INS Kesari (2008)

INS Kesari is a Shardul-class tank landing ship of the Indian Navy.[1][3][4]

For other ships with the same name, see INS Kesari.
INS Kesari (L15) during Milan 2018 exercise
History
India
Name: INS Kesari[1]
Namesake: Gir lion
Builder: Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
Commissioned: 5 April 2008
Homeport: Port Blair
Identification:
Status: In active service
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Shardul-class tank landing ship
Displacement: 5650 tons
Length: 125 m (410 ft)
Beam: 17.5 m (57 ft)
Draught: 4 m (13 ft)
Propulsion: Kirloskar PA6 STC engines[2]
Speed: 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Capacity:
  • 11 MBT, 10 vehicles
  • 465.8 m3 (16,450 cu ft) water, 1,292.6 m3 (45,650 cu ft) diesel fuel
Troops: 500
Complement: 11 officers, 145 sailors
Electronic warfare
& decoys:		 Chaff launchers
Armament:
  • 2 × WM-18 rocket launchers
  • 4 × CRN-91 AA (Naval 30mm Medak) guns, MANPAD's.
Aircraft carried: 1 Westland Sea King or HAL Dhruv

History

The ship was launched by Sandhya Prasad, wife of Vice Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Yashwant Prasad.[5]

In 2009, INS Kesari was transferred from the Eastern Naval Command in Vishakhapatnam to Port Blair.[6]

In March 2014, the ship, under the command of Commander Mahesh Mangipudi, was involved in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the Indian Ocean region. [7]

References
  1. Archived 19 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "INS Kesari". ABS Eagle. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  3. "Surface Ships". Indian Navy. Archived from the original on 25 March 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  4. "Shardul Class". Indian Navy. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  5. "New state-of-art vessel joins Navy". Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  6. Archived 15 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Plane-hunt armada steams towards India's backyard". The Telegraph. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
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