (DMR249A) produced by state-owned Steel Authority of India from its Bhilai Steel Plant. The ships employs very low under water voice signature and radar cross-section due to its ‘X’ form of hull and superstructure. She is the first Indian Navy ship to be built with carbon fiber reinforced plastic which reduces weight and life cycle maintenance costs. The hull of the ship encompassed the bulk of sensors and weapon systems that were also indigenously manufactured by various Indian industries.