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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") 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.

References

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

v t e Corvettes of the Indian Navy
Commissioned ships	Kamorta class Kamorta (P28) Kadmatt (P29) Kiltan (P30) Kavaratti (P31) Kora class Kora Kirch Kulish Karmuk Khukri class Kuthar Kirpan Khanjar Abhay class Abhay Veer class Vibhuti Vipul Vinash Vidyut Nashak Prabal Pralaya
Decommissioned ships	Flower class HMIS Gondwana HMIS Sind HMIS Mahratta HMIS Assam Bathurst class HMIS Punjab HMIS Bombay HMIS Bengal HMIS Madras Arnala class Arnala Androth Anjadip Andaman Amini Kamorta (P77) Kadmatt (P78) Kiltan (P79) Kavaratti (P80) Katchall Amindivi Durg class Vijaydurg Sindhudurg Hosdurg Veer class Veer Nirbhik Nipat Nirghat Prahar Nishank Abhay class Ajay Akshay Agray Khukri class Khukri Basset class HMIS Agra HMIS Ahmedabad HMIS Amritsar HMIS Baroda HMIS Berar HMIS Calcutta HMIS Cochin HMIS Cuttack HMIS Karachi HMIS Lahore HMIS Lucknow HMIS Madura HMIS Multan HMIS Nagpur HMIS Nasik HMIS Patna HMIS Peshawar HMIS Poona HMIS Quetta HMIS Rampur HMIS Shillong HMIS Travancore
Future ships	ASW-SWC INS Mahe INS Malwan INS Mangrol INS Arnala (P68) INS Androth (P69) 11 more ships NGMV 6 vessels
Footnotes Renamed as INS Bombay post republic. Renamed as INS Bengal post republic. Renamed as INS Madras post republic. Classified as Anti-Submarine Naval Trawlers

• Abhay-class corvettes