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| Class overview | |
| Name: | Abhay class |
| Operators: |
 Indian Navy |
| Planned: | 4 |
| Completed: | 4 |
| Active: | 1 |
| Retired: | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Abhay Class |
| Type: | Corvette |
| Displacement: | 485 tons |
| Length: | 57.6 meters |
| Beam: | 10.2 meters |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Complement: | 32 (incl 6 officers) |
| Armament: |
1 x quad Strela-2M (SA-N-5) SAM 1 x AK-76/60 76mm gun 4 x 533mm torpedo tubes, SET-65E anti-submarine torpedoes 2 x RBU 1200 five-tubed |
The Abhay class corvettes of the Indian Navy are customized variants of the Soviet Pauk class corvettes. The class is primarily intended for coastal patrol and anti-submarine warfare.
Four vessels of the class currently serve in the Indian Navy.[1]
Ships of the class[]
| Name | Pennant | Builder | Homeport | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Status |
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| Abhay | P33 | Volodarski | Mumbai | 10 March 1989 | Active | |
| Ajay | P34 | 24 January 1990 | 19 September 2022 | Decommissioned | ||
| Akshay | P35 | 10 December 1990 | 3 June 2022 | Decommissioned | ||
| Agray | P36 | 30 January 1991 | 27 January 2017 | Decommissioned |
GRSE has successfully re-engined the first of three 57-metre long 589-tonne Project 1241.2 Molniya-2 ASW corvettes (INS Abhay, INS Ajay and INS Akshay) of the IN. Sea trials of the re-engined INS Abhay have been successfully completed, with work involving the replacement of Russia-made M504 radial engines with high-power-to-weight MTU-1163 engines. Work is now underway to procure through competitive tendering three sets of ultra-low-frequency towed-array sonars (from either ATLAS Elektronik of Germany or US-based L-3 Communications/Ocean Systems) for installation on board these three ASW corvettes.
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