INS Khukri decommissioned after 32 years of service to nation
The Hindu
The corvette was built by the Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders and commissioned on August 23, 1989.
The Sun has finally set on INS Khukri (Pennant number 49), the first of the indigenously built missile corvettes, in Visakhapatnam on December 23 evening.
The ship was decommissioned after 32 years of service to the nation, Visakhapatanam at Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam.
At the solemn ceremony, the national flag, naval ensign and the decommissioning pennant were lowered at sunset in the presence of Vice-Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta, the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Naval Command and some serving and retired former commanding officers of the ship.
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