INS Chamak (K95)

INS Chamak (K95) fires a P-15 Termit missile.
History
India
NameINS Chamak
Commissioned4 November 1976
Decommissioned5 May 2005
StatusMuseum ship in Pune[1]
General characteristics
Class and typeChamak class missile boat
Displacement245 tons (full load)[2]
Length38.6 meters
Beam7.6 meters
Speed37+ knots
Complement30
Armament
  • 4 × SS-N-2A Styx AShM
  • 1 × SA-N-5 SAM
  • 2 × AK-230 30mm guns

INS Chamak (K95) (Glitter)[3] was the lead vessel of her class of fast attack craft of the Indian Navy.[2][4][5][6] The INS Chamak was first constructed throughout the '70s, it had a displacement of 245 tons with its full load and measured about 38.6m long, it had a speed of over 37+ kts.

The INS Chamak was fully decommissioned on the 5th of May 2005 and was towed/sailed to its final resting place in Pune, India as a museum ship. INS Chamak was designed to be a modified version of the Project 205 Moskit-Class (Osa-class missile boats) owned by the Soviet Navy as of the '70s.

Armaments

The INS Chamak was armed with a standard AK-230 30mm gun, commonly used as a sea-gun piece for typically less armored and less capable of open sea deployment vessels, it was armed with the SA-N-5 SAM system modified to be capable of sea-type deployment, and the SS-N-2A Styx (NATO Reporting Name: P-15 Termit) used for anti-ship deployments commonly used on weaker vessels, such as frigates, corvette's etc.

  1. ^ "NDA Road, Pune". Mapio. 23 February 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Surface Ships of Indian Navy". Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
  3. ^ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%95#:~:text=Noun,glitter%2C%20sparkle
  4. ^ "Bharat-Rakshak.com :: NAVY - Osa II Class". Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  5. ^ "Photos of INS CHAMAK". Flicker. 27 May 2009.
  6. ^ "Photos of INS CHAMAK". warbirds.in. Archived from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2011.

18°28′00″N 73°45′57″E / 18.466616°N 73.765821°E / 18.466616; 73.765821


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