INS Chamak (K95)

INS Chamak (K95) fires a P-15 Termit missile.
History
India
Name	INS Chamak
Commissioned	4 November 1976
Decommissioned	5 May 2005
Status	Museum ship in Pune [1]
General characteristics
Class & type	Chamak class missile boat
Displacement	245 tons (full load) [2]
Length	38.6 meters
Beam	7.6 meters
Speed	37+ knots
Complement	30
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 1970s, 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 5 May 2005 and was towed/sailed to Pune as a museum ship. INS Chamak was designed to be a modified version of the Project 205 Moskit-Class (Osa-class missile boats) of the Soviet Navy.

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 and corvettes.

1. "NDA Road, Pune". Mapio. 23 February 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
2. "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″N73°45′57″E / 18.466616°N 73.765821°E / 18.466616; 73.765821