INS Kursura S20
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| Career |  |
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| Laid down: | |
| Launched: | |
| Commissioned: | 18 December 1969 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 September 2001 |
| Fate: | Converted into museum |
| Homeport: | Visakhapatnam |
| Stricken: | 2001 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1952 tons surfaced, 2475 tons submerged |
| Length: | 299 feet 6 inches |
| Beam: | 24 feet 7 inches |
| Draft: | 20 feet |
| Powerplant: | three Kolomna 2D42M 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) diesel engines, three electric motors; two 1,350 hp (1,007 kW) and one 2,700 hp (2,010 kW), one 140 hp (104 kW) auxiliary motor |
| Propulsion: | three propeller shafts, each with six bladed propellers |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) surfaced, 15 knots (28 km/h) submerged, 8 knots (15 km/h) snorkeling |
| Range: | 20,000 miles surfaced at 8 knots (15 km/h), 11,000 miles (18,000 km) snorkeling, 380 miles (610 km) submerged at 2 knots (4 km/h) |
| Endurance: | three to five days submerged |
| Depth: | 270-280 m (885-918 ft) |
| Complement: | 12 officers, 10 midshipmen, 56 seamen |
| Armament: | ten 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, six forward and four stern |
INS Kursura S20 was a Indian Naval Submarine. It was one of the Soviet Foxtrot class submarines that served india. After it was Decommissioned from service it was converted into a museum.
